Posted on 09/13/2004 8:36:02 AM PDT by hispanarepublicana
He's dead-on-balls about the 'division' in American politics. The Democrats are now 'progressive-socialists' and Republicans are are 'moderate-capitalists'... oil and water... night and day... wrong and right.
One cannot thrive while the other exists... they are poison to each other.
What's the answer? I think I know... it's called civil war.
"...no one should have a problem with open partisanship."
But everyone should have a big problem with faking documents and "slanting" what are ostensibly news stories, and that includes conservatives who, I believe, are generally more at home with the truth. At least I hope so.
bump
I agree. My real problem is partisanship dressed up as objective journalism. The MSM is attempting to influence mainstream thinking with polluted news. The AP "Booing" story, the attack on the SBVFT, etc. . . are all examples of how liberal reporters inject a slant to "hard news". I don't have a problem with pundits and others with an opinion (even if I don't agree with them) having their say on opinion shows or editorial pages. Keep the bias out of the news sections though!
This is why I believe that this is a big deal. What did Kerry know and when did he know it? What did Dan know and when did he know it? Its a "third-rate forgery"...
No, CBS is less likely to admit any wrongdoing than Bill was likely to settle on a definition of 'is'.
But this is not about CBS. This is about lies and deception. This is about holding the liars' feet to the fire and getting the story out about the lies.
Face it, those of us who own guns have been suffering the unmitigated bias of the MSM for decades now; we do not expect a leopard to change its spots.
Among the Dems' true believers and the 'anyone but Bush' crowd, the lies do not matter. They will see the ends of electing John Kerry as justifying any means.
However, (and I firmly believe the clock is ticking on this), there remains an opportunity to glean the disgusted from the ranks of MSM viewers before the cradle-to-grave indoctrination forms the culture rifts as insurmountable as those between Montague and Capulet.
Those among us who have debunked this have done outstanding work, but this is just the beginning, a veritable 'Battle of Trenton' in the culture war which promises to be long, and fought against an increasingly sophisticated and unabashedly biased enemy.
The element of surprise is no longer with us. The gloves are off. Now the real fight begins.
"My real problem is partisanship dressed up as objective journalism."
Exactly. This is what drove me to yell at my tv and had me feeling like I was wandering in some information blackout wilderness until I found Fox, and then, Saints be praised, FR.
It is important to remember that. I have always contended that the only way to counter then mainstream media is to take over the companies that own it via investment. Instead we have opted for a strategy of setting up alternate sources of information that still do not reach a majority of the population who are still misinformed as a result of the relentless propaganda. It's a wonder that we do not live under a Stalinist regime as a result of it.
True, but the warped and bogus "news" perpetrated by CBS has at this juncture has become a liability and bonafide threat to the security of the United States of America.
Moreover, CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN all need to preface their "news" with a disclaimer stating that their anchors may be airing editorials.
What is more interesting to me is WHY the media shifted so sharply to the left in the 1960s from the (pretty much) objective press of the 1870-1860 period. (You can always find exceptions, i.e., the "Yellow Press") It's a long (and not completely satisfying explanation for these sentences:
"First came the of the movements of the 60s. Then the media was captured by the Left."
If you look at the shift, this occured BEFORE Watergate and even before the Vietnam War became unpopular. So something big was happening in the early 1960s.
Sure. That's the point: you can no longer trust an "objective" press to cover both sides (I maintain you couldn't since the 1960s). So the next best thing is a COMPETITIVE press.
BTTT
No, it was better in the 1950s, if for no other reason than the structure of news was "Who, what, when, where, why." The "reporters' questions" were addressed at the start of the story, but now "framing" is used at the front of the story to tell you what the facts mean. I've done extensive word analysis of this. Trust me, it was a lot better. There was still some partisanship, but the structure of papers forced them into "objectivity."
bump
The news division seems resistant to correction. I don't think retribution against their advertisers is enough. Dan comes under the larger umbrella of CBS. The entertainment division has more to lose than does the sagging news hole. CBS's larger property is probably NFL Sunday football. Maybe mailings targeting NFL advertisers would have more substance.
There is no evidence to support that. In fact, the evidence shows that to the contray.
I saw "The McGaughlin Group" yesterday and completely agree with you. At one time a cutting edge political show, it has deteriorated into inside the Beltway denial and alter-reality analysis ("Iraq is worse than Vietnam", "The Swift Vets did not have an impact", ect.). Watching that show it feels like a bunch of Kerryites that have nothing in common with the rest of America. Tony Blankley is the only astute person still on there and he should strongly think about excusing himself to go somewhere else.
Bernie was being kind to an old friend. Ann Coulter was right: the left hates the right; the right pities the left and prays one day they'll wake up and become adults.
At times like this, when they pretend that sh*t IS Shinola rather than make even a pretense of being interested in the facts, they dull the cutting power of their instrument into uselessness. I know that not everyone has a computer or watches cable, but it's hard to miss what's going on with this story. Dan Rather's image will never be the same. CBS's image WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER THIS.
They're really blowing all they had left on this hopeless loser fraud of a story designed to rescue that unelectable loser Kerry.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.