An "editorial needle" or "editorial spike," occurs wherever a hooligan journalist inserts an unnecessary phrase into reportage that serves only to disparage or cast doubt on the integrity of a person. It's a vicious practice that strays far from concise and objective reporting and spills into the realm of partisan propaganda by tainting the story.
A perfect example:
This phrase is poisonous enough, but when it's applied repeatedly by jackal journalists and immediately echoed by other jackal journalists, it's a clear sign that those journalists share an agenda: to sow distrust.
The phrase has been used a lot lately but it's not new and—this may come as a surprise to some—left-wing Fox News Radio division is guilty of using the device for years to delegitimize Trump claims. Evening Fox opinion shows may lean conservative but Fox News division does not.
The flaw in the phrase is that it assumes you—the listener—have no memory of past events and will not notice that plenty of evidence may have been produced. The phrase often walks right by a mountain of evidence to deliver the gratuitous cheap shot, because taking the time to justify its use would reveal it as false, unjustifiable, and irrelevant to the story in question.
Here at The Cube, we create satire and parody, which gives us great liberty to be critical through humor. Hopefully, the shots we take are grounded in truth rather than partisan hatred. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the leftist legacy media complex.
A perfect example:
"________ said, without evidence, that..."
This phrase is poisonous enough, but when it's applied repeatedly by jackal journalists and immediately echoed by other jackal journalists, it's a clear sign that those journalists share an agenda: to sow distrust.
The phrase has been used a lot lately but it's not new and—this may come as a surprise to some—left-wing Fox News Radio division is guilty of using the device for years to delegitimize Trump claims. Evening Fox opinion shows may lean conservative but Fox News division does not.
The flaw in the phrase is that it assumes you—the listener—have no memory of past events and will not notice that plenty of evidence may have been produced. The phrase often walks right by a mountain of evidence to deliver the gratuitous cheap shot, because taking the time to justify its use would reveal it as false, unjustifiable, and irrelevant to the story in question.
Here at The Cube, we create satire and parody, which gives us great liberty to be critical through humor. Hopefully, the shots we take are grounded in truth rather than partisan hatred. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the leftist legacy media complex.
Statistics: Posted by Colonel Obyezyana — 2/1/2025, 7:51 am — Replies 11 — Views 1075