Posted on 07/22/2010 3:57:59 AM PDT by tobyhill
I wonder what would happen if the American People filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington Post, NY Times and the Network News stations accusing them of violating the trust of the American people.
I would argue that the news divisions are committing fraud.
You'd be laughed out of Court for being dumb enough to have that much trust in something you hadn't verified, plus, you have no direct loss.
The legal lines for reporting are simple: defamation, classified information, and state secret are legally risky. All the rest is based on manipulation, and deception. Good con-men are believable, their marks often like them, in addition to trusting them.
The entity that created the expectation of "objectivity" and "trustworthy" as applied to the media, is the media. It's a con, with a scope of coverage accelerating since inception of radio and television.
Pravda and Izvestia in the US isn't a joke - it's objective reality. The media is part of the system. The system HAS to generate an appearance of fight and conflict, otherwise the people wise up to the fact they are being had.
What a load of crap. It was about his 20+ year close association with the avowed racist he called his "spiritual mentor"!
Yet, these scum think its perfectly acceptable to rummage through Sarah Palin's garbage and to openly question the maternity of her son!
Just like when Penn reviewed Michael Mann and found he did nothing wrong. Or Phil Jones investigated Phil Jones and discovered that there was no malfeasance. What makes me sick is not so much that they have the audacity to do this, it’s that there are people who actually believe them.
The MFM: “who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?”
Sounds like a typical DYING MEDIA “journalist” trying to save his own when exposed by the NEW MEDIA.
Jesse Jackson, commenting about Obama before the election: "He's never run anything but his mouth".
A variation of the Climategate two-step - deny the conspiracy, and then pretend the conspiracy doesn't matter when it is proven to exist.
The MSM has made much in the past about Fox and bloggers not being ‘real’ news agencies. The implication is that they are and, as such, should be sanctioned as the exclusive outlets for information reporting. Now we find out they’re nothing more than propaganda organs for the left. Who would have known? LOL, so its all laid out for the world to see but they’re still trying to deny it. The MSM is nothing but a bunch of raw propagandists in the ilk of the worst in totalitarian regimes. That message should be shouted from the house tops.
The “conspiracy” thing is a red herring. They are using it to dismiss the whole issue, but whether or not any of those journalists conspired to do something is not the point.
The point is that a bunch of mainstream journalists hold such left-wing, anti-conservative views.
wagons...circle...
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