“The more Americans are turned off from traditional news, the more they turn to dubious sources and read and listen only to things with which they agree. For those worried about our increasingly polarized society, the media is feeding that divide.”

Amen.

“One current anonymous FBI source cited in the article described the Trump performance as a “new low,” while a former senior Justice Department official, labeled Trump’s behavior as “directly out of the Putin playbook. We have a Russian asset sitting in the Oval Office.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

Facts don’t sell. But anger and hate do.

“Increasingly, the remnants of the old publishing industry are being bought by the oligarchs — Jeff Bezos’ purchase of the Post in 2013, the 2017 buying of the Atlantic by Laurene Powell Jobs, and last year’s purchase of Time by Marc Benioff, founder of San Francisco-based Salesforce.com. With billions made elsewhere, these media outlets no longer must listen to their diverse readers; Bezos did not buy the Post to defend democracy, as his henchmen insist, but to shape the debate in the nation’s capital.”

“The errant reporters and pundits — the ones who peddled the most outrageous falsehoods — want nothing more than to move on. But not so fast: There has to be some accountability for the biggest foul-ups.”

“For two years, our capital city became a kind of massive CNN panel — a living monument to ignorance and dishonesty, where the loudest and dumbest invariably got the most attention“

“This is by no means the be-all and end-all of verbal high crimes and misdemeanors by media elites, but a few of these remarks are real head-shakers.”

10. Carl Bernstein, CNN 9. Chuck Todd, NBC 8. David Corn, Mother Jones 7. Will Bunch, Phily Inquirer 6. Aaron Blake, WAPO
5. Dan Rather, MSNBC 4. Chris Matthews, MSNBC 3. Joy Behar, The View 2. Joe Scarborough, MSNBC 1. John Sipher, Steve Hall, NYT

“The Mueller Report is an unmitigated disaster for the American press and the ‘expert’ class that it promotes.”

“Robert Mueller’s investigation is over, but questions still abound. Not about collusion, Russian interference or obstruction of justice, but about the leading lights of journalism who managed to get the story so wrong, and for so long.”

“In an interview published last Friday with the “Mike Drop” podcast, hosted by retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan called the media’s “absurdly left wing” Democratic bias “a huge fucking problem.”

Ahem. We finally have an inside account of how fake, “Fake News” really is. Lara describes the current media culture of activism which has completely abandoned the traditional methodology around journalism and professional conduct. Our deepest thanks to Lara’s courage to speak the truth and hopefully shine a light into the darkness that’s enveloped (mostly) the 4th estate.

“Long story short, in unison: Pelosi good, Trump bad. It’s almost funny.”

When viewed side by side, bias in the MSM becomes (blindly) glaring. We’d say “enjoy”, but the underlying awfulness of the deception offers little appreciable humor.

The 4th estate – frog marched down the road to irrelevance by Michael Wolff – slinged so many lies, fake stories, and false narratives in 2018 that one tends to lose count/track. Thanks to the Washington Examiner (cheers!), we have a top 5. Try not to choke on your croissant.