Posted on 04/13/2010 3:19:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BOISE, Idaho – A growing number of conservative groups are bankrolling startup news organizations around the country, aggressively covering government and politics at a time when newspapers are cutting back their statehouse bureaus.
The phenomenon troubles some longtime journalists and media watchdogs, who worry about political biases and hidden agendas.
The news outlets have sprouted in larger numbers in recent months to fill a void created by the downsizing of traditional statehouse coverage and to win over readers, including those from the tea party movement who don't trust the local paper or the TV news.
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Muckraker News Futures Explode!
Read all about it! EXtreee EXtreee
“The phenomenon troubles some longtime journalists and media watchdogs, who worry about political biases and hidden agendas.”
Bwahahahaha! Feel the wrath of someone else’s biases and hidden agendas, “Objective” “Moderate” “Journalists”!
That's meant to be funny right?
LOL.. Oh yeah, great satire.
“The phenomenon troubles some longtime journalists and media watchdogs, who worry about political biases and hidden agendas.
ROTFLMAO
Ok..Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww we will worry about political bias.
Almost as funny as the recent CNN promotional meeting where CNN complained about “hosts that stack the deck with guests that agree with them and have on only token opposition”
Anyone remember network news back in the day when it was only on at 7pm and on Sunday. The only “conservative” was George Will, and the National Organization for Woman and Jesse Jackson were consulted on everything from shark attacks to falling meteors?
ping
And Meryl Streep somehow became an expert on agricultural issues...
“And there are fears that these organizations are trying to advance a certain agenda by the stories they decide to cover — even if the articles themselves are unbiased.”
Is there a day that Global Warming and Homosexual Rights aren’t mentioned in a big city paper?
For AP ... aka Pravda ... to be concerned about possible bias and hidden agendas is like a prostitute worrying about immodesty.
I mean, really ... AP? LOL.
Paybacks are a bitch!
State Media is scared...
They’re SKEERED! Their monopoly on information is gone.
“What are we doing to the children...?!?”
Anybody got a link for the picture of Sarah with the subtitle “Saracuda Laughs at Your Misfortune”? I think it would be very appropriate here. :D
The hive mind of the MSM collective has been challenged.
Let FREEDOM ring!!!!
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS that is.
With the advent of ‘anyone can be a reporter’ technology with a smile or a snarl.. Let the battle continue.. ‘Til FReedom Reigns!
Ben FRanklin would have died to have the powers of the internet to publish. Come to think of it, He did.. but his work lives on. 8-}
Excuse my French but what f@#$ing audacity for the AP to write a biased story about media bias as if they are not THE #1 violator because of their business model of selling news to those without the same global reach. Truly a "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" article.
The PT boats are coming!!!
The following article is a call for just this.
http://www.redstate.com/nedryun/2010/04/12/an-american-armada/
GIVE ‘EM HELL!!!
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