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The Govt. or the Media. Which is worse?
04/18/2013 | R2

Posted on 04/18/2013 11:51:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

The Government or the media. Which is worse? Which is more corrupt, dishonest and untrustworthy? Think about the agendas they both have and give us an answer.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: government; media; vanity
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To: Responsibility2nd

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.


21 posted on 04/18/2013 12:05:30 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Servant of the Cross

People have the right to elect the kind of government they want... it’s a free country. We have the right to object to some of the excesses...

The media in a free country can report however they want to - that’s what makes us free. But in the media’s case, since they should be governed by the laws of supply and demand - it would be in their best interest to report fairly and to present both sides. Their choice - but it they’re unfair, they’ll lose readers and viewers. Like any other business they have the right to make bad choices...


22 posted on 04/18/2013 12:05:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: Responsibility2nd

MSM

The Leftist MSM are in people’s homes and control information, how it is presented and just as powerful what is not presented.

Their power is so terrible that you now see people posting that Republicans need to totally give up on all social issues.


23 posted on 04/18/2013 12:06:02 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Responsibility2nd

First you’ll have to make a distinction between them.


24 posted on 04/18/2013 12:06:51 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
People have the right to elect the kind of government they want... it's a free country. We have the right to object to some of the excesses... The media in a free country can report however they want to - that's what makes us free. But in the media's case, since they should be governed by the laws of supply and demand - it would be in their best interest to report fairly and to present both sides. Their choice - but if they're unfair, they'll lose readers and viewers. Like any other business in a free country they have the right to make bad choices...
25 posted on 04/18/2013 12:07:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: clintonh8r

Ahh. 1 vote (so far) for the government. Good arguments.


26 posted on 04/18/2013 12:07:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m not up to that exercise. It’s like choosing between contracting Ebola or Marburg virus. Both will kill you in similar unpleasant ways.


27 posted on 04/18/2013 12:08:52 PM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The media for sure.

If they did their job correctly and consistently we would still benefit from a government operating within the bounds of the Constitution.

We would still be the land of the free; home of the brave.


28 posted on 04/18/2013 12:08:58 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
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To: SampleMan; GOPJ; Cicero

Dang. Too many ‘No Opinion’ answers.


29 posted on 04/18/2013 12:09:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: SampleMan; GOPJ; Cicero

Dang. Too many ‘No Opinion’ answers.


30 posted on 04/18/2013 12:09:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The government is still more of a creature of the media than the other way around. Although BO has made it seem a whole lot like the other way around.


31 posted on 04/18/2013 12:10:21 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: jboot

That’s OK. Thanks for stopping by.


32 posted on 04/18/2013 12:10:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Government - it has guns and jails


33 posted on 04/18/2013 12:10:52 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: jobim

Two votes (so far) for the gubmint. Good points.


34 posted on 04/18/2013 12:12:09 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Stalin’s right or left hand - which is worse?


35 posted on 04/18/2013 12:13:07 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good question, but in fact the question is flawed:

The gov’t and media are not in fact completely seperate entities, or even mostly so.

The two form a handy complex, and the real power modulates between the two gov’t and media “poles” as the situation warrants.

The real concern about this gov’t/media complex lies in it’s long-term goal, which is the elimination of incomplete gov’t, aka, “freedom”.

The government/media complex regards what you see as freedom as a VOID that it must expand into, thereby completing what it sees as it’s proper form.


36 posted on 04/18/2013 12:13:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Responsibility2nd

MEDIA, the elft could not get away with half of their crap if the media did their job


37 posted on 04/18/2013 12:14:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Responsibility2nd

MEDIA, the elft could not get away with half of their crap if the media did their job


38 posted on 04/18/2013 12:14:39 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: okie01

Well stated, Okie.


39 posted on 04/18/2013 12:14:42 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Govt. or the Media. Which is worse?

Neither. Both. Hard to answer a question that starts with the false premise of one being worse than the other!

40 posted on 04/18/2013 12:16:20 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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