And now the lies, gaslighting about the Inauguration. For me the wake-up call was 8 yrs when Spicer had to go before the journalists and public and reinterpret the photos of the Mall. The insanity of watching someone describe more people than were actually present had me thinking twilight zone experience. Now we’re off where a President is so confident that he releases his own cryptocurrency on the eve of his inauguration and so monetizes his office from the get go. If the press doesn’t hammer this then it is another example of its failure. I’ve cancelled the WP. Maybe I’ll pick up the Boston Globe. So far MSNBC ( unlike CNN) is still hanging in there.
Is he confident right now? Sure, but I see releasing his own cryptocurrency on the eve of his inauguration as his standard compulsive grift behavior to cash in far more than any confidence. When has he ever not tried to cash in? Seems like his new bribe vehicle?
You reminded me of a key point to make. Despite any outward extreme confidence, narcissists and sociopaths by definition are massively insecure on the inside, even when they get everything they crave. Their extreme confidence is a mask.
I had an inkiing that the Fourth Estate was in trouble and risking failure when I watched CNN constantly running "informative" stories like Conan the Giant Lobster, but at the time excused it as a new news format trying to find ways to fill lots of airtime.
A few years later the husband recommended reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and in the decades since I've slowly learned just how prescient he was.
The last straw for me was in 2015,when I watched the now infamous Morning Joe laud Trump and call him Friend of the Show, giving him free air time to spread his fabulisms, and give little time to any other candidate that might have half a clue how government actually works.
Since then I've sought out more foreign news, which still can report actual news depending on the outlet, and indie journalists, and just being in conversation with regular people.
Last year, as the corporate media obsessed about Biden's age, while ignoring obvious dementia in old man Trump, I finally had enough. I cut off the last connection I had to corporate media.
After reading you for some while, I now wonder how many presenters of supposed news themselves have personality disorders, and how many are just regular people who got poisoned by the allure of money and fame. It's an easy trap to fall into.
Thanks for reminding me of a point I forgot to put in. As for presenters, indeed it's a mix.
"From a CNI perspective, “corporate media” should be called “narcissist media” instead, because their leaders have been acting far more like malignant narcissists than merely greedy narcissistic CEOs."
As Sam says, it’s “ the facade of confidence “. The adulation present at the Inauguration, the constant victory laps ( I mean who does a rally just before assuming the presidency?!). It’s always a scam to the “light weights” or low life’s or transactional w his billionaire buddies. And it will be for viewing every single day.
I've watched Polievre some, as CBC is one of the news apps I check occasionally. Slippery indeed. I grew up in a border state, so Canadian affairs are always of interest. But Danielle Smith of Maple MAGA is my current interest. I'm unsure what power the Canadian federal government has over provinces, but I think I'm about to learn that.
Thomas has requested I look at polievre for a while but I've been focused on US. Idk if I'll get to him anytime soon since psychological profiles are the most time intensive, but now that CNI has 100 Canadian subscribers, I'm at least doing some prelim research.
.. have written on this matter often - ‘the Contemporary Media Coup D’Etat - ‘Capture the MEDIA & the PALACE is ‘Yours’ - de facto ! But more recently I’ve recognized - Independent WasteMedia Sampling, Analysis & Vector Identification as an obvious ‘Reaction.. even Preventive Medicine - Best Practice..
After all - ‘Early Detection / Early Response’ is the Classic ‘Best Practise re Pandemic Disease such as SmallPox .. & certainly ‘infusing Society with ‘Perception Grooming Propaganda’ is now Endemic.. ? Comfortably ‘Embedded & ‘astraddle - Societies & Perception -> ‘shaping common beliefs
In Short, Ray - ‘Independent Coherent Media must do the Heavy Lifting a la ‘ bellingcat ‘ & even more-so - Lay Out & Reveal - Exactly Who Why When What & from Where the ‘VECTORS’ of Propaganda Flow From - & drive Public Revelation - Humiliation & even ‘RUINATION .. Demolition as Required.. Is that ‘vigilantism or ‘Self Preservation kicking in ?
i inquire .. Qui Bono round here anyways ? And what of ‘MEDIA’ (whatever the fuck ‘it’ is .. McLuhan ‘saw this coming - straightaway
.. my interpretation- that to wit - ‘MEDIA.. is no longer ‘The Messenger - It’s Now The MESSAGE .. ‘Driving the “narrative.. narrative ..
Tom Wolfe told of A Conference they both attended as keynote guest wizards of observation among Many Bankers in Blue Suits
& breaking away from the lunch herd to seek & attend somewhere to suit their expectations ..
the small pack of besuited & tied ‘Bankers Dozen’ plus ol Marshall & Tom himself.. or so came upon a suitable looking establishment & ENTERED ..
‘My God Those Women Are Naked.. ! ! (shocked silence ..
‘no ! they’re not naked .. they’re ’wearing us ! !’
.. visualizing this scenario is special !
& it kinda reflects how ‘I perceive ‘media’ - currently eh
yes .. a hyper-dynamic ‘spectacle - as seen by an artist
my questions now seem - this putting on & ‘wearing of One’s Audience .. ?
Is ‘Mass Media ‘wearing ‘Us ? Are we just ‘wearing ‘mass media’ ..
is this ‘our perceptions ? Where ‘Belief’ begins to roost.. get comfy ?
i imagine - A - Self Narcissism Building ‘Media .. evolving ? 🦎🏴☠️🍁
And now the lies, gaslighting about the Inauguration. For me the wake-up call was 8 yrs when Spicer had to go before the journalists and public and reinterpret the photos of the Mall. The insanity of watching someone describe more people than were actually present had me thinking twilight zone experience. Now we’re off where a President is so confident that he releases his own cryptocurrency on the eve of his inauguration and so monetizes his office from the get go. If the press doesn’t hammer this then it is another example of its failure. I’ve cancelled the WP. Maybe I’ll pick up the Boston Globe. So far MSNBC ( unlike CNN) is still hanging in there.
Is he confident right now? Sure, but I see releasing his own cryptocurrency on the eve of his inauguration as his standard compulsive grift behavior to cash in far more than any confidence. When has he ever not tried to cash in? Seems like his new bribe vehicle?
You reminded me of a key point to make. Despite any outward extreme confidence, narcissists and sociopaths by definition are massively insecure on the inside, even when they get everything they crave. Their extreme confidence is a mask.
I had an inkiing that the Fourth Estate was in trouble and risking failure when I watched CNN constantly running "informative" stories like Conan the Giant Lobster, but at the time excused it as a new news format trying to find ways to fill lots of airtime.
A few years later the husband recommended reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and in the decades since I've slowly learned just how prescient he was.
The last straw for me was in 2015,when I watched the now infamous Morning Joe laud Trump and call him Friend of the Show, giving him free air time to spread his fabulisms, and give little time to any other candidate that might have half a clue how government actually works.
Since then I've sought out more foreign news, which still can report actual news depending on the outlet, and indie journalists, and just being in conversation with regular people.
Last year, as the corporate media obsessed about Biden's age, while ignoring obvious dementia in old man Trump, I finally had enough. I cut off the last connection I had to corporate media.
After reading you for some while, I now wonder how many presenters of supposed news themselves have personality disorders, and how many are just regular people who got poisoned by the allure of money and fame. It's an easy trap to fall into.
Thanks for reminding me of a point I forgot to put in. As for presenters, indeed it's a mix.
"From a CNI perspective, “corporate media” should be called “narcissist media” instead, because their leaders have been acting far more like malignant narcissists than merely greedy narcissistic CEOs."
As Sam says, it’s “ the facade of confidence “. The adulation present at the Inauguration, the constant victory laps ( I mean who does a rally just before assuming the presidency?!). It’s always a scam to the “light weights” or low life’s or transactional w his billionaire buddies. And it will be for viewing every single day.
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Most important to know this and have the vocabulary to speak to narcissism.
💯 That's a primary part of the CNI philosophy & mission. Currently growing resources.
Thank you Sam. 💙
Most welcome Joanne.
I've watched Polievre some, as CBC is one of the news apps I check occasionally. Slippery indeed. I grew up in a border state, so Canadian affairs are always of interest. But Danielle Smith of Maple MAGA is my current interest. I'm unsure what power the Canadian federal government has over provinces, but I think I'm about to learn that.
Thomas has requested I look at polievre for a while but I've been focused on US. Idk if I'll get to him anytime soon since psychological profiles are the most time intensive, but now that CNI has 100 Canadian subscribers, I'm at least doing some prelim research.
.. have written on this matter often - ‘the Contemporary Media Coup D’Etat - ‘Capture the MEDIA & the PALACE is ‘Yours’ - de facto ! But more recently I’ve recognized - Independent WasteMedia Sampling, Analysis & Vector Identification as an obvious ‘Reaction.. even Preventive Medicine - Best Practice..
After all - ‘Early Detection / Early Response’ is the Classic ‘Best Practise re Pandemic Disease such as SmallPox .. & certainly ‘infusing Society with ‘Perception Grooming Propaganda’ is now Endemic.. ? Comfortably ‘Embedded & ‘astraddle - Societies & Perception -> ‘shaping common beliefs
In Short, Ray - ‘Independent Coherent Media must do the Heavy Lifting a la ‘ bellingcat ‘ & even more-so - Lay Out & Reveal - Exactly Who Why When What & from Where the ‘VECTORS’ of Propaganda Flow From - & drive Public Revelation - Humiliation & even ‘RUINATION .. Demolition as Required.. Is that ‘vigilantism or ‘Self Preservation kicking in ?
i inquire .. Qui Bono round here anyways ? And what of ‘MEDIA’ (whatever the fuck ‘it’ is .. McLuhan ‘saw this coming - straightaway
.. my interpretation- that to wit - ‘MEDIA.. is no longer ‘The Messenger - It’s Now The MESSAGE .. ‘Driving the “narrative.. narrative ..
Tom Wolfe told of A Conference they both attended as keynote guest wizards of observation among Many Bankers in Blue Suits
& breaking away from the lunch herd to seek & attend somewhere to suit their expectations ..
the small pack of besuited & tied ‘Bankers Dozen’ plus ol Marshall & Tom himself.. or so came upon a suitable looking establishment & ENTERED ..
‘My God Those Women Are Naked.. ! ! (shocked silence ..
‘no ! they’re not naked .. they’re ’wearing us ! !’
.. visualizing this scenario is special !
& it kinda reflects how ‘I perceive ‘media’ - currently eh
yes .. a hyper-dynamic ‘spectacle - as seen by an artist
my questions now seem - this putting on & ‘wearing of One’s Audience .. ?
Is ‘Mass Media ‘wearing ‘Us ? Are we just ‘wearing ‘mass media’ ..
is this ‘our perceptions ? Where ‘Belief’ begins to roost.. get comfy ?
i imagine - A - Self Narcissism Building ‘Media .. evolving ? 🦎🏴☠️🍁
Excellent description! "The media is no longer the messenger. It’s now the MESSAGE" ‘Driving the “narrative."
Btw, I just watched 10 min of an interview with polievre for the 1st time. He's a slippery🐍