Some thoughts along the theme of your nuggets today --
I just finished the (talking) book BIAS, by Bernard Goldberg, listening to books in lieu of talk radio these days.
He was made a pariah for 'whistle-blowing' his own fraternity - 'news' gatherers and disseminators, who live to do whistle-blowing stories on other industries and agencies, but cannot tolerate it in their own house.
He documents how the members of "MSM" always identify a conservative person or think tank, but never if the organization or person is leftwing. If fact, for years radicalrightwing was treated as one word. This is not news to us of course, I only bring it up to ask everyone to try an experiment.
When we are in dialogue with someone who denies the bias of "MSM" we need to ask them to name some groups that are to the left of the "MSM" I think the first, and possibly only reaction will be a blank stare of confusion.
Goldberg never mentions this tactic in his book, but years have passed since he went up against his peers with his charge of bias. A lot more has been spoken about it. Yet we continue to accept that right-wing is the opposite of mainstream, and as Bernie said "the only left wing that a liberal knows is on an airplane.
#130, that is an excellent point. When I was a Democrat 20 years ago, I mostly voted Republican because I looked at what they stood for, and their values and ideas. I listened to the Media and even at that time, and even 10 years before that I thought they were full of crap. I never liked Cronkite, I did not trust him and thought he was a pompous Ass. Probably because I worked at the Pentagon in 1967 and 1968. Thanks to Jerks like him, we used to get Bomb Threats every day because of his encouragement of the radicals against the War. I believe that Rush Limbaugh has enlightened untold numbers of people into understanding the brainwashing and snow job that the DBM gives people on a daily basis. I knew I did not like the further and further to the left leaning of the Democrats, but I really did not know all the really bad things they were doing until I listened to him. When I talk to people today and tell them they are being brainwashed, and then give them examples, they are first in denial, then they are mortified, then they are really angry that they let themselves be suckered by those DBM lefties. I explain and give them the Frog in the Water on the stove example of how they do this in such a sinister, but effective way. Thankfully we have the New Media and we still have old Rushbo.