Posted on 05/25/2016 4:56:03 AM PDT by McGruff
Ever since talk radio, cable news and the Internet emerged in the 1990s as potent political forces on the right, Republicans have used those media to attack their opponents through a now-familiar two-step.
Political operatives would secretly place damaging information with friendly outlets like The Drudge Report and Fox News and with radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh — and then they would work to get the same information absorbed into the mainstream media.
Candidates themselves would avoid being seen slinging mud, if possible, so as to avoid coming across as undignified or desperate.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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The Slimes is outraged that Donald is using their own Alinsky tactics against them.
The NY Times would know all about this tactic. The Democrats count on the major media to do exactly this.
All the lessons learned by their most revered teacher, Goebbels.
The New York Times is a culture of daffiness all its own.
As they once again prove with this piece.
Who learned it from Woodrow Wilson!
To the scumbags in the media who sport a 6% trust factor with the public, the truth as said by a conservative is a conspiracy - which I guess it is from their point of view. Pass the popcorn please.
All the lessons learned by their most revered teacher, Goebbels.
Too early, still groggy.
Left right left right...
“through a now-familiar two-step”
It takes one to know one.
LOL! Bump.
Amazing. Less than a week ago the Slimes was peddling baseless accusations about Trump’s relationships with women.
Yep that’s why I corrected it in a post further down. Just woke up, still groggy.
Well, since it’s not true, why is the left worried about it?
I’m groggy too, so forgive my crummy haikus:
Small difference
Between a “conspiracy’
And “little-known fact”
By their works know them
The treason of MSM
Is capital crime
This really is getting to be a worn-out tactic.
LOL, obviously not as groggy as I was as those are great examples of haiku poems.
The New York Times and all the old time media has shown the way - so they should not get upset if someone else uses their tactics against their masters.
I no longer believe there is one single neutral media outlet, they all have a bias. I am okay with that. But I think they should go back to the good old days when newspapers had their bias in their names - THE DEMOCRAT DAILY, or the REPUBLICAN NEWS. Every community had at least two newspapers and some times more. Bias was accepted since there were alternatives.
So the New York Times should not be upset if the people now have (in talk radio and the internet) an alternative to their bias even if it that alternative is also biased.
Even FreeRepubulic makes no claim of being neutral. It is one reason most of us are here.
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