If you are reading Conservative Brief for news, stop

I went to school for journalism and much like in all other curriculum that aren't math and science based there is a lot of subjective material in there. For example, when I was studying journalism in the 90's it was nailed into our head that our sources must be legitimate, that hearsay is taboo, ethics were paramount, being objective and not biased was the only way, and above all else, our writing must be absolutely perfect in terms of spelling and grammar.

Conservative Brief has emerged as one of the most popular sources for conservatives to get their news and this very small company that from what I have read only has 3 staff members now has a greater distribution that the Washington Post or the New York Times. While I will always celebrate people abandoning legacy MSM I don't think it is a good idea to go to something that is just as bad, probably worse than the big guys.

This recent article that Conservative Brief pumped out was of course, a clickbait article that just regurgitates information they have already mentioned in dozens of previous articles but with just one addition of a tiny little snippet of new stuff. From a business point of view, and perhaps a brainwashing one as well, this is actually a very brilliant tactic.

What CB does is this: They will have maybe 100 words in a new article with some spurious, normally hearsay information, then they put an additional 600 or so words in the rest of the article that was already featured in at least one other article that was released in the past few days. "If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes truth" is how the saying goes and unfortunately, there are probably a lot of people that are wrapped up in politics enough that they start to believe what is written in these articles even though for the most part they are merely op-ed pieces.

What is so alarming about this article that I featured above is that it is now a day later and they still haven't corrected the glaring mistake in that jumble of words in the title. You can see it here if you want to

When I was an editor for a print newspaper in college, we would frequently put placeholders in titles if we were unsure how we were going to word it before going to print. However, at least on our end, the fact that the title or article was not yet complete was evident to the editorial staff. In the days of online news and especially with a crew of only 3 people being involved they either or incompetent or they simply don't care.

The fact that every single word of the title is capitalized is already egregiously wrong from a journalism standpoint but to have a sentence that "don't mean nothin'" is even worse.

But you know, that is the day we live in now. Someone relatively famous out there said something along the lines of "it isn't important to be factual, it is just important to be FIRST." This is one of the many problems with modern-day journalism. Nobody is really concerned about the quality of their content, they just realize that they must crank out a certain amount of attack articles every single day.

I am a conservative but I still would strongly encourage others to avoid Conservative Brief. One thing I notice about many of the conservatives that I know is that they love to claim the high ground as far as news is concerned, lambasting WaPo, NYT, CNN, MSNBC, and others as being "fake news." I agree with them for the most part but at the same time, if one is getting their information from Conservative Brief, you are no better than the zombified CNN-watchers.

Do better, which I realize can be nearly impossible seeing as how almost all media is completely full of shit these days. If you can't do better, I think just tuning out completely to the news would be far preferable than to get information from these clowns at CB.