Posted on 11/30/2007 5:07:09 AM PST by connell
Tom, get off the meds. Media propaganda (how can you call it merely a “bias” when they eat, breath and live it everyday?) is a corrosive, pervasive betrayal of journalistic principles working at the conscious and sub conscious level. It permeates everything they do and is the number one enemy of conservative ideals.
Well, perhaps I didn't phrase my point correctly. What I mean is, media bias has maxxed out; they're not convincing anyone who is not already convinced. They've saturated the market. In fact, they have to keep upping the ante in order to stand still; that's why they are no longer able to hide their bias.
As far as the "corrosive, pervasive betrayal of journalistic principles," well, you can believe in those if you like, and you can also believe in Santa Claus. The media's adherence to "journalistic principles" has always been a figment of their own imaginations, a phrase that they trot out when they give each other awards and when they write obits for each other. The media has always been made up mostly of wannabe hacks, poseurs, and blowhards, and it always will be. I'm talking back to the time of Mark Twain, and probably back to the time of Gutenberg and the printing press. They are a joke; all the more so because they are so unaware of it.
As to their being the "number one enemy of conservative ideals," well, my all my enemies be as moronic and inept.
“What I mean is, media bias has maxxed out; they’re not convincing anyone who is not already convinced.”
Each and every year they are convincing millions of young kids who become voters for the first time...and which takes 10-15 years to beat out of them.
I hate to break it to you, but young kids tend to be liberal by nature. This is because they are ignorant, and ignorant people are attracted to the vapid platitudes of liberalism. This is because they don't have the knowledge to distinguish between what sounds good and what actually is good.
Young kids also don't vote in any great numbers. The attempts that are laid on by the Democrats and the media every four years to turn out the youth vote never amount to anything (Rush Limbaugh has spoken of this many times). That doesn't stop them from trying, every four years, but human nature is human nature, and the 18-25 set has better things to do than go down and register to vote wherever they are living this year (don't forget, they move around a lot), find out where their polling place is, and go down there to vote for someone they're pretty cynical about anyway, even if that someone is a Democrat.
She's heavily involved in a union that's backing Edwards. I've seen it reported that the video of her debate question was posted on their web site. Of course, nothing was said about that. She's just an "ordinary concerned mom" as far as we're supposed to know.
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Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
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Young adults don’t vote in the numbers/% of say retirees, but that changes as soon as they get a job, get married and have kids. Unfortunately, the propaganda job done on them for 20 years stays with them until they start becoming the victims of democrat “compassion” and that might not happen until they are 30-35.
Unfortunately, the damage is done by that point. Your contention that liberal/media propaganda does little harm is quite simply, ridiculous, and for us to ignore it is quite simply, dangerous.
Anyway, no sense us fighting to much over it, let’s agree to disagree and move on.
I’ve got a bunch like that on my side and on my wife’s side. Especially on her side, two brothers and spouses who should be GOPers by virtue of their accomplishments and station in life instead spout the same tired “Bush lied” and other such garbage. One cannot reason with them, they do it as it’s inbred. Also, they are ignorant of reality as their news comes from the MSM. I pity the fools,actually. My sister is a raging democrat who married a guy who vowed his fealty to Hillary/ Unbelievable.
The Democrat Party is merely the political wing of the Liberal Media Industry.
There's no longer a question about who's working for who.
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Journalism never has been more than advertising mixed with opinion mongering. Television journalism, like print journalism, is more interesting in entertaining than informing, but above all, it aims to manipulate.
Agreed. But a media system that is so overly imbalanced does a disservice to the nation...voters don’t get the information they need to make an informed choice.
In other words, let the opinion mongering continue, but it should be balanced so the electorate gets full value from the media and has the ability to make effective decisions by seeing both sides to an argument instead of one.
The inbalance comes where 80% of the journalists subscribed to one set of opinions. This, because journalism schools are equally inbalanced. Liberals are drawn to education in a way that conservatives are not, in part because they hold to the dogma of the perfectibility of man thru education.
At least they’re not calling him *.
“By insulating them from tough questions while giving Republicans an anal exam, the MSM ensures that the Democrats will continue to drift toward the fringe, with comical leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It also forces the GOP to hone it’s message, and forces it’s candidates to be truthful and able to handle difficult, hostile questions under pressure.”
I agree completely with this and have thought so for many years. It helps Republicans to make sense. It helps Democrats to become raving loons. Lately I have had fun “proving” to my liberal encounters that Republicans tell the truth.
That the Republican message is honest and true can be proved by the fact that still nearly 50% of the nation votes for them. The Democrat message is propped up by the relentless drumbeat of propaganda that seeps into print, cable news, network news, Hollywood movies, TV sitcoms, children’s cartoons, public school classrooms, etc etc etc. The sheer repetition keeps their idiodic notions on life support.
Republicans on the other hand have only the merits of their arguments to sustain them. If the ideas are bad, they go away. If they are true and good, they survive.
So, thank you liberal media!!
Also because the left always overreaches, as evil always does. People have perfectly good BS detectors. The problem is they see ALL politicians as corrupt hacks and apply a certain moral equivalency. The logical fallacy of the truth falling somewhere in the middle.
Trouble is I'm not sure they're wrong about the repubicans.
The trouble is, liberals in the news game and in academia will likely always be the majority. Why?
Liberals enter journalism to “make a difference.” Of course the idiots are too thick to understand that the media should not make a difference but rather arm the public with as much truth as possible. Of course truth is anethema to the particular “difference” they desire.
Also, the ivory towers are much more appealing to liberal idealist dipsticks whose ideals would get a snappy slap in the face the moment they encounter reality. And so in the ivory towers they hide.
Sure it is agravating. I still don’t know why folks with big bucks can’t just by up the news outlets and influence the universities to exterminate the lying vermin.
It’s not anything new by any means. My dad is 80, and we talked about this, and he said it was just as bad in the 60s. Maybe more infuriating since there were really only 3 channels available. In those days conservatives could read the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and that was about it. I’m really glad Al Gore invented the internet though.
A simple example you can see every day: "The troubled and weakening economy presents more problems for the embattled Bush administration tonight...." A few random figures are presented, with a couple of carefully picked sound bites. Then the story moves on to Iraq.
The idea that the economy is "troubled and weakening" is simply taken for granted, neither supported nor questioned, but simply offered as a fact. That the Bush administration may in fact not be "embattled" at all is not a thought that anyone will glean from this story. But next day, when Obama or Clinton yammers about the "terrible economy" the viewer recalls the story from the night before, and listens...
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