One of the things the new Conservatives that Tony Blankley talks about need to do, is totally blow off the "Mainstream Media". We have the Internet, we have talk radio, we have Fox News, we can learn from the Democrats and get some 527's going, whatever is needed.
Another thing we Conservatives need to get through our head, is that the idea of a "non-partisan, straight-down-the-middle media" is a myth only recently invented. Prior to World War II, you had:
-Pro-Patriot/pro-tory newspapers during the Revolution.
-Pro-war/anti-war newspapers during the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War.
-Abolitionist (papers that usually had "Republican" in it)/pro-Slavery papers (usually something that ended in "Democrat") prior to and during the Civil War.
-The Spanish-American War was pretty much started by William Randolf Hearst, who invented yellow journalism.
-So-called "muckrakers" like Sinclair Lewis, who was a reporter at the time, were full-bore Socialists who loathed Capitalism.
It was only with the rise of Fascism and Naziism, and World War II, that you began to see the idea of "down the middle" journalism. Even then, you had Time magazine and the New York Times covering for Joey Stalin, Mousey Tung, and the other Communists who murdered millions.
Buying and selling a "conservative" paper is archaic and would run into the same problems that the other Dinosaur papers have had, and would eventually go out of business. New, innovative technology would be the best way- the good old-fashioned Internet, Texting, IMing, 527's, etc. With the advent of the "Fairness" Doctrine, look for talk radio to go to pay-per-listen...make it easily available, profitable, and fun (the last part shouldn't be so hard....we conservatives are having more fun anyway).
Let's not be begging for NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post to be nice to us. In the long run, we don't need them anyway and, if we're smart and sharp enough, their endorsement should be the kiss of death for any future political candidate.
Upcoming study from the same people:
“Pacific Ocean is big and wet”.
McCain: 14% positive, 60% negative, 26% mixed.
Obama: 36% positive, 29% negative, 35% mixed.
Criteria: "In examining tone, the Project’s authors wrote that they took a 'cautious and conservative approach,' only judging a story positive or negative if the slant was very clear."
For McCain, I'd wager that the "mixed" were more negative than positive, and for Obama the opposite was true.
But the media aren't at all biased....
The news media’s performance in this campaign has been the most blatantly biased in my memory. It’s a total disgrace, and a good reason not to trust the news media on anything.
The article says Obama coverage was mostly mixed. Hah!
It said Biden coverage was fairly negative as well, but there hasn’t been much coverage of his gaffe.
The good News is it is making viewers switch them off.
Pound on them Freepers they can wilt away along with Obama and his cabal!
Drudge
ELECTION REJECTION: NETWORK NEWS SLUMPS; VIEWERSHIP FADES
Wed Oct 22 2008 07:25:40 ET
The Obama-McCain match-up is proving to be a lackluster election ticket for the Big 3 network news programs, according to NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH.
As the shouting from the trail and the frantic spinning from the anchor desks intensify, the audience is voting with their remotes.
All 3 evening news shows experienced audience drops year-to-year for the week of Oct. 13-19, 2008.
CBSNEWS w/ Couric shed a half a million viewers, falling from 6.4 million to 5.9 million; ABCNEWS dropped from 8.1 million to 7.6 million; NBCNEWS slumped from 8.2 million to 7.8 million.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashnf.htm
Well, when you’re running against That One, how can it not be?
I’m sure someone like Dan Rather would say, “Well, it’s not our fault that only negative things can be said about Republicans. If they give us something positive to say, we will.”
I would love to see this data on McCain leading up to New Hampshire and through Florida and Super Tuesday. The media was completely in his corner at that point and turned on him like rabid dogs the minute he stood before The 0ne.
A few months ago, during the primaries, the media praised a similar Pew report claiming that the media gave Obama and Hillary a fair treatment.
Don’t hold your breath on this new one.