http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mainstreammedia/ en-us Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:59:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160652/posts A Hamas official insists that a 'legacy of suffering' under Israel is what fuels Palestinian resistance... From Damascus -- While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U.S. elections, Israel launched a "preemptive" airstrike on Gaza, alleging intelligence about an imminent operation to capture Israeli soldiers; more assaults took place throughout the month. The truce thus shattered, any incentive by Palestinian leaders to enforce the moratorium... L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160652/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157228/posts Because nothing makes for a free and vigorous watchdog media like government intervention in the means of publication, right? It seems some newspapers in Connecticut are joining the national trend and bordering on insolvency. See, that's what happens when (over a period of three decades) you provide an awful product, ignore the needs and wants of your consumers, and reject your proper and historic role as government watchdog in favor of a gig as big-government cheerleader. Nicastro and fellow legislators want the papers to survive, and petitioned the state government to do something about it. "The media is a vitally... The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157228/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154545/posts How long will the media continue its gushing adoration of Barack Obama? This is the question raised by the adulatory prose of The Washington Post's Eli Saslow: Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games. Such "reporting" ought to make Saslow a laughingstock among the hard-bitten cynics of the Washington press... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154545/posts#comment Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:12:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150376/posts I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS FROSTY THE SNOWMAN LET IT SNOW I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS OBAMA'S 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS UP ON THE HOUSETOP SILVER BELLS RUDOLPH BARNEY FRANK - DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAERIE WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS LITTLE DRUMMER BOY AL GORE'S GLOBAL WARMING WONDERLAND DECK THE HALLS FELIZ NAVIDAD PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS dfu youtube presentation; dfu news of the day in song http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150376/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:35:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146464/posts KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday. The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago... ConnectTristates.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146464/posts#comment Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:46:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144907/posts As reported in the IHT today. , the New York Times is having a serious cash crunch. They have a $400 million line of credit that is scheduled to expire in May. Unfortunately experts and insiders think the stumbling old grey lady won't qualify for more credit without collateral. Enter the centerpiece of the Times empire. Their brand new building in Times Square. the policy project http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2144907/posts#comment Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:35:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134055/posts This is a video that is both extremely funny as well as very sad. It shows how the perceptions of Barack Obama voters were shaped by the mainstream media. We have already seen the vast amount of misinformation displayed by Obama supporters by an interview with them on the streets of New York conducted by the Howard Stern Show and now the How Obama Got Elected website goes into even more detail about how the MSM shaped the information: On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama's limited experience, extreme liberal positions and... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134055/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118593/posts The interest in the news business by many of today’s journalists was sparked initially by what I call the Woodward/Bernstein effect. The idea of toppling a sitting president and exposing corruption in the highest reaches of our government to many, seemed like a noble and appealing calling. Many believed in the salutary effect and indispensable role of a free press in a modern democratic society as a check on abuses of power. The Woodward/Bernstein generation of journalists fancied themselves as “Speaking Truth to Power.” Over time however, this model became corrupted and evolved into an inversion of the original Woodward/Bernstein... Beacon Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118593/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114106/posts Rush Limbaugh on Friday called the New York Times "the public relations department for the Barack Obama campaign and the Democrat Party." Talking by phone with the folks on "Fox & Friends," the conservative radio talk show host also depicted the media's coverage of Obama during this presidential campaign as "the most irresponsible journalistic exhibition I have seen in my life." Limbaugh also claimed these same biased news outlets do polls today exclusively "to shape opinion, not reflect it." Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114106/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:07:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107993/posts Joe Wurzelbacher: Media Won't Demand Obama Records But Plenty of Media Investigative Fire Power to Probe Joe the Plumber “Before men can act,an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels, and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. [The community organizer] knows that when the time comes for negotiations it is really only a 10 percent difference.” --Saul Alinsky, Chicago's Godfather of Community Organizing Media Investigates Plumber, Not the CandidateIf anyone was thinking of asking Barack Obama an uncomfortable question,... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107993/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:40:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098264/posts The Associated Press article on Sarah Palin’s comments about William Ayers is a Category 7 jaw-dropper. Apparently, now even criticizing Obama’s associations with white violent radicals is racist: Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge. This really is the election in which the mainstream media have thrown all their claims to impartiality right into the sewer. It’s sickening to see. lgf http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098264/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:45:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095187/posts Wednesday, October 1, 2008: Joy calls Sarah Palin a few names, inclusing "DUMB" and more, MUCH MORE!!! Barbara Walters confronts Elisabeth Hasselbeck and asks her why she keeps defending Palin all of the time. These broads are totally losing it in this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_GjgZseFRc YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095187/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:51:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090332/posts “Welcome to the murky world of modern racism, where most of the open animus has been replaced by a shadowy bias that is difficult to measure.” – Charles M. Blow, in The New York Times Our unelected press elites, the ones who shape the opinions and convictions of millions, cannot conceive of Obama losing this election purely because of his far left politics. In the editorial echo chambers of our biggest newspapers and news networks, the “murky world of modern racism” is a forgone conclusion. It must be the ominous specter of racism, after all, reasonable and intelligent people vote... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090332/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090027/posts <p>NEW YORK — NBC News reporter Luke Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the "Today" show Wednesday when he suggested that smart people supported Barack Obama for president.</p> <p>Almost immediately, Russert took a hazing in the Web world. Wrote Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center on the NewsBusters blog: "Out of the mouths of young, untrained reporters come the unspoken beliefs of the liberal media."</p> AP via Comcast.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090027/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085736/posts To say the least, there is quite an ideological and political gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama. So too, is there a great deal of difference between their running mates, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. On just about every issue examined during this interminably long presidential election cycle the two tickets stand miles apart. From taxes to the struggle with radical Islam, energy independence to American sovereignty, McCain and Obama, Palin and Biden, stand diametrically opposed in their approaches to the issues. But one subject seems to be championed by both sides and by all the players, honesty. To... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085736/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074926/posts If only Brian Ross, ABC News and the rest of the mainstream media would spend as many news minutes on Obama's dealings with Wright, Rezko, Ayers, et.al. Sigh.......... ABC News via YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074926/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:16:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073950/posts Norah O'Donnell is anchoring in an outdoor studio thing, interviewing Sen. Kay Bailey-Hutchison, and you cannot hear a darn thing with all the yelling & screaming from anarchists in the background holding up posters and other 9/11 conspiracy theorists holding up signs that say that the US government is to blame for 9/11. Nice job, MSNBC. Move it inside! Self (somewhat) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073950/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:11:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073369/posts Fred Thompson will forcefully defend the selection of Sarah Palin tonight in a speech Republicans are characterizing as "red meat." He will argue that the feeding frenzy over Palin's is the result of "panic" from the Democrat-friendly mainstream media. "What a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is. She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family. Let's be clear, the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073369/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071239/posts I just saw this on CNN five minutes ago.... Don Lemon telling Dana Bash that Sarah Palin is "a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and that's a 72-year-old heart!", to which Dana agreed and went on to say that Palin's executive experience for the past 13 years includes "a year and a half in the Gvernor's mansion and the rest as mayor of a small town in Alaska!" (emphasis made by her on the words "small town" and "Alaska"). This MSM 'meltdown' is so blatantly obvious........ Self (somewhat) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071239/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:27:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059916/posts Blogosphere: Doing the Research the Mainstream Press Won't DoMSM: Trying to improve the Bottom Line?Simon Scowl at Deceiver is upset. He's discovered that the blogosphere, which was the only place--besides, of course, the National Enquirer--doing any digging into John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter and his cover up operation--is serving as the Mainstream Media's unpaid and uncredited Research Division. Weird, huh? Deceiver was the only place talking about this stuff for at least a week and a half, and all of a sudden everybody else has been doing original research on it the whole time? Or maybe it doesn’t count... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059916/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057416/posts The liberals misrepresent what Bush said about Iraq and Al Qaeda http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19895473&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8 The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057416/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051070/posts What explains all the over-the-top media coverage and adulation for Barack Obama? The presumptuous treatment by the press of Obama as president-elect or a head of state, stems from a belief that an election isn’t necessary, because, in the eyes of many in the mainstream media, as the first African-American candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama is entitled to the office. In a very real sense, Barack Obama is an affirmative-action candidate for the presidency. Should he be defeated by the American voters, it will not be a mere loss due to his numerous shortcomings and foibles, but rather, an... Beacon Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051070/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049422/posts Obama's Magical Mystery Tour After a week of intense media foreplay, Obama has finally embarked on his magical mystery tour. As he boarded the plane that took him on the first leg of his anxiously awaited Middle East and European tour, a pair of uniformed Air Force officers saluted simultaneously, as they do each time President Bush boards Air Force One. As the media-anointed President in waiting, Obama is virtually guaranteed superstar non-stop media coverage as he makes his taxpayer financed 'fact finding' tour this week. Joining him on this excellent adventure are all three of the major network anchors... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049422/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:18:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048365/posts "John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor." --Howard Kurtz, Washington PostIf anyone needed more proof that the Mainstream Media is the PR wing of the Democrat Party, look no further than Barack Obama's Excellent Adventure. Obama is being attended to by the breathless anchors of ABC, NBC and CBS News. The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza. Lured by an offer of... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048365/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:31:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038876/posts FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and a self-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 -- best vacation of his life -- and bought a statue of the Washington Monument that he still displays in a glass case in his living room. He believes a smart vote is an American's greatest responsibility. Which is why his confusion about Barack Obama... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038876/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:10:54 GMT