Posted on 10/28/2009 12:14:36 PM PDT by sdkruiser
Great news...ridiculous analysis.
There have been a lot of bad days recently for what’s come to be known as the mainstream media — or MSM — but Monday was one of the worst.New circulation figures showed that big city papers had lost as much as a quarter of their circulation in the past six months. And new TV ratings showed that CNN, the cable network that prides itself on news coverage down the middle, finished dead last in prime time against more partisan rivals like Fox News and MSNBC.
Are the two connected?
Yes, but not at all in the way described in this article. Politico, more often than not, behaves exactly like the MSM while fancying itself as cut completely from new media cloth.
Eric Alterman, a media columnist for The Nation, and a frequent critic of the MSM, thinks they are. "Nonpartisan news, and news aimed at a broad audience, doesn't have the cachet, and therefore the consumer base, it once had,”
It transcends insanity to believe that the New York Times, WaPo, and the major news networks which are the cornerstones of the MSM are offering nonpartisan fare. And CNN may pride itself "on news coverage down the middle" but it, like the rest of its brethren, has been so far Left for so long that "the middle" is a very skewed notion indeed.
(Excerpt) Read more at stephenkruiser.com ...
When you walk into your favorite diner, club, lobby, business, etc., and they have a news channel on the television, what channel is it?
My bank: CNN
My employer’s cafeteria: CNN
How many holiday travellers are going to be subjected to endless hours of CNN and MSNBC while waiting at a gate at the airport?
Politico is the MSM on the Internet. It is as biased and prejudiced as MSNBC. It appears that the MSM is incapable of evaluating itself. It is tainted by the view that it is “objective” and not a partisan. As long as the MSM fails to see that it has a liberal bias and is an instrument of liberal partisanship, it cannot heal itself.
IOW, going the way of the Triceratops.
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