« Finally, some Good News | Main | Palin on the Way »
October 12, 2008
The Media: Death by Suicide?
Treacher is always worth reading, but this election season, he's been on fire. (H/t: Hot Air)
Mainiacjoe had a good question in the comments: "Is this any different, though, than the Hearst era around the turn of the 1900s?" The answer? No, but at least the Hearst papers were honest about their outright bias. One of the courses I had to endure in my pursuit of a BA in journalism was History of Mass Media.
Newspapers have always been an expensive product to produce. In the past, they were financed by political partisans and had an undeniable slant, but they were completely forthright about their political ideology - they existed to promote a particular candidate or party.
Eventually, the media moved toward a practice of objectivity - reporters were trained to seek both sides of an issue in their stories in an attempt to be fair. Journalists like Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite may have been flaming moonbats, but they - for the most part - subordinated their political beliefs to their professionalism.
Today's journalists do not have the same respect for their profession, and their actions in this election are dishonoring one of the few jobs protected in the Constitution. The MSM is no longer made up of reporters - they are now frankly cheerleading the candidacy of Barack Obama, and creating anti-McCain stories out of whole cloth.
If Obama does pull this off, he will be the least-media vetted candidate in American history and his ascendancy to the presidency would complete the media's abdication of their watchdog role. At that point, they would become nothing more than yappy little lapdogs who did the bidding of a man who has nothing but contempt for the spirit of the amendment that gives them the right to do their jobs.
Posted by slublog at October 12, 2008 09:22 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.slublog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3949
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Media: Death by Suicide?:
» Krystallnacht ‘08? Not just yet. from Pursuing Holiness
Treacher notes that what he’s now calling the Deathbed Media is trying to whip people up into a new hysteria - those eeevil Rethuglicans are gonna get ya! Of course, all the thuggery seems to be coming from the other side, up to and including M... [Read More]
Tracked on October 13, 2008 12:31 PM
Comments
The Media: Death or Suicide?
I prefer a little low-level strafing. But that's just me.
Posted by: FishFearMe at October 12, 2008 11:47 PM
The MSM is already at the yappy little lapdog stage and have been there for a while now. I'm surrounded by followers of the Lamb of Chicago and I'm always annoyed that they keep claiming that Palin wasn't vetted properly. Oh, so when was Barak vetted?? We're screwed.
Posted by: nuthinhere at October 13, 2008 01:56 AM
So when are we going to pull off a massive boycott of the companies that advertise on these networks/newspapers??? Once we hurt them in the wallet, they might finally understand the rage in this country at this travesty of journalism. I know viewership/readership is down but obviously not enough to hurt them yet.
Posted by: CDR M at October 13, 2008 02:49 PM
The news media believes that a President Obama will put out such a strong Equal Time law that the convervatives on television and internet will be put out of business and that they will be the only source of news left. They are betting the farm on it, so to speak.
Posted by: TimothyJ at October 13, 2008 05:19 PM
I read a little something related to your post at google news... I became intrigued and then started looking around, and then landed at this site... anyway, I believe that I agree with what you discuss here. However I am going to go check what additional information I can look up as well.
Posted by: Jack Schlotfeldt at October 21, 2010 12:46 PM
Way to focus and straight to your point, i love it. Keep up the work people. Dont let anyone stop us bloggers.
Posted by: Therapist at November 30, 2010 07:22 PM
Bom dia pessoal, realmente enviar um SMS gratuito está cada vez mais trabalhoso devido falta de opções das operadoras móveis. Há ainda os serviços que prometem entregar meu torpedo mas nem sempre chegam recepiente final. Alguns como o Mundo oi e o Oi Torpedo funcionam mas e para as outras operadoras? E os que prometem que enviam e nada chega. Para onde está indo as as minhas menssagens? E para a Tim, Vivo? Alguma Idéia? Ou significa ter de pagar?. É só um desabafo, realmente está difícil achar dicas para enviar SMS na faixa.
Posted by: jogos de vestir meninas da moda at December 6, 2010 12:24 PM
Bom dia turma, verdadeiramente mandar um SMS grátis está cada vez mais difícil devido a restrição das operadoras de telefone. Há ainda os websites que prometem entregar meu SMS mas nem sempre chegam recepiente final. Alguns como o Mundo oi e o Oi Torpedo funcionam mas e para as outras operadoras? E os que dizem que enviam e nada chega. Para onde está indo as meus torpedos? E para a Tim, Vivo? Alguma Idéia? Ou significa ter de comprar?. Desculpem, realmente está difícil achar serviços para mandar SMS na faixa.
Posted by: torpedo tim gratis at December 8, 2010 09:41 PM
I find myself coming to your blog more and more often to the point where my visits are almost daily now!
Posted by: claro torpedo at December 28, 2010 01:09 PM
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Posted by: web torpedos at January 22, 2011 10:09 AM
I found your site search for couples toys or toys for men, but ended up reading some really useful information, www.oi-torpedo.com good site!
Posted by: anuncios de venda de carros at February 2, 2011 02:27 PM
The blog was how do i say it... relevant, finally something that helped me. Thanks:)
Posted by: Backlinks at February 11, 2011 09:06 PM
Boa tarde galera, realmente manter um veículo é trabalhoso devido ao encarecimento de algumas empresas como as de vendas de usados. Estas nem sempre cumprem ao contrato feito ou tem escondidas em letras miúdas deveres que não beneficiam ao adquirinte do veículo. O Código do Consumidor muitas vezes não protege todas as clausúlas do comprador. Estava lendo umas dicas no http://www.carrousado.org sobre todos os passos para a aquisição sem ter dor de cabeça no final. É só um desabafo, realmente está difícil fazer boas compras.
Posted by: torpedo grátis.net at February 14, 2011 02:28 AM
Boa tarde pessoal, provavelmente ter um automóvel é oneroso devido ao altos custos de algumas empresas como as de leasing. Estas nem dão valor ao contrato firmado ou tem embutidas em letras microscópicas deveres que dão prejuízo ao comprador do carro. O Código do Consumidor muitas vezes não protege todas as artimanhas do consumidor. Estava lendo umas conselhos no http://www.carrousado.org sobre todos os passos para a aquisição sem ter dor de cabeça mais tarde. Foi mal, realmente está difícil fazer uma boa compra.
Posted by: torpedo nextel grátis at February 14, 2011 07:58 PM
Bom dia pessoal, verdadeiramente disparar um SMS de graça está cada vez mais difícil devido falta de opções das operadoras de celular. Há ainda os serviços que prometem entregar meu SMS mas nem sempre chegam ao usuário final. Alguns como o Mundo oi e o Oi Torpedo funcionam mas e para as outras operadoras? E os que prometem que enviam e nada chega. Para onde está indo as as minhas menssagens? E para a Tim, Vivo? Alguma Idéia? Ou significa ter de desembolsar?. Desculpem, realmente está difícil achar serviços para enviar torpedos gratuito.
Posted by: torpedo web gratuito oi at March 5, 2011 07:07 PM
Dis Blog is on da for real. Hit em hard and hit em fast, Peace PLAYA
Posted by: Oscar Reville at March 8, 2011 01:38 AM
It was a pleasure looking through the details you provided. Thank you very much for taking the time to create the information site. I definitely will revisit very soon.
Posted by: torpedos gratuito da claro at March 8, 2011 10:51 PM