The Mainstream Media is America's greatest threat (vanity)

Myself

[\/\/ayne]

I remember many years ago in 1998 when Drudge revealed there was a Juanita Broaddrick Dateline Interview but NBC was going to kill it. There was much protest and calling in to NBC. Then Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial laying out the details and basically accusing NBC of censorship. NBC still held out till after impeachment and the night of the Grammies but they did broadcast it.

Why? I believe it was due to a couple of NY FReepers that had printed out copies of the Wall Street Journal editorials and were passing them out in front of the New York NBC main office. I believe it shamed them into broadcasting it.

I have called and complained to local TV News but they just say that they are forced to use whatever the main office in New York sends them and they cannot deviate from that. "Even if it's an outright lie?" I asked once. Reply was "We have to use what the home office sends us."

I think something that would shake up liberal news media would be people on the sidewalk in front of their New York offices handing out brochures exposing that liberal news media outlet on a particular issue - every day.

The handout could be written up by the protesters with links proving veracity or printed from Media Research Center. Also sometimes a column or article debunks a liberal news media story. Print it, pass it out in front of their office, especially to people going in and out. Post it on FR so links can be reposted on their social media.

No, it won't instantly solve the issue. But I think it would shake them up.

[JimRed]

You’ll get no argument from (most of) us on that score.

[Crucial]

Yes, Stephanopolous covered for Obama big time. But it was the public willful ignorance that enables him and the rest of them.

[Yaelle]

This is essential.

FR needs to change the policy of FULL RESPECT for media articles. This place is built around respect for media articles. Everything else is less valued such as “blogs” and “vanity” while enemy media is at the top of respected things to post.

We need to formally disrespect the media (without breaking their precious laws) RIGHT HERE.

[eaglestar]

The Media is so far gone now that it would take a constant barrage of attack Ads against them to illustrate to the rest of the country that does not watch them on a nightly basis that this is a one sided Media that discriminates against Conservatives.

Hillary is running 1000000000000000000000 Ads all over the place and it isn’t doing much to help her. Sometimes it’s best to ignore the troll and go after the snake’s head. (The Establishment)

[AuntB]

“There’s not a whole lot that can be done.”

Fighting this media isn’t just Donald Trump’s problem, it’s up to us to do anything we can. When we had to get attention to the problems in Jarbidge and Klamath Falls, we didn’t have a media to help us, so we got it out there ourselves...at the county fair, in every waiting room, any where we could. And we managed to get 20,000 people to show up in a city with a smaller population than that.

The hand circulated print out called “Common Sense” is what got the support for the revolution.

I will continue to print out and hand to the uninformed/media influenced real news. I don’t see why people think that is too much trouble for FREEDOM.

This media continues it’s bias and lies because they CAN...because they know we won’t do anything about it.

See: Second sentence http://freerepublic.com/~auntb/

[Pollard]

It’s getting so bad now, I wonder if Trump will be able to buy as much air time for his campaign ads when the time comes.
Since he’s got entertainment experience, I think he’s going to go all out with ads at times that get the most exposure. NFL playoffs Week 1 is Sept 11-12, Week 8 is Oct 30-31

The Fall TV season kicks off in Sept as well. Walking Dead is Yuuge and the season premiere is Oct 23rd, Perfect. Dancing with the Stars, etc

If Hillary gets into the WH, say goodbye to the “New Media”.

[HokieMom]

[Ulysse]

AMERICAN MEDIA DOMESTIC ENEMY

OWNED BY foreign money and global powers ( institutions like UN , international companies )
See the impressive number of ads for middle-eastern companies and countries on CNN

We have the same problem with our MSM in Europe

[Leep]

To bad Beck lost his mind and turned out to be a anti-Trumpster.....he could have got the ball rolling.

Levin maybe had a shot at it...?

Otherwise we need something, for lack of a better name, something like, a “comedy network” that openly and relentlessly savages the MSM.

[Ulysse]

Now it’s a good opportunity to connect directly with the people and SHOW how the system is obviously rigged .

He can show how many big MSM , except one or two ( Fox... ? )are tied with many politicians by obvious special interests .

Could be interesting to make a record of the news broadcasting since the end of the Conventions ( topics , debates , reports , guests ...)

[1Old Pro]

We’re not the problem, we can laugh off the obvious bias from the media clowns - it’s the low info voters who scan thru the MSM and get barraged with the lies that gets me.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They are trying to create Hillary too, but she is a lot harder sell

Obama was barely known when he declared in '07. He was a blank canvas. The media was free to paint any picture they liked.

Not so with Hillary. She's got a 30 year track record of Clinton baggage behind her.

[wardaddy]

I agree wholeheartedly

Trump is running against

The democrats

The media

And other republicans

He can do it

[tomkat]

Just as you say, FRiend !

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Also, please know that the hearts of those over here who understand the true threat to civilizationposed by those who 'worship' the pedophile camel jockey
go out to you and your countrymen in the latest atrocities you've suffered at the hands of those malignant vermin.

[Crucial]

The real purpose of my thread was to focus attention of the fact that the press undermines any chance of Americans controlling their lives and keeping their liberty. Most of the time Americans don’t notice the bias or don’t realize the level of bias. I want Americans to have free minds and I believe the rest will follow once enough Americans become skeptical of the Mainstream media.

[DNME]

Crucial, I agree with you.

The Framers gave extraordinary protection to the press because an informed electorate is critical to the functionality (and honesty) of our government. I don’t believe the press ever received such protection before, and damned few have received it since.

But the press was expected to be adversarial and independent, to speak their truth to power. Hence the protection.

What we have now is a media monstrosity. The press today is openly playing favorites, not just taking sides but actively suppressing stories and clearly lying to us. This cannot stand.

The press has become the enemy. Our liberties are jeopardized by their failure to live up to their Constitutional purpose.

So how do we yank their leashes and get them back into line?

[Crucial]

The Press’s power lies in it’s ability to be believed. People take the Press at their word and either allow them their own facts or allow them to twist the facts to their liking.

Americans never ask themselves whether the Press is serving them when it’s obvious it is seeing it’s rich liberal masters. The problem is that Americans don’t think independently anymore. I don’t know how to wake them up but Americans have to be retrained to think for themselves instead of liberals thinking for them. That’s the only way I know is to try to teach as many as I can.

An expose on the reporters themselves and how they are biased professionally and personally would help but they’re well protected as assets of the media empire.