Posted on 01/10/2003 3:09:58 PM PST by kattracks
America's leftist-dominated media are horrified at the notion that 22 percent of Americans get news from conservative radio talk-show hosts.
Writing in today's Los Angeles Times - a notorious propagandist for the left - Steve Carney reports on a survey that claims that ... gasp ... one in five Americans get "their daily dose of news" from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative talk radio hosts.
Despite the fact that liberals are in firm control of the overwhelming majority of the nation's mainstream newspapers, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek, America's universities, Hollywood and just about every other medium of news and opinion, the left wing is up in arms that the American people now have an alternative in talk radio that allows them to escape from the daily torrent of liberal propaganda they serve up as news.
According to Carney, a new Gallup poll that "examined news media preferences" discovered that 22 percent of those surveyed said they got their news every day from talk radio programs, a figure double what it was only four years ago. "The growing trend of news in this country is interpretation ahead of the facts, of talk rather than information," whined Amy Mitchell, associate director of the liberal think tank "Project for Excellence in Journalism," which Carney describes as an "organization dedicated to raising the standards of American journalism." "There's certainly nothing wrong with listening to Rush Limbaugh for what Rush Limbaugh provides," Mitchell said charitably, while adding that "Limbaugh isn't concerned about an objective portrayal of the facts, and he admits that."
Oh? Are Dan Rather and the New York Times still claiming to be "objective"? If so, they're lying.
Mitchell said the danger lies in listeners "taking it as the facts without deciding for themselves. It's not producing an informed democracy," meaning presumably, that any news not biased to the left fails to serve the U.S., which by the way is a constitutional republic, not a "democracy."
Carney turns to his colleagues in liberal cuckooland to spread the alarm that they no longer have an absolute monopoly on the news, even going so far as to quote the far-left Michael Jackson, who has repeatedly failed to ignite the fires of liberalism on the left coast. "I wouldn't want my most ardent listeners to think of me as their major source of news," said Jackson, who had been on KABC for three decades and was most recently on KLAC-AM (570) until the station dropped its talk format last month, showing that his former listeners did not by any means see him as a major source of news, or anything else. "I think people become groupies, following their favorite talk-show hosts, and see them as the font of all knowledge, and they take what they say as accurate," he told Carney. Robin Bertolucci, director of AM programming for Clear Channel-Los Angeles, which owns KFI-AM (640), the area's highest-rated talk station, disagreed.
'People Are Smart'
"People are smart," she told Carney. "People can make decisions that this is the guy's opinion. The information consumer is intelligent enough to decide."
Bertolucci cited KFI hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou as examples of hard-news conservative shows that highlight stories that the liberal mainstream media refuse to cover (such as Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, no doubt).
"They feel that they fulfill a mission that's otherwise unfilled," Bertolucci said, "or they take a story that everyone else is doing, and cover it in a way that's unique." "A lot of conservative Americans have felt for a long time that the traditional news media does not tell their side of the story," Bertolucci told the Times. "They chafe on their perception of mainstream news outlets as the gatekeepers of information, and believe the perspective they offer is as skewed as any other." "That's sort of the conservative rallying cry: 'Who are you to tell me what I can know?'" she said. "Rush Limbaugh is arguably a news program as much as Peter Jennings is, though it's filtered through Rush Limbaugh." This liberal hysteria over the rise of conservative talk radio exposes once more the left's conviction that only liberals should be allowed to report the news in their own peculiar and slanted manner.
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"The growing trend of news in this country is interpretation ahead of the facts, of talk rather than information," whined Amy Mitchell, associate director of the liberal think tank "Project for Excellence in Journalism," which Carney describes as an "organization dedicated to raising the standards of American journalism."
This isn't a growing trend; it's been going on for years in the leftleaning newsrooms at ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, etc. It just irritates them now that viewers have alternatives that are becoming more prevalent.
"There's certainly nothing wrong with listening to Rush Limbaugh for what Rush Limbaugh provides," Mitchell said charitably, while adding that "Limbaugh isn't concerned about an objective portrayal of the facts, and he admits that."
That is EXACTLY THE POINT!!! Limbaugh ADMITS that he isn't concerned about an objective portrayal of the facts, while the Rathers, Brokows, Courics, Kings, Shaws, etc. REFUSE TO ADMIT IT! They present their "interpretation ahead of the facts" and their "talk rather than information" but claim to be objective in their presentation.
Yes, most people can sift throught the bs and see the rat except for one political party and its supporters. That is why most get their information from Fox or Limbaugh. More truth and less covered bs.
What you said. Exactly right.
And listening to it via DSL and CABLE on the internet - completly bypassing the liberal tube completely.
What bliss.
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You're not TV impaired; you're enlightened and advantaged.
GOTCHA, you liberal failures! BTW, the second amendment and I are very close, in fact I have 9mm of it VERY close, therefore mainstream liberals can't stop me from telling the truth (this said in the vein of, "Piss off a liberal, buy a gun!").
Stay vigilent, stay armed, never trust either a muslim or a liberal (both are terrorists, they just use slightly different weapons)!
"people are smart"
Well, at 22% of them are!
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