[Magdalen] The Media.

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

Not to mention the hugely ironic spectacle of the King of Fake News, Mr
One-Lie-Every-50-seconds, being apoplectic as he becomes a victim of same.

News is changing so fast now and is so globalized that it's hard to see how
anyone can do more damage to traditional or so-called "legacy" news
outlets, than current market forces and the social media are already doing.

I think that these days we're just so used to instant everything that we
can't tolerate the wait for verification. By the time the standard "two
independent sources of verification" are established, someone else has run
with the story.

I would have loved to hear what Jim G might have said about this lot!!

Sally D - fascinated and horrified in equal measure





On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 at 9:27 AM James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> These folk seem very vicious.  Always angry.  When they're in the minority,
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> nasty comThen they got a majority and a president on their side -- still
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> angry. Still vicious.  I get nervous when I think what it would take to
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> make them happy.  I wonder how many of them are so devoted to their cause
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> that they would cheer as all the liberals were packed into boxcars.  I know
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> some are not that bad, of course, but the real question is, how many would
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> brush the Constitution aside if they thought they could, and how quickly
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> would they start shooting those who were in their way. But then, I had
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> similar feelings with Bush ("Whoever is not for us is against us!!!") At
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> one point, Hitler just shot a list of anybody who was not on his side, and
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> afterwards, there was nobody to tell him he could not do that. So, I'm
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> Scaring the sh*t out of the media is an essential part of this. If we
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> assume the man's not quite as dumb as we wanted to think, maybe this is all
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> a thought out strategy to hijack the country.
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> And I thought I would just live out my days in quiet retirement. Who knew
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> we all would be pulled back into the fray just to keep the country from
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> going plumb to hell in a handbasket.
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> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
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> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
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> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> > Meryl Streep alluded in her Gold Globes speech to something
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> > I thought apropos the Trump News Conference today.  Trump was  so
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> > when he suggested the media were behaving as though they were
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> > I pray the media can stand firm over the next four years to get us
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> > through the Trump administration.  The media may be our last  great hope.
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