Indoctrination - our biggest nemesis

Canada Free Press ^ | 3/10/2014 | Rolf Yungclas

[rktman]

As we have seen for the last six to seven years, the liberal media have wholly bought in to being propagandists for the Obama administration.

Not only have they given glowing support of Obama whenever they can, they conveniently leave out, when they can get away with it, any news items that would put Obama in a negative light or contradict the false image of him that the media has helped create.

President Obama is the first president ever put in power by the media. In 2008, while many of us were warning of the consequences of an Obama presidency, the dominant liberal media decided to pass on their part in vetting potential presidential candidates. It didn’t matter to them that for decades Barack Obama had been sitting under the teaching of a pastor who advocated Marxist liberation theology and who said the September 11, 2001 mass murder of 3000 people was simply “the chickens coming home to roost.”

[rktman]

This cancer has been creeping up in to a full blown tumor for many years. Probably as far back as the late '50s early '60's. When I think back (hard to believe I can) to what kind of things were being tossed around in high school in the mid 60's it pretty much smacks you up side the head now. Sometimes seeing things in retrospect sucks. Now, it seems to be the standard of the day to accept lies and pass things of as "feelings".

[Obadiah]

Absolutely concur with this excellent article. Obama is the symptom of the corrupt MSM cancer.

Obama is a big problem, but the corrupt MSM is the disease that has infected this country. They have become nothing more than a propaganda driven entity wholly dedicated to advancing Marxism/Liberalism.

We err significantly if we overlook or simply try to work around the corrupt MSM. On some level they need to be dealt with.

[cloudmountain]

This isn’t news. The lamestream media has been doing this for EONS. Nothing has changed.

[Calvin Locke]

I remember when Walter Mondale's running mate, Geraldine Ferraro first faced "the press" alone after the announcement.

They started peppering her with [real and embarrassing] questions, and she lashed out "Why are you doing this to me? I'm on your side!".

Now that I think about it, it's amazing that that part of the presser was reported.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m sorry. You have to pay people to get the kind of coverage the Democrats get from the press. We tend to want to give fellow Americans the benefit of the doubt and say they are just misguided, but that’s not what motivates our press. A slip or two by our press could be chalked up to partisanship, but Obama has gone golfing something like 180 times since becoming President and the press just praises him for being consistent. You have to pay for that kind of slobbering butt-kissing. It’s not youthful, misguided partisanship....it’s money.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If we get another bozo like this one in the WH, figure a tax will be raised to fund money losing newspapers. Then all of us wil pay.

[Starboard]

This isn’t news. The lamestream media has been doing this for EONS. Nothing has changed.

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Actually it has. What used to be referred to as “The Press” may have always leaned left but today’s MSM uses technology in all its modern forms to propagate its liberal propaganda. For example, the selective use of video is a very powerful tool to convey messages and advance agendas.

Also, in the case of Barack Obama being the first black president, the MSM has shown a particular desire to protect him to an extent never seen before. They simply cannot let him fail and they shamelessly go to extraordinary lengths to shield him from any criticism.

The media’s job is to be skeptical and to question the intentions and policies of those in power. However, they have completely abandoned this role and in fact serve as soldiers that guard the liberal establishment.

[Fiji Hill]

The media, and in particular the electronic media have been at this for years. Lionel Lokos in Hysteria 1964: The Fear Camapagn Against Barry Goldwater (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1967) chronicles the media's pro-Democrat bias in the 1964 presidential campaign. Edith Efron in The News Twisters (Los Angeles: Nash, 1971) and Joseph Charles Keeley in The Left-Leaning Antenna: Political Bias in Television (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971) document the electronic media's leftist bias in the 1968 election. The same is true for Bruce Herschensohn's The Gods of the Antenna (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1975), which also documents media bias in its treatment of the Watergate scandal.

In his book Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1977), Peter Braestrup documented the way in which the media portrayed a Communist defeat as a victory. And if you read more recent books by authors such as Bernard Goldberg, you can see that with the exception of Fox News and the Blaze, the electronic media is still at it.

[GOP Poet]

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[rktman]

Roger that.

[cloudmountain]

Actually it’s not news to me.

[Starboard]

Its all a matter of degree. When something has happened before it may not be news. But when it happens at whole new level or intensity, or there’s another dimension to it, it is new. Storm fronts with torrential rains occur all the time, but when destructive hurricanes occur its always news. Its news because its a significant difference from the routine. Obama is a cataclysmic tornado but the media is reporting sunny skies.