Mainstream Media Going Down the Tubes (Mark Belling)

Greater Milwaukee Today ^ | October 19, 2005 | Mark Belling

[Kewlhand`tek]

What fox needs to do is have a FOX HEADLINE NEWS.I would watch them allot more if they did. I dont care to watch video talk shows or the stupid fox and friends in the morning. I turn the tv on to watch news. so generally I have to turn to cnn headline news but it is rare when I watch news since I get most of it off the net anyway.

[Cindy_Cin]

My local paper has lost over 30,000 subscribers since Jan 2000. Yet, they continue to verbally assault, slant & distort the "News"
No, the MSM will not heed the warnings. They are too smart for that. wink

[ncountylee]

MSM will continue to assault their readers and viewers with a barely disguised leftist agenda under the pompous pretense that they are trying to "inform" them.

The death spiral formula. Go MSM!

[onevoter]

Gotta love this guy - he says what we all feel and does it SOOO well!

[Zenith]

Send Email to all the MSM and tell them they are losing the fight against common sense !!

NY Times revenue is down 25 million Dollars (48M to 23M)

[mwl1]

Call me a contrarian, at least with regard to the television networks. If their corporate shareholders and advertisers are willing to continue to support this liberal drivel, I have little cause for optimism.

I see no movement that either entity will put a stop to this nonsense.

[SMARTY]

dito

[Buffettfan]

The MSM (old media) is desperate. They know that the jig is up for them but they are not about to roll over and conform to honest media standards. To do that would be to admit that they had a political agenda all of these years. They will deny it to the bitter end. Dan Rather knew his time was up and his parting gift to the Democratic party were the forged Bush documents. The MSM will continue to be the house organ for the democratic party until they are relegated to the dustbin of journalistic history.

[RightInEastLansing]

"NY Times revenue is down 25 million Dollars (48M to 23M)"

If only it were true. I wish the NY Times only had revenues of 23M. Unfortunately, you are referring to net income.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Shook ( Liberals/Democrats/MSM ) seems genuinely appalled that someone other than him ( THEM ) gets to ( in power or President ) comment on the race. "


" I’ll warn her that it’ll only get worse. They can’t stand ( that the unwashed masses are taking the initiative to get the REAL TRUTH and HONEST NEWS, and are leaving the Liberals/MSM lies behind ) a turncoat. "

[flashbunny]

The same reporter called belling and sykes 'out of touch' with waukesha county because of their support for vrakas.

Vrakas then won the election, 68% to 32%

[JAWs]

Their monopoly has been broken and now we can see more of what they've been spinning and concealing besides what affects us in the immediate area. Dan Rather was the first scalp. He will not be the last. The piranhahadeen are hungry!

[chesley]

My local paper, The Tuscaloosa News is owned by the NY Times Corp., and has a very liberal slant. We haven't subscribed for years. Last year about this time, they had a campaign to raise subscriptions. When they called my wife, asking if we wanted to subscribe at some discount rate, she told them "no". They asked why. She said, and I quote, "Because you are a pinko rag, and we've got the Internet, now." Go, Linda!! )That's her name)

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Dan Rather knew his time was up and his parting gift to the Democratic party were the forged Bush documents.
The MSM will continue to be the house organ for the democratic party until they are relegated to the dustbin of journalistic history. " .....

And the more intense their " Parting gifts " or present shill and rhetoric will be, the more their self inflicted wounds will contribute to their fast escalating spiral downward into nothingness,irreverence, and history.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Go, Linda!! "

She needs to run for Congress.

[Peter Libra]

Interesting read. It seems that Dan Rather will never live down his ploy to give GWB a push to defeat. Considering the import of what he might have faced under the laws, he got off lightly.

One thing that I cannot get off my mind though and I may be completely mistaken is this. During the unfortunate arrest of an apparently solid citizen in New Orleans, a video caught a nasty situation. Very damaging to the police.

Now I am taking a chance here. My spouse had on an American news network of some size. It showed a still shot of the ex-school teacher on the ground. There were about four to five big blotches of blood by him. Why this only dawned on me, I regret to say.

Somehow the blotches were almost an orange fluorescent colour. Just an off chance, someone may have seen this. Or maybe I am off course.

[GloriaJane]

"Somehow the blotches were almost an orange fluorescent colour. Just an off chance, someone may have seen this. Or maybe I am off course."

Just reflection from the florescent lights. It reflects and makes things look all different colors.

[Tzimisce]

Oh they're not biased at all!

I read yesterday that Ramsey Clark was trying to get some lefty show on Armed Forces Radio. The military said no. The liberal site I was on was stunned that "they're not showing the other side."

Meanwhile Ivy League schools are tossing out ROTC programs and banning conservative speakers. The galling part is they call this "open minded and tolerant."

Ninety percent of journalists vote liberal Democrat in any given election. Yet the left talks about how impartial these people are.

Meanwhile Bush is simply friends with people in the oil industry and every environmental/foreign policy decision is met with suspicion. This is so bankrupt. The media is just mad that they're being pushed out at every level.

Oh well take heart my leftist friends, you can still force your propaganda on school kids (unless vouchers get passed.)

[DHC-2]

That's why Chris Matthews makes me angry ... he INSULTS me. Finally the right word for it. Fun to turn him on and see how long it takes for his attitude or his words to make me angry enough to turn the channel ... I actually counted up to about 23 or 24 the other day before I zapped him. NPR usually doesn't make it to 20, so by my rating he's still a tick above NPR.