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28
Oct

The Definitive Farewell to the Media

This article has been swirling all over the internet and news shows today, sort of summing up the entire campaign and putting the media bias into perspective. At first the media being in the tank for Obama was laughable, then agitating, and eventually it became dangerous. By the time it was all said and done, the part of society that is supposed to put a check on the government, and provide our information on choosing who serves in that government, has failed unlike any point in history.

Michael Malone breaks it down, and if you are one of the dwindling few that thinks democracy and individual liberty are good things, read this and let me know who exactly will be in charge of protecting them.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Story?id=6099188&page=1

Quotes:

That means constantly challenging our own prejudices, systematically presenting opposing views and never, ever burying stories that contradict our own world views or challenge people or institutions we admire. If we can’t achieve Olympian detachment, than at least we can recognize human frailty — especially in ourselves.

If the current polls are correct, we are about to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography.

That isn’t Sen. Obama’s fault: His job is to put his best face forward. No, it is the traditional media’s fault, for it alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so.

 

23
Oct

Writer Slams Media (hard) for Lack of Integrity

I’ve been waiting for a piece like this for quite a while. This guys’s dead on, and he’s a Democrat newspaper writer to boot, so no right wing conspiracy here. This election and economic crisis has left the media pale shills for the Democratic party, so far gone that they can’t turn back. Which is why the new media will soon take their place. Which is also why talk radio is a target of the Democrat congress in the next few months with the Fairness Doctrine.

Check it out. If you only read one thing this week, this guy’s machine-gun tirade is dead on. Gives the drive-by media a little bit of return fire.

http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html

Bonus – Media Study out today showed McCain getting much more negative coverage than Obama. I was shocked….not by the study, but that they wasted time even doing one.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/22/study_coverage_of_mccain_much.html

Favorite quote:
Because that’s what honorable people do.  Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences.  That’s what honesty means .  That’s how trust is earned. :