The American Media’s Last Chance for Redemption

Illionois Review ^ | October 6, 2012 | By John F. Di Leo

[zencycler]

Nobody’s perfect. Everyone makes mistakes.

Even when those mistakes are conscious, there is always a chance to reverse them, if one catches oneself in time.

Take the wrong route; don’t be afraid to do a U-turn and correct the error. Wear the wrong necktie, dress right the next time to correct the impression. Make the wrong choice; don’t be afraid to make the right one next time.

The American news media, known collectively as “the MainStream Media” or MSM for decades now, has made a collective choice: most have been part and parcel of the Democratic Party, either admittedly or not, for generations.

They have acted as a cheering section for Democrat presidents and partisans, not only when it was contrary to their nation’s interest, but even when it was contrary to their own self-interest. Television ratings, newspaper circulation, and radio ad sales have long proven that blatant left-wing bias is the path to ruin of all but the niche outlets, but that hasn’t stopped them. They remain leftist; perhaps their consistency, at least, can be considered admirable.

But there have been moments when the leftist MSM, and even the Democratic Party itself, have stood up and acknowledged an error. It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while, lightning strikes....

....The veil was dropped on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, A.D., and everything changed. Without the press to snip only the best soundbites to share with their readers....

....By the end of the debate, Barack Obama looked like he was wishing he were back home in Indonesia, where at least he could have been eating dog instead of crow....

[TalBlack]

They’ve tried to keep it under wraps, hoping to enable their party champion to limp through one more election in time before it all explodes. Why???

Evil is the displacement of God and HiS Perogatives with the self. It is a new god and god is never wrong. Ever.

[MasterGunner01]

Democrat pollster Pat Caddell in his speech at Accuracy in Media's meeting was right: [The Mainstream Media has] made themselves the enemy of the American people. They have sold themselves body and soul to the socialists/Marxists and they won't come back. They will not recant nor repent and there is no redemption for them.

[SaraJohnson]

It was Newt who put the liberal media on the defensive. He got in their arrogant faces. Before Newt, the GOP acted like whipped and whimpering dogs.

Before Newt the only whine about the media was the Leftists and their media complaining about and threatening FOX News.

Newt deserves credit for effectively exposing and challenging the Leftist media.