Posted on 01/16/2009 4:56:23 AM PST by moneyrunner
The Mainstream Media, it be troubled. As in, there are photographers like this Twitter guy who did on-the-spot citizen journalism (Was his picture less newsworthy because he wasn’t a reporter by trade? At this writing over 56,000 people have viewed it.) and there are commentators like me, who report and interpret real-time events like the debates or President Bush’s last speech to the nation. I can read the transcript and watch the President speak tonight and then comment on it (the President has aged and looks weary despite his optimistic talk). How is that different than the paid commentators? ... I agree that newspapers are dead men walking, and it seems the vast majority of reporters, editors and columnists are willfully blind to the irreversible descent into oblivion. It is primarily because of this denial, and the failure to admit the reasons for the death of the newspaper, that the demise is now unavoidable. Because now the public wants them to die. ... And that was that they drove away their readers. They didn’t lose them; they actively drove them away, offended them, insulted them, kicked them down the stairs. They ignored, hell they scoffed at, decades of complaints from their readers, their customers, about reporting that was editorializing, and editorials which were partisan handouts. The newspapers treated the dissenters from orthodox modern American leftism as non-persons. The funny thing is, those non-persons happened to make up a huge chunk of that newspaper readership which might be described as “heavy-duty news consumers”.
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The biased media is dangerous. They are a wounded animal and they just struck at America's main artery by getting a constitutionally ineligible and mentally challenged lightweight into the Presidency.
I’m going to dissent from the general opinion of this piece and the quoted comment. That opinion is that the media has shoved so much leftist garbage in the face of their own customers (which is true) that those customers are now abandoning them for the internet (also true) where they find better and less-biased sources of information (untrue!).
It’s that last part, that the “customers” are looking for better, unbiased sources of information on the internet. That’s bull pucky. If that were true, all those “customers” would have FOUND all those better, unbiased sources of information (because they are definitely there, just look at FR).
But that’s NOT what most of them are doing on the internet, looking for accuracy. If that were true, how in HECK could ZerObama be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
So lets cut the crap, ok? America is getting stupider by the day, regardless of what happens economically to the MSM.
The schools have done their job. The media has done it’s job. Just because some of the leftist VEHICLES are dying doesn’t mean leftism is dying.
Turn on your TV next Tuesday around 11am EST.
You will see for yourself, leftism is not dying. It is rising, like the Japanese sun in the 1930s.
So before we all “s* each other’s d*’s” (as the Harvey Keitel said to his gangster buddies in Pulp Fiction), we better take a GOOD look around at who’s running America now.
It sure as heck ain’t us.
Bloggers won't investigate state corruption. Bloggers won't do investigative journalism as a vocation. It is an avocation for them.
In Kansas we have ONE person doing investigative political journalism. He is a blogger. His site is www.kansasmeadowlark.com. The regular press hates him. However, who in Kansas knows he is there? It is why bloggers and the Internet is not the solution. The Internet is without boundaries, therefore it is without focus. There are eleven million bloggers out there. So how big is anyone's audience?
The problem isn't the meadowlark or what he is doing, the problem is to get him and others like him to BE the press.
This is what must be accomplished.
The mediamaster will have to put them on direct pay from the government. Why keep up the charade of independent journalists. Just put Cris “tingle” Matthews as “Secretary of News” in the Lord and Masters Cabinet.
die quicker plz
Don’t forget that the liberal media has to please its audience. The only reason liberals will pay for this stuff is that it reflects their views and gives them a feeling of well-being. It’s a nasty quirk of history that most of the influential media outlets have a liberal audience.
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