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The media are “enemy” within
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| Monday 5 December 2005
| Dick McDonald
Posted on 12/04/2005 3:02:48 PM PST by luv2ndamend
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To: middie
"If you are capable of discerning bias in something you read then you can intellectually challenge the conclusion and rationale'." Not everyone has the same capabilities to discern lies in the media. Some people believe what they read out of a general trust for the media, others out of youthful inexperience or ignorance, still others out of self-inflicted political blindness.
In any case, the media are engaging in warfare against truth, against Bush and the Iraq War, and they do so with constant lies and distortions. Sometimes they even invent stories to support their dark agenda, (Newsweek got caught red-handed last Summer). They engage daily in a concerted effort to give an undeserved credence to the treasonous, visionless, power hungry DemocRATS.
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posted on
12/04/2005 6:02:03 PM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: Bahbah
Yes ma'am you are correct I do appreciate the article...and that line in particular..thanks for pinging me..
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posted on
12/04/2005 6:23:56 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
To: luv2ndamend
The Bush administration and the DOD should start publically naming names of the press who lie. Individual reporters, media outlets both. Counter the lie with facts and publically state which pressitude wrote or stated a falsehood.
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posted on
12/04/2005 6:31:58 PM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(I am unapologetically and enthusiastically celebrating CHRISTMAS!!)
To: middie
What a totally foolish and nonsensical statement- If you are capable of discerning bias in something you read then you can intellectually challenge the conclusion and rationale'. The media doesn't have to pursuade people who read multiple news sources and have an ability to discern truth. All it has to do is pursuade the many voters who follow them exclusively, oblivious to anything else.
How many voters last November thought the "CBS documents" might have some validity? Probably quite a few.
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posted on
12/04/2005 6:54:15 PM PST
by
supercat
(Sony delinda est.)
To: Batrachian
You are quite wrong. And it should not be necessary to list the thousands of reasons why.
You might start with the U. S. military receiving the respect and support it so justly deserves instead of being regarded formerly by the Clintons and other Democrats as a servant class...moving from there perhaps to our now being able to sleep at night because we know that the Democrats/liberals do not have their slimy hands on the mechanisms that ultimately shape the fate of ourselves and our families...and so on.
You might go on to our having now a President that answers to the Lord God instead of daily focus groups...Count your blessings, friend.
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posted on
12/04/2005 7:14:52 PM PST
by
mtntop3
("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
To: luv2ndamend
A party so corrupt they sacrifice truth in exchange for their return to power.And they dare to control this country? Not in my view!!!!!
To: TheCrusader
What a bunch of nonsensical crapola...It's easier to invent villians and boggiemen than engage in critical analysis and intellectual inquiry. So your concern is for those who are naive and fail to have the intellectual capabilities that you enjoy. And thus, the answer to those less endowed than yourself is to disbelieve everything in the media except, of course, the Washington Times or the right wing blogs. That's real intellectual honesty.
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posted on
12/04/2005 8:02:06 PM PST
by
middie
To: supercat
And your point is...? Oh, the word is ''persuade.''
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posted on
12/04/2005 8:03:58 PM PST
by
middie
To: middie
"So your concern is for those who are naive and fail to have the intellectual capabilities that you enjoy." Not at all. My concern is that an extremely powerful propaganda machine, the mass media, are about the business of an openly biased agenda, and that they will lie, distort and invent stories to foster that agenda. This is very dangerous because people will react to what they see on TV 'news' and to what read in the printed media. People vote based on the information they glean from the mass media.
'Reporting' is supposed to be just that, 'reporting' the news--- objectively reporting on events to the people so we can be informed. Instead they are literally creating 'news' with omissions, distortions and outright lies. When the news media becomes nothing but a propaganda machine for a particular political party and particular political agendas like abortion, homosexual 'rights', feminism, etc, it is an indefensible practice, and does not serve the good of our country.
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posted on
12/04/2005 10:16:51 PM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: Batrachian
when Republicans are in power all they can manage is a holding action. Treading water so to speak. We never really achieve anything except slowing the Dems down a little, and often not even that much.
Am I wrong?
I think that you are right, in that Republicans don't advance a Conservative agenda when in office as much as they should - when you look at what's promised versus what is achieved...and before anybody says "well nobody believes what people say on the campaign trail", I would dare say that maybe we should hold people accountable to what they say on the campaign trail - if they can't get the job done, sorry, we'll support a candidate who will.
Unfortunately, once they are in office, for many politicians, winning the next election becomes more important than anything else, and many voters get into that mindset, and so they would rather support an incumbent Republican, rather than risk bringing in a new one.
To: TheCrusader
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posted on
12/06/2005 2:29:06 PM PST
by
middie
To: TheCrusader
You're correct.
"Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs." Alexander Hamilton
The "media" forms and shapes public opinion.
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:58:12 PM PST
by
khnyny
(Merry Christmas)
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