Reform the Mainstream News Media

[livingston]

October 30, 2016

Reform the Mainstream News Media

Remember when Marco Rubio drank some water while giving the Republican response to the president's 2013 State of the Union address? Remember how CNN ran a picture of the Florida Senator taking his sip with a chyron reading: "Career Ender"? “So can a drink of water make or break a political career?” Wolf Blitzer asked. Politico ran more than one column discussing Rubio's "water thing." Most other major (read Democrat) news venues covered it too.

So my question is this, if a drink of water threatens the career of a Republican, what happens when a former Democrat congressman makes sexual Twitter advances to a minor causing the FBI to seize the computer of his wife, the Democrat presidential candidate's aide and a woman with ties to radical Islam, and the said computer is found to contain emails that potentially exposed classified information to our enemies so that said candidate could hide her likely influence peddling? Worse than a sip of water? Better? I'm asking for a friend.

The MSM Damages Our Democracy

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Ignoring the msm is the best way to "fix" it.

One of 2 things will happen, they will either go out of business which will end their propaganda spewing.
Or,
They will realize they are being called out for what they are and will change their reporting enough to at least pretend they are credible trying to get people to believe them again.

On 2nd thought they are all run and funded by hardcore progressive biased idealogues. F them.

Personally I'm rooting for them to go out of business.

 

[kev74]

Ignore the MSM and notify their advertisers that you won't support them if they support biased journalists.

Its all about money.

 

[meketrefe]

The real question is: How do you reform the entrtaintment business (also know as mainstream news) w/o chamging the needs and expectations of entertainment consumers (also known as the public opinion) ??
Doesn't the news perhaps reflect the trend of a complacent, careless and decaying society?
We want the Jerry Springer show Presidential candidate version!!!

 

[Frankly]

Unplug and tell the advertisers. It's putting the screws to the NFL and we could do the same to the networks, movies, news.

Frankly if we ever did get to the point of civil unrest, rather than attacking Washington it would be better to target the broadcast centers and newsrooms. That's what happens in most of the recent wars - they take over the TV station first.

Publishing a list of reporters' and lobbyists' addresses would be a great start, it would begin to show them that we can push back and intimidate them too. Not unlike when they published the list of gun owners.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Very interesting short story I remembered reading a few months ago that seems more relevant now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wester...ss.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/amp/

Interesting hypothetical story what happens to a propagandist media.

Weird the story was written years ago before wikileaks showed how corrupt our media actually is. We all had our suspicions and thought it was corrupt but now There is proof.

 

[meketrefe]

What civil unrest do you refer to, social media unrest, online ranting?

Because I think that if involves getting up and away from computer and play station most folks will not move.

I am afraid the only way for them to keep them moving is like the antigun groups that had to go to a senior living facility
and give them lunch and casino pases in order to fill out a bus to go to a rally.

And for the rest just find a location with plenty of licor and electronics stores so they can send the looting brigades.

 

[Madmallard]

Polls have shown for years that Americans trust the Main Stream Media less every year but it hasn't stopped them from continuing to spew their propaganda.

 

[prambo]

RE the MSM:

 

[ArmedCorgi]

Walter Kurtz was one of the most outstanding officers, this country ever produced.

 

[Uninformed and Compliant]

String em from a tree. Put it on liveleak.
Finally, they'll have some honest ratings.

 

[Koz]

The "hard news" main stream media has repeatedly proven it is unworthy of our trust. I can't think of anything that would make me feel like what they are putting out for public consumption isn't somehow tainted toward their liberal bias. They are guilty of bias in what they publish and equally, what they neglect to publish. Even important news worthy stories are editorialized and presented with a political slant. They consistently and deliberately blur the line between "news" and "opinion" with no explanation or disclaimer to viewers.

There is little or no journalistic integrity or ethics within their ranks. It is a top to bottom systemic disease. So they have way more than a "small image problem". They have a self-inflicted credibility disaster. Americans are finally catching on to their progressive agenda and the lengths they will go to push it on their audience.

The main stream media in America has failed us and at this point it has neither the interest nor ability to right the ship to regain any degree of trust. In fact, many "journalists" now feel no need to hide their liberal slant and wear it like a badge of honor. That is not the path to reconciliation with Americans.

Until further notice, the main stream media in America is dead! Bag it and tag it.