Inside the Disinformation Machine: A Look at the Left’s New Media Operation

Capital Research Center ^ | September 2008 | Matthew Sheffield and Noel Sheppard

[vadum]

Summary: If you think the media has a liberal bias today, wait until you see what the left has in store for America’s future. Extremist billionaires, “netroots” activists, and nonprofit pressure groups are creating a new media network. Through blog journalism, they aim to discredit the media outposts of the right while remaking the Internet in their own image.

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here is no argument that over the last 30 years American journalism has become increasingly powerful and pervasive. There is no escaping the modern media: It functions 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is constantly updating online. The daily newspaper and the “nightly news” on TV are outmoded concepts that are losing readers and viewers—and profits.

There is also no argument that American journalists are liberals. Thirty years’ worth of polling data and opinion surveys clearly demonstrate this fact. Journalists say they are liberals, they vote for liberal political candidates, voice what are considered liberal opinions and reject what are considered conservative positions on political and social issues. The liberal leanings of journalists are well documented. (For more on media bias, see http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/pdf/BiasBasics.pdf.)

Despite the fact that liberals dominate the highest-profile journalistic institutions in America, this isn’t enough to many on the far left. Through a complex network of wealthy foundations, think tanks and web sites, the far left is creating a new media infrastructure with the ultimate goal of banishing conservative and libertarian thought to the nether regions of media and curbing the political power of the right.

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[detective]

The MSM today is the disinformation arm of the Democratic party. Just like Pravda was the propaganda arm of the Communist party in the former Soviet Union and Goebbels was the propaganda arm of the National Socialist Workers Party in Germany the MSM today works on to promote the agenda of the Democratic Party and will tell any lie to accomplish its aim. The "Big Lie" technique that began in Germany has today been perfected and updated by the MSM. The whole concept of a freedom of the press imagined by our founders and included in the Bill of Rights has been totally subverted. Even as their circulation and viewership declines the MSM continue to push Democrat party disinformation.

[IrishCatholic]

Yet the money people on the right will not invest in a fair press.

Do you think the conservative business leaders don’t see this? That they don’t see the left targeting state level races and picking off conservative candidates? That they don’t see red states turning blue despite the population?

They would rather try and bribe the left than fight it. It pisses me off all the time. They keep feeding the alligator hoping it will stop at their toes.

[Doug TX]

Disinformation is sophisticated counter marketing. You have to think contrairian to pick up on the patterns. The dems have learned how to employ it more effectively the last few years. Careful what you believe from even trusted sources!

[Vaduz]

trusted sources=if no names given it’s not a trusted source.