Pic of "Media coming apart at the seams".
Posted on 10/30/2008 7:18:40 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
After this election, I predict that most citizens will stop listening to the major media outlets — as it will be apparent that they TRIED (but failed) to affect the election, that they did everything they COULD to get Obama elected.
The end result will be, I predict, that no one will believe them EVER AGAIN.
I’m already thinking about those associations and organization to whom I will turn for insight and information.
Certainly not ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, WSJ, AP, Rueters, Houston Chronicle, etc.
Dems will want ownership in these companies.
I am sure that they will all go to the government for a handout so they can stay in business and have a government representative as a stockholder.
This would be an Obama world solution!
Boycott MSM advertisers and help them out of their misery and ours.
Anyone know who advertises in the LA Times and NY Times. They should be first on our list to boycott!
Gays taking over Disneyland, nightly news “if it bleeds it leads” at supper time no less, newspapers total loss of objectivity and fairness in political reporting, MSM’s anti-christian prejudice etc are driving consumers of their products away in droves to alternative media like- well Freerepublic.
Here’s another one: The Christian Science Monitor just announced it’s going to online-only during the week with a print magazine format on weekends.
“Wave of the future...”
be nice is everyone on here would never click on their websites, never turn their channels on
MSNBC,NBC are banned in my house and I try to get others too.
I never click on the NY times or the LA times
why should I if I wanted to hear obama’s crap I would just go on his website
the media are dead or most of them now anyway
my only wish is that i hope to meet some of these amateur journo’s in person so I can view my views to them face to face
there’s a lot of people angry at them and it will not stop after this election
I will never forgive them how they have acted in this election
if any of you idiot journo’s are out there then don’t be surprised when you are confronted in the future you brought it on your self
Pic of "Media coming apart at the seams".
For all of their elite intelligence, it seems as if the MSM organizations will be cutting off their noses to spite their faces. IF they’re successful in getting Obama elected, it’s going to become even tougher for them them to remain commercially viable.
1. With the increase in corporate taxation promised by an Obama administration, there are going to be fewer funds for flexible spending such as advertising. Additionally, as the Democrats have long promised, the minimum wage is going to increase dramatically, so again, fewer advertising funds.
2. People will begin to look back on this election as a time that the media lost all pretense to objectivity and will view them as the propaganda tools that they are.
3. Once the election is over, all of those political advertisements will go away. If the media outlets are struggling now, how will they fair once that influx of money is gone. Additionally, since the election is over, people will be less interested in the media and therefore, they’ll have even less attention.
Odd that the MSM is so blind to the concept of unintended consequences.
Cable, and the major networks have altered my viewing habits. On our system the major networks are within the first 13 channels. I seldom watch channels 2-13. I watch local morning news on Fox, 9, and sporting events. That’s about it, the rest of my viewing is done 30 and above.
I think it’s a crying shame that our country has become so dependent on Wall Street to determine how successful our economy is. Those day traders are only out to make a quick buck, but just because they all bail at the same time is not a real indicator of how our ‘true’ economy is doing.
Anyone who has taken economics understands that our economy cannot always stay on the top forever. There will come a time when we no longer need to buy a new car or new house or new-whatever and the economy will slow. That means a swing back in the other direction. But, as soon as we need a new car or new house or new-whatever and the economy will swing back toward the top again.
This is all a scare tactic so that they can get the government to do what they want. We’re now hearing that Congress is talking about helping out bad management in the Auto industry. And, who’s running Congress? Dems, that’s who.
Come on people! Put a stop to this nightmare!
For what they have done in this election, their businesses deserve to die. We may well end up having a government newspaper run out of some office at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It will be our version of PRAVDA. Does anyone think Obama would not be capable of doing that?
Things have got to look bad for the media right now, not only are we looking at a recession economy where advertising spending goes down from retailers, but there won't be Barry's megabucks spent on them next year. I'm looking forward to the types of collapse in the media that we've seen this year on Wall Street.
Fire everyone.
Hire people who will quit pumping a political agenda (especially a LIBERAL one).
Middle America, mom and pop with the 2.n kids is sick of being bombarded with "gayness" at every turn, (Not in their life paradigm), is tired of being told all they believe in and work for is evil and wrong, and is sick of the incessant LIES coming out of the tube.
Where are they? The tube is on sports, the kids' channels, History/Nat Geo/Military/Discovery channel, or on a movie.
The media have done this to themselves.
Print just gives you the opportunity to go back and seeBS, and newspapers laden with too much crap to line your bird cage just don't cut it.
Gosh. Maybe truth will sell, or at least unbiased reporting of events with the opinions left on the editorial page.
In the meaantime, the death spiral continues because they just don't get it.
So true!! Who needs the NY Times when you have barackobama.com?
If Obama wins all of big media’s problems are over.
We already have a media that acts like a state controlled propaganda machine. Might as well make it official.
News carriers in the MSM have shown us they are not operating in the interest of information dissemination - they remind me of the horribly huge old gas guzzlers we used to accept as autos.
Maybe we as a nation are getting more cautious about what we are delivered for our earned dollars.
The print media is a dinosaur in the world of advertising other than local news delivery to communities, television is still viable if they stick to entertainment programming (even with the liberal messages tucked into them), and radio seems to be surviving regardless of the rules.
The best alternative for reliable information is through the internet as it is now - if only we can keep it free of encumbrance by government meddling and influence.
"Time Inc, the world's largest magazine company, is planning a restructuring that could lead to hundreds of job cuts"
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"It is understood that between 300 to 600 job cuts could be made. "
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