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Conservatives seem to have a grudge against all media, except Fox News.
Can it be said that conservatives rely on only one source for current events. opinions, and perspectives? Do conservatives reject everything as lies that all the other media presents?
Is this how the "liberal" media functions:
A group of nasty, liberal, mean-spirited curmudgeons gather daily in a conference room at a large newspaper (as the New York Times). They manufacture false stories to discredit the government and then, cackle and lecherously giggle with delight while wringing their dirty little hands with evil contempt in anticipation of the damage their story will do to the Bush Administration. The newspaper is read (and held in high regard) by America hating traitors who drool luciously at the thought of watching America being destroyed.
Is that it?
I doubt if anyone would deny that the NY Times has a very leftist slant. But as a conservative I watch all the news channels, read every paper I can get my grubby hands on, and subscribe to a left leaning newsletter. Nice try though.
Conservatives seem to have a grudge against all media, except Fox News.
Can it be said that conservatives rely on only one source for current events. opinions, and perspectives? Do conservatives reject everything as lies that all the other media presents?
Is this how the "liberal" media functions:
A group of nasty, liberal, mean-spirited curmudgeons gather daily in a conference room at a large newspaper (as the New York Times). They manufacture false stories to discredit the government and then, cackle and lecherously giggle with delight while wringing their dirty little hands with evil contempt in anticipation of the damage their story will do to the Bush Administration. The newspaper is read (and held in high regard) by America hating traitors who drool luciously at the thought of watching America being destroyed.
Is that it?
Dad? Is that you? My father is the biggest flaming conservative ever and seriously believes all media is wrong except Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. He thinks CNN is the devil. Yes, those people really exist.
Dad? Is that you? My father is the biggest flaming conservative ever and seriously believes all media is wrong except Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. He thinks CNN is the devil. Yes, those people really exist.
"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."
Justice Black
NYT v. US
403 US 713
I can only grin whenever I hear the term, "liberal media" as that is something that vanished with the 80's. Yes there are certainly liberal media outlets but to state that the media itself is a liberal thing is no longer accurate.
The media today is of course a self serving souless and profiteering entity that has loyalty only unto itself. One only has to look to the content that is presented to the American viewing public to see its shallow and hollow nature that is directed to invoke an emotional response instead of a critical one. They are not called presstitutes for nothing you know.
If the media were a liberal thing, then I would have expected just one out of the countless outlets out there to be in opposition to the war in Iraq for instance. I don't ever recall seeing CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, or any American media outlet come out and say, "maybe we should look closer at the evidence for invading Iraq". They were all in lockstep, they all capitulated, they all rolled over and gobbled up what the White House press room regurgitated for them to swallow, and swallow they did, and swallow they do.
Yes, the press is free, but it is too busy marketing products to present very much news. Keep in mind, not only are the same people who are selling you toothpaste determining what you watch on TV, which candidates should get the most air time, or what topics are not worthy to watch but you yourself become a product that is bought and sold with the ease of a pack of gum.
However, truth be told, I am amazed at the ease in which the media is able to mold the minds of public opinion. Someone once said that it is unethical to let a fool keep his money, I have to wonder if this also doesn't apply to things much broader in scope as well.
I doubt if anyone would deny that the NY Times has a very leftist slant. But as a conservative I watch all the news channels, read every paper I can get my grubby hands on, and subscribe to a left leaning newsletter. Nice try though.
??? If the liberal media tells lies, why waste your time and money on them???
??? If the liberal media tells lies, why waste your time and money on them???
Thanks to the internet, not many people are spending their money on rags like the New York Times anymore.
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