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To: Cableguy

It is payback time. It is LONG OVERDUE. The elitist media is finished as a CREDIBLE news source. The public is wising up quickly to their spun, manipulated and manufactured news, all to promote thier leftist agenda.

Crash and burn boys! You deserve everything you get, AND MORE!


3 posted on 09/21/2004 11:31:52 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Personally, I think the New York Times will go out of business before the network news divisions. If television networks are a dying bread, newsprint is an even deader one.

It will a long slow choke. It won't disappear overnight. Think about when you heard the news on 9-11. Where did you turn to watch it? CNN? FNC? For most, it was one of the three old stand-bys...ABC, NBC or CBS. Why? Because we know that when there is a major immediate news story, these are the ones with the resources to tell us what is happening right now.

Sure, they are biased. Sure, their potency is shrinking by the month. But when something like 9-11 or the Challenger disaster happens, people know the networks will stop everything and show what is going on. If it happens on a weekend, FNC is AWOL. If it happens in the middle of Larry King Live, CNN will mention it at the bottom of the hour.

The networks have acceeded the more mundane news stories to the all-news channels. But there is still a sizeable audience that has no cable (either they don't want it or can't get it), so the nets will still be the place folks go when there is a major immediate news story.

Maybe in another 20-30 years, this won't be so. But then we may not even be the same United States in 20-30 years.


5 posted on 09/21/2004 11:44:17 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Let's REALLY Split The Country! (http://righteverytime3.blogspot.com))
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