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Everything You Think About the Media Is Wrong
RCS ^ | Alex B. Berezow

Posted on 10/26/2015 5:54:46 AM PDT by Duke C.

We have heard it many times. We in the mass media are ignorant and deceptive partisans, propagandists, and shills. The rest of us are just mindless puppets. The 24-hour news cycle is responsible for dividing America and dumbing down political discourse. In short, modern journalism is the worst thing to happen to the U.S. since Justin Bieber crossed the border.

True, journalism isn't perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions. A recent, eye-opening literature review by a professor from Stockholm University in Annual Review of Economics examined the impact of the mass media on society and politics. Its findings were far less grim than what is commonly believed.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...


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To: Duke C.

The media is corporate owned, Corporate owned. Let that sink in for a moment.


21 posted on 10/26/2015 6:35:07 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Duke C.

First they say they are not biased, then go on to list ways they are biased.


22 posted on 10/26/2015 6:36:06 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Duke C.

Another MSMer breathing his own exhaust.


23 posted on 10/26/2015 6:36:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Duke C.

When the MSM admits Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton covered up the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed a US Ambassador and 3 other US citizens with their video lie for pure political reasons, 6 weeks before the 2012 Presidential Election, then I’ll re-evaluate my low opinion of them.


24 posted on 10/26/2015 6:37:10 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: demshateGod

The news media has always been biased.

Up until the 1950s every major city had at least two newspapers, and sometimes more. Bias was more acceptable since they could balance each other out.

When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same.

The decline in newspapers correspond to the rise of television, and now most major cities only have one paper. So those still getting their news from newspapers, are only being exposed to one view.

So the bias remained but the number of options declined.

Now, with the internet, and sites like FreeRepublic, we can be exposed to a wide range of sources for news. True the bias remains, but the readers are able to provide balance.

It is now up to individuals to decide how much weight to put on any particular view, and make up their own mind on issues.

Information is bypassing the gatekeepers, and that explains why they want to shut down sites like this one.


25 posted on 10/26/2015 6:39:47 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (Nothing to add at the moment)
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To: Duke C.

I didn’t get any further in the article once it mentioned that Susan Collins was a centrist Republican.


26 posted on 10/26/2015 6:40:10 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: redfreedom
Justin Beiber is an obnoxious little twit. He has never lied to me, he has never given cover to communists, islamists, abortionists, or gun grabbers. At least, not that I'm aware of.

Big Media do all of those things, routinely, on a daily basis, and do little else.

Get rid of Big Media. Ignore the Bieber.

27 posted on 10/26/2015 6:41:33 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Duke C.

Like alcoholics, leftist shills never believe they’re leftist shills.

As this writer confirms.


28 posted on 10/26/2015 6:42:03 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Duke C.

” The author cites a 2005 study that concluded that, while most newspapers are center-left, 18 of the 20 media outlets it examined held political positions that were in between Joe Lieberman (a centrist Democrat) and Susan Collins (a centrist Republican).”

A centrist is somebody who is willing to compromise with a liberal. But anything liberal ratchets the entire society to the left. You can’t ever back up. A typical compromise is enacting a socialist policy in three years rather than today. A centrist touts that as a win.


29 posted on 10/26/2015 6:46:04 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Hiro Protaginast; HartleyMBaldwin

Oops. That’s what I meant- resigned.


30 posted on 10/26/2015 6:47:52 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: Duke C.

Gee, could that be why your newspapers have shrunk to the size of Kroger “Buy One, Get One Free” flyer — and are about as interesting?


31 posted on 10/26/2015 6:52:16 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Duke C.

No. The mass media are a divisive force and need to have scorn heaped on them.


32 posted on 10/26/2015 6:58:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Duke C.
"...a professor from Stockholm University in Annual Review of Economics examined the impact of the mass media on society and politics. Its findings were far less grim than what is commonly believed."

The Stockholm effect writ large.

33 posted on 10/26/2015 7:09:24 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Duke C.

Repackaged dung is still dung.


34 posted on 10/26/2015 7:09:26 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Duke C.

Journalism investigates journalism, finds nothing wrong!

If journalists DOCUMENTED events, there wouldn’t be a problem. Instead, they foment events, cultivate bias, and obfuscate truth.

The study is just another journalistic lie.


35 posted on 10/26/2015 7:11:51 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: redfreedom

Which one is likely to overdose in some nightclub bathroom and remove himself?

Get rid of the MSM. Bieber is on the Jim Morrison/ Amy Winehouse track.


36 posted on 10/26/2015 7:23:47 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Duke C.
A recent, eye-opening literature review by a professor from Stockholm University in Annual Review of Economics examined the impact of the mass media on society and politics. Its findings were far less grim than what is commonly believed.

Brought to you by the same professors who bring us the global warming stats?

37 posted on 10/26/2015 7:29:38 AM PDT by PLOM...NOT! (With guns, we are citizens. Without them, we are subjects.)
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To: Duke C.
Liberal control of the Media/News industry is US Enemy number one.

We should be taking a sledge hammer to the existing media system. It is filled with nothing but Urban Liberal Democrat Party Union members who can't be unbiased because their worldview has no grasp of the fact that they are inherently biased.

The only way to address this is to force them to hire people outside of their world view. We should be filing discrimination lawsuits against them until the political balance of the News and Entertainment industries resemble the country at large.

We should be filing lawsuits against their hiring and promotion practices, because they routinely discriminate against conservatives (1/3 to 1/2 of the nation) in their hiring.

Until the makeup of the News Rooms resemble the political Demographics of the Country at large, these people should be regarded as guilty of deliberate discrimination against a very significant plurality.

38 posted on 10/26/2015 7:30:37 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: petercooper
Nixon- deletes 16 minutes of a recording, gets impeached as president.

Obama - spends much of his day playing golf, where he can discuss things with people far away from any pesky microphones or logging. You didn't REALLY think he loved golf?

39 posted on 10/26/2015 7:34:02 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Duke C.

I ran an informal and unscientific poll here at FR some years back.

Who is the least untrustworthy? Who is worse?

Politicians or the media?

Results were clear. Politicians were lying dirtbags who were incompetent at best; dangerous and corrupt.

The media was 10 times WORSE.


40 posted on 10/26/2015 7:50:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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