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We bash the MSM a lot here at NewsReal, and for good reason.
The legacy media clings to many now-debunked myths of their own
importance. The average person still thinks All the President’s Men is
a documentary, that Walter Cronkite convinced LBJ that he’d lost
support among middle Americans for the Vietnam War, and that Edward R.
Murrow brought down Senator McCarthy.
None of which is true.
However, I just stumbled upon this extremely dark-humored (self)
parody, produced by the local newscasters at Dallas FOX 4. This video
mocks the MSM’s slightly clueless, awkward embrace of social media
trends — which has more to do with them looking “cool” (that is, like
dorks) than with truly communicating with their (shrinking) audiences. [continued]
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Updating my facebook status to "Scared Sh**less".
ReplyDeleteInstant classic.
I don't think this is self parody, I think that they are trying to parody all the new media. As if to say, look at what the MSM, who have a govt monopoly over the airwaves leveraged into monopoly over the cable channels, would be like if it acted like the alternate media. Self absorbed factless reporting. Luckily we are so much more responsible than that.
ReplyDeleteI watch this channel all the time. I mainly watch the morning news, however, with Tim Ryan. They all seem to be like this. Tim is as sarcastic as us here at the barn.
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