I was watching Good Morning America’s “Whistle Stop Tour” through the heartland. They stopped in Ohio and asked all these people about the hard times they had experienced during “the last 6 years”. It was so obvious that it was humorous.
Whether or not you like McCain, this election represents a real chance to put a stake throught the heart of the MSMedia. They have been running a 24/7 campaign ad for Obama, and his defeat would spell the end of any influence they have. Fellow Freepers, I know many of you still don’t like McCain, but I hope you will view this election as a chance to take back the CULTURE in this country, the first battle in a long war being the destruction of the MSMedia.
I’ve said for a long time the mainstream media is more dangerous and a bigger threat to this country than Al Queda is.
THe media and press has always been biased and the articles were much more vicious in Jefferson’s and Lincoln’s time
BUT
There was NOT the monopoly as there exists today
It is because our schools are run by leftists and only turn out left wing journalists
Very good article. I just hope there are still enough people left who will stop and think about the issues addressed in the article. Sometimes I feel like giving up.
I hope this is true but I'm not sure that there is any evidence of this.
I agree, we are all frustrated with the media. We were in 2004 also.
October seems to be the time when the media tries to be more objective, it is when they realize that their bias will be more noticed.
They finally nailed Gore in October 2000, and Nailed Kerry on the flip flopping in 2004.
As someone who used to scan Pravda and Izvestia occasionally, the US press now is as biased and spins stories as much as these Communist papers ever did. IMHO Keep in mind that all generalities are false, and that there are some events correctly reported in US newspapers, however is it worth the time and effort to remove the pearls from the slop that is routinely dished out?
Algore is going to save us. No, really, well... maybe not Algore himself, but his invention, the internet.
I don’t have contact with as many people as my son, (he’s a computer consultant). So, I keep my son up to date with all the information about 0bama that NBCABCCBSCNNMSNBC won’t present. The good news is, my son passes the stuff on to people who are either liberal or on the fence. He’s converted at least 3 likely voters so far.
If this stuff about 0bama were to be peresented by the MSM, 0bama would be finished. Heck, the quotes by Mr. and Mrs. 0bama yesterday would be enough to damage them mightily if the quotes were presented to the public. The quote about getting in people’s faces, and the cute quote.
It would take about one hour of reading and listening on the internet to know, without doubt, 0bama is:
A racist
A Marxist
A muslim sympathizer
Thanks. I just posted article on digg.com
This is HUGH! Very series.
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.
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.
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.
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.