Posted on 05/07/2010 11:53:47 AM PDT by GonzoII
No. The NYT!
I’ll ask this again, but why wouldn’t someone like Breitbart, instead of battling the existing media, create a national alternative:
The Free Republic channel sounds promising....
bookmark.
Over the last 15 years, they have very deliberately traded credibility for political power. It reelected Clinton, kept him from being cast out of office with the impeachment, did considerable damage to our war efforts and managed to elect the current administration. Each one of these efforts cost the MSM credibility, and each one gained the left some political power, at least for a time. The election of the current administration has been a “hail Mary” type effort. They see they have been gradually losing, and that this is their last best chance to impose a socialist style government on the American people. It may yet succeed.
The Free Republic channel sounds promising....”
We need to continue to create our own media. The leftover hasbeens of the MSM are dying and may present an opportunity at some point, but the freerepublic/talk radio path has been reasonably successful.
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I often wondered that. One theory is that they do not need to write the lines necessarily. The con men in the media newsrooms have been doing their slant for so long, they get the signal intuitively by just receiving the message. I watched this phenomenon with Bill Clinton and company. He would say something as president and be parroted.
I do wish that the editors and their assistants would be blinded by a spotlight of transparency. The bahstids fire their salvos with impunity. They are faceless and nameless. Acorrding to Alinsky, you cannot attack this effectively because CBS/ABC/NBC etc. are nebulous clouds. The "attack" has to be personal; that is, it has to have a name and a face.
A great many conservative bequests have been taken over and put to liberal uses. It is very hard to control the money once it leaves your hands.
Nah, Breitbart is correct. Turn-the-ceek is not for the MSM Left. As it was not for the communists during the Cold War and is not for the Islamist Caliphate seeking Jihadists. The MSM Left must be utterly defeated.
“30+ years of observing the political tea leaves...”
ACORN has had more than a little to do with this as well...
‘Journalists’ have become entertainers and entertainers like to think that they are ‘journalists’.
Most Americans cannot distinguish and don’t even see a conflict of interest in any of that.
The whole idea of ‘responsibility’ and ‘intellectual integrity’ has become a moot point.
Something like a ‘counter’ Hollywood ought to produce films or ‘entertainment’ which is more balanced in its representation of the facts. Film, with our already compromised young people, is an inordinately dramatic and powerful tool with them.. we know it works, right?
We know...that Emmanuel has daily conversations with members of people on the his "staff"....aka the media.
Is there any thoughts?
Most Americans cannot distinguish and don’t even see a conflict of interest in any of that.
marktwain replies:
I wish it were so simple, but our side uses the same paradigm, we just do not have the media presence in the dominant media forms. Rush Limbaugh is a superb entertainer, but you do not see the entertainer/journalists in the MSM that do not tow the “Progressive” line.
15 years? I must be a lot older than you. The liberal media narrative has been going on since the 1960's, and probably the 40's (think Walter Durant and Pulitzer Prize) . There were a few moderately conservative outlets such as the Chicago Tribune, but that didn't last long.
I don't know about that. The democrat party is essentially the populist party. At one time it was the in thing to do were too attack blacks and republicans they made the KKK and from behind the lines back them up. Today the thing to do is pity the blacks and attack the republicans. Blacks seem to love too be patronized and it shows in votes.
In order to have an effective populist party you need to create a demon to point your figure at.
The conservatives make a good demon because we are not really threatening like Islam and other real threats.
at least Rush admits who he is.
Newsweak’s for sale; maybe Rush can consider buying it since he saved all the money not buying an NFL team. Turn it over to Breitbart, let him staff it and publish it from a Conservative perspective.
Exactly so. Much of the power of the left is their ability to deceive, especially to deceive themselves.
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