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Everything You Think About the Media Is Wrong
RCS ^ | Alex B. Berezow

Posted on 10/26/2015 5:54:46 AM PDT by Duke C.

We have heard it many times. We in the mass media are ignorant and deceptive partisans, propagandists, and shills. The rest of us are just mindless puppets. The 24-hour news cycle is responsible for dividing America and dumbing down political discourse. In short, modern journalism is the worst thing to happen to the U.S. since Justin Bieber crossed the border.

True, journalism isn't perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions. A recent, eye-opening literature review by a professor from Stockholm University in Annual Review of Economics examined the impact of the mass media on society and politics. Its findings were far less grim than what is commonly believed.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearscience.com ...


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To: Duke C.

The left loves the media.


41 posted on 10/26/2015 7:52:35 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: demshateGod

“True, journalism isn’t perfect. But such widespread disdain toward journalists is predicated upon exaggerations and misconceptions.”

Journalist report thyself!


42 posted on 10/26/2015 7:52:56 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Duke C.

....annnnnnnd they lie AGAIN.


43 posted on 10/26/2015 7:54:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Duke C.

What a bunch of BS. The media today is the 5th column.


44 posted on 10/26/2015 8:07:46 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Duke C.

The Media is nothing more than “Mass Delphi Technique”

Here is what the Delphi Technique is:
“ In group settings, the Delphi Technique is an unethical method of achieving consensus on controversial topics. It requires well-trained professionals, known as “facilitators” or “change agents,” who deliberately escalate tension among group members, pitting one faction against another to make a preordained viewpoint appear “sensible,” while making opposing views appear ridiculous. “

http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html


45 posted on 10/26/2015 8:10:00 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

[ When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same. ]

They used the three voices that were in sync to achieve a “consensus” and make any viewpoint that disagreed with the three to appear “extreme” or “out of the norm”.

This was when the National Media really became a “National Delphi Technique Session”


46 posted on 10/26/2015 8:12:53 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG

I believe that is also called the Straw man Argument.


47 posted on 10/26/2015 8:14:49 AM PDT by Duke C.
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To: GraceG; CIB-173RDABN

[ When television began to take over providing news, there were only three networks, and to be honest, the coverage was almost universally the same. ]

They used the three voices that were in sync to achieve a “consensus” and make any viewpoint that disagreed with the three to appear “extreme” or “out of the norm”.

This was when the National Media really became a “National Delphi Technique Session”

Forgot to Add that the “Fairness Doctrine” was a tool of “enforcing the Delphi technique” on THEIR terms and not the terms of the People.

Why do you think they are so damned scared of Talk Radio?

Why do you think the Internet has then doubly scared as they try to force the FCC to “regulate” the internet????


48 posted on 10/26/2015 8:15:17 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Duke C.

The headline is a lie and the item that follows is worthless. Now that said not all the mass media is worthless. The New York Times has a crossword after all.


49 posted on 10/26/2015 8:31:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Wolfie
The media is corporate owned, Corporate owned. Let that sink in for a moment.

Why does that matter?

50 posted on 10/26/2015 8:42:53 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: petercooper
Nixon- deletes 16 minutes of a recording, gets impeached as president.

Actually, I believe it was 18 minutes.

But the point is made.

CA....

51 posted on 10/26/2015 9:55:18 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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