Liberals Want Their Own Network to Counter ... Their Own Networks

NewsMax ^ | 7/30/04 | Carl Limbacher et al

[pookie18]

Top liberals are not happy that the collective "big media" has decided to try to appeal to the entire U.S., rather than just the left - by having some conservatives on their programs, as well as the usual liberal suspects - and so they plan to launch a new television network to counter any views aired on broadcast and cable news that do not conform to their world view.

According to Wired News, the group includes one of the producers of the Clinton documentary, "The Hunting of the President," and the author of a book about corporate influence on politics, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters."

Also yearning for a liberal TV network, Wired reports, are a veteran record producer, multimedia producers for the Democratic Party's website, leftist bloggers and the former head of the Dean Media Team Network, which produced online ads for the Howard Dean presidential campaign.

These far-out, Lefty media heavyweights aren't kidding: "That's what I'm doing right now," Micheal Stinson, who helped arrange the Boston meeting, SummitNet04, and runs the Take Back the Media website, told Wired News. "I'm herding all of the cats."

He said he wants the best progressive journalists and online publishers to join the New Media, the name he uses for the planned network.

Editorial standards at the network will be high, he promised.

"This is about the issues. This is for real," said Stinson who is meeting next week in New York with other New Media planners, including Greg Palast, a rabid left-wing reporter for BBC TV and The Guardian newspaper in London. The group will then begin to looking for investors.

The liberal activists cited the success of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" as an indication that the new network could make it.

But the planned New Media network will be at the mercy of the cable TV giants, an executive at Nielsen Media Research told Wired News.

"They will have to persuade companies like Cox Communications to carry them, and that won't happen if Cox doesn't like the product," he said. "I think Al Gore may have an easier time with the cable companies than they will."

If the organizers think ABC, CBS, CNN et al are too conservative, you have to wonder just how far out left their proposed new network will be should it ever get off the ground.

[dark_lord]

If you spend any time on the "liberal" boards, you would know that they think that mainstream media is conservative because:
(a) The media is owned by rich white guys, and rich white guys are conservative, so they make their media reflect their personal views, therefore the media are conservative.
(b) All of the media was positive about the Iraqi war in the first days of the invasion, and the invasion of Iraq is a conservative position, therefore the media are conservative.
(c) Most of the media are not openly espousing gay marriage, open borders, the immediate imprisonment of gun owners, and raising the tax rates to 90% for anyone who works in non-union private industry, therefore the media is conservative.

[Stellar Dendrite]

WE NEED FREEP TV!!!!!
How great would that be??

I WANT MY FREEP TV!!!!!!

[Stellar Dendrite]

"You know, it just dawned on me that Liberals are also not particularly honest."

They lie about EVERYTHING!!!
Who the hell would make up a lie about giving a hamster CPR?
It goes to show you, the ends justify the means. That's dangerous for America.
Do you know what these idiots are doing? What do you want to bet the liberals are drumming up so much hatred that some kooks start suicide bombing us? It wouldnt surprise me, after John Walker Lindh.

[wontbackdown]

Actually, I think this is a great idea. Liberals think that everyone else agrees with them and are shocked to find out that most people don't. I want liberals to let it all hang out so that everyone will see them for what they are.
Their typical left-wing hatefests will send most people running to the Republican party.

[irv]

What do you want to bet the liberals are drumming up so much hatred that some kooks start suicide bombing us?

When (not if) it happens, we don't need to blame the Libs for it. Blame the mullahs. Blame the Libs for getting in the way of proper defense.

[longtermmemmory]

what are they talking about, Free Speech TV is on the air and it is NOTHING BUT leftist commie drivel.

It is anti-christian, pro homosexual, anti-capitalist, pro commie pablum.

[longtermmemmory]

One other issue to support the left's desire.

the alphabets and cnn and bbc have to PRETEND to be unbiased and on occasion will admit to eating crow.

A dedicated leftist network would have no need for pretense and they could spin spin spin spin.

[longtermmemmory]

I think you are closer to the truth. This is about parting liberals from their dollars. They are "investing" based on the emotions of liberalism rather than the logic of business. (gee liberals basing politics on feeeeeeling)

As soon as this goes under, there will be another group who think THEY are the ones to make it happen.