The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 01/06/2012 10:06:14 PM PST by blam
The people running newsrooms are invariably liberals.
The people running the newsrooms across the country are, for the most part, understaffed and unqualified. They are not liberal per se, but they used to have staffs. Cuts in media expenditures have resulted in the news directors scrambling to get their work done. This means a lot more packaged segments, rip and read stories, and just sloppy work.
And at the networks the reporters are more or less hired for their ability to read and look nice.
To see who has any talent, watch a breaking story where the reporters have to wing it.. Very few of them are capable.
Great article.
Hmmmm...for later
The article started out well but degenerated in to a john birch society piece towards the end
Excellent.
Yup...that's pretty much my thoughts too.
Political campaigns give vast amounts to the media too. Incumbants also manage to funnel vast sums to the media in thr form of perks (travel, meals, bar tabs etc.), information (tips & leaks), invatations and much more.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
You are on to something. P.J O'Rourke pointed this out in his book "Parliment of Whores". He said basically the same thing; the reason we have a corrupt Congress is that doe-eyed adults want in on the looting and the favors. The actual "whores" vote in the "whores".
But as you point out indirectlyu, it will take real crisis for people to turn from their ways. I think this great , er, recession, my get enough people to wake up. The jury is still out, though.
"Let's face it, we have allowed the SEC, the Fed, and Congress to be corralled as a matter of regulatory and legislative capture by the very crooks they are responsible for policing and protecting us from."
"We are lying to ourselves if we do not believe that we are all part of this problem. It's not that most of us aren't honest. It's that we venerate money and wealth too much."
>>The reality is that just 6 gigantic corporations collectively own most of the major mainstream media outlets in this country. Reporters are simply not going to be allowed to report stories that are severely damaging to those corporations or to the owners of those corporations.
Liberals have said this for years, actually. This segment of Robert Smigel’s “TV’s Funhouse” on “Saturday Night Live”
allegedly aired just once...turned out NBC was not pleased
that the “Schoolhouse Rock” spoof (complete with the same singer from that ABC kids’ feature) pointed out that companies like GE, which owned NBC, put out dangerous PCBs and the network was controlling news coverage in a bit of
“spin”. Lorne Michaels claimed the segment didn’t air again due to the fact that “it wasn’t funny”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JLKw0q4kY
(The same show once employed Al Franken who doomed himself by a bit called “Limo for the Lame-o”, in which he mentioned
NBC’s sagging ratings and he wondered why prez Fred
Silverman got to have a limo despite this. Franken got fired for “biting the hand that fed him”...)
oops, my facts were slightly wrong on last one. Wikipedia:
>>Franken’s most notorious SNL performance may have been “A Limo for the Lame-O,” a commentary he delivered near the end of the 1979–80 season during a Weekend Update segment. Franken mocked controversial NBC president Fred Silverman as “a total unequivocal failure” and displayed a chart showing the poor ratings of NBC programs. Franken proclaimed that Silverman did not deserve a limousine. As a result of this sketch, Silverman refused Lorne Michaels’ request that Franken succeed him as SNL’s head producer, prompting Franken to leave the show when Michaels did, at the end of the 1979–80 season.
All of this will fall away when the World War starts. Lets see liberals squeal when the forces of the enemy are at the gates. When America falls they will be the first to go into the camps. Patriotism will then become fashionable. In this war—we may not win.
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