Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Lemon: Trump went from alpha dog to lap dog" video.

  1. The concomitant of warmongering is belligerence. "Everybody knows" is a description of a particular logical fallacy, and Lemon uses it brazenly in the service of narrative construction. "Directing his officials to help" is not an admission of election interference, any more than is a partisan political advertisement. The intellectual dishonesty evident in Lemon's "opinion" is appalling in its scope and pervasiveness! Wake up people! This is not journalism; this is entertainment! The MSM would disappear if it wasn't for advertising revenue. And that revenue is determined by the desirability of a given network/program/timeslot. And that desirability is determined by the size and demographic of that audience. And audience size is a measure of popularity. And popularity is a measure of acceptance/acceptability. For most people that means something like, "I like you because you make me happy"--that's entertainment. Unfortunately for the world, most people lack genuine curiosity, so hearing something unfamiliar will make them (relatively) unhappy--and unentertained. Therefore, to keep your audience, most of what you tell them must be stuff they already know! Without an expansive backdrop of confirmation bias validation, the bulk of your audience drifts away, to something with greater entertainment value: some colorful graphics, pretty people, humor, personality (lots of personality). The MSM is an entertainment product (much like the NFL). A couple decades ago, courts ruled that news programs have no legal responsibility to tell the truth. That's when and where real journalism had to die.
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