Posted on 05/28/2009 9:17:23 PM PDT by ReformationFan
The new media do themselves and the world's news consumers a great disservice by referring to the old media as "mainstream" media. As anyone who seeks "the rest of the story" knows, they are anything but mainstream in their reporting.
Those of us who have used the word "mainstream" in referring to big media have not helped the cause of honest reporting. Those in the independent media model used this reference in an attempt to draw attention to the favorable Democrat and unfavorable Republican reporting that characterizes the bulk of big media's product.
That effort has failed. Worse, it is counterproductive. We live in a world filled with media bias of a single size and shape. Democrat. Reporters vote overwhelmingly Democrat. They contribute overwhelmingly Democrat. They take their cues from Democrat leadership. And they spin the news to make Democrats look good, regardless of the magnitude of Democrat failure and its cost to the nation.
Those of us who value honesty and integrity in news reporting need a new approach to make the world aware of a media bias so extreme that Joseph Goebbels would have been embarrassed. Our effort to generate accountability and honesty among big media's practitioners has failed. Why? Because the term we chose to use has failed to show the need for accountability to big media's consumers. If big media is mainstream, isn't that good?
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I would like to know just what it is that keeps more conservative news organizations shut out from the national cable news network. (not counting fox)
How come it is like 5 vs 1... not 5 vs 5???
what is it going to take to compete with the socialist party propaganda wing?
Yes, they really are mainstream. It takes a certain type of personality with a certain type of upbringing to resist what is taught and reinforced from kindergarten to high school to college and that is that Bush sucks, everything is Bush's fault, Obama is great, Al Gore is smart, teenage girls giving oral sex is no different than "making out", etc.
Like totally....
*grin*
What particularly maddening...is trying to scource stuff five ways from sunday to counter single source debaters on “neutral ground”....there is a long list of unaccepeted so called “right wing” scources that are way ahead of the curve while the single sourcers post crap from “main stream” scources allready well proven to engage in omission and bias or even huff and puff and stuff that they accpet at face value and claim is unbiased...
The usual result after all that work is a non reply and a dead thread....and they pop up with a new spin on the same stuff...
I’ve come to accept killing a thread as being vindicated...
Oh...and my spelling sucks..
*grin*
‘What particularly maddening...is trying to scource stuff five ways from sunday to counter single source debaters on “neutral ground”....there is a long list of unaccepeted so called “right wing” scources that are way ahead of the curve while the single sourcers post crap from “main stream” scources allready well proven to engage in omission and bias or even huff and puff and stuff that they accpet at face value and claim is unbiased...
The usual result after all that work is a non reply and a dead thread....and they pop up with a new spin on the same stuff...’
That’s because the typical leftist thinks the driveby, lamestream liberal media is “neutral”. After all, they always report from the perspective the leftist like. And leftists don’t like to be confused with the facts after they’ve made up their minds. That’s very painful and difficult for them. Witness all the “global warming” hysteria from folks even after we just had one of the coldest winters in years. It doesn’t fit their worldview. That’s also why the typical leftist feels(notice I say “feels”, not “thinks”) that conservative news/radio needs to be “fairly balanced” with liberal opposing views but never “feels” the same way about balancing liberal news/views with conservative opposing views.
“Are ‘big media’ really mainstream?
Yes, they really are mainstream. It takes a certain type of personality with a certain type of upbringing to resist what is taught and reinforced from kindergarten to high school to college and that is that Bush sucks, everything is Bush’s fault, Obama is great, Al Gore is smart, teenage girls giving oral sex is no different than “making out”, etc.”
Of course it doesn’t help that these same folks are never allowed to learn a different point of view to begin with. It’s like indoctrination in a Nazi, Communist or Islamist nation. Hence, “Democrats are always wonderful while conservatives are responsible for everything bad that has ever happened since the beginning of time, etc. etc.” viewpoints from so many folks. I saw a young lady on television beaming about Chairman Maobama saying something along the lines of “I never thought I’d live to see anybody as great as JFK or MLK in my lifetime” and this was before BHO even took office. Yep, the brainwashing is quite pervasive.
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