In case you needed more reasons to distrust MSM whores

[masmdu]

Every time I see the pundits and news talking heads selling themselves by playing themselves on fictional TV shows it just completely exposes how much of an empty puppet they each are.

Wolf, Tapper, Van Jones, Begalia, Mathews, Rose, Cupp and others appear in shows such as House of Cards playing themselves doing political punditry or news coverage of the fictional characters in the show. All I ever see is just how well they act. If they are so convincing when they push fictional news how can I or why should I have any trust in them when they cover real people and situations.

How can they not see that this just completely undermines their credibility.

Just shows how much of MSM is pure manipulation and show.

[dchill]

1. IMO, they're professional gamblers.

And eventually, the big tumble will come.

[pangaia]

2. Because it is ALL fictional news. That's the point.

[masmdu]

3. Yep. Scales from my eyes in coming to this conclusion.

[pangaia]

5. About the only thing I watch on TV are NETFLIX and some sports...

[Kalidurga]

4. Bread and Circuses

Minus the bread these days.

[Warpy]

6. I finally kicked the habit in 2004

sometime in early summer, I think, because it was another presidential election being treated like a horse race--where the horses were, who was leading by a nose and who the front runners were--and there wasn't a word about the very profound differences among all the candidates. Nothing much in any particular broadcast triggered my disgust, I just knew I was finally done being lied to by omission every night. I switched over to The Simpsons and even the reruns told me more about this country than the news ever had.

While I will pop over to see breaking stuff like the Japanese tsunami live from Japan on CNN, that's about it. I'm done.

[spanone]

7. it's showbiz, baby!

[Odin2005]

8. The job of the MSM is to manufacture reality, not report the news.

The MSM is even more horrifying than the official "news" in totalitarian states, because they people in totalitarian states know they are being lied to. Soviet citizens knew the BS in Pravda was a lie, but we "free" Americans buy our corporate McPravda as if it were truth.