Posted on 03/02/2006 3:02:50 PM PST by MikeA
I think the MSM is loosing their following exactly for the reasons you outlined, and people have grown ever more weary.
The people are also finding other outlets....talk radio and the internet.
They knew something was wrong about the MSM but couldn't put their finger on it.
the "homeless" disappeared from 1993-2001, before coming back with a vengeance about 30 days after GWB took office.
I switched over to watch CHris Mattheews show for a minute or two tonight -- and surprise of all surprises. The deputy press secretary (Trent Duffy???) was on, and he was excellent!!!! He needs to be front and center, and President BUsh needs to have Scott moved to another position. Following Trent was Governor Barbour who was also excellent. Chris then said he was going to have the democrat response, so I switched (having a democrat response on is a waste of time, since Chris is the democrat response anyway).
An intereresting quote from Pulitizer in the 1890's:
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."
Scary!
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."
How prophetic is that!!! Look at how base our culture has become and how ignorant. People form ignorant opinions off of inaccurate and deceptive headlines. Reading is no longer valued. Research to learn the truth takes away time from "American Idol" and "Desperate Housewives." Americans buy into whatever the media spoon feeds them and remain ignorant on what the media refuses to report. Americans know more about the Simpson's than the contents of the constitution according to that study released this week. And a president who help revive their economy bringing it back from negative growth when he took office to one that grew at 3.7% GNP in the 2005 the same as a the "boomtown" 90s, gave them full employment, record home ownership, record numbers of jobs, protected them from further Al Qaeda assault in their cities for 4 1/2 years, and overthrew two terrorist regimes is reviled by the public largely because of what the media has told them to believe about the man. Pulitizers quote could not have been more dead-on if he had lived to see the times we're living in. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. Good post.
Like minds....exactly the line that glared out at me! Is there any wonder we face the problems we do today!
I guess nobody has told the MSM that Bush and Cheney aren't running for re-election again. What a waste of energy on their part!
I like Heninger. But as you said this bashing doesn't make sense. I wonder how much of it is just irrational and uncontrollable hate.
I like Heninger. But as you said this bashing doesn't make sense. I wonder how much of it is just irrational and uncontrollable hate.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.