Please let me explain--I've been thinking about this for a long time!! A National Media requires National issues and National stories to maintain and attract a National Audience. Until FDR's Collectivist Agenda was enacted in the late-30's, folks in Des Moines didn't really give much of a hoot about what was happenin' in Cambridge, Tampa, LA, or Washington, DC...why should they, as most of the news that affected their day-to-day lives was local? But as the National Media Moguls came into power--first thru Radio, then with TeeVee--their needs correlated closely with the desires of a growing Washington Ruling Class to come up with National Solutions to the issues that Americans had always dealt with locally, or at a State Level. World War II also played a part in this as it demonstrated the apparent effectiveness of a National Effort. For almost 60 years, the National Media and the Power-hungry proponents of an ever-growing Federal Leviathan worked in unison--the Media stirring up the fears of the Sheeple with the various "crisis-du-jours", and the Federal Guv'ment stepping in with the solution-du-jour.
However, as always happens with Collectivist solutions to problems, the problems just got worse, which was just fine with the Federal Guv'ment who simply called for even more Federal programs. And the National Media continued to play along, until in 1994 when the GOP took control under the auspices of reducing the size and scope of the Federal Guv'ment...and EMPOWERING States, Localities and Individuals. This scares the Hell out of the Effete Elite Media!! If each State is responsible for their own State's performance, who's gonna wanna watch a National News Program dealing with Delaware's latest Education Initiative?! Yep, only folks from Delaware would give a rat's arse...and they can get that news from a Local TeeVee Network!!
The way I see it, the National Networks NEED Big Federal Guv'ment just as much as Big Guv'ment depends on the Lame-Stream Media...and to Hell with the fact Big Guv'ment doesn't work and woe upon anyone who would try to upset their Vile Conspiracy against the bests interests of the American Sheeple!!!
Sorry to ramble on...MUD
P.S. And don't think for a minute that Ted Turner's New World Order thinking isn't linked to his need to expand his CNN Power Base beyond our borders!!
30 Posted on 10/05/1999 10:39:06 PDT by Mudboy Slim
Are YOU sure the Chimpsters are READY fer MUD?! BWAHAHAHA...lambs ta slaughter, I tell ya!!
Wow, it only took the first six words of this post to find something we completely disagree on! That has to be some kind of record. =) I've got a thread here on Free Republic that dispels the liberal media bias myth -- search under "media bias" for posts made a couple of months ago and you should find it. All my arguments against it can be found there. The media doesn't need "big government" to sustain itself...it needs sensationalism, and the GOP has proven itself to be very adept at generating this kind of sensationalism.
And if you're going to go to SC trying to make a point about "liberal media bias", you're going to have a heck of a line to tow. =P
I agree that the Leftist Media is wed to Clinton because of their unwavering support of him since he received the Democratic nomination in '92. However, IMHO, their blind allegiance is derived from a much deeper sense of self-preservation. I believe it's all about Power, and the Effete Elite's unimpeded access to the Powerful!!
Please let me explain--I've been thinking about this for a long time!! A National Media requires National issues and National stories to maintain and attract a National Audience. Until FDR's Collectivist Agenda was enacted in the late-30's, folks in Des Moines didn't really give much of a hoot about what was happenin' in Cambridge, Tampa, LA, or Washington, DC...why should they, as most of the news that affected their day-to-day lives was local? But as the National Media Moguls came into power--first thru Radio, then with TeeVee--their needs correlated closely with the desires of a growing Washington Ruling Class to come up with National Solutions to the issues that Americans had always dealt with locally, or at a State Level. World War II also played a part in this as it demonstrated the apparent effectiveness of a National Effort. For almost 60 years, the National Media and the Power-hungry proponents of an ever-growing Federal Leviathan worked in unison--the Media stirring up the fears of the Sheeple with the various "crisis-du-jours", and the Federal Guv'ment stepping in with the solution-du-jour.
However, as always happens with Collectivist solutions to problems, the problems just got worse, which was just fine with the Federal Guv'ment who simply called for even more Federal programs. And the National Media continued to play along, until in 1994 when the GOP took control under the auspices of reducing the size and scope of the Federal Guv'ment...and EMPOWERING States, Localities and Individuals. This scares the Hell out of the Effete Elite Media!! If each State is responsible for their own State's performance, who's gonna wanna watch a National News Program dealing with Delaware's latest Education Initiative?! Yep, only folks from Delaware would give a rat's arse...and they can get that news from a Local TeeVee Network!!
The way I see it, the National Networks NEED Big Federal Guv'ment just as much as Big Guv'ment depends on the Lame-Stream Media...and to Hell with the fact Big Guv'ment doesn't work and woe upon anyone who would try to upset their Vile Conspiracy against the bests interests of the American Sheeple!!!
Sorry to ramble on...MUD
P.S. And don't think for a minute that Ted Turner's New World Order thinking isn't linked to his need to expand his CNN Power Base beyond our borders!!
30 Posted on 10/05/1999 10:39:06 PDT by Mudboy Slim
"...the Leftist Media is wed to Clinton because of their unwavering support of him since he received the Democratic nomination in '92. However, IMHO, their blind allegiance is derived from a much deeper sense of self-preservation. I believe it's all about Power, and the Effete Elite's unimpeded access to the Powerful!!
Please let me explain--I've been thinking about this for a long time!! A National Media requires National issues and National stories to maintain and attract a National Audience. Until FDR's Collectivist Agenda was enacted in the late-30's, folks in Des Moines didn't really give much of a hoot about what was happenin' in Cambridge, Tampa, LA, or Washington, DC...why should they, as most of the news that affected their day-to-day lives was local? But as the National Media Moguls came into power--first thru Radio, then with TeeVee--their needs correlated closely with the desires of a growing Washington Ruling Class to come up with National Solutions to the issues that Americans had always dealt with locally, or at a State Level. World War II also played a part in this as it demonstrated the apparent effectiveness of a National Effort. For almost 60 years, the National Media and the Power-hungry proponents of an ever-growing Federal Leviathan worked in unison--the Media stirring up the fears of the Sheeple with the various "crisis-du-jours", and the Federal Guv'ment stepping in with the solution-du-jour.
However, as always happens with Collectivist solutions to problems, the problems just got worse, which was just fine with the Federal Guv'ment who simply called for even more Federal programs. And the National Media continued to play along, until in 1994 when the GOP took control under the auspices of reducing the size and scope of the Federal Guv'ment...and EMPOWERING States, Localities and Individuals. This scares the Hell out of the Effete Elite Media!! If each State is responsible for their own State's performance, who's gonna wanna watch a National News Program dealing with Delaware's latest Education Initiative?! Yep, only folks from Delaware would give a rat's arse...and they can get that news from a Local TeeVee Network!!
The way I see it, the National Networks NEED Big Federal Guv'ment just as much as Big Guv'ment depends on the Lame-Stream Media...and to Hell with the fact Big Guv'ment doesn't work and woe upon anyone who would try to upset their Vile Conspiracy against the bests interests of the American Sheeple!!!
Sorry to ramble on...MUD (10/05/1999)