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The GOP's Secret Weapon . . .
The Weekly Standard ^
| 11/25/2002
| Bruce Bartlett
Posted on 11/16/2002 11:22:57 AM PST by Pokey78
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To: Lancey Howard; Pokey78
Newsrooms today are echo chambers, where reporters and editors hear the same liberal conventional wisdom over and over again. The problem starts with the rules of entertainment which journalism follows in order to be profitable. - tell a new story (meet your deadline=the show must go on) - tell an unusual story (i.e., one in which the Republican is untrustworthy)
- tell a scary story
That adds up to negative, superficial, anticonservatism. Liberal politicians learn that anticonservatism from journalism--and then play that tape back to journalism. There is no reason why there would not be a revolving door between journalism and liberal politics. There is no reason for talk radio apart from that propaganda axis. And no need at all for anticonservative talk radio. The anticonservative propaganda niche is completely filled by journalism itself.
To: WarrenC
"was a particular event or person involved?"
LOL, I'm happy to answer this, because yes, there was a "magic moment". Hubby is still not political, I can't even get his fat behind to the polls, but he's more aware, so I think there's something about just growing older that makes one politically aware - call it a maturation process, call it "I just don't care what the Rolling Stones are doing anymore".
For me tho', I really did have an amazing moment. Firstly, I was always a pretty conservative person, just born that way, I guess; and I was ALWAYS pro-life; but for a long time I drifted around the left. I think this is pretty typical for a white middle-class gal from NYC. I even briefly joined some (Trotskyist!)commie party, which I left (after 6 weeks, at the age of 16) when they told me "smoking pot is not good for the party". It was 1976, and that was BS.
Probably 20 years later, working, supporting my little pro-life child, I went to the newstand to buy the Village Voice, as I regularly did, and on the cover was some undecipherable creature. Definately an Asian, or maybe an Hispanic, but who knew if a guy or a gal? A man with little perky breasts. Disgusting. I recoiled in horror, and still wanting something to read...there was National Review on the magazine rack. Amazing to me (WFB was a childhood hero of mine) that I had never heard of it before. At that point, it was all over but the shouting. By me. I shout real good.
Good bless WFB and God bless FR!
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posted on
11/16/2002 3:24:08 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: Dan Day
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posted on
11/16/2002 3:41:35 PM PST
by
6ppc
To: Pokey78
But if the media share the lawmaker's political philosophy, then there is a danger that he may be misled. He may think he is popular with voters, when in fact they are not happy with him at all. He is only getting positive press coverage because the media like what he stands for.Or the media tries to smooze the public with Joe Conason type hype; propaganda foisted upon the public like Nancy Pelosi, hardly a he. However like all shes in good standing with the socialist press, we are inundated with media drivel. Bias from any quarter will always worry me!
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11/16/2002 4:05:22 PM PST
by
yoe
To: 6ppc
ROFL!! Perfect! Just absolutely brilliant. Give that cartoonist a Pulitzer!
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posted on
11/16/2002 4:06:08 PM PST
by
Dan Day
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
And no need at all for anticonservative talk radio. The anticonservative propaganda niche is completely filled by journalism itself. That's why Rush Limbaugh says, "when people complain about my show not being balanced, I tell them that my show *IS* balance".
i.e., he's providing the conservative view that's missing from the mainstream media.
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posted on
11/16/2002 4:08:55 PM PST
by
Dan Day
To: berned
...sort of like the hype of Hillary running for the presidency? Hummmmm......
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11/16/2002 4:12:59 PM PST
by
yoe
To: Pokey78
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posted on
11/16/2002 4:16:52 PM PST
by
rdb3
To: Inyokern
Liberals are starting to understand that radio shows like Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's are also a threat to them ans they open up the eyes of listeners. The far LW wackos will try more and more to have these programs regulated.
To: Pokey78
This is a very interesting and provocative article. I feel like a book could be written discussing the issues it raises.
The liberal media wants everyone to believe what they believe. They want what they believe to be true. Then on some election nights they hear that little voice say: "I don't think we are in Manhattan anymore."
I had an interesting experience at work this week. A very liberal lifelong Democrat middle aged woman and I were discussing a work related matter which involved some individuals who were obviously lying to us. Then out of her mouth popped these amazing words: "Yeah what they are proposing is just like Social Security--it is a Ponzi scheme." I am still in shock. This woman had just uttered a thought the media had tried to hide from her from the day she was born--for more than forty years. Yet somehow in her middle age she had seen through the con of FDR liberalism.
It was a crook in real life that gave her the glimpse behind the curtain.
So every liberal out there could become a conservative at any moment, and it is their life experience that will teach them about those Network Anchors who lie whenever their lips move.
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11/16/2002 5:02:08 PM PST
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cgbg
To: Pokey78
Leftist media bias only hurts the leftists if people have access to other sources of information.
A recent NYT editorial on the election remarked bitterly that Fox News and talk radio "let the hard right get its message out." The Internet -- the most lethal threat to the old media -- was carefully not mentioned. The leftists must control the flow of information to win, and are no longer in a position to do so.
The failure of the leftist media to identify trends among conservatives isn't as important as this article suggests, since they weren't going to report on those things anyway...
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To: ProudToBeGOP
"She kept saying that no professional journalist would ever go after a story deliberately intending to present a biased view." Goes to show ya' just how few true professional journalists there are out there...
To: Pokey78
The result is a blind spot for the media. They miss a lot of what is going on in society because they just don't see it. Newsrooms today are echo chambers, where reporters and editors hear the same liberal conventional wisdom over and over again. And the circulation of the so-called mainstream press keeps dropping. More people are finding out that Rush is right.
To: jocon307
...there was National Review on the magazine rack. Amazing to me (WFB was a childhood hero of mine) that I had never heard of it before. At that point, it was all over but the shouting. By me. I shout real good. LOL. Nice story. I cut my coservative teeth reading NR. WFB & Company Bump.
To: jocon307
...there was National Review on the magazine rack. Amazing to me (WFB was a childhood hero of mine) that I had never heard of it before. At that point, it was all over but the shouting. By me. I shout real good. LOL. Nice story. I cut my conservative teeth reading NR. WFB & Company Bump.
To: VRW Conspirator; jocon307
LOL. Nice story. I cut my conservative teeth reading NR. WFB & Company Bump.Me too! or is it Me Three!? I was always conservative by nature, but what sealed the deal for me was watching Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. being interviewed before a live audience by Woody Allen on some TV show. I have no idea what TV show would have featured Woody Allen interviewing Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. but there it was - must have been around 1965. Anyway, I was enthralled with Buckley's answers and then this rather cute teen-aged girl went to the audience mike and asked Buckley, "Do you think mini-skirts are ok?" He grinned and replied, "On you I bet they are." At that point I knew conservatism was way more fun than liberalism - and Buckley became the newest addition to my collection of heroes.
Thanks for responding, jocon307.
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11/16/2002 8:51:19 PM PST
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WarrenC
To: WarrenC
"He grinned and replied, "On you I bet they are."
You are very welcome WarrenC. Great story, that's our Bill, he is really a treasure. What I always loved about him was that he never seemed to mind being smart. I was a pretty smart kid, but you know, other kids tease you about everything, even good things, like being smart. And I'd see Buckley on TV and he was just always so cool with his own brain power.
The demosclerosis continues, witness Lautenberg, Mondale, et al. At least they didn't drag Dukakis out of the retirement home!
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11/16/2002 10:34:02 PM PST
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jocon307
To: jocon307
...it was the "squirrel-head in the tank" photo that did him in.Not having seen the photo in question, I must say that I have a somewhat ghoulish mental picture right now... something along the same lines as a candidate in this last election, who lost by six votes following an accusation of running over a cat with his car.
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11/16/2002 11:40:58 PM PST
by
exDemMom
To: Cicero
Clinton could never have been elected to office, gotten re-elected, or escaped impeachment if the news media had been honest.True. However, there is reason to believe the media is having less influence these days. The Internet, for instance, relatively small when Klintoon took office, is now huge. Talk radio is growing. The big three TV networks have been steadily losing viewers for a number of years. All of these trends, which were developing during the Klintoon years, now seem to have coalesced into something powerful. It's a wonderful thing.
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11/16/2002 11:54:35 PM PST
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exDemMom
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