“You have attracted people who think that ideology is more important than facts,” Koppel said.
Hannity responded by calling Koppel “cynical.” The paid liar claimed the American people were intelligent enough to distinguish between the legitimate and balanced news Koppel once reported and the one-sided “commentary” segments he and his employers now present as news.
“You’re cynical,” Hannity said.
“I am cynical,” Koeppel responded defiantly (click the pic below for a link to the video).
Koppel had a similar showdown nearly a year ago with Faux News Propagandist Bill O’Reilly, who embraces a convenient fiction of his own when he assumes they’re professional peers.
Hannity and O’Reilly are both employees of R
upert Murdoch, the Australian media magnate who controls Faux News. Murdoch has been an active and enthusiastic supporter of Republican propaganda efforts for more than 30 years.
O’Reilly lamented the difficulty of interviewing then candidate Donald Trump and asked Koppel how he’d do it (below left).
“Its irrelevant how I would do it, and you know who made it irrelevant – you did,” Koppel said. “You have changed the television (news) landscape the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to being subjective and entertaining.
“And in this current climate it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him,” Koppel continued. “Mr Trump is going to say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be.”
uge fan of the journos who are now speaking out if they’d opted to toe the scratch five or 10 years ago, instead of hiding behind journalism objectivity to avoid a fight. However, the painful truth is we’re already a functioning police state and our free press is all but gone. It’s been overwhelmed by the Facebook and Google online trusts and by the predatory hedge funds and private equity funds which have been buying up our leading news organizations.
Facebook and Google have created a tidy revenue stream by selling readers to the highest bidder.
That’s how the average American’s newsfeed came to be filled with the knowing lies of predatory elites like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Rupert Murdoch.
I stopped hiding behind the idea that I can’t call a lie a “lie” as a journalist back in 2011. That’s when I cofounded The Cynical Times to provide fair coverage to the Occupy Wall Street pro-democracy movement then being pilloried in the mainstream news media.
I did this because I understood that there was no way for a journalist to be objective – to function as a detached observer – while balancing statements meant to mislead their readers against truthful information. Doing so gives the liars undeserved credibility and unfairly handicaps those in the so-called “reality based community.” That’s the term Republican propagandist Karl Rove coined for those of us who still believe in the concept of inherent truth.
Parry first ran into the right wing propaganda machine
when he was investigating the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for The Associated Press and Newsweek. That series showed how President Ronald Reagan circumvented the U.S. Congress to illegally wage a proxy war against the legitimate government of Nicaragua. Parry and I have taken similar paths to exposing painful truths because we understand that journos must aggressively expose both lies and liars to their readers 24/7/365. It’s the only way to keep the truth from being hijacked by the well paid propagandists of the Right Wing Noise Machine and the predatory elites who employ them.
I am the recipient of six national journalism awards myself 
and broke the iconic story of the worst natural disaster in U.S history, leading the first official body count inside St. Rita’s Nursing Home in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Thirty five people died in the mass drowning there in 2005.
nalism without shouldering the burdens. Or doing any of the work.
his allows the super rich to infiltrate and dominate a public forum where they would otherwise be viewed with justifiable suspicion.If we post too often we get muzzled, even as the posers working for Trump are free to plaster their poison across the online world.
even playing field in which news organizations are financially rewarded for good journalism. Because Google and Facebook have hijacked that revenue stream.
Representative democracy demands personal sacrifice. And not by surrogates. You’re going to have to do it yourself.
Just like the patriotic Americans of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and Standing Rock.
Once again, all roads lead back to Wall Street.
Its predatory hedge funds, private equity funds and investment banks have created more than $100 trillion of wealth for themselves out of thin air in recent years. They’ve assumed the currency creation power of a sovereign government via synthetic investment vehicles called “derivatives.”
Five years ago we might have stopped them from destroying our representative democarcy here in the U.S. Now, with the proliferation of automated online surveillance and cheap drones, you can forget about it.
The global police state is here. And here to stay.
We missed our window.
