Whether this is an urban myth or not (and I think 727Sky used it some time back) it's a fine example
of the way that the Establishment and certainly the media, think.
The Monkeys In A Cage Syndrome.
'A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top.
Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, every time a monkey would start up the ladder, the others would pull it down and beat it up.
After a time, no monkey would dare try climbing the ladder, no matter how great the temptation.
The scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys.
The first thing this new monkey did was start to climb the ladder. Immediately, the others pulled him down
and beat him up.
After several beatings, the new monkey learned never to go up the ladder, even though there was no
evident reason not to, aside from the beatings.
The second monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating
of the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated.
The fourth monkey was changed, resulting in the same, before the fifth was finally replaced as well.
What was left was a group of five monkeys that – without ever having received a cold shower – continued
to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.
If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they beat up on all those who attempted to climb the ladder,
their most likely answer would be “I don’t know. It’s just how things are done around here.”...'
.......................................
Normally, it wouldn't be a moral query, the basic principle of why mainstream media does-what-is
-does would be seen as okay in the realms of a investigative Journalistic viewpoint, but where the
moral aspect comes into it is the pressure to hold political officials accountable should be across
the board and show no favouritism.
In President Trump's case, this isn't so.
The media have either been ordered to behave in this negative manner or they believe it's the correct
way to portray America's leader. The unfair conduct of Journalism is being shown to the world in such
a way that it will not only damage their current reputation -what's left of it, it could seriously alter the way
the masses acquire their information from now on.
Scenario One:
They believe they're right. They believe that what they took for granted and accepted as the norm has
changed and they're unwilling to listen to why it has changed.
The media perceive a political regime that requires them to report the actions of the Trump Administration
without a personal comment of what it means. There's no sexy lightweight pieces that need little research
and caters for a lazy Editorial Department and there's too much of the serious, boring political legislation
that demands scrutiny and fact-based groundwork.
In a nutshell, Donald Trump is asking them to work for a living.
Scenario Two:
The mainstream media -possibly from coercion of their superiors, have comprehensively agreed to
create a forum where President Trump's announcements, political and general comments and his
presentation to the world via the media, should be displayed in a poor light.
Ignoring certain parts of his official and private speakings, the dominant sections of the world press
are attempting to maintain a biased narrative that they believe as the potential to persuade the public
that the person currently in the White House hasn't the leadership qualities to benefit the country with
his Presidency.
Scenario Three:
Both of the above. The phrase 'Fourth Dimensional Chess' was bandied about for a while and it was
suggested that Trump played this mentally-athletic game well. Maybe he does, but I would submit that
if such adroit cerebral agility is going on, it's not taking place in the Oval Office.
It's happening outside.
If we use the names 'Democrat' and 'Republican' as examples and refrain from looking at them as nothing
more than titles to assist in my explanation, then thank you.
The Democrats were 'in power' for eight years, a fair time for the media to get used to create an environment
where they could nurture the public into accepting a level of journalism that tasted of a 'classy' lightweight
agenda where trust in the Government would be taken for granted.
True, it could've been that certain parts of the media were compromised by the use of tax-payers money making
a Journalist or columnist's everyday tasks easier. It could've also been that some failings of individuals in that
administration were 'overlooked' due to an in-house discussion of the fallout that may have ensued.
This possibility has a worrying aspect as it now puts the media in a powerful position of information-decision
-maker and translator of Governmental policy.
Heady-stuff that tastes far-better than bananas!
Remember, a mistake is only a mistake until you rectify it and then it's gone. Would the airing of political dirty
laundry really be beneficial to a media company if they lose ground against their competitors and the position
at Government-Information trough?
For Eight years, the rules of the game were written in stone and during that time, the evolution of Journalism
also continued. The middle-class youngsters who set out into the news-reporting world had grown up in the
universe of the internet where conspiracy theories were no longer whispered and held dear.
And the water-spraying of the monkeys became a distant memory.
'Big deal, JFK was assassinated by someone... but I'm too you young to remember him anyway!'
'Nixon broke into an office, Yeah -but I wasn't alive at the time and nothing changed did it?'
Flying saucers are everyday things that are abundant on YouTube. Bigfoot is just a bunch of guys telling
scary stories and the Cold War was something about Russia and spies... like those boring movies with no
CGI.
With a black President promising hope and the tutors carving out jobs in universities by using guilt tactics
against older or fragile superiors, the eight years meant for many rookie-Journalists, a couple of hours at their
desk typing a piece that was full of un-researched click-bait and fanciful musings that had no connection
with what was really happening to the working class outside of this bubble.
The bananas stayed at the top of the ladder and we all got used to enjoying being dry.
Then this egoistical businessman lumbered onto the stage. A rich braggart who held the trappings that
went along with the elite, yet spoke about subjects that involved a plaid shirt and scuffed working boots.
He said vague crazy things that resonated to the working-stiff and an out-of-date patriotic cry in a world of
banal globalism.
But to get where he wanted to go, he knew he had to hitch his wagon to one of the main parties because
when playing in a rigged game, one doesn't sit down as a loner. Any potential from a single entity would
be snuffed out by the commanding groups who have already invested heavily in the game.
So he chose the Republican Party, a group that held similar views of his own. A bit odd for this loud-mouthed
rich old-guy who didn't ingratiate himself with the contemporary upper-middle-class youth. He spoke of free
market capitalism and a strong national defence, the whole persona of this man from a television programme
smacked of conceited privilege that never knew what the United States was really about.
There was no hushed words of diversity or opportunities for minorities, this man with the red tie talked in way
that implied a citizen should roll-up their sleeves and get to making America great again! I mean... come on,
don't we have 'other' people to do that?
What he was really saying and certainly to Journalists, was ignore the spray of water... claim the steps as
your own and share the bananas around.
But the media had become used to the dryness and it's not that they don't want to change, it's that they
don't know how to and instead of admitting it, they will do whatever it takes to stop anyone climbing those
ladders.
of the way that the Establishment and certainly the media, think.
The Monkeys In A Cage Syndrome.
'A group of scientists placed five monkeys in a cage, and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top.
Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, every time a monkey would start up the ladder, the others would pull it down and beat it up.
After a time, no monkey would dare try climbing the ladder, no matter how great the temptation.
The scientists then decided to replace one of the monkeys.
The first thing this new monkey did was start to climb the ladder. Immediately, the others pulled him down
and beat him up.
After several beatings, the new monkey learned never to go up the ladder, even though there was no
evident reason not to, aside from the beatings.
The second monkey was substituted and the same occurred. The first monkey participated in the beating
of the second monkey. A third monkey was changed and the same was repeated.
The fourth monkey was changed, resulting in the same, before the fifth was finally replaced as well.
What was left was a group of five monkeys that – without ever having received a cold shower – continued
to beat up any monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.
If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they beat up on all those who attempted to climb the ladder,
their most likely answer would be “I don’t know. It’s just how things are done around here.”...'
.......................................
Normally, it wouldn't be a moral query, the basic principle of why mainstream media does-what-is
-does would be seen as okay in the realms of a investigative Journalistic viewpoint, but where the
moral aspect comes into it is the pressure to hold political officials accountable should be across
the board and show no favouritism.
In President Trump's case, this isn't so.
The media have either been ordered to behave in this negative manner or they believe it's the correct
way to portray America's leader. The unfair conduct of Journalism is being shown to the world in such
a way that it will not only damage their current reputation -what's left of it, it could seriously alter the way
the masses acquire their information from now on.
Scenario One:
They believe they're right. They believe that what they took for granted and accepted as the norm has
changed and they're unwilling to listen to why it has changed.
The media perceive a political regime that requires them to report the actions of the Trump Administration
without a personal comment of what it means. There's no sexy lightweight pieces that need little research
and caters for a lazy Editorial Department and there's too much of the serious, boring political legislation
that demands scrutiny and fact-based groundwork.
In a nutshell, Donald Trump is asking them to work for a living.
Scenario Two:
The mainstream media -possibly from coercion of their superiors, have comprehensively agreed to
create a forum where President Trump's announcements, political and general comments and his
presentation to the world via the media, should be displayed in a poor light.
Ignoring certain parts of his official and private speakings, the dominant sections of the world press
are attempting to maintain a biased narrative that they believe as the potential to persuade the public
that the person currently in the White House hasn't the leadership qualities to benefit the country with
his Presidency.
Scenario Three:
Both of the above. The phrase 'Fourth Dimensional Chess' was bandied about for a while and it was
suggested that Trump played this mentally-athletic game well. Maybe he does, but I would submit that
if such adroit cerebral agility is going on, it's not taking place in the Oval Office.
It's happening outside.
If we use the names 'Democrat' and 'Republican' as examples and refrain from looking at them as nothing
more than titles to assist in my explanation, then thank you.
The Democrats were 'in power' for eight years, a fair time for the media to get used to create an environment
where they could nurture the public into accepting a level of journalism that tasted of a 'classy' lightweight
agenda where trust in the Government would be taken for granted.
True, it could've been that certain parts of the media were compromised by the use of tax-payers money making
a Journalist or columnist's everyday tasks easier. It could've also been that some failings of individuals in that
administration were 'overlooked' due to an in-house discussion of the fallout that may have ensued.
This possibility has a worrying aspect as it now puts the media in a powerful position of information-decision
-maker and translator of Governmental policy.
Heady-stuff that tastes far-better than bananas!
Remember, a mistake is only a mistake until you rectify it and then it's gone. Would the airing of political dirty
laundry really be beneficial to a media company if they lose ground against their competitors and the position
at Government-Information trough?
For Eight years, the rules of the game were written in stone and during that time, the evolution of Journalism
also continued. The middle-class youngsters who set out into the news-reporting world had grown up in the
universe of the internet where conspiracy theories were no longer whispered and held dear.
And the water-spraying of the monkeys became a distant memory.
'Big deal, JFK was assassinated by someone... but I'm too you young to remember him anyway!'
'Nixon broke into an office, Yeah -but I wasn't alive at the time and nothing changed did it?'
Flying saucers are everyday things that are abundant on YouTube. Bigfoot is just a bunch of guys telling
scary stories and the Cold War was something about Russia and spies... like those boring movies with no
CGI.
With a black President promising hope and the tutors carving out jobs in universities by using guilt tactics
against older or fragile superiors, the eight years meant for many rookie-Journalists, a couple of hours at their
desk typing a piece that was full of un-researched click-bait and fanciful musings that had no connection
with what was really happening to the working class outside of this bubble.
The bananas stayed at the top of the ladder and we all got used to enjoying being dry.
Then this egoistical businessman lumbered onto the stage. A rich braggart who held the trappings that
went along with the elite, yet spoke about subjects that involved a plaid shirt and scuffed working boots.
He said vague crazy things that resonated to the working-stiff and an out-of-date patriotic cry in a world of
banal globalism.
But to get where he wanted to go, he knew he had to hitch his wagon to one of the main parties because
when playing in a rigged game, one doesn't sit down as a loner. Any potential from a single entity would
be snuffed out by the commanding groups who have already invested heavily in the game.
So he chose the Republican Party, a group that held similar views of his own. A bit odd for this loud-mouthed
rich old-guy who didn't ingratiate himself with the contemporary upper-middle-class youth. He spoke of free
market capitalism and a strong national defence, the whole persona of this man from a television programme
smacked of conceited privilege that never knew what the United States was really about.
There was no hushed words of diversity or opportunities for minorities, this man with the red tie talked in way
that implied a citizen should roll-up their sleeves and get to making America great again! I mean... come on,
don't we have 'other' people to do that?
What he was really saying and certainly to Journalists, was ignore the spray of water... claim the steps as
your own and share the bananas around.
But the media had become used to the dryness and it's not that they don't want to change, it's that they
don't know how to and instead of admitting it, they will do whatever it takes to stop anyone climbing those
ladders.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.