Why they hate us

[Azrael]

A lot of these posts are about why we hate ourselves.

Why these other mooks hate us has deep roots.

The history of anti-press anti-intellectual anti-coastal elite hatred goes back to the founding of the Republic. It also goes back to mid-19th century European anti-Semitism, the Rothchilds and the notion the entire world was controlled by a shadow council of Jews. All of which was condensed into the hoax pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the beginning of the 20th century, then repackaged and weaponized in the 1920s by Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent as "The International Jew."

Those hateful ideas remain in the American bloodstream to this day. If you poll Americans, an astonishing number will continue to say the same - that radical Jews control the media. Which is one of the many weirdnesses of christianist American conservatism: love Israel, hate Jews.

Which is why we still see a specific kind of American halfwit shirtposting about "cosmopolitan elites" and chanting "you will not replace us" and "blood and soil" to this day. It's heartbreaking. But not surprising.

Distrust of the press in this country is as old as the country itself.

Those old fears and hatreds are being deepened, widened and accelerated by social media.

 

[MileHigh]

Yes to all of that, PC and you guys had a sale to deal with on top of that. How2021 is more demoralizing than 2020, I'll never know.

Here's how I got hood-winked on the three/four newscasts a day thing. Got bumped up to the PM.

Previous AM agreement stated the exact newscasts I would be doing. The PM agreement does not. Just a general "anchor" title.

I'm concerned the moment I see this.

Boss: oh, that's just a new, corporate thing.

I have no leverage here as an internal candidate. Was happy I got the job.

Eleven days after singing it (and two days after the station told the world of my "promotion"), I'm pulled into an office and told I'll be doing a new newscast. A fourth newscast.

No more pay. Even though I come in an hour earlier to the office because, of course, we didn't add any staff for this newscast.

The final breaking point was September. Sports anchor gets the COVID and he's out three weeks. I'm told to do sports on top of four newscasts because we're down to two people (waiting for our third person to get here from previous job) and the second person is just out of the school and not ready to anchor yet.

I do the sportscasts - including soloing the late news AND a 30-minute HS show two straight Fridays. Reached back and found my old mojo. They were forking flawless.

Not even a thank you from the ND or the GM.

"That's what the money is for!" Don Draper once barked at Peggy. I know.

When I do finally leave, they'll both be pissed and vengeful. They may even fire me on the spot. They may demand I pay the termination buyout (it's not that much) but, thanks to "Gambling Thread", I'll peel off $100 bills on the GMs desk if they do.

If they ask why (and they may not — they may just be happy to save on another salary for two months), I'll say it is wasn't just the money. It was that they never made me feel appreciated. Always told me (a grown-ass man with 30 years in and a track record of knowing what to do) what to do and never asked what I wanted to do.

There are moments of truth in this job where you know, exactly, how the bosses feel about you. My last promotions… the contracts were worse. Nominal bumps in pay for much bigger jobs. Each time, I almost didn't sign it and almost stayed on the role of working weekends or getting at 2 am to go to work.

One shouldn't be downtrodden when signing a new contract for a promotion. But I was. TV stations love to screw the internal candidate.

Will a new station be any better? Perhaps not. But in all three markets, I'll look outside my door and see mountains or the ocean. That has value to me now.

Thanks for listening, friends.

The lack of appreciation is the big thing for me as well. Best of luck on the interviews.

 

[Azrael]

A lot of these posts are about why we hate ourselves.

Why these other mooks hate us has deep roots.

The history of anti-press anti-intellectual anti-coastal elite hatred goes back to the founding of the Republic. It also goes back to mid-19th century European anti-Semitism, the Rothchilds and the notion the entire world was controlled by a shadow council of Jews. All of which was condensed into the hoax pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the beginning of the 20th century, then repackaged and weaponized in the 1920s by Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent as "The International Jew."

Those hateful ideas remain in the American bloodstream to this day. If you poll Americans, an astonishing number will continue to say the same - that radical Jews control the media. Which is one of the many weirdnesses of christianist American conservatism: love Israel, hate Jews.

Which is why we still see a specific kind of American halfwit shirtposting about "cosmopolitan elites" and chanting "you will not replace us" and "blood and soil" to this day. It's heartbreaking. But not surprising.

Distrust of the press in this country is as old as the country itself.

Those old fears and hatreds are being deepened, widened and accelerated by social media.

qed

Michael Flynn says of the US: 'We have to have one religion'

 

[exmediahack]

Your "Cindy Crawford" co-anchor – is she a friend or a rival?
Fun to work with or a pain in the ass or even a monster diva?

Absolutely friend. Throughout my day, I have two co-anchors. "Cindy" isn't the issue.

 

[MileHigh]

Absolutely friend. Throughout my day, I have two co-anchors. "Cindy" isn't the issue.

Sounds like, like most places, it's f'ing management.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

Every time I see this thread title, I reflexively want to reply "because they ain't us."

 

[HanSenSE]

Thanks for listening, friends.

That's what we do here, hack

 

[goalmouth]

"They" didn't hate us until someone told them to hate us.

 

[Pilot]

"They" didn't hate us until someone told them to hate us.

I always think Palin is an underappreciated pioneer to this shirt. Katie Couric exposed Palin as a forking clown by asking the most basic of questions, and Palin responded by going all-in against the media. Her fans — not then the whole GOP — devoured it. She never tried to explain why she couldn't name a single book, magazine or newspaper she'd ever read. She said it was a "gotcha" question and a great many people just accepted that.

I'm sure "attack the messenger" goes way back in political strategies, but I really see the blueprints for what Trump does in Palin: It doesn't what you did initially or how stupid and disingenuous you look in your rebuttle. Scream about the media and you'll be fine.

 

[The Big Ragu]

"Annoy the Media: Re-elect Bush." -- George Bush campaign bumber sticker, 1992

"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore. ..." Richard Nixon, 1962

Really, politicians blaming the media goes back to the founding of the country.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson, 1800

 

[Pilot]

"Annoy the Media: Re-elect Bush." -- George Bush campaign bumber sticker, 1992

"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore. ..." Richard Nixon, 1962

Really, politicians blaming the media goes back to the founding of the country.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." Thomas Jefferson, 1800

Eh. Jefferson was definitely dealing with a bit of a different beast than Nixon and Bush, and certainly, the latter two never said "Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

Being mad at the media certainly isn't a novel idea for either party, but I'm not sure there's a question it's been taken up a notch in the last decade or so. If we end up in Jefferson's world, i.e. politicians writing vicious takedowns of one another under ancient Roman pseudonyms in strictly partisan outlets, well, at least we know we've survived that already.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Yeah, I agree with that. But that was Donald Trump. He'd lie and BS and lie some more, and when he was backed into a corner, he'd obfuscate. "The media" was the perfect BS tool for him, and what we still have is the carry over from him.