[Valin]

There really needs to be another term for the "mainstream media".

What gets me and saddens me is (like all freepers) I'm a news junkie, but it's getting to the point where I can't watch/read it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There really needs to be another term for the "mainstream media".

I'm a news junkie, but it's getting to the point where I can't watch/read it.

There is a Nobel Laureate named Buchannan who developed an economic theory of politics - one conclusion of which is that there is no point in becoming a Congressman unless you pass laws. That is, power isn't power unless you use it, so everyone who gets power uses it - and even if it ain't broke, Congress will still fix it.

If you apply that to PR power, you conclude that PR power isn't PR power unless you use it to in one way or another induce people to believe something which is not so. So journalists have to put something over on the public to prove that they are somebody, and the bigger whopper they can gull people into, the more of a somebody they are.

And the whopper that they can agree on is that "the sky is falling" - so you had better buy the paper and read all about it. And vote for whoever slings blame for "the problem" the best - vote for a lawyer like Edwards rather than a manager like Bush or Cheney.

[ForGod'sSake]

Hi Valin

There really needs to be another term for the "mainstream media".

Indeed. I like Orwell's about as well as any:

Ministry of Truth

FGS

[Lady Jag]

See post #67