Posted on 05/11/2005 8:02:18 PM PDT by TheRobb7
This link gives information about this convention: http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/national_conference/2005/about.cfm
Among other things, we find this statement: "we need to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard."
The "progressives" were outvoted by 3.5 million votes, a historic margin.
On this page, they also rant about "George Bush and the right wing of Congress". Therefore, this convention is not right wing or conservative. It is therefore liberal.
The list of speakers at the 2005 convention is found at: http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/national_conference/2005/agenda.cfm
It lists Bill Moyers of PBS as one of the speakers.
I thought PBS was "objective".
You don't think well, do you???
Believe it or not we actually have the votes to turn off the spigot of funding to this left-wing propaganda machine. The question is, does the majority in Congress have the backbone to do it?
PBS needs to drink bleach. Sell it to Al Gore.
Why do we need to pay for the socialist /communist network that also supports islamic fascism -- known as PBS? Let them work like every other network or die
It's hard to believe tax payers are actually forced by their own government to pay for this crap!!
People won't buy it though.
Bill Moyers is a whacked out sycophantic, panting, drooling groupie, butt-kissing each any and every marxist nutcase and tyrant to come into his scent range. He makes the rest of PBS look objective by comparison. Maybe that's their point- they want to stake someone out so far over the left that they look like they're in the center.
People won't buy it though.
No, no, no... They're not "objective." PBS HAS an objective. Big difference! Sort of like the Harvey Keitel quote from Pulp Fiction. "Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you have character!"
Mark
What do you expect?
The last thing one can expect a biased person to see is their own bias; that's what makes them biased. It doesn't matter whether they are biased right or biased left; it is just bias.
What is disturbing is this insistence by the media that we must be biased either to the left or the right -- and if you're biased to the left, it's not bias. These are not deep thinkers.
The real solution is not more partisanship or even more bi-partisanship but people who fairly see the whole picture. In the media bias, such a thing is not possible.
Liberals and leftists think they are not biased and prejudiced.
They're biased and prejudiced about different things; their worst bias is this notion that they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else -- which is the greatest human flaw of all.
They actually think they are objective and fair and balanced.
That just shows how deep their mental dysfunction is.
It just goes to show how loose they are with the taxpayers' money.
Your link has nothing whatsoever to do with PBS. It goes to a "Take Back America Conference" page.
do you have a direct link?
To claim objectivity is to claim wisdom. To claim wisdom is to reject the idea that you have anything to learn - thus, to reject the need to listen to the facts and logic of others.Obviously you cannot get away with that sort of arrogance without power. PBS is part of the Establishment which has that power - and uses its power to maintain itself. That Establishment is Objective JournalismTM, and membership in that Establishment is available for a price. The price of membership in the Establishment is conformity to it, and furtherance of its agenda.
The first objective of Objective JournalismTM is self-preservation, of itself and its members. To do that it must protect its brand - which it aggressively uses its propaganda power to do. That is why the objectivity of, say, CBS News is never questioned by the Establishment.
Never mind that 60 Minutes was caught in bed with a dead girl, a live boy, a smoking gun, and a hand in the cookie jar. CBS can institute an "independent investigation" of the "TANG Memos" for the purpose of not learning that the "memos" were patent frauds. And the rest of the Establishment studiously avoids noticing a thing. There can be no piling on a "competitor" for a failing like that.
There is only one cardinal sin to the Establishment, and that is breaking ranks with the Establishment. Piling on a member of the Establishment is just not done. Now if a Bernard Goldberg, say, breaks ranks and announces that broadcast journalism is tendentious then he is not a member of the Establishment from that very moment, if not indeed retroactively. It is not failing to make a good-faith effort at objectivity which excludes you from the Establishment; if that were the case there would be no members of it. But pointing out tendentiousness in the product of a member of the Objective JournalismTM Establishment.
You are a member of the Establishment if you are useful to the Establishment. You are useful to the Establishment if you facilitate the profitable operation of its members. And the profitable operation of the members of Objective JournalismTM depends on second-guessing and cheap criticism of the people and institutions upon whom the
suckerspublic depends. Because Objective JournalismTM is simply cheap talk.You do not have to be a journalist to be a member of the Objective JournalismTM Establishment; all you have to be is willingly useful to its cheap self-aggrandizing criticism of the people we depend on. For example, if you announce that an innocuous chemical used to help produce high quality food inexpensively is a threat to public health, you are useful to the Establishment. And if you are critical of politicians who want the economy to grow smoothly and who favor values which will facilitate the growth of the middle class, you are useful to Objective JournalismTM and are a member of the Establishment.
And that is why there is a revolving door between journalism and the Democratic Party. And why Republicans - be they never so numerous in seats of political power - are not accepted in the Establishment. Republicans are useful to Objective JournalismTM only as bogeymen.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
Media bias bump.
"...progressive majority must be heard..."
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