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To: smoothsailing

The leftist media no longer seeks credibility. What they seek, no, what they crave, is relevance. It’s about power, and it’s relevance that matters, not credibility.

The MSM’s value to the movement lies in their ability to help their ideological fellow travelers to maintain failed beliefs.

Imagine having to simultaneously hold the beliefs that capital punishment of criminals is wrong, and that killing a new-born has no moral dimension. It all begins with abortion, but certainly doesn’t end there. The MSM thus serve to fill the psychotropic drug prescription needed for liberals to maintain a belief structure that’s now proved not only to be a failure on many fronts, but borderline psychotic.

We must understand that the process is demand-driven. Liberals who watch the MSM must have constant affirmation that they still occupy the moral high ground, in the face of daily events that tend to refute this as the reality. Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.

Rx for the masses.


61 posted on 01/20/2014 3:11:05 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: wayoverontheright

what tghe MSM delivers is DISINFOTAINMENT!

the bastard child of communism and news

it was discovered some years ago that in order to enjoy entertainment that one had to SUSPEND ONES DISBELIEF...

it wasnt long after that news reportage went form dry rather matter of fact chronicling of current events to Happy Talk News...and from there... devolved into the sort of rank propaganda we are witnessing today.

no longer willing to examine whats being offered as fact...the mesmerized ENTERTAINED masses..havent the ability to discern fact from fiction.


68 posted on 01/20/2014 6:26:34 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: wayoverontheright

the process is demand-driven. Liberals who watch the MSM must have constant affirmation that they still occupy the moral high ground, in the face of daily events that tend to refute this as the reality. Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.

Rx for the masses.
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Excellent analysis.


76 posted on 01/20/2014 8:48:02 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: wayoverontheright

Liberal consumers of news crave-the MSM delivers the lies needed to maintain psychological equilibrium.


They are also slowly learning that they are not producers, those which drive the economy, but leeches who would not have paychecks but for private enterprise.

They’re starting to understand how they’re trodding over the golden egg. What a mess when millions of idiots suddenly starkly realize *they* are the problem, after they followed the rules, etc. American economic prosperity worked great for both the private and public sector until it didn’t in Sept. 08 and then with the election of zero.

They will vote RAT because they expect the alligator to eat the producers first, and they are historically correct.


78 posted on 01/20/2014 1:44:47 PM PST by txhurl
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