[MarkWar]

>But you don't have to watch or listen to or read journalists you hate.

Tell me something I don't know.

I've made this analogy before, so this will be the condensed version:

Imagine you are a Native American 150 years ago. Imagine you complain to your tribe that the locomotives are making it possible for the Europeans to spread _their_ civilization west and _replace_ your civilization. And imagine one of your own tribe said, "Hey, buddy, if you don't like trains, just don't buy tickets and don't ride on them..."

Do you see my point? We can all choose to "not watch" -- journalists or the media in general. But we _know_ that the vast majority of people are going to be watching this garbage and it will be influencing their thinking/actions. Just as locomotives were the enabling technology (one of them) that made it possible for Europeans to replace the Indians, now media is the enabling technology (one of them) that is making it possible for our civilization to be replaced.

Problems don't go away just because we close our eyes. (I wish they did, but they don't.) Mark W.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"Hey, buddy, if you don't like trains, just don't buy tickets and don't ride on them . . ."

How I wish you were wrong; instead you are so very right.

Your analogy is spot-on. It is a keeper.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Imagine you are a Native American 150 years ago. Imagine you complain to your tribe that the locomotives are making it possible for the Europeans to spread _their_ civilization west and _replace_ your civilization. And imagine one of your own tribe said, "Hey, buddy, if you don't like trains, just don't buy tickets and don't ride on them..."

. . . We can all choose to "not watch" -- journalists or the media in general. But . . .

I think that bleudevil's analysis is incomplete, and that MarkWar's #19 is much more representative of reality.

[ladyinred]

I'm with you MarkWar. Just because we don't watch doesn't mean Joe Sixpack doesn't tune in Rather after the latest Survivor episode is over. And they trust these scum to tell them the objective truth, and don't recognize propaganda when they hear it!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The objection is to federal licensing and regulation of users of airwaves. I don't think it is particularly well formulated, but the notion that we simply have a free market in the matter is wide of the mark, empirically. You can't set up your own radio station and say what you please.

Ping to MarkWar's interesting #19 ("TO 19" button below).