What Happened to the Press in this Country?

It used to be a bastion of principled (if yellow) journalism, but is now a mouthpiece for the ruling party a la Pravda. The deliberate concealment of the Benghazi debacle is otherwise inexplicable, and the mass "resignations" of people associated with it are being covered up as normal staff reassignments. Have they completely abandoned all sense of journalistic responsibility?

I guess there needs to be a counter to Faux News. The funny thing is that CNN is probably the most unbiased of all the news outlets, and they are doing terribly because people are more interested in hearing slanted news from one fringe or the other.

Do you have something funny burning in your pipe? :eusa_eh:
 
The good news is, people no longer buy what they are selling.

It is a wonderful shift away from Libtard MSM dominance.

Gallup Poll: 60 percent of Americans don't trust mass media - Tampa Bay Tampa Top News | Examiner.com

Did Russians ever believe what Pravda said? No. It never stopped Pravda from printing propaganda. If the public doesn't BUY what the media is selling, the government will just pay the media to promote its propaganda.

What? What about the third Reich? Propaganda made ordinary people like you and me commit one of the heinous crimes in human history. What about radio in Rwanda? I think its very hard to deny that propaganda has an effect on society.
 
I dont really agree with libertarian foreign policy, I dont find it wise to tell NATO to suck a chode if they get in trouble, or if we get into trouble with our spread thin military.

Well most of our problems in the middle east are because of the republican/democrat foreign policy. I'd prefer if we just stayed out of it unless theres a threat, which there wouldn't be if we didn't have 20+ ships and 1000s of ground troops, even before there was any war at all.
 
WAS the press ever impartial?

If so give us a year in which you thought it did do a good job.
 
Most, if not all, of our problems in the middle east is because islam sees itself as ascendant and the age of muslim domination is at hand.
 
The good news is, people no longer buy what they are selling.

It is a wonderful shift away from Libtard MSM dominance.

Gallup Poll: 60 percent of Americans don't trust mass media - Tampa Bay Tampa Top News | Examiner.com

Did Russians ever believe what Pravda said? No. It never stopped Pravda from printing propaganda. If the public doesn't BUY what the media is selling, the government will just pay the media to promote its propaganda.



Much like r-wing talk radio.
 
The Press has been always leaned right since forever, but it's been especially noticable in the last decade, after the national press was entirely bought out by extremely conservative megacorps.

That's why CNN is now know as "Conservative News Network". CNN was almost as shellshocked as FOX over the election, and was even more reluctant to call it for President Obama.

That's why all the networks featured an endless parade of talking heads who told us how the polls were wrong and how close the election would be, if they weren't calling a Romney landslide. It was't just FOX; all the networks were going into contortions to deny President Obama's very obvious polling lead.
 
It used to be a bastion of principled (if yellow) journalism, but is now a mouthpiece for the ruling party a la Pravda. The deliberate concealment of the Benghazi debacle is otherwise inexplicable, and the mass "resignations" of people associated with it are being covered up as normal staff reassignments. Have they completely abandoned all sense of journalistic responsibility?

You might have something there, Bush did sign an EO giving him dictatorship over the media, so I suppose that is now legal precendence for Obama to continue the practice to his own advantage. Tried to tell you people years ago to no avail.

EO 13283 1/21/03


Sec. 3. Functions. In carrying out its mission:
(a) The Office shall assess the methods and strategies used by the United
States Government (other than special activities as defined in Executive
Order 12333 of December 4, 1981) to deliver information to audiences abroad.
The Office shall coordinate the formulation among appropriate agencies
of messages that reflect the strategic communications framework and priorities
of the United States, and shall facilitate the development of a strategy
among the appropriate agencies to effectively communicate such messages.
(b) The Office shall work with the policy and communications offices of
agencies in developing a strategy for disseminating truthful, accurate, and
effective messages about the United States, its Government and policies,
and the American people and culture. The Office may, after consulting
with the Department of State and obtaining the approval of the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs on the President’s behalf,
work with cooperating foreign governments in the development of the strategy.
In performing its work, the Office shall coordinate closely and regularly
with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, or the
Assistant’s designee.
 
Name the years in which you thought the Press did do its job?

Durng the Watergate scandal. If Watergate had been covered up the way Benghazi is being covered up, Nixon would never have resigned.

You are full of shit. Benghazi is all over the free-press day in and day out because the Republicans know how to expertly manipulate the media to get their propaganda out to the public.
 
Well the monkeys in Florida just got finished hand counting their votes. Good thing they weren't needed in the decision, lol.
 
I dont really agree with libertarian foreign policy, I dont find it wise to tell NATO to suck a chode if they get in trouble, or if we get into trouble with our spread thin military.

Well most of our problems in the middle east are because of the republican/democrat foreign policy. I'd prefer if we just stayed out of it unless theres a threat, which there wouldn't be if we didn't have 20+ ships and 1000s of ground troops, even before there was any war at all.

Oh I dont disagree with that, I just fell it may be a little to much to say to anyone apart of NATO, if you get in trouble good luck. It may cause a world war coming to the aid of a NATO nation, but America would have involvement eventually anyway, and people don't understand how close the allies came to loosing WW II, a lot of that had to do with America not being ready and getting involved almost too late. I do think we need to limit our foreign policy in a sense of throwing money at other countries, but we should still have a big stick while we are walking softly.
 
I know there are people like that out there. My buddy goes to a pretty conservative christian college (and he hates it) but he said like half the people were not going to vote for Romney because he wasn't a christian... are you freaking kidding me????

A lot of people like me get turned off on voting because of their idea of bringing all the religious crap into it too. Also Foxnews laughing off Ron Paul and Johnson when they seemed to have won their debates kinda pissed me off too at the time. I'm pretty sure some of that had an effect on Romney not getting a lot of votes.

I gotta say, I'm even more disgusted with libertarians right now than I am with the idiots who voted for four more years of Obama's daily insult to the ideal of freedom. Probably because they KNEW what was at stake, unlike the useful idiots taken in by the emotional appeals of socialist Dems. These were the educated ones, the ones who had actually read and understood the Constitution. And yet, they couldn't even be bothered to be an impediment to a guy who had already PROVED he had no respect or consideration for the liberty of individual citizens. Wouldn't even rouse themselves to get in his way.

That is unforgivable to me.... toothless, pointless. If libertarians are marginalized it's because they have SELECTED it. They've chosen to sit on the sidelines ineffectually bitching rather than to engage for every scrap of ground they could. They chose to spend the last two years smearing the only candidate who might have beaten Barack Obama, declaring that there was really no difference between Republicans and Democrats, even though Republicans in Congress have spent the last four years fighting as hard as they could against Obama's power grabs. I don't give a rat's ass about what happened years and decades ago. I care about what's happening TODAY, and what's going to happen tomorrow. The tired old excuses for why you people are just too fucking awesome to choose between "the lesser of two evils" means exactly nothing to me.
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." -- Thomas Paine
It's ALWAYS been the choice of lesser evils, because what we're dealing with is an inherent but necessary evil.

Libertarians will continue to sit on the sidelines bitching and moaning impotently. But that's because they CHOOSE it. And that's sad, because there's never been easier access to information and education. You might have gained an inch or two. Maybe in a couple of years and inch or two more, and so on. You eat a bear one bite at a time. Instead, the cause of Liberty will be set back by miles. I honestly don't know if it's recoverable at this point. Gun to my head, I would say it's not.
 
You can thank Jesus for the free-press... if not we would have been overrun by the r-wing fascist wing (also known as the Tea-Party) of the GOP.

How the hell is the tea party fascist? Do you know what the tea party and fascism each stand for, or are you just throwing adjectives together?

The Tea-Party is chock full of rednecks, racists, obstructionists, anarchists, and assassins. The similarities to Hitlers Nazi Party are astounding.
And what are the democrats full of ? Be honest now.

What is a redneck by the way or how would you define a redneck ? Do you actually know where the term redneck was derived from ? Obstructionist ? If giving my hard earned money to alot of lazy dependent people whom won't work, but would rather live off the government who is giving them my hard earned money, then yes we should obstruct this practice that has gotten completly out of control in this country sure. Anarchists ? What like the OWS crowd ? Who are they beholding to ? Assassins ? Proof please....
 
WAS the press ever impartial?

If so give us a year in which you thought it did do a good job.

Why will none on the right answer this question?
Back when it was boring news, but news all the same is when it was it's closest to being impartial, and not as it is now considered to be, as entertainment, in which open the door for the likes of Bill Marh and David Letterman just to name a few, in which influenced a weakened down people, and an election to go in the ways in which it has now gone.
 
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