"There is a clear difference between those who write the
news and those who publish it.
The owners of the
presses, wire services, magazines, newspapers, and
broadcasting stations determine what
gets published, broadcast, or delivered as news.
The vast majority of the "free press" in America have sacrificed journalistic integrity
as apologists for George Bush's backwards stumble into
neo-colonialism, occupation, and endless war.
A Free Press &
The Myth of The
"Liberal" Media
11/11/2008
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in a pod. Both are right-wing corporate media tools."There are definite opinion makers among the corporate media, like The Washington Post, The New York Times and, especially, The Wall Street Journal. Their primary target audience is the leadership cadre of society. They speak for the ownership class to the management class. These "newspapers" (I use the cautionary quotation marks around the word "newspapers" because of their predilection for uncritical amplification of official government policy and for blatant propaganda) seek to shape the opinions of the upper "management" echelons of society: the mid-level business executives, professors, lawyers, judges, teachers, doctors, other regional news editors and publishers, and government administrators. They, in turn, are expected to disseminate these approved opinions down into society in general. " C. Wright Mills |
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Republicans (79%) and political independents (75%) are most likely to feel disenchanted with conventional journalism, but the online survey found 50% of Democrats also expressed similar concerns. Those who identify themselves as "very conservative" were among the most dissatisfied, with 89% who view traditional journalism as out of touch.
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 The “real” news is out there, but you have to put a little effort into finding it. In the mean time, take what you see on TV, read in the papers, or hear on the radio with a grain of salt, because even when they do tell the truth, it is highly unlikely that you’re getting the whole truth. - Liberal Media Bias - Dismantling the Myth by Mike Bohling Liberal Media Bias. You’re all familiar with it. You’ve probably heard it used to describe the media and news outlets in America hundreds, if not thousands of times. People have heard it so many times that they begin to believe it. Right wing political pundits regularly regurgitate the term, and their followers swallow it hook, line, and sinker without ever questioning it’s authenticity. I invite all who believe in the Left Wing Media Conspiracy to take an honest, unbiased look at the facts that I am about to present, as well as my opinions on the subject. Let’s see if we can put this Liberal Media Bias idea to bed, once and for all. First, Some Startling Numbers According to the latest Harris Poll of 1,961 U.S. adults surveyed online between December 8 and 14, 2005……. Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. adults believe that Saddam Hussein had "strong links to Al Qaeda." Twenty-two percent (22%) of adults believe that Saddam Hussein "helped arm and support the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11." Twenty-six percent (26%) of adults believe that Iraq "had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded." Twenty-four percent (24%) of all adults believe that "several of the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11 were Iraqis." Now I ask you, if people were being unduly influenced by the Liberally Biased Media, why would so many believe the above absurdities? It’s scary to think that these people vote, but it explains a lot. This evidence makes it clear that a Conservatively Biased Media, not a Liberal one, has influenced a disturbingly large portion of Americans. http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/OffTheRail/1015.html |
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How "free"
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There
are
serious questions
we must ask about the "'Fourth estate" in America.
And
there are more profound questions to ask about the other three
branches of government.
There are too many who are too willing to overlook the hazards we face. It is frightening to admit that
our "choices" for president have little to do with the outcome
of our elections, or our nation's
domestic and foreign agenda. It makes us feel
powerless if we admit how far down a bad road we have traveled. We may
resort to denial. Some dismiss "intellectual determinism"
out of hand, after this macroeconomic reality
has consumed the body politic. Our feeble
protestations become exercises in
self-delusion.
The media
is telling us what the president wants us to hear, and ignoring
contradictions.
Our press, rather than acting as an instrument of balance has been manipulated into becoming an instrument of control. A vigorous free press would be questioning corporate colonialism in Iraq, the use of our troops as mercenaries, enforcement of closed-bid contracts, extralegal machinations at Gitmo, "rendition" for torture,attacks on civil rights at home, and a multiplicity of programs enacted behind closed doors which violate civil and constitutional law. "The NSA program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution." And when Bush doggedly insists that failure and incompetence are the best we can do, or that job losses and deficits are "economic growth," a free press should not allow him to make such outlandish, Orwellian claims. We need a free press which will challenge lies and demand accountability. In theory... Free press advocates say journalists have a crucial role to play in a democratic system that relies on checks and balances among the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
"Well, the press is like a fourth branch of government and what it does is that it watches the other three and makes sure that they are not doing things that they should not do, and it exposes those things and shares them with the people so that the public can decide if they think something is wrong," explained Tom Rosenstiel, who directs the Project for Excellence In Journalism in Washington. "There is a famous analogy that the press is like a spotlight that shines light in dark places." But in point of fact, our western media is censored. The media is manipulated in all manners, for example
through professional public relations (PR), and covert and overt
government propaganda which disseminates propaganda as news. What are
often deemed as credible news sources can often knowingly or unknowingly
be pushing political agendas and propaganda.
BIG NEWS ACROSS WORLD, BUT NOT HERE IN AMERICA Free Press : Does America's Press Believe in Freedom of the Press?
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The New York Times is characterized as a liberal voice in a wilderness of
extremism by some of the more naive on the
left, and derided as a betrayer of America by some who choose
deliberate ignorance, or corporate theatre, on the right. But,
as usual, the truth lies
somewhere in between, and it's not pretty....
The New York Times represents its owners. Their views contradict the ideas and opinions of the majority of their writers, but those who own the presses control the message. Thus, the paper is "of two minds." In its corporate mind, and on the front page, the paper has enabled the president and his ilk while they put one over on America. They helped him plunge us into war by giving credence to his lies and providing cover for his alibis. When Cheney predicted mushroom clouds on the front page, the Times buried the finding that Saddam had no nuclear capability in the disinformation of the back-facing back-pages of the same issue. Here is a more current example from the July 17 Times: "A shared idealism is what led many liberals to join neocons in supporting the Iraq war" This pretence and logical fallacy defies logic. Many progressives did support the attempt to capture Osama in Afghanistan, but most saw no purpose in an attack on the crippled country of Iraq. And the congress did not "give" the president the authority to invade Iraq. He specifically violated their trust and intent in going to war, even while inspectors insisted that no weapons existed. The conflation of these ideas is dishonest journalism. And it reveals the bias and prejudices of the Times' owners. and they go on to pontificate... "Is progressive realism salable? The administration’s post-9/11 message may be more viscerally appealing: Rid the world of evil, and do so with bravado and intimidating strength." An American Foreign Policy That Both Realists and Idealists Should Fall in Love With By ROBERT WRIGHT This ludicrous display of sophism may have as easily been authored by Karl Rove. What sells for the Times or George Bush has no relation to the issues at hand. Our policy in regard to Iraq is not fodder for a corporate sales meeting, nor should it be. The deliberation should focus on human lives and the consequences of this arrogant abuse of power. "Viscerally appealing" indeed... for whom? These imperious right-wing autocrats and pundits need to develop some ethics. And in the "other mind" of the Times, writers laboring under the illusion that their ideas can survive a constant barrage of contradiction by their editors, publisher, and ownership, still manage to deliver some cogent comments now and again, as in... The Cost of Executive Arrogance "The president’s constant efforts to assert
his power to act without consent or consultation has Tim Flanagan
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Local TV Is No. 1 Source of News for Americans According to a recent Gallup Poll, local television news, once behind the national network news in national viewership, is the source of news that Americans most frequently use. Local newspapers rank second in frequency of use, followed by the nightly network news and cable news networks. Use of the Internet for news has grown rapidly over the past decade, but it continues to rank well behind conventional news sources. http://www.gallup.com/nl/?26053,AlertPE,1/5/2007 Campaign Watchdogs Challenge Licenses of Area TV Stations From Salem Stateman Journal, December 26, 2006 By Steve Law Public-interest groups are challenging the broadcast license renewals of eight Portland-Salem television stations, charging they fail to provide enough news coverage of local elections. http://www.freepress.net/news/19992 |
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