The Media Lie - And the Government Should Pay Them For It
Many of us out here in Hollywoodland have come to regard Big Hollywood's John Nolte as something of a cross between John the Baptist and Conan the Barbarian: he's a prophet crying in the wilderness until you tick him off and then he just cuts you to pieces. Moving over to Breitbart's Big Journalism today, the Noltenator gives a beautifully detailed and precise account of just exactly how the mainstream media have learned to silence inconvenient truth-tellers:
My favorite example of this template at work is how Obama’s ties to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers somehow morphed into a full-blown MSM storm about “hate-filled and dangerous” McCain campaign rallies. Second place goes to how Obama mangling a revealing answer to an honest question from a constituent immediately turned into a media meme over whether or not this private citizen had a plumber’s license. And let’s not forget how we all walked into the voting booth knowing more about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed than Barack Obama’s college records.
Meanwhile, in a truly dunder-headed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the president of Columbia University calls for government subsidies of the media. We need more public broadcasting, he says. Like the BBC (which is a socialist and anti-semitic organization in Britain), he says.
Makes sense to me: if the media is silencing the government's critics, then the government ought to pay for it!
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Jun '10
Re: The Media Lie - And the Government Should Pay Them For It
Whenever I think of the BBC I am reminded of the reporter who was crying as medics were airlifting the pederast, AIDS-infected, murderer Yasser Arafat out of his squat in the Middle-east to his Paris deathbed. I honoured the man's passing in a typically Arabic fashion; I went to my local Starbucks and handed out candy. Now, that was a good day!
Jul '10
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Sometimes you need to debate. Sometimes you just need to say "No, that's a stupid, stupid idea." This is one of those times. It is difficult to imagine a worse idea than a government-subsidized media. fugedaboudit.
Re: The Media Lie - And the Government Should Pay Them For It
It eventually had to come to this, didn't it, Drew? They've been trying and trying to get us to eat that awful dog food for so long, and we've just refused to do it. So much so, that their dog food factories are in big trouble, and shutting down.
Jul '10
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The president of Columbia University wrote of the BBC, "The reliable public funding structure, as well as a set of professional norms that protect editorial freedom, has yielded a highly respected and globally powerful journalistic institution."
The BBC's professional norms protect the editorial freedom of the left. Even the BBC admitted as much in an internal investigation a while back, a report that found its way to the round file with record speed. It is a left wing organization and all news is reported from that point of view. Those who don't think NPR -- only half-jokingly known as Nancy Pelosi Radio -- isn't dominated by liberals have been lulled into a state of semi-sleep by its story selections and need to wake up. Let's not bother to speak of the NYT or the LAT or the other sinking big city dailies. The verdict of doom came in on them a long time ago. At present we have the option of turning the radio dial or not subscribing. To have to support them with tax money would be reason enough for a different tea party movement, this one armed.
May '10
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Considering Washington's prowess with all things business, maybe this is a movement we should be cheering along. What better way to speed the lefty media's drain-circling than by adding strings-attached government funds to the mix?
This silly op-ed was published in Murdoch's Journal - coincidence? This News Corp. shareholder thinks not!