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hootsbox · 4509 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Sloppy Journalism Continues

Yes, I think it has everything to do with being a Tea Party Member - they can't wait to smear commonplace, working Americans who are tired of too much governement intrusion. Remember the Gabby Giffords case and the "rush" to accuse right wing talk show people for fomenting the killer? It turns out he was an ultra left-wing nut case, but that didn't stop some legislators, MSNBC commentators, and the gun control lobby from wrongly accusing the "right wing" fomentors! Shallow, hollow, incomplete and incompetent "journalistic charlatans" who pose for real journalists. Where is Edward R. Murrow when we need him? A quote, "To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful". We need more of this in all levels of media "journalism" no matter what the political label!

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b_b · 4509 days ago · link ·

Murrow?!?! Fox News would have labelled him a communist for his treatment of McCarthy. He is one of the origins of where the phrase "liberal media" came from, that great hoax perpetrated by members of society whose worldview doesn't jibe with reality. All major media outlets except NPR are owned and operated by giant corporations. They only have one motivation: Profits. MSNBC has a liberal bias, not because there's a such thing as the liberal media, but because they see a niche market that wasn't being served by Fox or CNN. I'm sure the bosses there were just pissed that Murdoch beat them to the conservative bent, because, based on Fox's viewership, that's obviously a bigger market.

One thing we can agree upon is that there are a lot of Charlatans in the media. When a story on the day time news has to do with the latest cat video that's trending on the internet, we all lose. The news isn't there to serve you or I, they're there to make money by tricking us into believing we're being informed, and its important. I've boycotted TV news for many years, and I'm not going back anytime soon. I'll listen to NPR, but that's the only broadcast media that I can stand. Charlatans, yes, absolutely.

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hootsbox · 4503 days ago · link ·

Actually, Fox News would probably NOT do that - unless you are one of the ones that either doesn't watch it, watches it very selectively, or just reads blogs from folks who don't watch is either. They have Bernie Goldberg, who wrote a great book many years ago entitled "Biased" and who was an award winning reporter, who has a lot of respect for Edward R. Murrow. He was actually right to expose the later "tyrannical tirades" of a compulsive "neurotic" (my opinion). What may have started out as a legitimate inquiry turned into the "Spanish Inquisition" so to speak. NPR is owned by its own, many times biased, corporation called the corporation for Public Broadcasting which has been caught seveal times with its own set of "biased slants" and tyrannical tirades. I do listen to NPR, and do enjoy some of the programming, but to say they have been "spotless saints of news reporting" is an overstatement - they have shown their own "bigotry" in the past. The best we can do is to be as circumspect as possible, and make our best effort to be informed by the most objective sources available to us at the time.

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thenewgreen · 4509 days ago · link ·

To b_b's point, it's all about profits and having the shooter be a Tea Party member gets more viewers. They would have been just as excited if they were an Occupy Wall Street organizer. It's not partisan driven, it's profit driven. As we've discussed before, they are all in to make money. Anybody that relies on MSNBC, CNN or FOX for their news and information is going to be a poorly informed person. Even if you watch it knowing that it's skewed and biased, it will taint you. You can't watch episodes of the Three Stooges all day and not sometimes get the urge to poke somebody in the eye. -Be careful what you ingest.

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hootsbox · 4503 days ago · link ·

Dont' forget ABC, NBC, and CBS too boot, and some major newspapers and news magazines too!

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thenewgreen · 4503 days ago · link ·

I don't forget them.

What I think is telling is that people on both sides "believe" in news organizations. That's been the great achievement in cable media, they have become something to "believe" in, people source identity from them. People have done this for years with political parties, religious affiliation, nationalism and sporting teams but now people do it with which cable news channel they watch. People feel the need to defend Fox or CNBC with the same type of vigor that they do their faith or their alma mater. It makes no sense.

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