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The election of 2008 will go down as a milestone in the death of the Old Media; never had it become so clear to so many that it had become the organ of the Democratic Party. None of them will recover - the alternative media sought out by the intended targets has only grown since then. They’ll be reduced to including political indoctrination in weather reports as the only way to reach most people.

“The election of 2008 will go down as a milestone in the death of the Old Media; never had it become so clear to so many that it had become the organ of the Democratic Party. None of them will recover - the alternative media sought out by the intended targets has only grown since then. They’ll be reduced to including political indoctrination in weather reports as the only way to reach most people.”

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I agree, personally I have Zero trust in the MSM and even less in the Gov. if possible. Fox is about the only thing with any sort of believability. If i want to find reasonably accurate news I get it from our British cousins

The media has been on a death watch for a long time now, but yet they stay in business.
I would bet that baraq is keeping them in business to 1. Keep their loyalty and to 2. Threaten them with withdrawal of funds if they show any disloyalty.
baraq has used taxpayer money to keep unions and phony companies afloat, why not his media?

You are correct. It’s taken much, much longer than I thought it would, but the old media is going the way of the buggy whip.

I see basically four groupings of people as far as how they get their news:

1. The Fox News crowd and radio listeners - a growing demographic.

2. The ABCNBCCBSMSNBCCNNNYTIMESWASHINGTONPOSTPSNPR crowd - a shrinking demographic.

3. The Jon Stewart-Bill Maher-MTV crowd - which is very sporadic and transient.

4. The woefully uninformed - most of which are in the FSA (Free S*** Army) who won’t pay attention until the check gets drastically reduced or cut off entirely. Unfortunately this is a rapidly growing demographic as well and they’ve been brainwashed into believing Democrat=Good, Republican=Evil.

Groups 2. and 3. are not major factors. Group 1. and 4. are where the battle is being fought.

I’ve sold 57 articles, many to the Homes section of my local paper. I wanted to write for the op/ed page and my editor laughed. To write on that page I had to be an actual employee so they could “ensure the quality of the content.” I took that to mean that I was appropriately left leaning. When I moved to town I actually thought the Tallahassee Democrat was the Democratic party’s official newspaper; as you couldn’t have slipped a piece of paper between their positions.

A friend and wonderful writer brought me a letter he’d sent to the Democrat and what the Democrat published. The letter argued eloquently for concealed carry. What the Democrat published (and told him they’d edited for brevity) could have been written by somebody you’d run from if confronted in public. I asked the editor why he’d done that. He huffed, wiggled and snorted and said, “I had to change it. Otherwise, how would people know what a nut case that guy was?”

A reporter told me once, “It’s okay to lie about Republicans. It makes up for all the times they did sh*t and you just didn’t catch them at it.”

After laughing at me about the job my editor pointed to a stack of resumes thig- high and running the length of the wall. “Those, she said, are just the resumes for the one reporter position we have open. Every one of them graduated with a liberal arts degree. You are an engineer.” I suddenly realized that for at least a generation, in order to work in the media you had to have been steeped in “liberal” arts. I could not have passed a single course on that side of campus as even the art classes I was forced to take managed to include an unhealthy dollop of Communism.