Posted on 02/02/2018 10:27:34 AM PST by Faith Presses On
Yes, most of the MSM has always been to the left, but there used to be some daylight between the two. In the last 5 to 10 years, though, it's simply merged with the DNC. Right now much of the time, you can't even tell the MSM's "straight news" on Trump and politics from opinion pieces. Even before seeing the classified memo, the MSM were calling its release "political" and defending Dems. They automatically take the DNC position, and that includes when they pushed the DNC line on "Russia" and pushes for Trump's impeachment though Mueller investigation has uncovered nothing.
Isn’t Clinton’s funding of opposition research through a law firm as a cut-out a campaign finance violation?
Also... SOME of this stuff is not criminal (some of it clearly is) but doesn't this prove that Trump has a MASSIVE Slander/Libel suit against everyone involved?
And I mean $billions
NO, the press can endorse whomever they want.
The stations have federal licenses to broadcast, and are supposed to broadcast “in the public interest”.
But the content providers are not licensed.
Maybe a case could be made for networks, as violation of anti-trust laws?
I don’t know about slander/libel but maybe a civil rights
case.
If they were concerned about election laws, they’d stop the democrats from campaigning in churches.
Sure, they can endorse anyone, on their opinion pages.
But they’re extremely powerful, at least as powerful still as Facebook and Twitter, and their reporting has crossed into straight-out campaigning for the Democratic Party. They hadn’t even SEEN this memo when they began making the identical accusations against Trump, Nunes and the GOP as the Democrats were. One can understand bias by a referee, but when the referee actually gets in the game as an extra man, that’s a different matter.
That sounds like a possibility. I also wonder what election and campaign law might say about what they’re doing.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.The reality is that it is only necessary to follow the standard rules of journalism to produce a front page which is an exemplar of extreme “liberalism”: Follow the dictum that “If it bleeds, it leads,” and also the “‘Man Bites Dog,’ not ‘Dog Bites Man’” rules of story selection and emphasis. Any society will always, by its own standards, cause ‘Man Bites Dog’ to imply “Man we count on fails to deliver for us.” IOW, all negativity, all the time. And, Claim to be objective. How else to maximize your influence? Standard journalistic practice, right? The claim of actual objectivity - not a claim to be trying to be objective, which is perfectly unobjectionable if true - is inherently arrogant, and actually stands as proof that you are not even trying to be objective (for why would have to “try” to do something you are already sure you are?).The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Worse, to claim objectivity knowing that you are in fact negative is to indict yourself of believing that “negativity is objectivity.” And I submit that if “the conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a Jeopardy® answer, the corresponding Jeopardy® question is, “What is the definition of ‘cynicism’?”
Journalism, under normal operating rules, is cynical. But nobody, and no institution, can be cynical about everything. For if “B” be the antithesis of “A”, you cannot express cynicism toward “A” without insinuating faith in, or naiveté toward, “B.”
In reality journalism is cynical about society. Thomas Paine explains the relation between society and government:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Journalism is cynical about society, and implies faith in, or naiveté about, government. And again, if “cynicism toward society and naiveté toward government” is a Jeopardy® answer, the corresponding Jeopardy® question is, “What is the definition of ’socialism’ (or 'Progressivism’ or ‘liberalism’)?” This analysis does not imply that the opposite posture - that of cynicism toward government and naiveté toward society - is ideal. Rather, as Adam Smith’s dictum above suggests, we are well advised to apply “incredulity” - skepticism - both toward government and society. Not no government at all, but limited - and, as Paine would have it, cost-efficient - government is the counsel of prudence.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one - Common Sense (1776)
Of course. Election regularltions were meant to be broken/loopholed by the media. We need to end them
Yes,but this seems to go a little bit beyond endorsing a candidate.
The MSM is the propaganda organ of the Communist Party USA, currently operating wearing the mask of the late Democratic Party.
I think the irony is dripping off of The Cankle AND the MSM.
The Cankle, who was fired for being a corrupt lawyer on the prosecution side of Watergate (Yeah, let that sink in for a bit), has colluded and conspired with the very press that was OH SO proud of themselves for bringing down Nixon, to RIG the election and violate the civil rights of the up coming President of the United States.
I hope they all hang.
I've been saying this since 1992 when I watched the media deliberately skew their news reporting to make the economy look like a disaster so that they could help Clinton win.
Yes, the existing media people are Democrat Party operatives who deliberately manipulate the news to produce support for the Democrat party, and yes, they should be hammered with huge fines every time they do it.
I think the irony is dripping off of The Cankle AND the MSM.
The Cankle, who was fired for being a corrupt lawyer on the prosecution side of Watergate (Yeah, let that sink in for a bit), has colluded and conspired with the very press that was OH SO proud of themselves for bringing down Nixon, to RIG the election and violate the civil rights of the up coming President of the United States.
I hope they all hang.
I disagree. So long as they operate on money produced through their monopoly of the public airwaves, they ought to be required by law to be non biased.
They didn't build their media empire by themselves, they used the public owned airwaves to get that much power.
Thats the 3rd time this week I double posted. But I didnt do any of them.
Something acting a lil screwy for the last week or so.
I have come to the conclusion that the media is liberal because the people who own and control the media make a lot of money when liberals are elected to government office and spend lots of government money.
It is in the financial interests of the people who own the news media that they be liberal, and so therefore the media people are liberal.
The columns the press runs are better than paid political ads...
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