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2011-08-03 Fifth Column

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-08-03 14:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The only thing that will ever get the MSM to cool its jets and behaving even slightly fair is that the Republicans have to clamp down on them. Or not them, really, but their corporate overlords.

That is, just a handful of almost exclusively left leaning corporations are responsible for this grotesque perversion of a free press into a radical bastion of propaganda. And they do so because they are an oligopoly, and because the Republicans have never even suggested that the MSM should be broken up.

Why not break them up? It is legitimate to break up corporate monopolization of the media, even with an oligopoly, because it adversely affects the market.

Look at the damage it has caused to the freedom of the press? Freedom is not license, and demands fairness, not the anti-fairness "fairness doctrine" forced by an unfair liberal government, but the real fairness imposed by the marketplace.

Which happens automatically unless the market has been distorted by corrupt monopolization.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-03 15:31|| 2011-08-03 15:31|| Front Page Top

#2 from a current Seattleite

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times.
They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

8. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

9. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is read by people who want only the score of the Cardinals game. They drink Budweiser ...... Budweiser, and -- wait a minute -- what was the question?

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so,they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

12. The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.

Posted by Mercutio 2011-08-03 17:16|| 2011-08-03 17:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Love it, Mercutio. My only quibble is, I read the Wall Street Journal, and there's no way in hell I'd let me anywhere near running the country...although I'd be happy to have the ones who do over for tea. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-03 17:39|| 2011-08-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Mercutio,
Your Seattle friend probably stole that from Yes, Minister:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; And The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big 4-letter-word often seen on page 6.

First time I've ever been censored here.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-08-03 19:16|| 2011-08-03 19:16|| Front Page Top

#5 That is, just a handful of almost exclusively left leaning corporations are responsible for this grotesque perversion of a free press into a radical bastion of propaganda.

George Soros is one of the puppet masters behind the screen trying to control the message. Evil old ba$tard.

LOL Mercutio

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-03 19:28|| 2011-08-03 19:28|| Front Page Top

#6 An amen to the headline. MSM. Go to hell all of you. A huge disservice to the people of this country. MSM, Joseph Goebbels would be proud of you.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-03 19:30|| 2011-08-03 19:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Awwww, no CHICAGO TRIBUNE or NEW YORK POST???

["WKRP IN CINCINATTI" here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-03 19:47|| 2011-08-03 19:47|| Front Page Top

#8 When the Founding Fathers enshrined a 'free press' in the Bill of Rights, what they were dealing with was the contemporary sole media of distribution of information. What is important is that function not the media of delivery. Don't confuse the corporate entities with the function. Let the MSM die a long slow painful death of the market place of ideas, and resist all attempts to subsidize or protect the corporate under the false guise of 'free press'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-03 20:24|| 2011-08-03 20:24|| Front Page Top

#9 not a censor, Eric. Fred has set spam filters for Pr0n sites

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-03 20:50|| 2011-08-03 20:50|| Front Page Top

#10 It's still a censor. I understand it, but I dislike having to bowdlerize a quote like that. Tell meif people were to discuss Huckleberry Finn here, would we be able to write the correct name of its secondary character?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-08-03 21:19|| 2011-08-03 21:19|| Front Page Top

#11 sinktrap opportunity

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-03 21:54|| 2011-08-03 21:54|| Front Page Top

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