Posted on 11/08/2015 8:00:14 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Republicans want to cut the lamestream media out of the presidential vetting process.
They should be careful what they wish for.
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Don't be surprised if next we hear of demands for soft-focus cameras, bowls of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed and requirements that questions begin with "if you please, your excellency." .....
And while it's easy to mock some of these demands as petty and prima-donnish, many of them suggest a more insidious strategy: a concerted effort to extricate as much independent journalistic influence from the democratic process as possible and essentially turn the Fourth Estate into a bunch of stenographers.
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For one, all their whining about mean-spirited media bullying suggests the GOP candidates may not be equipped to handle the rough-and-tumble of a general election campaign, let alone the far more demanding presidency itself, despite tough talk about staring down dictators. A reasonable voter response to such bellyaching might be: If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Maybe to someplace below 67 degrees.
Secondly, the candidates need the media as much as we in the media need them. .......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Stop it, Catherine. Don’t go all “Meygn Kelly” on us, with the snippy little rejoinders, delivered with a big smile.
Trust me, dinosaurs, you need these Republicans a whole lot more than they need you. So be careful what YOU wish for!
Agree.
There are many services that provide streaming. I am surprised that candidates/parties have not used it more. They have been using some social media — Twitter, etc.
It doesn’t even have to start out with all the major wannabes. It could start out with 3 or 4.
For all the things I dislike about Huckabee, I did like the way he interviewed some of the wannabes in 2012. I would see something like that:
Each ‘episode’ gets a topic — foreign affairs, economy, social issues, etc.
Each candidate gets 10 to 15 minutes to present his/her views. IMPARTIAL moderator would direct questions and follow-ups for clarification.
Free-for-all with the candidates discussing among themselves. Moderator to hold down the talking-over each other.
There are certainly other ways to present the forum, too. It just takes some creative thinking. And there is no need for any left-leaning moderators or ‘gotcha’ questions.
The idea of debates should be to give information about/from the candidates to the viewers/voters, not build up moderator(s) so they can get bigger raises at contract time.
At their own peril? Hey, what are the media going to do, start telling lies about them? Fail to cover anything that makes them look good? Spin everything to make them look bad?
Leni
Hahaha...made me smile...
At their peril? Whatever happened to the media reporting the facts and leaving their personal spin out of it.
Yes...very good analysis...
One fundamental point - journalism is not objective.If journalism were patently objective, it would make sense to condemn Republicans if they criticize journalists, just as it would make sense if Democrats if they criticize journalists.
In reality, of course, journalists criticize Republicans from the left and, if they do criticize a Democrat, they will also do that from the left.
IOW, as far as journalists are concerned, nobody can be too far left to suit them.Let”s be clear: “left” means a cynical propensity to criticize people who work to a bottom line.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . .The exact opposite of TR’s quote above is,
You didn’t build that.. . . which is cynicism. It is also leftism. And it is also the perspective adopted by (the monopoly known as) journalism.
Reeks of fear. Their business model is toast. The media is like Putin’s Russia without the balls: They don’t have the cash to sustain a war with conservatives and conservatives are holding all the cards. If we wanted to, we could crush them and there’s nothing they can do about it.
Limbaugh fired the first shots over their bow this week. Megyn Kelly, and that Hispanic reporter, they still smell like a Christmas ham from the roasting they got. They will never recover. Katie Couric is slumming for Google. Dan Rather’s building his own mythology, still bitter from being caught framing W. Brian Williams, he’s the king of the dungheap over at MSNBC.
Fear. Doesn’t Bezos own it right now? He could shut it down five minutes after we decide there are better places to buy our rubber dog doo than Amazon.
Rampell is a northeastern Ivy League Jewish red diaper grandbaby who is of course a super fembot lib
But she is not an old lady
And sure not ugly
The MSM has been conducting combat operations against Republicans and Conservatives for the past 50-years or more.
They are the typical school yard bully, now whining because their victims have punched back!
And the punching is only starting, Presstitutes!
it is ok to go to war if the enemy is killed
But defend yourself from people who buy that ink and use it exclusively to destroy you, defend yourself and attack them. You may be crushed but you will certainly be crushed if you do not attack.
Sounds like all the whining is coming form the fourth estate.
If they did their damn jobs there wouldn’t be a problem.
She wants the Bolsheviks vs the Mensheviks.
John is a decent guy. Each day, he opens a door, steps into the room, and gets a pie in the face from the joker. The people in the room laugh uproariously. And this goes on for decades. One day, Ted steps in the room. He ducks the pie, and instead gives the joker a pie in the face. The whole room is stunned into silence. Then they get angry, and tell Ted that there will be consequences if he gives the joker another pie in the face.
Leni
THE MEDIA IS LOSING AND LOSING BIG!
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