Posted on 09/15/2009 4:54:57 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
The media divided By: Michael Calderone and Mike Allen September 15, 2009 04:29 PM EST
The right-wing media’s single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers and talk show hosts aggressively pursuing an ideological agenda on-line and on TV and radio.
From birthers to tea parties to town halls and ACORN, the scandal-plaged anti-poverty group — not to mention President Obama’s speech last week to school children and the background of former White House aide Van Jones — issues initially dismissed or missed entirely by the national media have burst, if only fleetingly, onto the national agenda after relentless coverage on Fox News, talk radio and in the blogosphere.
“If it wasn’t for Fox or talk radio, we’d be done as a republic,” Glenn Beck declared Tuesday morning on “Fox & Friends.” Beck, who’s aggressively pushed the Van Jones and ACORN stories, told the morning show hosts that he plans to devote his hour-long, top-rated 5 p.m. to show new undercover tapes of ACORN employees.
Last week, Big Government, a site run by conservative Andrew Breitbart, showed videos of undercover stings in three ACORN offices, where journalists posed as pimps and prostitutes, and were instructed by employees on how to skirt legal restriction on housing. The tapes got big play on The Drudge Report—where Breitbart has worked—and right-leaning news outlets and commentary shows. But only after the Senate voted to cut off federal funding to ACORN on Monday did the story get more attention in the mainstream media.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What is this supposed to mean?
Imagine Reagan trying to shut down opposing viewpoints. The MSM would be having conniption fits.
Well, I’m glad to know that the mainstream media doesn’t have an ideological agenda. Whew.
What is this supposed to mean?
Sounds pretty clear to me. Plans are being laid to ensure that only the Administration's views will be allowed public airing for that legislation. How far those plans reach could well determine where this nation is headed. Such Soviet-style censorship, if enforced, could cause some major "unintended consequences"...
the infowarrior
I dunno for sure...
But my gut instinct is that it means, "Be afraid... Be very, very afraid..."
Especially if you own or work at a media outlet or broadcast network... I wouldn't put anything past the thugs in the Obama administration... A cornered, wounded animal can become vicious and dangerous...
Be prepared, very prepared
Ahoy Politico! That horizon line you see out there is not the status quo, it’s a tsunami.
This article has many funny quotes in it.
“The right-wing media’s single-minded focus on a handful of targets over the past months and its success in pushing those stories into the mainstream have underscored the sharp divide between traditional news organizations and the bloggers and talk show hosts aggressively pursuing an ideological agenda on-line and on TV and radio.”
What is ideological about documenting tax evasion and support of scamming the government housing programs?
“While Banner admits that some stories may get more attention on cable, blogs or talk radio, it doesn’t mean they’re suited for the “World News” audience. “There’s a tremendous amount of – for lack of a better word – ‘noise’ out there. We’re not in the business of noise.”
Cool! So a nationwide racket to defraud the government is just “noise”?
Indeed, “World News” has to distill the news of the world, in under a half hour, and can’t be expected to cover every budding controversy in the blogosphere. Nevertheless, Beck, and others, claimed that competing networks slowness in jumping on the ACORN or Van Jones stories indicates some sort of bias.”
Corruption in the nationwide organization that helped elect President Obama and is slated to receive $8.5 billion from the stimulus package is a “controversy”? Who publicly supports corruption and stealing government money?
“But news executives argue that they have limited staff and resources, and there is a lot more to cover on a daily basis than a handful of controversies stirred up primarily on the right.”
Corruption among the President’s long time supporters is not newsworthy?
“For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones says more about his news judgment than mine,” said Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times.”
Actually, it says a lot about both—that Glenn’s is far superior.
“He’s not a newsman and that’s not a news show,” Baquet continued. “He’s not trying to cover the economy, two wars, health care, the aftermath from one administration to another, negotiations with Iran or North Korea.”
If it is not news, then why are 4 people fired so far? Why did Congress cut off funding for ACORN? Why did the Census bureau cast off ACORN? Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
“A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but the network has been criticized in the past for running more favorable coverage of conservative protests than demonstrations against the Iraq war —from the April 15 tea parties to this past weekend’s rally in Washington—or stories that could be expected to be more detrimental to Democrats.”
Most of the Iraq war protests were foul mouthed nasty people. Most of the tea party protesters were nice family people. So why should they be equivalent?
Karl Frisch, a senior fellow at Media Matters, a group founded to counter what it regards as the media’s bias toward conservatives, said that if anything, the mainstream media too often follows the lead of Fox. “Mainstream publications and networks take the Fox News bait of sensationalistic, delusional, partisan reporting far too often,” he said.”
So, what part of reporting on IRS fraud and supporting underage prostitution ring is “sensationalistic, delusional, partisan reporting”?
The MSM is clueless about the deathnail they are driving into their heart. They can't admit their deception, or blatant bias which is continually turning people completely off. These MSM asshats are going to pay an enormous price for their stupidity!
Fox is mainstream, the so called MSM isn’t mainstream they are leftists which is what they should be called, the left wing media. LWM for short.
How about the "Mainstream" Media? Since when are they mainstream?
“How about the “Mainstream” Media? Since when are they mainstream?”
Call them “Left Stream Media”.
Someone else called them “Ostrich Media”. I like that.
Communists and socialists have never been closer to taking over the United States and they know this is no time for timidity. Ignoring popular opinion is part of the game plan, as is marginalizing any opposition. It worked for three massive spending bills and it will work again. Some Democrats may lose their seats, but taking a hit for the party is a call to duty they will answer. Besides, as long as they control Congress post 2010, Democrats will control redistricting as a consequence of the census and the lost seats may be regained in 2012."
And there is more. We all should read this article by Tony Rubolotta, it is called: "Transparent in Audacity Only".
ex animo
davidfarrar
America is not Russia or Brazil or a Banana Republic used to having a junta or dictator, we have 233 years of real freedom which will not be calmly handed over. To the contrary, I do not think the left nor even the very far left are actually prepared for the levels to which our refusal to submit will be demonstrated and underestimate the reactions at their own peril.
The harder the left pushes, the more likely a true “purge” will occur and it won't be a purge of the right.
Before such dramatic confrontation is allowed to come to pass, I firmly believe our patriotic “behind the scenes leaders” and the truly America loving patriotic military will step in and remove the socialist totalitarian usurpers, such as we saw in Honduras. Even though these times seem to be the worst to face America, they surely are not and America and freedom have suffered through all thus far and prevailed.
David, I agree that they have never been closer to taking over and they are not going to be timid, but still they are grossly underestimating patriotic Americans in general and underestimating just how many Americans will become real patriots if the try to steal our liberty and freedom as it now seems is their plan.
America is not Russia or Brazil or a Banana Republic used to having a junta or dictator, we have 233 years of real freedom which will not be calmly handed over. To the contrary, I do not think the left nor even the very far left are actually prepared for the levels to which our refusal to submit will be demonstrated and underestimate the reactions at their own peril.
The harder the left pushes, the more likely a true “purge” will occur and it won’t be a purge of the right.
Before such dramatic confrontation is allowed to come to pass, I firmly believe our patriotic “behind the scenes leaders” and the truly America loving patriotic military will step in and remove the socialist totalitarian usurpers, such as we saw in Honduras.
Even though these times seem to be the worst to face America, they surely are not and America and freedom have suffered through all thus far and prevailed.
David, I agree that they have never been closer to taking over and they are not going to be timid, but still they are grossly underestimating patriotic Americans in general and underestimating just how many Americans will become real patriots if the try to steal our liberty and freedom as it now seems is their plan.
America is not Russia or Brazil or a Banana Republic used to having a junta or dictator, we have 233 years of real freedom which will not be calmly handed over. To the contrary, I do not think the left nor even the very far left are actually prepared for the levels to which our refusal to submit will be demonstrated and underestimate the reactions at their own peril.
The harder the left pushes, the more likely a true “purge” will occur and it won’t be a purge of the right.
Before such dramatic confrontation is allowed to come to pass, I firmly believe our patriotic “behind the scenes leaders” and the truly America loving patriotic military will step in and remove the socialist totalitarian usurpers, such as we saw in Honduras.
Even though these times seem to be the worst to face America, they surely are not and America and freedom have suffered through all thus far and prevailed.
If someone know why these “fail to post” and then double posts happen and what can be done to prevent, I will be forever grateful on directions how to prevent.
Its time to boycott ABC
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