{"id":288930,"date":"2018-10-17T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=288930"},"modified":"2018-10-18T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:04:30","slug":"bbc-miniseries-accurately-portrays-the-modern-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/10\/17\/bbc-miniseries-accurately-portrays-the-modern-media\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Miniseries Accurately Portrays the Modern Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: As a powerful, influential member of the media, I often have access to foreign-made television series before they hit Amazon Prime or Netflix or BBC America or what have you. Such is the case with a series I was made aware of and given access to earlier this week. It\u2019s a British show. I think it\u2019s BBC 1, if I\u2019m not mistaken, although that could be wrong. But it\u2019s a British network, and the title&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a six-episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0bjpsby\">one-hour-per episode miniseries called Press<\/a>, and it is about two competing newspapers in the current era, in this modern-day. And it\u2019s amazing how honest it is about what journalism is. Now, this is not about contemporary events. There\u2019s nothing in this series about Donald Trump or Theresa May or anything current in either country. It is a modern-era, generic piece. In other words, the storylines are all fictional, all made up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K108II6gKEw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is about two competing newspapers. One of them\u2019s big; one of them\u2019s small. One of them is very serious. They take themselves very seriously. Don\u2019t do tabloid anything. Don\u2019t focus on celebrities. The other one is nothing more than pure trash, and it\u2019s the one that wins. It\u2019s the one with the biggest building. It\u2019s the one with the more employees; their reporters are stars and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s flat-out amazing how honest it is in terms of what people who do journalism think its purpose is! Destroying people! Both of these papers in this miniseries end up targeting the same targets, the same powerful people &#8212; some of them in government, some of them out, or some of them not &#8212; but it makes it clear that journalists think their job is to destroy people. Big people, powerful people, rich people? There obviously has to be something they\u2019re doing that\u2019s breaking the rules, that constitutes breaking the rules.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be something. They\u2019re mistreating people. They are sexually abusing people. They are stealing from the public dole. They\u2019re doing something, and the purpose of journalists is to call \u2019em out and ruin them! Which many, many years ago, when I first began to encounter the media as a target, I was never&#8230; I had a little taste of it when I was in Sacramento. There were a couple of reporters at that paper that had me in their crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p>It was simply \u2019cause it was liberals versus conservatism. But, I mean, I didn\u2019t really get a full dose of it until this program started. And I remember sitting talking to some people about it. And they said, &#8220;You have to understand what journalism is.&#8221; I said, &#8220;You mean the bias?&#8221; &#8220;Well, there\u2019s that, but it\u2019s more than that. It\u2019s about ruining people! It\u2019s about targeting and destroying people! How do you think resumes are built?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Journalists in these little medium-size markets or small markets will target somebody, and if they run a profile or a piece on somebody that can be made to look accurate that nails them as guilty of this transgression or that transgression &#8212; particularly against the little people &#8212; then that reporter is gonna get noticed, and that\u2019s how that reporter climbs the ladder.&#8221; If you go back to the early days of 60 Minutes, it was all about that, and it remains so today.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just it\u2019s evolved to adapt to the current climate, which the only person they want to destroy today now is Donald Trump and any Republican who gets in the way, like Brett Kavanaugh! It\u2019s all about destroying people. The thing about this series is it makes (chuckles) no bones about it. I don\u2019t recognize the names of the writer or writers. I don\u2019t recognize the stars. I\u2019ve never seen them in anything before. I don\u2019t recognize the names of the producers, and I haven\u2019t taken the time to Google any of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101718-PRESS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101718-PRESS.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/APP-101718-PRESS-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But I watch this (I\u2019ve seen two episodes so far out of the six) and I catch myself. My mouth is wide open. It\u2019s agape a couple times watching this thing at how brazenly honest this is. One of the editors, the head honcho of the tabloid paper is one of the most despicable human beings I\u2019ve ever seen portrayed, who is not set up as a criminal, who isn\u2019t established as one. He\u2019s just who he is. And he is. And he is totally unaffected by life. To him, everybody\u2019s a bad guy; you just have to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>His favorite&#8230; His philosophy in life and the way he guides his journalists is, &#8220;The world has no solutions.&#8221; Now, stop and think. What if that were your worldview, &#8220;The world has no solutions&#8221;? And he\u2019s telling them, &#8220;It\u2019s not your job to fix things. It\u2019s not your job to feel bad about who you destroy. It\u2019s not your job to try to solve problems because the world is not about solutions. It\u2019s your job to sell this paper. It\u2019s your job&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One episode went to great lengths to show how this sleaze editor, who has some kind of a secret relationship with the prime minister of the U.K. &#8230; (interruption) No, no, no, not sexual. Just up there. They have some kind of a relationship. They do not particularly like each other, but they owe each other from way back before the series began. The editor arranges a cover story about a pedophile and then puts a picture of the prime minister on the cover with his picture only an inch away from the word &#8220;pedophile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet the story\u2019s not about the prime minister being a pedophile; it\u2019s about somebody else. The prime minister gets livid and outraged, calls the guy in and editor says, &#8220;You don\u2019t run me, you don\u2019t control me, and it was a mistake. I\u2019m sorry.&#8221; &#8220;Well, then you issue an apology.&#8221; &#8220;I\u2019m not apologizing for anything. You don\u2019t like it, live with it!&#8221; Then the prime minister says, &#8220;I didn\u2019t want to do the story in the first place! I didn\u2019t want to pose for the pictures!&#8221; The editor says, &#8220;You did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, this guy has no empathy or feeling for anybody. He doesn\u2019t&#8230; It\u2019s just, it\u2019s classic. It\u2019s perfect. It\u2019s the kind of personality you would have to be if your job is destroying people. No conscience. The belief that everybody is flawed, that everybody\u2019s a dirtbag, that everybody is a reprobate &#8212; and, at some point, their time to be called out is gonna happen. Nobody\u2019s decent. Nobody\u2019s worth anything. (laughing) It\u2019s amazing. This is the eyes of a journalist, of an editor.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I imagine real journalists are gonna look at this thing and some of them are gonna marvel at it and think it\u2019s wonderful. Others are gonna hate it because it exposes too much. People who have never had encounters with reporters, have never been targets, I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re gonna react to it other than be entertained by it. It starts kind of slow, but it picks up speed. Many of the primary characters are women.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hCm9xUY69jI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The competing editor of the clean paper, the aboveboard paper is a woman who gets outsmarted and tricked into not publishing one day because she can\u2019t confirm the pedophile story, while the other paper puts it on the cover, having confirmed it because the editor at the other paper doesn\u2019t care whether it\u2019s true or not or whether he calls the guy that\u2019s the pedophile one. Just get it up there, get it on the newsstands, whereas the female editor didn\u2019t have the guts to run it.<\/p>\n<p>And so the paper didn\u2019t run. I\u2019m thinking, &#8220;They obviously are not worried about the #MeToo movement here to ever put this thing together.&#8221; So the name of it is Press. I have no idea&#8230; I think it just completed airing, \u2019cause I\u2019ve got all six of \u2019em. So it just completed its run cycle in the U.K., which means it\u2019s gonna be on Netflix, Amazon Prime, wherever. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s gonna be, but it won\u2019t be long.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you remember me talking about it here, and if you watch these kinds of things, it\u2019s fascinating, \u2019cause it\u2019s not about politics. It\u2019s not about current politics. It\u2019s not about Trump. It\u2019s not about conservatives, liberals, any of that. (laughing) It hits everybody! (laughing) Everybody is a reprobate, including the people at the paper. The reporters. I have to admit I was surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It&#039;s flat-out amazing how honest it is in terms of what people who do journalism think its purpose is! 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