When did the news got infiltrated by the left? What happened?

[Margo Martindale]

For all of my life the mainstream news has always leaned left, but older folks have told me it used to not be that way, and they are unable to tell me what exactly changed.

So what did change? How did nearly all major news organizations end up as propaganda outlets for the left?

 

[Divine Power]

you are unable to see satan behind the scene

 

[skykiii]

you are retard, you are unable to see satan behind the scene

Did someone forget their meds?

 

[Chilson]

The same time as every other professional organization was infiltrated en masse by shitlibs, when higher education became mandatory. By indoctrinating college grads and then mandating degrees for "professional" positions you guaranteed every "professional" field would be politically co-opted.

It was a slow creep from the 50's that really ramped up in the 70's and then never lost its velocity until the last decade of insanity has woken a lot of people up to all the retardation that was going on.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Journalism allows you to control the flow of information, so naturally it's going to attract people who may want you to see things their way. The place I previously worked, the boss had CNN on one of his monitors constantly, and all of the major events of 2024 from the Biden debate performance to the Trump victory were a total shock to him. They truly create the very reality some people live in.

Journalists have had an agenda since at least the gilded age, probably much earlier than that, but that's about the time "yellow journalism" and "muckrakers" became a concept. If anyone believes journalism was better 50 or 100 years ago, it was because they were either more subtle about their biases, or there was no Internet to expose them when they lied. When Walter Duranty painted a rosy picture of life in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it wasn't half as easy to call him out as it would be today.

 

[Divine Power]

Did someone forget their meds?

you should start taking yours first

 

[Xarpho's Return]

all of the major events of 2024 from the Biden debate performance to the Trump victory were a total shock to him. They truly create the very reality some people live in.

That's not all the 2024 stuff. What about the jumping black? What about the eclipse? What about the bridge collapse? What about the fake billboards? If you just saw the political stuff, you missed a lot.

 

[ShahOfIran1979]

Historically, the biggest reason was probably because newspapers were centered in large cities which were predominately dominated by Democrat party machines. Nowadays, it's likely because American culture is dominated by the outlook of its largest cities, giving it a progressive outlook.

It did vary from newspaper to newspaper. The most famous one, the New York Times, was originally a conservative Democrat newspaper. They were generally loyal to the party except when they saw its candidates or policies as too radical. Therefore, they consistently opposed William Jennings Bryan, and later opposed much of FDR's New Deal, and endorsed his opponent in the 1940 election. The last time they endorsed a Republican presidential candidate was Ike in '56. It's relatively interesting to see their endorsements, which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ction_endorsements_made_by_The_New_York_Times

Meanwhile, Henry Luce was the magnate that founded Time, Life, and Sports Illustrated. He was a conservative Republican.

William Randolph Hearst, the main inspiration for Citizen Kane, was an outspoken populist progressive, and positioned himself to the left of most other newspapers. However, most of this was probably in-genuine, as he did stupid shit like shilling for Hitler.

Early TV news was relatively unbiased and bland. Most people also had high trust in the media. I'd say that it gained a somewhat more liberal edge in the 60s and 70s, when some insurgent elements became more outspoken progressives. This is when you get people such as Jane Fonda who posed for a picture on a Viet Cong anti-air gun. More open punditry followed cable news in the 90s and 2000s. The internet gave them an even greater outlet. Not just liberal ones though. Why do people forget that Tucker Carlson began his career on CNN? Modern day news outlets are probably center-left at best. Most far-left outlets are based online, and ironically become more Trump-ist the further left they are. Black Agenda Report is a great example, where despite being a socialist black outlet, they believe that the Trump-Russia collusion was made up and that Trump has a decent foreign policy.

Sorry for the ramblings.

 

[Kiska]

you are retard, you are unable to see satan behind the scene

This is true in a sense, almost all big MSM outlets are owned by Disney.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Good question, I don't know. The Operation Mockingbird shit dates back to at least the Cold War, but who knows before that.

As for "what happened", we didn't crucify liberals, we treated them as equals and let them infiltrate every institution.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Journalism is a job primarily for people who could live with the lower pay if it means getting their ideology across, and post 2000 the right died ideologically (and you could argue it's still dead), so you had a vacuum filled by leftists and centrists.

 

[deleuzeon]

There's always been lefty activism in print; for example, before the American revolution there were decades where unrest was fomented by anti-crown publications which at that time would have been the equivalent of leftoids (with loyalists being the right in that context). Before the Civil War you had anti-slavery radicalism pushed by publications out of abolitionist New England. Most of these were more like singleton activists than the coordinated fuckers we see today though.

Due to the wartime applications of relatively new mass-communication technologies, WW1 saw propaganda emerge as a serious school of thought unto itself. After the war, it saw rapid uptake both in government and in corporations ("advertising"). You can read about this in contemporaneous writers such as Lippmann and Bernays. Once propaganda began to be understood as a utility in itself, it was institutionalized; the cottage industry of basement presses was replaced by large corporate structures that carefully controlled all information presented to the public.

Meanwhile, throughout the same time, revolutionary international Communism failed as a project; by the latter half of the 20th century, the revolutions were not working anymore, the countries they worked in were all in severe decline, and there were large international alliances opposing them going forward. So leftoids pivoted to a strategy known as the "long march through the institutions," where instead of violently taking over countries by handing guns to every farmer and nigger and spewing Marx at them, they would instead softly take over countries by coaching children in Marxism and sending them to spend their entire careers enmeshed in the institutions of power to change them from within. This strategy worked phenomenally and has resulted in left capture of most major institutions, including the institution of propaganda, which is the news.

 

[WickyWickyWoW]

This goes back generations at this point, in 50s various European expat academics began establishing themselves in American academia (the Frankfurt school). It should be noted one of the more popular destinations for infestation was California. By the 60s and 70s these academics have completely spread through the bulk of academia and gatekept to ensure their ideological purity was kept. The ideas they preached are what would become known as the new-left, AKA shitlibism. Ted Kaczynski since he was at Harvard in the 60s (both as a student and professor) saw all this infront of him which is why he was able to give a perfect description of the new-left in ISAIF.
The people who were students in the 60s and 70s are now professors, politicians, CEOs, judges, lawyers, bureaucrats, journalists. In other words the people who run society. The bulk of them indoctrinated with this leftist trite. With the consolidation of media and business it makes controlling the top of these massive conglomerates easy.

In the 00s the nepotism hire bush completely broke the left mentally (and functionally broke the spine of neoconservatism). Truthfully I cant hold it against anyone for going insane after the disaster of the bush years. This led to obama who kicked this shitlibistic ideology into overdrive. Trump winning in 2016 had resulted in the left going completely insane with literally orange hitler running the country.

You have to remember something about the modern left, it is a religion. With the decline of religiousness this secular ideal of a utopian tomorrow where all the coloreds are holding hands singing and whitey atoning for his guilt is to be achieved at all costs, any tactic is acceptable to ensure all those who stand in the way are stopped. We have seen this explode in the post Obama years with the censorship engine, constant lawfare, and general insanity on the left. Evidence aswell of direct government and political interference was exposed with events like the twitter files and the purging of USAID, not to mention a multitude of the dark money NGOs backed by various billionaires and governments to help facilitate this.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

the 1980s happened

 

[grump]

Like others said institutions around large cities have tended to be more leftwing for ages. But another large shift started in the early 20th century and accelerated in the 60s. The rise of socialist/communist movements, women entering the workplace, the ballooning size of institutions and methods to handle it transformed the workplace from a smoke filled masculine good old boys club into an impersonal bureaucratic morass. Influenced by socialist/communist ideals and wrangling large populations of boys and girls effectively transformed the dynamics of institutions turning them into lowest common denominator grown up day care centers and sets them into a path toward wokedom. The harddriving nature of institutions of the past ends and the teeth falls out. More and more people are indoctrinated into the culture as 'experts' and continues to push things left. News organizations due to several factors such as location, importance, and attraction to a certain type ofwomen just happen to be at the forefront.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

The news doesn’t seem biased until you start disagreeing with it. The internet and the polarisation of the last decade have made this way more commonplace than it used to be. I don’t really believe boomers can accurately describe how biased the news was 30 or 40 years ago.

 

[WickyWickyWoW]

The news doesn’t seem biased until you start disagreeing with it. The internet and the polarisation of the last decade have made this way more commonplace than it used to be. I don’t really believe boomers can accurately describe how biased the news was 30 or 40 years ago.

The boomers are infamous for believing everything TV man says, infact they are the worst generation for this because they were after the age of a gazillion newspapers and before the Internet where anyone could (formerly) say what they want while during their lives the media was consolidated into a few hands. A handful of TV channels and magazines/newspapers owned by the same conglomerate manufacturing whatever consensus desired.
If you had no other source of information and grew up in a high trust society I could easily see falling into that trap, now with everything slowly going to shit and the Internet functioning as a conduit of any and all information outside of the niggercattle plantation that is the media trust in the MSM is through the floor in current day. 2020 helped kick that process into turbo.

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

What others have already said, it's been long in the making, and it's a profession that's always attracted left leaning types.

However, I think there was certain turning point where they really went full Pravda. Namely 2008 recession, when they laid off most of their somewhat balanced senior staff. Then hired a bunch of (cheap) fresh college grads when things started picking up a few years later. Who, at this point, were 99% foaming at the mouth leftyprogs.

 

[Not A Cat Person]

Not a direct answer to the question, but Noam Chomsky, famously a leftist, opines that it's really a self-reinforcing cycle:

 

[Samuel Fuller]

When did people fucking forget that you don't conjugate the second verb in a past tense sentence?

The title of the thread should be "When did the news GET infiltrated by the left?"

"Did" establishes the tense, so nothing else in the sentence needs it.


But half-credit, @Margo Martindale , At least you didn't do the full jeet and word it as a statement!