The Demise Of Main Stream Media, One Constituency At A Time - Jaffer Ali

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in printamp8230You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes We are the jumping jacks they pull the strings and we dance Our talents our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other menJohn Swinton 19th Century NY Times journalistSource Labor39s Untold StoryThe great political theater otherwise known as our political conventions are over The way Ron Paul and his delegates were treated made me pause to think about how the MSM covered him I happened to be in Maine when the Ron Paul delegation was unseated by the RNC The RNC did not want Paul to have a 5state plurality of delegates that would have insured his name put into nomination for PresidentThe MSM basically made this story nothing more than a footnote in the theatrical production Millions of Ron Paul supporters know that the MSM basically left him out of the equation for the entire campaign In other words the Ron Paul constituency learned what journalist John Swinton said more than 100 years agoBut how many other constituencies have learned the lessons of Ron Paul and John SwintonIf you are a Native American that has not fully assimilated or lost hisher identity would you not know that the MSM has largely marginalized your historyamp8230and your present circumstances as well On my recent trip to the great Northeast I traveled from Illinois a vestige of the Indian word quotirenwewaquot meaning quotspeak the regular wayquot to Niagara Falls Iroquois for quotthundering waterquot and on to Maine which was only inhabited by the Algonquin Indians until the 1600sMy trip was breathtakingly beautiful but the long forgotten Native American names and villages along the way reminded me what Gore Vidal said quotUSA stands for the United States of Amnesiaquot MSM has been obliging in forgetting history and even made its destruction sound noble with phrases like quotManifest Destinyquot MSM lost the confidence and trust of the Native American constituency long agoIf you are a black person living in the USA an overwhelming majority have dropped out of the MSM target audience One in three black men end up in prison Less than 30 of blacks vote I think it is safe to say that the MSM has lost the trust of a majority of this constituency from conservative blacks like Louis Farrakhan and his followers to progressive voices like Cornel WestIf you are a progressive who hangs on every word Noam Chomsky says you will not find him anywhere on MSM news outlets If you lean leftamp8230really left there is no place within the MSM matrix to satisfy you You understand quite well what Swinton was talking aboutIf you are one of the 7 million Muslims in the US you know how the MSM implies association with Al Qaida if you dare question drone strikes killing civilians The NY Times has done this on more than one occasion helping out its handlers MSM has never earned the trust and confidence of this constituency so it could not lose that trustIf you are a real conservative Tea Party member as opposed to the neoconservative Tea Party hack or a liberal Occupy Wall Street protester you know how the MSM has marginalized you as fringe groups and most likely have you wearing a tin foil hat The MSM has lost the trust and confidence of these two constituenciesIf you are a person who questions why a private bank Federal Reserve is allowed to print money and earn interest from printing trillions of dollarsamp8230interest paid by the government earned from taxing citizensamp8230you are marginalized as a quotconspiracy theoristquot for even asking why we pay taxes to pay interest to a private bank Meanwhile the General Accounting Office GAO released a partial audit of the Fed and discovered that 16 TRILLION was given to banks not the amount reported by the MSM see page 131 of the report for detailsIf you are one of the 57 that believe that Kennedy was not killed by a lone gunman or 52 of the population who questions the official version of 911 the MSM labels you a kookamp8230and tries to marginalize you Simply put these constituencies no longer believe or trust the MSM which continues to promote the official storyAnother former NY Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize summarized why the MSM is in declineWe are ruled entertained and informed by courtiers and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers The Democrats like the Republicans are mostly courtiers Our pundits and experts at least those with prominent public platforms are courtiers We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power It is smoke and mirrors tricks and con games and the purpose behind it is deception amp8213 Chris Hedges Empire of Illusion The End of Literacy and the Triumph of SpectacleThere are many more constituencies for whom the MSM has lost trust In the past there was really no place for these constituencies to turn But the Internet has allowed these groups to find and nurture each other And what has become of the national news outletsThey are in precipitous decline With each attempt to marginalize yet another group newspapers and national news outlets like CNN Fox MSNBC ABC News NBC News and CBS News have all become a shell of their former selves They increasingly carry the water for their masters They give quote approval for Obama and Romney camps They withhold stories on demandWhen the most trusted name in US journalism is an American comedian Jon Stewart the joke may be on us The MSM is in full decline because it has lost constituencies one at a time I could have continued with naming more but in the interest of time I cut it off Many of the ones listed may disagree with each other but they are all in agreement that trust in MSM has been lost And they have all found alternativesJaffer Ali is the CEO of the ecommerce company PulseTVcom and the online media company Vidsensecom He can be reached atamp160 jdotaliatVidsensecomRead all Jafferamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at On the Other Handamp8230Check us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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