Reporters Just Want CLICKS And Here’s Proof

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Journalism is dead and it didn’t just die. It’s been dead for some time now, people. That’s just the reality. And a great example of this yesterday. ABC News reporter, Gutman. yes. Yes. The, the texts between Tyler Robinson and his furry transitioning.

lover, whatever, don’t care. It was very touching. It very touching. And it was the duality of the entire thing.

Again, unless you’ve been living under a rock or not really paying much attention, journalism has been dead for a very long time. Matt Gutman is looking for a raise. How is he going to go about getting a raise and making more money? He needs to draw more attention to himself because that’s what journalism has become.

It’s become, I want to be a journalist. have to turn myself into a star. I have to have a massive social media presence. I have to be drawing people in. That’s how the business works now. It was almost 10 years ago. It was actually pretty funny. It was on John Oliver’s program. He did a parody of the movie Spotlight and they called it Stoplight.

and it was with Bobby Carnavale. They did this whole thing making fun of the media and how it is today and how it’s about, you know, getting clicks and making sure you’re posting enough tweets out there. It wasn’t wrong. It wasn’t wrong then and most certainly isn’t wrong now. I mean, they make fun of David Muir from ABC having, what was it, clothes clips on the back of his t-shirts to make him look more jacked.

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when he’s on TV. I mean, it’s been a joke for a long time. Again, I used to make fun, but I was kind of jealous as well. My undergrad, Syracuse University, happens to have one of the most respected journalism schools in the country, Newhouse. And I wasn’t in Newhouse. I didn’t do that. And I used to kind of make fun of my friends in the fraternity and school.

Because man, man, I gotta be honest, they were having fun all the time. It was like that they were in some sort of AV club or something like that. People that did that. I gotta get a lot of graduates there that are big into sports broadcasting, whatever it may be. But it ain’t worked that hard. Let’s just leave it at that. Everything I needed to learn about journalism, I learned in the 11th grade.

I forget my journalism teacher. was actually an elective. was like a half year class, English class, and journalism. And Mr. Smith was our teacher. And he taught me. He’s reigned me in. He knew I got excited, got excited about stories. And I’d write something. And I would lend too much of my opinion in the story. basically said, this is not.

journalism. That’s opinion writing. Be a good journalist. The person reading shouldn’t be able to detect your opinion, what political party you’re in, whatever it may be. And that’s not what it’s become here in this country. And I remember as well, quick story, when I first went to Greece back in the 1990s.

And how it was interesting was that various different political parties back then controlled certain stations and they had their own news programs. I found it bizarre. It’s kind of what we have today, don’t you think? Fortunately, that’s what it’s become. Not to mention the complete and utter lack of any sort of intellectual curiosity.

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whatsoever. So you get this this Matt Gutman yesterday in his report. How touching. I mean, maybe you want to throw up in your mouth. how touching. How touching this this this text exchange was. I took a look at this thing. And, you know, I’m sorry, I call bullshit right away. Okay. I’ve got three kids.

I’ve got three kids and they text me. They text me. I’m getting used to it now. I’m learning the language of text, but for a while I’m like, what? mean, little acronyms are thrown out there. I can’t figure out what they’re saying, whatever it may be. Kids don’t text in full sentences. They don’t.

Anyway, anyway, you’re looking through this thing and you’re saying to yourself, no way, no how. know, Matt Walsh posted this, just think of the same thing. It’s almost, you know, could be a myriad of different things, but you know, everybody think to see the end of Breaking Bad when Walter White wrote the letter to get his family off the hook. So in this text exchange.

Text change, I had this sent over to me. This is brilliant, quite frankly. And again, hey, I want to be a conspiracy theorist here, but in this short text exchange, we got to believe the shooter, alleged shooter, makes his confession, confirms the location of the weapon, confirms the type of weapon.

confirms it was wrapped in a towel, confirms his motive, exonerates the decoy, George Zinn, admits to bullet engravings, confirms the wardrobe change, confirms how long he’s been planning it, discloses the existence and location of a now destroyed pre-written confession note,

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randomly tells his boyfriend that his dad is diehard MAGA, as if he wouldn’t already know given the nature of their relationship, and is worried about his dad or grandpa being upset if he doesn’t come home with the rifle. Not the fact that he just used it to commit murder. You also have a 22 year old using phrases like squad car.

Drop point, swept the area, my vehicle, till I died of old age, my old man.

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No curiosity out there, mainstream media, journalists, that this all adds up for you? Okay, whatever. Yeah. Journalism is dead and it’s been dead for a long time. Watch Dog on wallstreet.com.