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2015-12-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

The shrinking impact of mainstream media

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Posted by Pappy 2015-12-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The two are one and the same, Democratic party and main stream media. Both are losing.

Posted by Dale 2015-12-11 07:06|| 2015-12-11 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Freedom of the Press was about the technology not the modern institution that calls itself the 'Press'. The internet is the closest entity to what that freedom was about. It's also why so many in power want to control it. Place the libel law covering the MSM in line with the 14th Amendment of equal protection before the law with serious $$$ consequences and you'll end up with a legion of real fact checkers and editors rather than party operatives.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-12-11 08:00|| 2015-12-11 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 I think three strands are necessary: the Democrat Party (marxist/islamist), the main stream media, and the Uniparty/Globalists, the dominant faction in the Republican Party (who, along with the Saudis and the globists' SuperPacs fund the main stream media and all elections) for way too many years.

Posted by pyromancer76 2015-12-11 09:10|| 2015-12-11 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Trump has done a great deal to neuter the lame stream media. He doesn't give a flip about PC. It is refreshing. People are tired of debates that are stifled by PC. The MSM senses the danger of a guy like Trump to their influence. The MSM sold their trustworthiness to the Democratic Party and they are paying the price. They abdicated a free press that had been a part of our society. This election year is payback for forgetting that the voters elect Presidents rather than the elites of both parties and the media. It is payback for all the PC horseshit. It is payback for all the stuff that got rammed down our throats without our consent. It is payback for not listening to the electorate. It is a reminder that we elect our represents and by God they'd better represent us. We tried to tell them in 2010 and 2014 and they did not listen.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-12-11 10:34|| 2015-12-11 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Says it all. I read it maybe five years ago. Bias

broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion, and "entertainment" trumps hard news every time.\

I believe the author was Danny Rather's producer for a number of years.

Posted by Bobby 2015-12-11 13:46|| 2015-12-11 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 They're all insignifigant, maye they'll fade away, (No more advertisements.)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-12-11 14:39|| 2015-12-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 It's encouraging, but before we get cocky, let's remember leftwingers largely controls social media and entertainment, and pump out the agitprop via those channels, while suppressing anti-Narrative thoughts.

In fact, as fewer and fewer people pay attention to the old media, the left will ramp up their efforts direct the new media to their advantage.

It's not called Twitter gulag for nothing.

Posted by charger 2015-12-11 17:13|| 2015-12-11 17:13|| Front Page Top

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