maxwellhill, the maxwells & reddits 'benign impartiality'

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Yup. AND it bills itself as "The Front Page of the Internet." Remember, Media Matters was created by the Podestas for the Clintons to try and control the narrative by attaching instant "spin" (disguised as "fact-checking") to every news service bulletin back when news outlets got 99 percent of their news from "news" outlets like Media Matters. Reddit was an attempt by mostly the same people from Media Matters to do the same thing on the Interwebs--attach spin (disguised as "discussion" and "fact-checking") to every news story related to politics that appeared on the Interwebs. Over time, this would supposedly become the de facto Wiki of recent history. "Reddit" is short for "I Already Read It--And Here's What The Truth Really Is." Nobody paid any attention, mostly because, once the Redditors had their say, they shut off all subsequent discussion, not to mention fact-checking. They were never in competition with 10 bazillion other discussion board sites (like this one) not to mention Wikipedia (and later Fakebook and Shitter.) I don't know why they even still bother to exist.

The relentless plague of instantaneous TV news "fact-checking" these days is a relic of Media Matters interns being groomed for their current jobs in the news industry. TRump, the most media-savvy presidential candidate since Lincoln, used this system of knee-jerk response to every single "word" that came out of his potty mouth to spectacular effect. For 250 consecutive weeks, every single news headline, every single day, was nothing but "Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!" All because he would say or tweet something outrageous and stupid that MUST be "fact-checked." Out of habit. A habit drilled into the skulls of an entire generation of "journalists" and more importantly, their editors. And it worked EVERY SINGLE TIME. Remember the time EVERY network cut away from a live Hillary event to hear what Trump was about to say? And they never stopped doing it. I bitched and bitched and bitched to the editors of Politico and Huffington Post about it. (Oh, they listened to me. I used to make fun of the way they worded headlines. Huffy Post in particular would re-write headlines after I made fun of them.) Finally, for one week this past fall, Huffington Post editors stopped making Trump their first 6 or 7 headlines. Reader engagement fell through the basement. So, they went right back to doing it.

6-2-Even they keep doing it for at least the next four years. They can't help themselves.

PS You'll never guess who invented "live" fact-checking: Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels. Every newsreel from foreign countries, like England or the United States, shown in German theaters had "live" commentary by Nazi narrators responding to key statements in the foreign newsreel. This was literally presented as "fact-checking" whatever Chamberlain or FDR or whoever was saying. No foreign newsreels were allowed to be shown without this running commentary. You couldn't do that with live broadcasts by the BBC or whatever, so it was illegal to listen to foreign radio broadcasts.