Posted on 10/19/2009 7:15:18 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Their not BIASED, their fellow communist travelers.
Read about Mark Halperin at ABC and his father Morton.
Rich in treacherous history.
When did political bias in the worldwide MSM exactly start?
I don't think it is bias it is communist propaganda.
Slowly they have gained total control.
Exactly. it is sad.
Cronkite.
bookmark.
Lowell Ponte? 2004?
bfl
I heard a Republican quote the Center For American progress
using data that they provided for his reason for voting for Cap and Trade.
In 2004 Nobody paid a lot of mind to this.
Now that the white House is openly flaunting it's
lovers of communism right in front of us.
Read about 2/3 the way down about Morton Halpern, the
Pentagon papers and the Communist spy Phillip Agee.
There's always been media bias but in past times it was mostly out in the open, not sneaky and posing as "objective" reporting.
Strong Communist influence in the media began at least as early as the 1920s. Read "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers for a glimpse of how it was. The current generation of vipers snuggled into secure, safe places during WW II and under cover of the Vietnam anti-war movement.
There have been repeated attempts to expose it, as in this fairly recent piece, but the public was apathetic and comfortable. Those who gave warning were considered "paranoid."
Their problem is that now, they no longer have a monopoly on information, and more and more people trust them less and less. They will always have the idiot-bloc that is too zombified to question anything they say to them, but they are more or less preaching to the choir. The MSM isn't going to create many "converts" to their cause. They can merely keep the ones they already have in their audience placated. Yes, it's a sizable chunk of America that is too stupid to even know what communism is or what the history of communism is, but there is also a sizable chunk of this population that has brains, and in the end, these commie idiots are going to lose, one way or the other. I'll take 100 thinking patriots against 1000 morons with their hands out any day, and face it, if someone likes Obama and believes what the MSM tells them, how smart can they be anyway? The main audience for the MSM are the idiots of the world. Smart people that don't like having their intelligence insulted on a daily basis have moved on to other news outlets.
The alternative media is exposing these lying traitors every day, and every day, the MSM becomes less credible than the day before. The newspapers are in such trouble that Obammy said he'd entertain the idea of bailing them out. lol. The lead communist helping out his propagandists. Let him do it. That will be about as popular as ramming his commie-care down everyone's throat.
You think of the Internet. But they hold info that is really matters: schools and universities.
"and more and more people trust them less and less."
Is that why we have a socialist president now? Is that why, after he showed himself fully, his approval rating is still above 40%?
Spot on!
Then they march out of the universities and take jobs in
our industry and run it straight into the ground.
I understand why Horowitz spends most of his time fighting inside of the university's.
It is the proverbial front line.
Sure, we have a socialist president now, but his popularity is among the lowest of all time so early into his first term. You're touting his "above 40%" approval rating as some sort of evidence of his enormous popularity? Ok...
I'd like to see his popularity near zero too, but these things take time. Did you expect him to go from 65-70% approval to 20% in 9 months? That's a stretch. If it wasn't for a vocal alternative media, he'd be waaaaay above 40% right now.
That's where you commit an inadvertently leap of faith. THe fact that something is there does not imply that people will avail themselves of that.
The full truth about the Soviet Union is out there. People of Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil don't avail themselves of it. In our own country, Marx could be seen as wrong on all counts: the data were there. Roosevelt instituted so many socialist reforms that Marx would be proud. Which information was NOT available to Americans?
During the last elections, nobody could find anything that Obama accomplished in his life, in anything he was actually doing. Did people use that information in their choice?
Using information is hard work and not everyone is cut for it. Instead of it people use various biases and rules of thumb (heuristics), which often lead to decisions that are inconsistent with ALL AVAILABLE INFORMATION.
P.S. If you'd like to read more on decision-making of this kind, read the words of Kahnemann, Tversky and their colleagues.
The man is a dangerous menace, but people are waking up. 28% strongly approve of him, 40% strongly disapprove. Those are horrific numbers for him after just nine months. Those numbers are horrific because people aren't buying what the MSM is trying to sell them, and they aren't buying Obama either. Sure, 28% are, but so what? It's not like you can have everyone wake up to reality. Many are. That's all I'm saying.
1947. The Communists survived the HCUA hearings and forever tsk tsked the threat of Communism. Not that they claimed they weren’t really communists. Just that they posed no threat even when they were working in league with the KGB.
Bravo! Thanks. I don’t know how that slipped my mind.
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