For all but the last 60 years of our nations histroy the media was openly and proudly partisan. For example leading up to and during the Civil war nearly every town had an anti slavery Republican paper lauding Lincoln. While the other paper in town was openly Democratic and in favor of slavery. The Democratic papers portrayed blacks as little more than animals. They portrayed Lincoln as subhuman too. The Republican papers protrayed Lincoln as a savior of the nation.The liberal papers of the 30s painted Roosevelt as the perfect leader. The conservative papers painted Roosevelt as an evil man. The Roosevelt adminstation became so fearful of radio, that in 1943 they made it illegal for radio stations to editorialize. It was Democrats who made partisanship on radio and TV illegal with the so called fairness doctrine.
Newspapers began folding in the 1950's. The surviving papers tried to get both sides to read their paper. So they put out the word that they were non partisan. But that was always a lie. Reporters for newspapers, radio and TV always put out their own veiws and called it objective. The object was to fool the viewers into supporting their positions.
The only reason for journalism is so people can get news they can not observe for themselves. With the internet and its huge bandwidth people can now get their own news. They can, with the internet, report for each other. The media monopoly on information is being removed. The media can no longer keep a secret. Everyone knew JFK has females on the payroll whose sole jobs were to provide him sex. The media hid that from us. But now with the internet the sexual escapades of a Clinton are exposed. The media and its followers hate its loss of control.
What this little girl fails to understand is that the journalists she so admires are going the way of the 45 RPM record. She can lament their passing, but her golden days of media rule are soon to be history.
People are informing each other on web sites like Free Republic. The days of the media elite fooling the public are fast comming to an end. And the spin put out by the main stream media is no longer working.
I suspect this young lady would like to be a media star. The media star days will soon be gone as well. Katie Couric and silent film stars will share a situation. They will both be long forgotten history.
It is over. There is no longer a way to control information. And this litte girl was born 50 years too late.
33 posted on 04/08/2004 11:44:07 PM EDT by Common Tator
Sorting opinions in radio airwaves doesn't foster valid discussions (FreeRepublic mentioned)
The Digital Collegian (Penn State) ^ | Monday, April 5, 2004 | Torie Bosch
Newspapers began folding in the 1950's.Which ones? Liberal and conservative alike? I somehow doubt it. My simple mind is beginning to sense some chicanery afoot by the leftist press. Cooking the circulation numbers even then, sweetheart deals for advertisers, exclusive contracts, yukking it up for Dim ne'er-do-wells in exchange for juicy tidbits on Pubbies? I suspect the criminal enterprise known as the Democratic party has many a soul mate in the MSM. Birds of a feather?
Add to that the liklihood the ne'er-do-wells in the liberal media were not as constrained by the "truth of the matter" as their conservative counterparts, so their papers began to take on a more "fantastic" appearance. Jayson Blairs may have been around a long time unbeknownst to us. Are we getting closer to some answers?
FGS