Posted on 10/24/2008 2:26:54 PM PDT by coffee260
This guy gets it. The NY Times debt, I think, got downgraded today. The paper is dying as are others. The NY Times cannot die fast enough to save millions of trees. The Washington Post will survive and the WSJ might though they have gotten so lib lately.
The MSM network news is getting hurt more. Rating are down big recently because the public is sick of propaganda.
Foolishly, Murdoch (Fox & WSJ) are moving towards the left in fear Obama might win.
Pretty good but I laughed when I read the following sentence.
“But in the last few days, even Democrats, who have been gloating over the pass - no, make that shameless support - they’ve gotten from the press, are starting to get uncomfortable as they realize that no one wins in the long run when we don’t have a free and fair press”.
OUTSTANDING article by Michael S. Malone. Thanks for posting.
Deep in the back of my mind, I see an ‘All the President’s Men’ on 0bama. But I fear the timing will be after the election.
I've heard and read that Obama is visiting his gravely ill grandmother countless times in the past couple of days. Journalists can't communicate without bias anymore, regardless of what they are taught.
I agree with this arguement 100%. The MSM is buying time. Obama might just do it for them. Smarten up America.
We need to go back to a Conservative media vs. Leftist Media (I refuse to call them "liberals" because of their close-mindedness).
Too late....the MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia machine have already dumbed down America.
Our fellow Americans will not save us, nor will our Representatives in Washington.
We are basically underground now....act accordingly...hide your wealth....plan an insurgency...we are on our own.
THE TALKING HEAD IS A THIEF.
Bump
What the author forgets or does no know is liberal play book. Obama knows that if the media has the power to get him into office, they have the power to get him out of office.
The media needs to remember that they are the "useful idiots" who will be disposed of if "the one" gains the power of the Presidency.
Excellent analysis that I find rather compelling although I disagree with a few of Malone's conclusions, such as the one that lays all the blame for media bias at the feet of editors, which I think it a presumption that ignores other factors, such as the long-time tendency of journalists to 'lean left' and, more importantly, the steadily-building leftist anger at losing two consecutive presidential elections to George W. Bush, a man they view as a moron, considering that, in my experience, liberals prize their assumed intellectual superiority over 'the rest of us' (clinging to our guns and religion).
Since 2001, the attacks on President Bush from the leftist media have grown increasing strident with only a slight public backlash. Let's face it, we all knew this would be a vicious presidential campaign, and it has been. The left-wing's attacks on Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would have been unheard of and unacceptable just a decade ago. Now, they are routine. Yes, the 'dinosaur media' is clearly losing readers and viewers but to see all this as a last gasp of media editors is just a bit too pat.
I see rank desperation from the left. They foisted Bill Clinton on the American voter and got away with it. I suspect the leftist elites assumed that America would put up with anything if their guy was charming enough. Enter, Barack Obama. In the leftmedia, to oppose Obama is 'racist'. To savage Sarah Palin is 'just hardball politics'. This passes for conventional media wisdom. I believe (possibly naively) that the majority of Americans are sick of leftist tactics, don't trust Obama, like Sarah Palin and can accept McCain. The result: Obama loses on November 4th, despite the huge media effort to elect him. Oh, the left will riot in the streets and express their anger and contempt at the American voter by screaming 'racism' and 'voter fraud'. Of course, the Democrats only yell 'fraud' when they lose, making that charge less than convincing, especially in the wake of the ACORN scandal.
In any case, Sarah Palin will probably drag McCain over the finish line, first. Not a real victory for conservatives, unless we act on it, basically ignore McCain (as he'll ignore our concerns) and rapidly promote Sarah Palin as the head of the party, displacing the neo-cons who stand in the way of victory and a sensible government.
If the MSM thinks it will be all sunshine and roses if 0bama gets elected, they are in for a rude awakening. Just let them try and write a negative story on his highness and watch the brownshirted ‘truth squad’ pay them a visit.
He is right about the bias and who is ultimately behind the paper media’s lies. However, he is wrong about the motives of the editors,they are not doing it because they see their jobs dying, they started this left wing bias 60 or more years ago when paper news was still strong.They are doing it because they are Marxists and have spent their life working up to this point in time where they are betting everything on this last roll of the dice in hopes of placing a communist into the WH. That is the real reason for the bias. Even though he gets the bias he is far to kind to his fellow journalist that have jumped the shark and landed on the side of traitors and dictators.
> FANTASTIC!!!
I would use another descriptive here; it IS, however, extraordinarily well written.
Excellent post. I no longer permit these MSM cretin to enter my house, either in print or electronically.
OMG - This is the most insightful article I’ve read about the MSM since Okrent left the New York Times. Stunning and chilling. Thanks for sharing.
Can someone send this to Hannity and Rush? And Krauthammer.
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