A Media Meltdown?

Tech Central Station ^ | August 31, 2004 | Glenn Harlan Reynolds

[demlosers]

today's Big Media folks are shocked to see ratings and circulation numbers falling while readership for Internet sites skyrockets. And, like the auto executives, they're even starting to mumble about the need for protection.

I haven't thought about this angle about why the media is being more partisan and shrill this election than usual.
They may want to slam all other news sources though laws a Kerry administration will get enacted.

FR could be fighting for its survival?

[OSHA]

Powerful damnation of the MSM! Good find!

[rj45mis]

Bulls eye!

[Argus]

They can have my search engine when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If ever there was a smear machine, its the Star Tribune.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The interesting thing to me is that after a "15% media bias" headstart and $60+ million in paid advertising from leftwing parasites like George Soros, a small group of veterans with a couple hundred thousand bucks can do a better job of investigative reporting than all the media outlets in America.

Does anyone think that both sides of John Kerry's Vietnam service would be on display to voters if the Swifties didn't do the heavy lifting?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

BTTT!

[Coop]

If the election were held today - which would violate the Magna Carter - the electoral count would be Bush: 894, Kerry: 12.

[G.Mason]

" ... the media's willingness to side with Kerry has been striking, it's also like the proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock -- not only wrong itself, but calling into question everything that came before. The loss of credibility that has come with that, coupled with the press's poor performance on all sorts of topics (don't these people know how to use Google? don't they realize that we do?) will be a long-lasting blow."

These next four years are going to be most enlightening to many, many people. Two lap tops and one high speed p/c in every home. Advertizing on the internet ect. etc.

Hey ... what am I going to wrap the fish in now that they don't make newspapers anymore?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

If ever there was a smear machine, its the Star Tribune.

Exactly. And the New York Times, the Boston Globe, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. They can't really all of a sudden preach about the evils of smear jobs when that's how they make their living.

[truthandlife]

Excellent and right on target. Bookmarked.

[randog]

The interesting thing to me is that after a "15% media bias" headstart and $60+ million in paid advertising from leftwing parasites like George Soros, a small group of veterans with a couple hundred thousand bucks can do a better job of investigative reporting than all the media outlets in America.

It takes a lot of shine to polish a turd, and results aren't guaranteed.

[BurbankKarl]

CNN just reported a "shakeup" at the John Kerry camp.

[G.Mason]

"CNN just reported a "shakeup" at the John Kerry camp."

Who's the new campaign manager? An NVA, or some French [spit ... spit] surrender monkey?

[tje]

bump, good read...

[1Old Pro]

Bush has momentum. He will win.

The media, always late to "getting it", will soon figure this out. Their flailing and cheerleading for Kerry will become intense. Their meltdown once they finally figure out Kerry's a loser will be thoroughly entertaining.

[colorado tanker]

The incompetence goes across the board. I've read many non-political stories where I actually couldn't tell what happened, because the writer couldn't write a lead and hadn't a clue about the five dubya's. They seem incapable of basic research, and so live off what they're spoon fed in press releases and conferences. I doubt 10% of the MSM reporters on the Swiftie story have even read the book.

I don't buy shoddy goods and don't buy shoddy reporting.

[728b]

Great post!

[truthandlife]

Kerry will try to reinvent himself just like Gore did. He is only going to have 8 weeks to do it. My bet is the whole crew who came up with the idea that they would defeat Bush by highlighting Kerry's Vietnam service is out. They failed miserably and have nothing else to offer Kerry.

Rush was saying that Joe Lockhart would be in. That means the it all of rules are thrown out the window and it will be "rape and pilaging" by the Kerry campaign.

They are imploding and losing in a big way.

They Kerry campaign doesn't even see what is going to be hitting them after the convention. The Bush campaign will start advertisements on Kerry's senate record and it will be devastating. They will have a new definition for liberal after they are done with Kerry.

This is what Bush and company have been banking on and Bush will attack Kerry's record as a liberal Senator in a big way.