Posted on 10/26/2004 12:44:48 PM PDT by Caleb1411
Partisan Press Wants YOU Depressed
This is not really a poll but just a poll watcher .....
"November 3rd, Jean Kerry will return to the Senate."
Do you really think he'll return to the Senate or resign for physical or personal reasons and slink off to Europe with his Sugar Mommy?
The "nightly news" has become obsolete. They only offer about 5-8 minutes of events based news items, everything else is packaged "news magazine" reports. Same with the "morning news" programs.
With 30 minute "headline news" and "news channels" around the clock, there is little to compel viewers to watch "the nightly news" every night except habit.
Dan Rather, Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw. None of them are trustworthy.
All of this is a tradition that sprang up in post-war (WWII) America.
Even local news (with the heavy focus on car crashes, warehouse fires, bar shootings, sports, and weather) offers little reporting on local events and politics.
Go online and read the day's events (or tune into college radio to hear a broadcast of "reading for the blind"). You miss the "soundbites" but you can get the FULL TRANSCRIPTS.
I like talk radio better than talking head tv shows (and I can hear it in my car as well as home); I even get different hosts around the clock on several stations.
Talk radio does not replace "the news" but it does replace talking head and "magazine format" shows. I get better laughs out of FR humor threads than I ever would out of a Tonight Show monologue or The Daily Show.
FR (and online news search engines) permit me to compare a news report (or headline) to see how editors tweak the story for different markets. There always is some key detail that they choose to omit.
At this point, I don't find any of the conventional media sources to be credible. I know that I am not alone.
Sad thing is that blogs (even FR) are temporary where as hardcopy newspapers and magazines as well as broadcast shows exist in archives forever. History will be missing a major account of what happened in these days.
I know that high school history books after the election of Bill Clinton will never give an appropriate account. What will they say of election 2000 or 2004?
Saturday, October 23rd, 2004
Ipsos and Bias
from the PoliPundit Blog
How much time does he have left in the Senate on this term?
How much time does he OWE the Senate for all the years he was elected but AWOL?
BTTT
Very well said. The cure for truth in history books is the death of political correctness. By bending over for disparate groups of complainers history books history books do not reflect what happened at a given point in time, but the perspective of a segmented group.
As to the MSM, it isn't over and they will still exist. As the MSM agenda driven elders retire or die off, the very nature of the ugly beast will change.
If the stories are going to be "in the can" even if they are being read LIVE, then there is no reason to watch "the nightly news" at night. You can time shift it to whenever you want. If you realize that apart from the top headlines, everything else is canned ("Eye on America" looks at an individual seeking health care, a product placement for a new placebo, et al.) crap that you don't even "need" (if you want to get science updates on medical advances, read a pharmaceutical journal or other such publication; most of what makes the news is nothing more than a promo clip of stock footage supplied by a corporation trying to sell the public on the latest "cure").
Heck, nightly tv lineups are old hat. TiVo and rebroadcasts have people watching "new" shows whenever they want rather than when broadcasters show them (only live sports/awards shows draw a live home audience these days).
Add to that DVD, Pay Per View, Theaters, movie channels, et al, and the "prime time lineup" faces a lot of competition.
If/when people download the programming they want to see (encrypted digital broadcast?), scheduling won't even matter.
We have already gone away from the "shared experience" of watching/listening to the same entertainment/news at the same time.
Would Elvis or the Beatles on Ed Sullivan mean anything today?
Breaking news stories (disasters and acts of war) are poorly covered by the MSM. They were able to cover the Reagan funeral alright (point a camera and let us hear what the speakers have to say).
People may watch a lot of news in a day, but how much do they actually know about what went on the world that day?
There are 31-34 wars actively being fought (some internal). We certainly don't hear about all the conflict in the world.
The lifecycle for information is a lot shorter now. The Houston Comical pulls wire stories and puts them online around 8PM CST. They will see print in a day or two in the hardcopy paper. If the "news" is already OLD by the time I'd get a hardcopy, why would I ever want to BUY it? Never mind the horrible biases in the editorial staff.
They need to clean house and re-evaluate bringing news to the consumer. Journalists need to report, not exploit/fabricate/lie/distort (especially to advance an activist agenda). They need to bring the news to the customer when he wants it and update the information as details emerge or are disproven (and they need to come clean with the audience when they are WRONG).
We give the MSM a lot of feedback on this site. Their response has largely been "Shut up and quit talking about our news" (cease and desist letters).
We are largely creatures of habit. The consumer culture knows this. They seek to get brand loyalty early.
They want to get people into a "daily routine" of consuming news with breakfast, after work, etc.
The pundits are not happy that young people largely do not read the newspaper or watch the national/local evening news.
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The Man has it squarely defined in that book. If We The People do not soon awaken and reject the socialist/liberal sickness of the democrap party, America will be a thing of the past, under a blue flag, riddled with murderous attacks by the revived terrorists protected by feckless democrat foreign policies.
i am awaiting the delivery of my book, plan to read it very first thing after it arrives...
DH was very convincing when I saw him on C-SPAN .
Thanks for the ping!
Final National Presidential Poll Results, 1936-2000
National Council on Public Polls - Error Measure
2000-Preliminary
| Gore | Bush | Nader | Un- decided | Other | Gore- Bush | Margin Error Poll - Elect |
Candidate Error |
|
| Election Result | 48% | 48% | 3% | 1% | 0% | |||
| Zogby | 48% | 46% | 5% | 0% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 1.0% |
| CBS | 45% | 44% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0.5% |
| Harris (Phone) | 47% | 47% | 5% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0.0% |
| Gallup/CNN/USA Today | 46% | 48% | 4% | 0% | 2% | -2% | 2% | 1.0% |
| Pew Research | 47% | 49% | 4% | 0% | 0% | -2% | 2% | 1.0% |
| IBD/CSM/Tipp | 46% | 48% | 4% | 0% | 2% | -2% | 2% | 1.0% |
| ICR/Politics Now | 44% | 46% | 7% | 1% | 2% | -2% | 2% | 1.0% |
| NBC/WSJ | 44% | 47% | 3% | 4% | 2% | -3% | 3% | 1.5% |
| ABC/WashPost | 45% | 48% | 3% | 3% | 1% | -3% | 3% | 1.5% |
| Battleground | 45% | 50% | 4% | 0% | 1% | -5% | 5% | 2.5% |
| Avg. Error | 2.2% | 1.1% | ||||||
| Alternative Methods | ||||||||
| Harris Interactive | 47% | 47% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0.0% |
| Rasmussen | 49% | 40% | 4% | 9% | 9% | 4.5% | ||
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