Posted on 09/19/2008 6:03:33 AM PDT by curth
The Mainstream Media Is Dead As It Attempts To Steer Election By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin 09/19/2008
You should be aware of how, in a most unexpected and unintended way, the mainstream media is determining the outcome of this election.
As every reader of this column knows and, as perhaps everyone knows or suspects at this point, the mainstream media has been in a massive full court press to sell Sen. Barack Obama as president, without vetting him, without asking him tough questions and with treatment that some would think should be reserved for the second coming. By the mainstream media, I include most of the major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer; the three old-line major networks including ABC, CBS and, of course, the Obama Campaign Network, also known as NBC along with PBS; the cable news channels CNN and MSNBC; many of the radio stations owned by those networks along with NPR; and many national magazines such as Time and Newsweek.
The bad news is the mainstream media has been putting out a steady stream of the most biased, dishonest and fraudulent reporting and editorializing to push Sen. Obama down the throats of the American people. The good news is their efforts are so blatant and heavy-handed that a tipping-point has been reached. The public now realizes the mainstream media is acting as a cheerleader and campaign manager for Sen. Obama. The public realizes they have been fed a constant stream of pro-Obama propaganda, in at attempt to use fraud and deceit to determine an election outcome.
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I was watching Good Morning America’s “Whistle Stop Tour” through the heartland. They stopped in Ohio and asked all these people about the hard times they had experienced during “the last 6 years”. It was so obvious that it was humorous.
Whether or not you like McCain, this election represents a real chance to put a stake throught the heart of the MSMedia. They have been running a 24/7 campaign ad for Obama, and his defeat would spell the end of any influence they have. Fellow Freepers, I know many of you still don’t like McCain, but I hope you will view this election as a chance to take back the CULTURE in this country, the first battle in a long war being the destruction of the MSMedia.
I’ve said for a long time the mainstream media is more dangerous and a bigger threat to this country than Al Queda is.
THe media and press has always been biased and the articles were much more vicious in Jefferson’s and Lincoln’s time
BUT
There was NOT the monopoly as there exists today
It is because our schools are run by leftists and only turn out left wing journalists
The Drive-Bys are selling poison as medicine and when reality sets in, their going to regret the day they were born.
Very good article. I just hope there are still enough people left who will stop and think about the issues addressed in the article. Sometimes I feel like giving up.
I hope this is true but I'm not sure that there is any evidence of this.
I agree, we are all frustrated with the media. We were in 2004 also.
October seems to be the time when the media tries to be more objective, it is when they realize that their bias will be more noticed.
They finally nailed Gore in October 2000, and Nailed Kerry on the flip flopping in 2004.
As someone who used to scan Pravda and Izvestia occasionally, the US press now is as biased and spins stories as much as these Communist papers ever did. IMHO Keep in mind that all generalities are false, and that there are some events correctly reported in US newspapers, however is it worth the time and effort to remove the pearls from the slop that is routinely dished out?
Algore is going to save us. No, really, well... maybe not Algore himself, but his invention, the internet.
I don’t have contact with as many people as my son, (he’s a computer consultant). So, I keep my son up to date with all the information about 0bama that NBCABCCBSCNNMSNBC won’t present. The good news is, my son passes the stuff on to people who are either liberal or on the fence. He’s converted at least 3 likely voters so far.
If this stuff about 0bama were to be peresented by the MSM, 0bama would be finished. Heck, the quotes by Mr. and Mrs. 0bama yesterday would be enough to damage them mightily if the quotes were presented to the public. The quote about getting in people’s faces, and the cute quote.
It would take about one hour of reading and listening on the internet to know, without doubt, 0bama is:
A racist
A Marxist
A muslim sympathizer
We have a winner, folks.
If the Media was fair, we’d never lose an election.
(and they didn't mean ducking snipers at an airport)...where there were no snipers!!!
Let's be real...How many times have you seen Hillary and Michelle together??? Michelle wears the pants in that family.
Thanks. I just posted article on digg.com
Actually, the monopoly is over. It's possible that more people still hear some MSM program or other than listen to Rush on any given day, but Rush has to be in the top-ten in audience level. And then right behind him are the Hannitys of the world. The Washington Post and the NY Times are nowhere on the list.
ML/NJ
This is HUGH! Very series.
Yesterday, I was working on my laptop in a public area for most of the day while MSNBC droned on for hours on the lobby TV fawning over bo’s new poll numbers and swooning over his rambling speeches to crowds of impressionable sheep. It was about as mentally stimulating as playing a recording of the sounds of flushing urinals and toilets in a restroom in a large airport.
Great editorial and spot on. I was thinking about what the media has done and what it has done is create a marketpace Rush’s show, Fox News, Hannity, Ingram etc.
Conservative talk radio and Fox should be thanking the mainstream media for what they are doing because they are creating bigger marketplaces for them.
It will be interesting to see if they will ever wake up or will they just continue to be a story in the Dinosaur Media Watch.
I also believe that the common “folks” clearly see the bias. The one thing that voters hate is being told how to vote by elitisits, in this case in the media and Hollywood.
The “backfire” will be loud and we will hear it on election night as the media has a collective breakdown.
I agree. But the ONLY way to do that is to hit them in the ratings and advertisers during the down economy (especially MSNBC). I'd love to see them go down. Keep it on Fox. I just phyiscally and emotionally cannot watch the other cable channels any longer. The bias is so blatant. It just disgusts and angers me.
The mainstream media is not only anti-Republican, anti-McCain, and anti-conservative but over the years has been anti-military, anti-American, anti-family-values, anti-religion, anti-law enforcement, anti-the-war-in-Iraq, anti-national-defense, anti-national-security and anti- everything else mainstream America believes in.
IOW, journalism doesn't do anything but criticize the people who do do things and who work to a bottom line and are therefore vulnerable to second guessing. After 1968, the Democratic Party gradually (sometimes not so gradually) dismissed any effort to be any different from the cynicism which naturally characterizes the reporting of bad news on short deadline. So that now the Democratic Party is simply the political wing of Big Journalism.
I agree that "the monopoly is over", but Rush is by no means even a large part of it. The ease of fact-checking on the internet, and the transmission of news stories that bypass the MSM are a bigger part.
One thing I think candidates should do, is, if interviewed, have their own camera, and tape the entire session, independently of the media interviewer. And then post that interview on Youtube, so any "negative editing" (as so prominently done during the ABC/Gibson interview) can be brought to light.
Great article. He hints that, if the MSM succeeds in getting O elected, the MSM expects payback. Payback would include re-instituting the “Fairness Doctrine,” setting market share limits on Internet news delivery and online classified revenue, and ultimately government takeover of failed publishing empires a la AIG. Then we would have a totally government-controlled press just like Pravda.
Whoa, a newspaper actually printing the truth about Obie-Wan Obozo? I had to do a double-take when I looked up for the source.
That columnist better hire a food-taster and a car-starter. The brown shirts will now target him.
You're kidding, right?
The internet may be important, but the internet is like "the newspapers." It's an amalgam of lots of people saying what they think of know. I doubt there is any political/news site that even comes close to Rush in reach.
Additionally Rush preceded the Internet. When he effectively wrested control of Congress from the Dims in 1994 most of us were still on Compuserve if we were using a computer for communication at all.
ML/NJ
That is the problem they have not thought through yet. What happens when you leave any doubt of bias behind and support a party when you are only suppose to give us the news. They are creating a huge rift in the American public and have announced they are part of the problem to one side. Not good if thing ever go bad and get radical on the right like it has on the left especially as they are the face of that problem nightly. Just stupid.
At long last, after many years of this kind of reporting that violates every principle of good journalism and free government, the public appreciates what is going on. As a result, in growing and probably decisive numbers, the public is turning against the mainstream media and its candidate, Sen. Obama. In fact, many voters are going to frame a vote against Sen. Obama as a vote against the mainstream media, its dishonest, biased and fraudulent journalism, and its attempt to hijack the election by reporting only the favorable news on Sen. Obama and only the unfavorable news on Sen. John McCain. When voters look at the ballot, on the Democratic ticket they will see Sen. Obama, Joe Biden and the mainstream media and the smart voters will not like what they see on that part of the ticket.
I really do not see this happening. The same public that will blindly vote to put the anti-American Obamas in the White House were overcome with glee at every lie and made up story they read about Sarah Palin.
Yes, the Hillary pantsuit brigade is momentarily in a snit about the media's pro-Obama favoritism that left Hillary in the dust.
But they will be only too happy to have the same media work again on her side, trashing her opposition, the next time she runs for office.
I’ll take a contrarian POV on this topic. But first let me state that I believe the MSM is completely biased. Where I disagree is, I believe this bias works against the liberal agenda.
First, the MSM is extremely protective of liberal candidates and refuses to vet them. As a result, Rat nominees over the past 30 years have been very weak.
Second, the liberal MSM does an extremely effective job of vetting weak Pubbie candidates. Becoming the pub candidate is a survival of the fittest.
Third, the general election becomes a battle of the weak Rat opposing the strong pub. The vetting process of the Rat that should have take before the nomination takes place in the general courtesy of the pubbie’s campaign.
So, while I resent having an unapologetically biased media feeding me its version of the news, I’m thankful for the unintended consequences they bring about. If memory and mathematics serve me correctly, Carter and Clinton are the only Rats to be elected to the highest office in the land in the last 40 years.
It and its operatives deserve--and have--the contempt of decent people everywhere and for all time.
The "Mainstream Newsmedia" deserves to be destroyed--and dead.
The degeneration of the Free Press into a Propaganda Machine is one of the most dangerous events in US history--a truthfully informed electorate being essential to representative government, to liberty, and to justice.
Those responsible for this deserve the utter contempt of decent, honest, just people--and they have it!
Lots of decent stuff coming out of the Philly press here lately. Wondering if there is something in the wind.....
That, and Sarah Palin are the ONLY reason I am voting for McCain. Once in, he will screw us with his amnesty, but so will Obama. A Helluva choice made palatable by Palin.
Good article.
Enrage the media: Elect McCain/Palin.
“I really do not see this happening.”
I agree. The election is a draw at this point. If the people really knew about the bias and complicity then McCain should be soaring up in the polls.
It’s the very serious point of this election...can the MSM elect a president? Truly frightening if the answer should be yes.
‘lil early to be celebrating the demise of evil media.
I guess we should thank the press who made sure Her Thighness didn't get the nomination.
For something that’s dead, it sure is getting up and moving around a lot.
Very interesting read. My sister lives in Minnesota and they watch the MSM. They hadn’t heard anything negative about Obama but one promising thing about the American people, they figured out that Obama is a bad choice without the media. They heard all the dirt on SP but like her anyway. Also, they know beyond a doubt just from watching that the media is in the tank for Obama.
Not at all. Who are you?? Limbaugh's publicist??
"The internet may be important, but the internet is like "the newspapers." It's an amalgam of lots of people saying what they think of know. I doubt there is any political/news site that even comes close to Rush in reach.
Sorry, but wrong. Limbaugh's audience is only 13 million. That still leaves about 287 million he doesn't reach. The internet may be an "amalgam", but it's on heck of a lot more than "lots of people saying what they think they know". There are a huge number of dedicated "fact sites", including primary reference databases that just could not be had. To use just one example--when Walter Kronkheit propagandized during the Vietnam war, there was simply no way to fact-check him. Today, when Charlie Gibson badmouths Sarah Palin, we can go to Youtube and see what got left out, lied about, etc.
"Additionally Rush preceded the Internet. When he effectively wrested control of Congress from the Dims in 1994 most of us were still on Compuserve if we were using a computer for communication at all."
Baloney. The WWW was around en mass well before 1994. I got off Compuserve well before that.
If a person is a believer in polls, there was a poll out the other day that showed that over 60% of the electorate believed the media was trying to help Obama and only 8% thought they were trying to help McCain. That would be moonbats who have totally lost it.
That's daily. His weekly number is 20 million.
If the Lame Stream Media would go after NObama with the truth, like they’ve gone after Sarah Palin with lies...
The polls would be 85-15 in favor of McCain/Palin!
1. They will project one state after another for Obama with only 1% of the vote in, causing Obama to rack up EVs fast and make it look like Obama is running away with it. Their intent is to depress McCain voters into not voting.
2. They will hold back reporting states McCain has won again hoping to depress McCain supporters.
3. There will be some key states with over 90% of the count done that will show the race tied or McCain slightly ahead and they will suddenly develope counting problems and have to stop counting for the night. Then the next morning the state will have went to Obama. The purpose of this is to manufacture the votes Obama needs for a win.
4. There will be reports of voter fraud and irregularities all over the country but it will always be pointed at Republicans. They will ignore the dem fraud. The reason for this, of course, is to create as much chaos for the purpose of bringing about the $#*tstorm that will follow for weeks and weeks of lawsuits and recounts.
I forgot to add watch for the early exit polls to show Obama in a landslide like they did with Kerry in 04.
Fox is already projecting Obama to take Illinois thanks to a greater than expected turnout among the deceased.
/sarc
It is really a right wing media that has convinced people it supports Obama, then they go so far over the top that they help McCain Palin.
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