Posted on 09/19/2008 6:03:33 AM PDT by curth
The Mainstream Media Is Dead As It Attempts To Steer Election By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin 09/19/2008
You should be aware of how, in a most unexpected and unintended way, the mainstream media is determining the outcome of this election.
As every reader of this column knows and, as perhaps everyone knows or suspects at this point, the mainstream media has been in a massive full court press to sell Sen. Barack Obama as president, without vetting him, without asking him tough questions and with treatment that some would think should be reserved for the second coming. By the mainstream media, I include most of the major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer; the three old-line major networks including ABC, CBS and, of course, the Obama Campaign Network, also known as NBC along with PBS; the cable news channels CNN and MSNBC; many of the radio stations owned by those networks along with NPR; and many national magazines such as Time and Newsweek.
The bad news is the mainstream media has been putting out a steady stream of the most biased, dishonest and fraudulent reporting and editorializing to push Sen. Obama down the throats of the American people. The good news is their efforts are so blatant and heavy-handed that a tipping-point has been reached. The public now realizes the mainstream media is acting as a cheerleader and campaign manager for Sen. Obama. The public realizes they have been fed a constant stream of pro-Obama propaganda, in at attempt to use fraud and deceit to determine an election outcome.
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Great editorial and spot on. I was thinking about what the media has done and what it has done is create a marketpace Rush’s show, Fox News, Hannity, Ingram etc.
Conservative talk radio and Fox should be thanking the mainstream media for what they are doing because they are creating bigger marketplaces for them.
It will be interesting to see if they will ever wake up or will they just continue to be a story in the Dinosaur Media Watch.
I also believe that the common “folks” clearly see the bias. The one thing that voters hate is being told how to vote by elitisits, in this case in the media and Hollywood.
The “backfire” will be loud and we will hear it on election night as the media has a collective breakdown.
I agree. But the ONLY way to do that is to hit them in the ratings and advertisers during the down economy (especially MSNBC). I'd love to see them go down. Keep it on Fox. I just phyiscally and emotionally cannot watch the other cable channels any longer. The bias is so blatant. It just disgusts and angers me.
The mainstream media is not only anti-Republican, anti-McCain, and anti-conservative but over the years has been anti-military, anti-American, anti-family-values, anti-religion, anti-law enforcement, anti-the-war-in-Iraq, anti-national-defense, anti-national-security and anti- everything else mainstream America believes in.
IOW, journalism doesn't do anything but criticize the people who do do things and who work to a bottom line and are therefore vulnerable to second guessing. After 1968, the Democratic Party gradually (sometimes not so gradually) dismissed any effort to be any different from the cynicism which naturally characterizes the reporting of bad news on short deadline. So that now the Democratic Party is simply the political wing of Big Journalism.
I agree that "the monopoly is over", but Rush is by no means even a large part of it. The ease of fact-checking on the internet, and the transmission of news stories that bypass the MSM are a bigger part.
One thing I think candidates should do, is, if interviewed, have their own camera, and tape the entire session, independently of the media interviewer. And then post that interview on Youtube, so any "negative editing" (as so prominently done during the ABC/Gibson interview) can be brought to light.
Great article. He hints that, if the MSM succeeds in getting O elected, the MSM expects payback. Payback would include re-instituting the “Fairness Doctrine,” setting market share limits on Internet news delivery and online classified revenue, and ultimately government takeover of failed publishing empires a la AIG. Then we would have a totally government-controlled press just like Pravda.
Whoa, a newspaper actually printing the truth about Obie-Wan Obozo? I had to do a double-take when I looked up for the source.
That columnist better hire a food-taster and a car-starter. The brown shirts will now target him.
You're kidding, right?
The internet may be important, but the internet is like "the newspapers." It's an amalgam of lots of people saying what they think of know. I doubt there is any political/news site that even comes close to Rush in reach.
Additionally Rush preceded the Internet. When he effectively wrested control of Congress from the Dims in 1994 most of us were still on Compuserve if we were using a computer for communication at all.
ML/NJ
That is the problem they have not thought through yet. What happens when you leave any doubt of bias behind and support a party when you are only suppose to give us the news. They are creating a huge rift in the American public and have announced they are part of the problem to one side. Not good if thing ever go bad and get radical on the right like it has on the left especially as they are the face of that problem nightly. Just stupid.
At long last, after many years of this kind of reporting that violates every principle of good journalism and free government, the public appreciates what is going on. As a result, in growing and probably decisive numbers, the public is turning against the mainstream media and its candidate, Sen. Obama. In fact, many voters are going to frame a vote against Sen. Obama as a vote against the mainstream media, its dishonest, biased and fraudulent journalism, and its attempt to hijack the election by reporting only the favorable news on Sen. Obama and only the unfavorable news on Sen. John McCain. When voters look at the ballot, on the Democratic ticket they will see Sen. Obama, Joe Biden and the mainstream media and the smart voters will not like what they see on that part of the ticket.
I really do not see this happening. The same public that will blindly vote to put the anti-American Obamas in the White House were overcome with glee at every lie and made up story they read about Sarah Palin.
Yes, the Hillary pantsuit brigade is momentarily in a snit about the media's pro-Obama favoritism that left Hillary in the dust.
But they will be only too happy to have the same media work again on her side, trashing her opposition, the next time she runs for office.
I’ll take a contrarian POV on this topic. But first let me state that I believe the MSM is completely biased. Where I disagree is, I believe this bias works against the liberal agenda.
First, the MSM is extremely protective of liberal candidates and refuses to vet them. As a result, Rat nominees over the past 30 years have been very weak.
Second, the liberal MSM does an extremely effective job of vetting weak Pubbie candidates. Becoming the pub candidate is a survival of the fittest.
Third, the general election becomes a battle of the weak Rat opposing the strong pub. The vetting process of the Rat that should have take before the nomination takes place in the general courtesy of the pubbie’s campaign.
So, while I resent having an unapologetically biased media feeding me its version of the news, I’m thankful for the unintended consequences they bring about. If memory and mathematics serve me correctly, Carter and Clinton are the only Rats to be elected to the highest office in the land in the last 40 years.
It and its operatives deserve--and have--the contempt of decent people everywhere and for all time.
The "Mainstream Newsmedia" deserves to be destroyed--and dead.
The degeneration of the Free Press into a Propaganda Machine is one of the most dangerous events in US history--a truthfully informed electorate being essential to representative government, to liberty, and to justice.
Those responsible for this deserve the utter contempt of decent, honest, just people--and they have it!
Lots of decent stuff coming out of the Philly press here lately. Wondering if there is something in the wind.....
That, and Sarah Palin are the ONLY reason I am voting for McCain. Once in, he will screw us with his amnesty, but so will Obama. A Helluva choice made palatable by Palin.
Good article.
Enrage the media: Elect McCain/Palin.
“I really do not see this happening.”
I agree. The election is a draw at this point. If the people really knew about the bias and complicity then McCain should be soaring up in the polls.
It’s the very serious point of this election...can the MSM elect a president? Truly frightening if the answer should be yes.
‘lil early to be celebrating the demise of evil media.
I guess we should thank the press who made sure Her Thighness didn't get the nomination.
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