Posted on 10/01/2015 8:55:25 AM PDT by Faith Presses On
Last week I posted about contacting the media in protest of how they cover stories like the Muslim teen hoax bomb case. I suggested doing so today, tomorrow and Saturday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3341552/posts
This is a small action but every contact with someone means something. I called a local affiliate the other day to leave a comment. Maybe nothing will change but we're called to be lights, and like Jonah, to warn, and to share the Gospel, which media lies makes more difficult.
I wonder what people's thoughts are on contacting the media, and if they do or don't.
To contact the networks:
Sound the alarm, but don't expect the children of the enemy to come to our aid.
All that will getcha are more headlines saying “Crazy Nutjob Mind-Numbed Robots Attack Freedom of the Press Under Orders From Their Master, Rush Limbaugh”.
If you missed this yesterday on Right Scoop you gotta see it. Don’t have a full mouth of anything or you’ll have a messy room. Great! Especially the ending.
http://therightscoop.com/new-remy-straight-outta-homeroom/
Have done it many times. We’re not their audience. I wouldn’t watch one of those channels for a million dollars. So they dont care that much.
Besides, as long as Dancing with the Stars and America’s Got Talent is on, the masses are fine with the propaganda.
People could find out the truth online, but they’re too busy with Candy Crush.
Why waste time contacting them? THEY. DON’T. CARE.
With over a decade in the media let me save you some time.
Don’t bother. I have watched numerous editors and publishers mount letters on their walls as comedy and mock complaints. Your time is best spent getting others to stop patronizing these outlets. Complaining makes you feel better but only stiffens media resolve to ‘teach you’ a lesson.
I had intended to make a similar post
citing Don Quixote, but you said it better.
I fully get why people are livid and I get they want to do something to fight back.
There are a few of us ex journo types on FR and hopefully they will see the thread and comment. I will bet hard money that not one of them will say different. Papers/TV/whatever does not give a tinker’s damn what it’s readers think beyond buying the product. The consumer is the product. And the product gets no more say than a can of Chef Boyardee does as to which shelf it occupies.
An individual reporter may have slipped past the hiring process with a conscience but the Eds and publishers of 2015 traded theirs in years ago. And they, not the reporter, set the agenda.
The press would rather lose respect, credibility and their industry than give up their biases.
They’re fools - but very committed fools...
The press is aware of how disliked they are... and it’s because all of us have spoken up over the years.
It’s good for media elites to know they don’t stand with the people - only with other elites.
Leftist grip is so tight on the MSM that unbiased or conservative journalists tend to drift inevitably left while MSMers who become more conservative are exceedingly rare.
Shows I’m out of practice ;) Let me clarify.
Propaganda works best when you believe you came to a conclusion on your own. The media works to convince you that you believe X and have always believed X. We have always been at war with EastAsia afterall...
When you are fed the current truth, you spread the current truth because YOU KNOW. You ALWAYS knew. Because you arent like those other proles. YOU are a smart guy that knows the truth so you are one of us. They arent. You really gotta keep an eye on those lesser intelligent types. And you can. Because you are a smart guy. You didn’t have to read the knews. You already knew it. Because you’re one of us.
Simple.
And thus you are the product buying the product.
Fart in a windstorm.
When the internet happened, I hoped that alternate forms of communication would help bypass the MSM.
Unfortunately most of the primary internet portals are leftist controlled also.
Top 5: Google, Facebook, Amazon, YouTube (google owned), and Yahoo.
“Why waste time contacting them? THEY. DON’T. CARE.”
What was their response that 70% of Americans believe media is biased?
Crickets.
A 2X4 is required to get their attention. Cut your cable tv and replace with other sources of entertainment.
That happens because we utilize and patronize them. As with our cable dish tithing it’s us funding our own demise. But no one will give up reality TV or football because it’s too important.
People can find alternate sources to American msm all day long. They are too damn lazy to look. they simply don’t care to.
I don’t believe many journalists would change their minds. But could they be influenced somewhat, especially since they’ve now moved to another level of propaganda? That I think is very possible. They know they aren’t there to give their opinions, and that they’re to reflect the beliefs of others, too. They also know that they aren’t investigating situations, but picking who is “innocent” and who is “guilty” according to their narratives, and not waiting for the evidence, but rendering a judgment right away. And they know they’re doing this to establish what is “common knowledge,” as in, “it’s common knowledge that Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for making an ingenious clock because some bigoted teachers and police think all Muslims are terrorists.”
I believe that there are a lot of Americans who would instantly “get it” that the media has completely disregarded objectivity and a commitment to fairness and justice, and that they are rushing to judgment in case like the Ahmed Mohamed case, and more serious ones like the Trayvon Martin case. Yes, that’s nothing new, but it’s gone to a new level. It’s not yet to the level of totalitarian propaganda, but it’s moving in that direction.
And I believe many Americans have noticed. When something happens, a person naturally has questions, and we also know that we shouldn’t rush to conclusions. Yet here the media obviously are rushing to conclusions, and at the same time, they try to cast asking reasonable questions and being skeptical into bigotry.
So while the journalists themselves are fine with what they’re doing, I believe they must feel that in these cases they are more vulnerable. They only thing they have in their favor is the power they wield to broadcast and publish so they can basically establish lies as truth, but they don’t have absolute power. They aren’t state media, but commercial, and their opponents can’t be thrown in prison, but can still speak out.
I understand that, but do believe that it’s something that can and does work. As I mentioned, I don’t believe most journalists will be personally changed, but I do believe that what some do in their reporting can be changed. Ultimately, their doing their jobs, and they can be susceptible to market pressures as can their bosses. What I also believe is important in talking to them is not to think of them as “secular humanists,” or “the mainstream liberal media,” but as people. And to not try to do too much in talking to them (i.e., try to defeat secular humanism, atheism, the Democratic Party, evolution, etc., in one fell swoop of a letter or phone call). Instead, I would suggest just trying to raise some reasonable points. Since the media is clearly rushing to judgment in many cases, that’s something to bring up because it’s more flagrant and so easier to deny or miss.
I mentioned that I called a local TV affiliate the other day. I wasn’t sure who to talk to and was only going to leave the briefest of comments to keep it simple, and I ended up talking to a receptionist for a little awhile. She was willing to agree on some points, but staunchly defended the affiliate as being objective. I didn’t argue with her as I might have a secular humanist online, because that does make people dig in. I tried to avoid arguing, actually, and conceded the network was more responsible, but also argued the station did have some responsibility and did report some on national matters itself, but that I understood her points and was just leaving a comment.
This isn’t to say that anger doesn’t work (and I did mention at the beginning that I was very troubled by how the media is rushing to judgment on stories, but also said that was nothing personal against her), but that when we contact media, we don’t have to go on the attack, blasting them for everything they’re doing wrong. That can “feel good,” but it’s often less likely to be taken seriously. Making a few some simple points about things that people in the media know they’re doing (pushing viewpoints) is harder to dismiss, I believe.
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