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Originally posted by PBA:
The Media are huge corporations that are owned and controlled by wealthy corporate CEO's and Billionaires. They slant the news to promote their interests.
We lost 59,000 soldiers in Vietnam with tens of thousands wounded and psychologically damaged, and no end in sight. The people ended it. That's how democracy works. Much to the disdain of the wealthy elite's.
We face the same situation in Iraq today, no matter what spin the corporate media gives is going to change the facts.
Most of the so called "progress" in Iraq is bogus and just more corporate feeding at the money trough.
Despite Buchanan's lament Nixon was guilty and charged by the US congress, he resigned rather then face charges. No spin needed.
The corporate media is dominated with high paid millionaire right wing pundits and wishy washy centrists that "play" liberals on TV.
Any one interested in honest asessment and exposure of the corporate media and it's liberal myth should checkout the media organization Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Here is an excerpt from an excellent article by News Dissector and filmmaker Danny Schechter, "blogger-in-chief for Mediachannel.org."
"The 2006 Election: Another Nail In Our Democracy's Coffin? 12/15/2006:
"A 2006 survey by the Committee of Concerned Journalists of their own members revealed that many journalists think the news media is failing voters by not adequately covering this past year's campaigns.
"Only 3% give the press an A grade, while another 27% give the news media a B. At the same time, 42% give the coverage a C and 27% say D or F.
"The poll surveyed 499 CCJ members between October 8 and October 15th. The Committee is a national consortium of journalists and journalism educators in various media."
"In other words, most of the campaign reporting does not deliver what journalists think the public wants or needs. This is in line with other general surveys of reporters regarding the current state of their profession. A Pew Research Center report in 2000 showed that less than 40% of journalists surveyed said the media was fulfilling its public responsibilities."
Why does the media protect Bush?
The point is, you didn't write any of that. All you have done (and continue to do) is copy someone else's thoughts/ideas and paste them in your post as your own.....That is, IF you bother doing that much; most of the time you just make a weird remark w/ a link to a national news story....x5 at time, several times a day. Furthermore, you have even gone so far as to admit that a lot of what you are posting is not necessarily how you feel....that you just want to see what people's reaction will be before you put in your 2 cents. Nobody is saying you don't have a right to do this...you do. But it is how you are interpreting that right, that has bothered most of the users on this forum. Why not make an
original...meaning your own statement, followed by your reasoning/proof for making said statement and then back up your reasoning/proof with links for reference? Wouldn't that be a more effective/legitimate way of making your point? The way you are conducting yourself in this forum makes it impossible to take you seriously.