Lando 
Posted on 03/13/2004 7:53:34 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
It is quite clear by now that the media elites believe they can oust President Bush by orchestrating a campaign against him that is unmatched in its scope and single-mindedness of purpose. Rather than changing their ways in response to the increasing criticism they are receiving because of their pervasive liberal bias, they are becoming more determined and more partisan than ever in their drive to install a far-left Senator with little experience and even less principle as president. The battle for the presidency will be between these liberal media moguls aided by the far-left anti-war, anti-Western radicals and average Americans of traditional values aided by talk radio, the Internet and the few unbiased media outlets like FOX News and The Wall Street Journal. In other words, principled middle America against the far-left ideologues.
The leftists in the media might have been able, once upon a time, to create a tidal wave of public opinion against Bush through a campaign of misinformation and bias, but with the Internet, talk radio and a network willing to give balanced coverage, they are in for a real fight. And hopefully, the results in November will go a long way toward breaking the back of the huge liberal spin machine that much of the media has become.
In the past year, we have seen scandals at The New York Times involving its senior management failing to supervise journalists, allowing and encouraging inaccurate and biased reporting to be published. We have had a number of books published detailing not just the liberal bias in the media but also the arrogance of those in the media who are the biggest purveyors of this bias. There are books about women in the media who spin their liberal webs of propaganda and attempt to set the political agenda for American women--a liberal agenda. Yet all of this criticism and all of the counter activity seems only to have infuriated the media bosses and elitists and they have reacted by abandoning any effort to be objective. It is as if the media elites are saying, "Let them eat cake" to the millions of us who now see and fully comprehend their excesses, unfairness and arrogance.
The way to defeat the liberal control of the mass media is to switch to talk radio, the Internet and FOX News as the communication channels of choice. We know that we will not see or hear objective reporting or commentary on the networks or in the “mainstream” press, so why spend any time listening to it? You will find that if you listen to FOX News channel instead of ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN, you will begin to feel optimistic again and proud of your country and the ideals of western civilization. And the best part is that you won’t be made to feel guilty about having such thoughts. Perhaps this will even lead to a restoration of objectivity in the press and on television and allow both to once again reflect the values of the people of this country and not just a handful of leftists seeking to condition us through skillful manipulation of what we see and hear each day in the media.
The Greek philosopher Archimedes once said, "Give me a point on which to stand and I will move the earth." The leftist media is saying "Give us the ability to control and slant the news and we will bend the minds of the young, the unsuspecting and the uncommitted to our political and social views." And their views will produce a generation of politically correct but feeble-minded dependents of the nanny state who will be only too glad to turn over personal responsibility to government and the elitists on the left.
The immediate objective for conservative Americans who believe in limited, constitutional government, individual liberty and traditional values must be to defeat the effort by the press to destroy President Bush. With the massive amounts of money being supplied by billionaire George Soros, as well as the Hollywood crowd coupled with the near-monopoly control of the networks, the task will be difficult. But the importance of victory could not be more clear. Weakness or failure of will by the United States would be disastrous at this point, both because of the tremendous lift it would give to our enemies worldwide and because of the blow it would deliver to the confidence of those Americans who have fought long and hard for the principles of freedom and liberty. But once this battle is won, conservatives need to take a serious look at our schools and universities, as well as the entertainment industry and popular culture because the rot that has set in there needs to be countered as well if we are to avoid having the leftist ideology forced on us through unthinking acceptance of it by a rising generation that has been propagandized by those in control.
This is truly a cultural war. And it is being fought on the left by a powerful and well-entrenched media that believes it holds the high ground and the advantage. But I am betting that the Internet, talk radio and FOX News can outflank the media's Maginot Line and free the millions of information-starved prisoners in their audiences from the gulags of bias and thought control that the media have created.
I've been struggling with this problem for decades; the best I have been able to do is develop my ideas in this thread.Journalists do not, IMHO, so much follow leftist politicians as lead them; the rules for what makes a good story in journalism just happen to filter out conservatism and amplify leftism. Which is why journalism will always be "liberal" - and why it's so easy for "liberals" to steal a label like "liberal" and invert its meaning. Leftist politicians merely sail down the propaganda wind that journalism naturally produces.
And that is what makes McCain-Feingold so wrongheaded; CFR essentially makes "journalist" a title of nobility which entitles the owner to do what you and I are legally - unconstitutionally but "legally" - forbidden to do during the late stages of the political campaign.
The liberal left are in for quite a shock. They're money will not win them the election, besides they've picked a guy the majority of Americans will never elect as president.
The closest I could come to it is defined here. The problem is journalism, and the worst of the problem is broadcast journalism. Print journalism has First Amendment protection, but broadcasting is regulated by the government in a way that print journalism cannot constitutionally be regulated.We should already have sued the socks off of the FCC and its licensees over broadcast journalism's tendentious calls during election day 2000. Not only the erroneous call of FL before the voting was ended in FL, but the slow call of states for Bush compared to faster calls of states for Gore with lower ultimate margins of victory.
The FCC has an obligation to assure that its licensees operate in the public interest, but the licensees twist that into "what interests the public" which is demonstrably NOT necessarily the same thing. There is actually no justification for networks' declaration of winners of states before the polls are closed nationally. Why, after all, should what are effectively rumors about how others have voted be given the government's imprimatur by being broadcast to potential voters who are, inside to polling place, forbidden to discuss how they are going to vote?
Anybody have any ideas for anything else I can do
Please take a look at my media bias thread. It does at least provide analysis and links over a range of related concerns, and IMHO if that bias is to be countered at all it must first be understood.One recommendation for Republicans this year would be to put up the money and facilities (shouldn't take much) to produce their own televised debates with a chess timer instead of journalists as the only moderator. And challenge Kerry to debate in that, truly neutral, forum.
I would expect Kerry to refuse to debate without a moderator, for the simple reason that "objective" journalists are liberals who as moderators will always give the Democrat a subtle edge. But at least the Republicans can dramatize the fact.
Big yup on that. And great article there.
Lando
Lando
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