"MSM Requiescat in fracta!"
Posted on 02/28/2006 6:31:02 AM PST by Geronimo
Edited on 02/28/2006 10:44:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
That quote is hardly "cheering", but he's right and the MSM will have a fit over it.
Another oldie:
The Stone Age Press has become nothing more than a giant Echo Chamber where all the reporters write for each other. The group think has become so predictable that if you read or hear one reporter you’ve herd them all. Where has all the original thought or creativity gone in an industry that is based on painting history with words? There are two main forces blowing through PravdABDNC that are stifling all diversity of thought. The first is the absolute bias towards the DNC and the other is the fear of going against their Establishment.
Is there any wonder that the Conservative writers continually have best sellers while liberals only have cellars. America is starved for writers they agree with, yet they are continually insulted by reporters who show nothing but contempt for them and their way of life. This is no way to expand your business or even keep the customers you already have. This Country is divided 52-48% Republican, yet the scribes of history are 90% Democrat. How can they report about a Conservative Country when they have no desire to understand it?
How has this Industry become so disenfranchised from it’s customer base? Simple really, the reporters write for each other and know that if they all agree then virtually nobody can be wrong. Take for example the election, even though GW had always polled the lead, the press hoped that Kerry would close at the end and take Florida. To predict otherwise would put you in the minority and if you were wrong you would have to explain why you went against the common group thought. If you were right then the group will just say that it was an upset and cover their error. Since everyone is in agreement there is no threat to lose face and maintain your expert status since you were all wrong together. If you are wrong by yourself you have more explaining to do.
This is how the Stoned Agers have maintained such catch phrases as Bush Lied, WMD, pre-emptive 18 month rushed into, go it alone coalition. This allows lies to be maintained with none of the established reporters willing to buck the tide even had they wanted. All of the awards and front page stories are given to the scribes who are the most established and those are the ones who do not take risks. Now all of the front page reporters are complete DNC spokesmen which leaves a vacuum of divergent thought. Everybody wants their little awards and will do what it takes to receive those awards. You sure won’t soon see Ann Coulter’s name on those little dust catchers.
The major drum & bugle we are going hear over the next couple years will be that Harpy clinton is an automatic for President. None of these ancients will go against the group-think since it will put them out on a limb along with the caster nation of their peers. Nobody will give an honest evaluation of her lack of warmth/humility or shrieking skills. Imagine her telling self deprivating humor? So we will hear nothing except what a great candidate/screecher she is. The fact is that she is a lousy candidate, a poor debater and sagging in the polls. She very may well lose her Senate seat in a “huge” upset. You read it here first and the Old York Times, have they endorsed yet; will make excuses.
The lack of diversity and creativity will be the death of these Dinosnores. With a sophisticated audience and a shortened attention span these old formulas no longer work. When most information was stored and researched in books, attention spans could tolerate boring one sided drivel. With the advent of 24 hour news and the internet we no longer have the time or patience to tolerate their droll.
What was once an industry supposedly filled with truth seekers is now a megaphone of the DNC. That and the lack of an original thought over the past 20 or so years and you have the Stone Age Press up to it’s nostrils in the tarpits of histoir. The literal bankruptcy of that industry would bring about a truly Free Press that not only has the political freedom but an intellectual freedom that has long been forgotten. It is not pretty to see these pretty boy reporters in their death shakes as they invent scandal after scandal in a transparent attempt to return to their glory. This phony arrogance is driving more and more customers away from their crumbling monopoly.
You can bet that the Buggy manufacturers had the same condescending smirks on their faces as the Model T splashed mud on their freshly polished shoes.
Enough braying.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
"MSM Requiescat in fracta!"
Interesting. I assume it's a daily newspaper ... do you know their circulation?
Of course this tragic scene and future ones are Bush's fault.
I used to be a big reader of the big city dailies and even bought two Sunday ones. I barely peruse any of them anymore. I get most of my news on Fox or the internet. I will read them if they're in the lunchroom at work. I still purchase the St. Paul Pioneer Press three days a week because it's cheap and it has the N.Y. Times crossword...despite the hike to fifty cents a paper. I do subscribe to National Review and the Weekly Standard. For a leavening of semi-liberal crapola my wife subscribes to U.S. News and World Report. I also get Tiempos Del Mundo a spanish-language weekly and she still gets two small town weeklies as well as the big local daily in our area.
What and miss 1960's retreads like "Peter, Paul, and Mary" in concert? If PBS doesn't provide that kind of quality entertainment, who will?
I'm an ordinary citizen of these United States and for years we have been saying the news media as it was is finished. Even wrote to rather, brocaw and jennin's and told them so. Anyone with half a brain could have seen this a long time ago. Good riddance to them all.
Is that story actually in the book?
On another topic, Sammon was on F&F this morning and when pressed about Hillary's veracity and hypocrisy by bouncing around all sides of an issue, said he had not observed her to be lying or "disingenuous" (his word). Obviously he doesn't want to be added to her hit list, now or in the future if she gets to the WH.
You'll find Sammon's account of the Freepers and what they uncovered on p.144 of his book, "Stategery". And he names names!!
"If the big dailies continue to lay-off and go out of business, where will bloggers and forums such as this one get their national and international news?"
Almost every news outlet uses the AP as their primary source of information and skews the story to fit the political agenda.
Nothing will change other than more weeklies will take the same information and change it so it reports the truth.
Looks like Mary has been singing for donuts!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
"GWB may be a freeper. LOL"
No chance of that. If he had read what some people wrote about his choice of Harriet Miers, he would have likely dropped a daisy-cutter on Jim Robinson's house.
As well as being a gathering place for conservatives to express their political views, Free Republic has since its founding day tirelessly sought to expose the bias of the MSM, it is one of the reasons I'm still here after six years.
I used to string for drudge when he had 70k hits a day, it was a very small percentage of the population then who used the internet as their primary news source. To see Rather forced out was a champagne moment for me, to see the demise of the readerships of the NYT and WashPost are truly wonderful, they are beneath contempt in our eyes but now that the rest of the country is catching on to their bullshit we can consider one of our founding missions a huge continuing success.
When the POTUS is talking about the demise of the MSM in favor of the internet and blogoshere we have reached a watershed moment, the sad irony here of course is that the MSM will refuse to make a single comment on any of this story...lol
It seems to me that the Seattle Times and the Seattle P.I. are locked in a death struggle, and that only one will emerge. The Times may rue the day they entered into the JOA; the P. I. has used that to destabilize the Times. It seems to me that the Times has turned left as a survival tactic, thinking that whichever paper nails down the Left will be the winner. I think the Times is playing catch-up. In the last year, they have been viciously anti-Bush, matching anything the P. I. can dish out. I cancelled my subscription when they jumped on the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon.
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