Media Is Lieing; People Are Dieing
Why is the old media which comprises the traditional newspapers, magazines and broadcast news outlets both network and cable so incredibly liberal and unabashed so? Yes, they constantly deny they're subjective and take great offense at being called "liberal" but we all know that most of today's media are party-line Democrats and pretty much work pro-bono for the Democrat Party. How and when will this paradigm ever shift or change in favor of "truth" and "objectivity"? Can it change and should it change?
News by paper has been since the advent of moving type the primary means of political discourse for hundreds of years. Newspapers in America were always considered to be subjective since the founding of this country in that a certain paper would take a stand for or against a certain candidate or position and run storys and news items that could make or break their position and person of choice as they see it. If you wanted candidate-A to be the next leader or representative you would purchase Newspaper-A that supported that candidate. If you wanted candidate-B to be your leader then you purchased Newspaper-B that supported that candidate and so forth. Never were these newspaper outlets considered "objective" or "neutral" in their reporting.
Sometime in the early Twentieth Century, however, newspapers took on the cult of "respectibility". They supposedly became "objective" and anything they said was taken as "truth". The people no longer considered newspapers as "political organs" of the parties represented in Congress but became a power unto themselves not connected, at least in an official capacity, the political party or "issues" they reported in their publications. No doubt the advent of radio in the 1920's and then television in the 1950's coalesced the way to report news into a force to be reckoned with and gave newspapers additional outlets to form public opinion via radio and television. Thus, by the end of World War II, a new organism emerged to became known as the "Media". Newspapers, radio and television were the outlets and inlets to the world and to politics both on a local and national level. The media was a power unto themselves and attacted individuals who wanted to weild power not confined by the constitutional limits of office.
Since Vietnam, the media has returned to its original position of supporting one party while systematicaly attacking the other party. Of course, I speak of the media supporting the Democrat Party while trying to take-down the Republican Party. These days they are even more desparate to get the Democrat Party back into majority status as the Republican Party themselves has outflanked them with the "new" media of talk radio, internet and blogosphere.
Thus, the media is doing everything in their power to hype-up a bad story, tone-down a good story and pretty much take everything out of context for Republicans. The current War on Terror is a case in point as the media continually reports only the dead from Iraq. With no apparent good news coming out of Iraq and with Democrats in office beating their chests by saying this is "George Bush's Vietnam" then you know that something is afoot here.
The Hurricane Katrina coverage was an absolute disgrace as far as "objective" reporting goes. Every Republican from the President on down was taken out of context regarding the federal response to this terrible storm. The mayor and governor of Louisiana are the ones to take blame for the complete lack of coordination and break-down of command & control on a local and state level that resulted in the Katrina disaster. Yet, when President Bush said he would take any responsiblity for any Federal responses that may have caused any problems, the media immediately ran with their own talking points and said the President took responsibility for the ENTIRE disaster.
The media's obvious alliance with the enemies of the President and the Republican Party has entirely moved them into the corner of the Democrat Party. Sadly, the Democrat Party themselves would rather take sides on the War on Terror in some vain hope that the enemies of America in conjunction with their agenda will somehow dethrone this President and his party. By showing an entirely 100% negative side of Iraq and by taking the words of the most powerful man in the world out of context, then our enemies are energized to continue their war against us and the American People whose son's and daughter's fight overseas are betrayed by a media that wants to use their "children" as pawns in this great propaganda war being fought not just for the defense of America but of Western civilization.
News by paper has been since the advent of moving type the primary means of political discourse for hundreds of years. Newspapers in America were always considered to be subjective since the founding of this country in that a certain paper would take a stand for or against a certain candidate or position and run storys and news items that could make or break their position and person of choice as they see it. If you wanted candidate-A to be the next leader or representative you would purchase Newspaper-A that supported that candidate. If you wanted candidate-B to be your leader then you purchased Newspaper-B that supported that candidate and so forth. Never were these newspaper outlets considered "objective" or "neutral" in their reporting.
Sometime in the early Twentieth Century, however, newspapers took on the cult of "respectibility". They supposedly became "objective" and anything they said was taken as "truth". The people no longer considered newspapers as "political organs" of the parties represented in Congress but became a power unto themselves not connected, at least in an official capacity, the political party or "issues" they reported in their publications. No doubt the advent of radio in the 1920's and then television in the 1950's coalesced the way to report news into a force to be reckoned with and gave newspapers additional outlets to form public opinion via radio and television. Thus, by the end of World War II, a new organism emerged to became known as the "Media". Newspapers, radio and television were the outlets and inlets to the world and to politics both on a local and national level. The media was a power unto themselves and attacted individuals who wanted to weild power not confined by the constitutional limits of office.
Since Vietnam, the media has returned to its original position of supporting one party while systematicaly attacking the other party. Of course, I speak of the media supporting the Democrat Party while trying to take-down the Republican Party. These days they are even more desparate to get the Democrat Party back into majority status as the Republican Party themselves has outflanked them with the "new" media of talk radio, internet and blogosphere.
Thus, the media is doing everything in their power to hype-up a bad story, tone-down a good story and pretty much take everything out of context for Republicans. The current War on Terror is a case in point as the media continually reports only the dead from Iraq. With no apparent good news coming out of Iraq and with Democrats in office beating their chests by saying this is "George Bush's Vietnam" then you know that something is afoot here.
The Hurricane Katrina coverage was an absolute disgrace as far as "objective" reporting goes. Every Republican from the President on down was taken out of context regarding the federal response to this terrible storm. The mayor and governor of Louisiana are the ones to take blame for the complete lack of coordination and break-down of command & control on a local and state level that resulted in the Katrina disaster. Yet, when President Bush said he would take any responsiblity for any Federal responses that may have caused any problems, the media immediately ran with their own talking points and said the President took responsibility for the ENTIRE disaster.
The media's obvious alliance with the enemies of the President and the Republican Party has entirely moved them into the corner of the Democrat Party. Sadly, the Democrat Party themselves would rather take sides on the War on Terror in some vain hope that the enemies of America in conjunction with their agenda will somehow dethrone this President and his party. By showing an entirely 100% negative side of Iraq and by taking the words of the most powerful man in the world out of context, then our enemies are energized to continue their war against us and the American People whose son's and daughter's fight overseas are betrayed by a media that wants to use their "children" as pawns in this great propaganda war being fought not just for the defense of America but of Western civilization.
posted by Bruce R. McConnell | 8:20 AM
2 Comments:
This is Floyd:What are you talking about? They don't talk about the Iraq war...let alone the negative side. The Republicans are so blatantly crooked that it's ridiculous they've just finally been called on their shit. DeLay has done some criminal shit...way more than he's being brought up on now. Frist bailed on the stock he owned in the company his father founded. That's pretty low.
I know...you love war. They are not running the war well. Admit it. You'll feel better...I promise.
Now, now, Floyd. Lets not resort to cursing, shall we?
I thought if you accepted the MSM line that these Republicans are indeed guilty of corruption then you would be estatic? You still seem pretty angry but over what I'm not sure.
Unlike democrats who are woefully corrupt, these Republicans will no doubt suffer for their lack of vision. Frist, Delay probably will lose their leadership positions. We'll see.
I don't love war, I did serve in the Marine Corps after all and know what it would be like to be on the receiving end of a firefight. However, I do love VICTORY. I do love FREEDOM.
War is a reality. For you to ignore war is to ignore reality. For you to do nothing to prepare for war is to ignore reality. God has given us free-will to develop the most powerful weapons of war man has seen.
Woe to our enemies who have arrogantly thought to themselves they could defeat us. Apparently, the Main Stream Media has them convinced that we are weak.
Fools.
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