"I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that".
The mainstream media is already a damaged & demented robot of the Democrat Party.
Posted on 12/24/2008 5:46:47 PM PST by Kaslin
Sean Hannity marks 2008 as the year journalism died. But it could just as easily be the year journalism felt a thrill going up its leg.
That Chris Matthews disclosure in February, that a Barack Obama speech caused him a mild ecstasy, represented the everyday "mainstream" media view. Reporters didn't so much produce "news" during this election year as they tried to make a sale. Every story seemed to say, "You know you want Obama."
Chris Matthews won the Quote of the Year for 2008 in the Media Research Center's annual tally of the year's worst reporting, or the Best of Notable Quotables.
The only quote that came close to Matthews in summing up the year in liberal tilt was this bizarre postelection headline from the Reuters wire service: "Media bias largely unseen in U.S. presidential race."
The Obamagasm Award went to Nancy Gibbs, Time's senior writer in charge of obsequious fawning, for using her postelection story to compare Obama to Jesus Christ, only better: "Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope."
A Kool-Aid-abstaining Obama critic might see in that line a reference to how Obama's memoirs are a melange of biographical fact and self-serving literary invention, as authors from David Freddoso to Jerome Corsi have revealed.
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Somehow, we need robots giving the news. Otherwise, people are always going to have biases, one way or the other.
Media to America: “Yeah like, so? We’re biased. Whatcha gonna do about it, Prole?”
Exactly right.
L. Brent Bozell critiquing the media is like having Celine Dion critique rock and roll: Unless it sounds like what they already like, they’re gonna hate it.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
"I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that".
The mainstream media is already a damaged & demented robot of the Democrat Party.
"I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that"."Somehow, we need robots giving the news."
The mainstream media is already a damaged & demented robot of the Democrat Party.
The problem is that the definition of "news" is already anticonservative. It doesn't require bias on the part of the reporter.
“The problem is that the definition of “news” is already anticonservative. It doesn’t require bias on the part of the reporter.”
meaning...?
I don’t get it.
Every story said very clearly, "You can't trust us." When I get better news from Pravda than American Pravda, I KNOW the MSM has run off the cliff.
So long, it's not been nice knowing you, please don't write wherever it is you wind up.
meaning...?“The problem is that the definition of “news” is already anticonservative. It doesn’t require bias on the part of the reporter.”
The rules of journalism which really matter are the rules designed to make a newspaper profitable:There is nothing conservative about those rules, unless you call the naked self-interest of the newspaper "conservative." Those rules are designed to interest the public. They have nothing to do with "the public interest," which an altogether different thing. For further discussion, follow the link:
- If it bleeds, it leads.
- 'Man Bites Dog,' not 'Dog Bites Man.'
- There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper.
The Right to Know
which doesn't make the stories he reports on and the quotes he reports untrue. Who would you have as judges, a few of the Obama-pimps over at DU?
1. Terrorism
2. Liberalism
3. The Mainstream Media
And, of these three, the media is the most dangerous enemy by far.
Because, were it not for the media running interference for them, terrorism and liberalism would've been vanquished years ago.
The demise of the drive-bys can't come too soon.
???
Obama never went negative during the presidential campaign because his media did it for him.
The "news" was a relentless pro-Obama, anti-Republican advertising campaign.
There's a reason that companies pay BIG money for advertising - it simply works.
I cut off my cable and stopped buying newspapers and magazines for another reason - I don't like being advertised at.
``The media, I think, want Kerry to win. And I think they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards . . . as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there’s going to be this glow about them that is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that’s going to be worth maybe 15 points.’’
Evan Thomas of NEWSWEEK, July 11, 2004
I hear ya.
All I’m sayin’ is, we see the bias on the left but nod our head to those on the right...but they’re biased, too.
either way, consider the source.
oh, and Merry Christmas, Larry!
well, I can understand your “???” that IS a pretty strained analogy but I had to get back to Ralphie and his BB gun last night.:-)
Merry Christmas, Spectator.
When the Clinton tax increase was passed in 1993, I selected three Democrat quotes praising it and quotes from Dole, Gingrich, and Kasich against it, even steven, and with comparable amount of words. It was an NPR audience and a bunch of people called up screaming that my newscasts favored the Republicans. We are more conditioned to bias than you know. Bias exists deliberately and is taught in journalism school as "advocacy journalism."
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