Licorice: "Licorice reporting for duty.
Its not the 'media'. It is the traitors running the MSM."
Posted on 10/27/2004 6:28:33 AM PDT by OPS4
We never could rely on Broadcast media. We just didn't know that until the rise of the internet.
The Internet really has the MSM scrambling because we have become the check and balance for them.
What will become of the MSM?
Exactly. Some of us strongly suspect that was the case, but know it is irreputable fact.
bad move- who defines the 'truth' then? (Hint: who ever is in charge of the govt at the time)
The freedom of speach is the sigle best law on the books- simple, to the point.
All laws should be so simple.
Look at McCain-Feingold has given us- two iditos thought they were smart enough to write a law governing all aspects of campaign finance when a simple "full disclosure' law would have covered all bases. (i.e. any candidate must declare the source of any income- see how simple?)
I haven't for quite a while... This needs to permeate the Middle America mindset...
The will become to real news as the "Weekly World News" is to "legit" tabloids such as the "National Inquirer".
Licorice: "Licorice reporting for duty.
Its not the 'media'. It is the traitors running the MSM."
As the tagline says. They're no longer the MSM, because they're not mainstream. They're the "Old Media".
This has been true for some time. My awakening began in the 1980's, particularly with Bryant Gumble.
A hearty Freedom lover's "Thank You" to Tim Berners-Lee [see picture at left, email address = timbl @ w3.org ] who has freed us from the Leftist tyranny of the American press. That's actually a good way to look at it.
I haven't relied on the MSM for a very long time.
I haven't been relying on them since the early 1950s. (That's when I noticed many discrepancies between The Media and things I knew first hand.)
I got a head start on it from my mother. She was a phd Journalisim professor and taught me to "read" media bias in the late 60's.
Different way of putting it:
We always knew the MSM was biased. Until the rise of the internet, all we could do was yell at our TV. Sites like FR gave us a forum for complaining about it. Rise of the blogs gave us an outlet to do something about it.
Blogs have only become significant in the last 18 months at best. They're very new on the scene, yet are already having a huge impact on the MSM. That doesn't mean the MSM is less biased...simply that we now have a way of discrediting them quickly on their biased coverage.
My awakening came the night Rudy Guiliani won the mayoral race in NYC. The anchor on the alphabet network, visibly upset, said, "Well I guess if people don't get out and vote they deserve what they get."
A rare moment of candor.
Very true. For example thanks to the internet, yesterday over 11 million people (on Drudge alone) found out the truth about "explosives-gate" and the NYT/CBS conspiracy to interfere in/influence a U.S. Presidential election. Truth that, without the internet, we would have never found out. So, I believe the truth is out there - and it's on the internet.
Bless your Mom. You were lucky.I had to figure it out by myself. Can you believe people called me nuts? Finding FR was such a relief I can't even describe it.
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