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"It looks like 2008 will be the first year in 48 years that TV-station advertising will decline in a presidential election and Olympic year," said Michael Nathanson, media analyst at Sanford Bernstein.
1 posted on 11/29/2008 4:35:53 AM PST by abb
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2 posted on 11/29/2008 4:36:27 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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I can’t understand why Obama’s “huge army of small donors” does not come to the aid of THEIR media. It was their media that got Obama elected by sacrificiing what little credibility it had left.


4 posted on 11/29/2008 4:41:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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I wish them dead. I wish every last one of their “business models” dead.

We don’t need them and they no longer serve good.They have thrown over their unregulated constitutional role to serve ideology. They have sent to the white house an utter unworthy who despises America perhaps even more than they do. I want tham all out of work and scraping for a living far beneath their former payscale.

And ya’ know what? There’s even money that this will come to pass!!!

Sweet.


6 posted on 11/29/2008 4:45:20 AM PST by TalBlack
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“2008 will be the first year in 48 years that TV-station advertising will decline in a presidential election and Olympic year”


Well, folks, if you’d let us have Duncan Hunter at the top of the GOP ticket...what you saw happen when Sarah Palin came in as VP candidate would have been much bigger yet, from enthused Conservatives. Who’s sorry now?

All of us.


7 posted on 11/29/2008 4:46:46 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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"... a consequence of the shakeout in the financial services companies and car makers, two of the largest advertising categories."

And yet the media continues to $hit in their mess kits, pushing for more socialism and the phony green agenda.

9 posted on 11/29/2008 4:49:14 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood
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Maybe their voting shares will become public and the Conservatives can buy them up. Smiling


10 posted on 11/29/2008 5:01:18 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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The MSM, moved away from a business model to a political propaganda model, management was fat and lazy, and so turned a blind eye to obvious decline....good bye, good riddance
11 posted on 11/29/2008 5:01:54 AM PST by thinking
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I'm calling BULLSH!T OUT LOUD. I literally cannot watch TV for the commercials. They are so frequent, with so little program between them, that I just give up in frustration and read. The "stand alone" episode of "24" last weekend was especially grievous. It was five minutes of programming followed by three minutes of commercials.

The @$$holes in the broadcast media run commercials that total up to nearly twenty five minutes of every broadcast hour. They did everything they could to get 0bama elected. They're selling commemorative plates and DVD's of his campaign, and now they want him bail them out?

Not just no; HELL NO!!

12 posted on 11/29/2008 5:05:22 AM PST by Hardastarboard (0bama IS a socialist - I don't care what the elite media poofters say.)
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NBC = New Bull Cr*p
CBS = Current Bull Sh*t
ABC = Abominable Bull Cr*p
13 posted on 11/29/2008 5:11:20 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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Bail out the tax payer first not penalize us for poorly run liberal business.


18 posted on 11/29/2008 5:55:29 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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Democrats Draft $300 Billion News Media Bailout Plan
22 posted on 11/29/2008 7:18:51 AM PST by Libloather (November is Liberal, Leftist, Marxist Awareness Month.)
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abb,

The MSM suffers because they don't understand Alvin Toffler's very idea of de-massifying the media that modern communications causes. Why wait for the newspaper or network news broadcasts that come once a day when you can get your news around the clock with 24 hour news channels and the Internet? And from a lot more sources than the MSM can ever get?

23 posted on 11/29/2008 7:20:39 AM PST by RayChuang88
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We already subsidize mendacity in the American 2nd Estate—why not the 4th?

Liars don't come cheap—in more ways than one..

25 posted on 11/29/2008 7:33:02 AM PST by Happy Rain ("I hope Mr. Obama will be a great president--but then again I also hope to lose 30 pounds.")
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just my .02 worth...

I make a motion we go pro-active...
And put every lying one of them out-of-business!

1. Cancel all subscriptions to maintstream print media; Likewise the time and attention given to MSM broadcasters.

2. Write to the corporate execs and board members of all the major print consortiums (Cox, Ganett, etc...) --and major MSM networks -- explaining your moral decision to exclude their presence from our homes - and our dollars from their cash registers.

3. Communicate directly and succinctly with all advertisers and sponsors announcing your choice to dismiss their print/broadcasting hosts from our homes and consumer spending.... and furthermore -- that the sponsors' products and services will soon follow suit!

Again...
JMHO....

26 posted on 11/29/2008 7:51:53 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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The complete extinction of the Corrupt Newsmedia is one of the best things that could happen to the United States.

Its service as a pro-Democrat propaganda machine in the 2008 election is sufficient in itself to induce all decent and honest people to call for its downfall, but this dangerous, mendacious propaganda machine and its so-called "journalists" have been distorting, censoring, and fabrication information reaching the public--and consequently the electorate--for years, contemptibly disregarding the axiom that a truthfully informed electorate is essential to a representative government.

These people have and deserve the utter contempt of decent, truthful people everywhere and for all time.

27 posted on 11/29/2008 7:56:17 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Your grandchildren will live under communism." -Nikita Krushchev)
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They made their bed, they should die in it.


36 posted on 11/29/2008 12:12:04 PM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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Any federal funds to “the media” is public funding for the democrat party.

The failing NY and LA Times are merely propaganda outlets for the DNC. Readership is plummeting to the resultant loss of credubility.

Let the MSM die its richly deserved death.

And the very same people who want tax dollars spent on these corrupt entities, also want to end freedom of speech on Talk Radio and the Internet.


39 posted on 11/29/2008 10:02:22 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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