Big media and ‘the loop’

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

I think we can all agree that Big Media (BM) is a powerful tool within the political function.

Day-to-day messaging can bend a perspective.

Lies heard repeatedly can become the truth.

Important news stories about, say, dangers to national security, left unreported or relegated to three paragraphs on Page 7, become unimportant and are quickly forgotten.

Big media can elevate minor accomplishments by the One Chosen to great feats, while failures and abuses can be neglected.

Those in the pocket can field impossibly difficult questions to frowned-upon candidates during debate while nursing the favored with “Boxers or briefs?” pap.

Big Media can support and encourage ridicule of those not favored while heaping approval on those seeking the vague tenets of “social justice.”

Political correctness can be, and is, openly promoted.

Indeed, there is no end to ways liberal BM can influence the social and political dialogue, which is especially significant in an approaching election year.

I don’t think even liberals would deny their significant influence on BM, the television networks news divisions, many big newspapers and news magazines, and web engines and their contributors.

But how is it possible that such a clear bias can be connected beneficially to Obama, HRC, Bernie, Uncle Joe, and the like?

Well, a reader recently handed me information on this topic which I easily confirmed with 10 minutes of research. You can do that, too, if you remain skeptical.

Here’s how it works:

ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Advisor.

CBS president David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications.

Also, ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

If that’s not enough, then know ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s press secretary.

There’s more. ABC president Ben Sherwood is Elizabeth Sherwood’s brother. Elizabeth is Obama’s special advisor.

Here’s another: CNN president Virginia Moseley is married to Tom Nides, one-time Deputy Secretary to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Quite the nest of social engineers, don’t you think?

Of course, the Left could claim these connections prove nothing, that Obama’s greatness precludes media support, that he hired only the best available sans political proclivity. The connections, they might say, are purely coincidental.

Sure. That’s the ticket.

You’ve heard it all before, haven’t you?

How the truth isn’t really the truth.

How obviously important connections aren’t really important unless liberals say they are.

Anyway, all good little socialists know political confirmation comes through control of the media, an admittedly difficult task in a country whose Constitution guarantees freedom of press.

Therefore, it is important to get the correct-thinking people into positions of influence promptly and permanently.

Then get them busy promoting the agenda of big government, social injustice, the horrors of income inequality, racism, and all the other planks in the grim, cynical platform of Leftist ideology.

Pound it home day after day through the complex and intertwined threads of expanding socialism.

But what about that ancient notion of objectivity, once the cornerstone of journalism?

Gone.

And what about the idea that political, as opposed to legal, malfeasance, now so evident in what was once an honored calling, is wrong?

Well, the hell with that.

Larry W. Anderson’s novel, I, Eugenius, is available at Maryville Daily Forum and on Amazon.