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Newest Reality

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1. Thanks for that
Tue May 14, 2013, 10:35 AM
May 2013

Last edited Tue May 14, 2013, 01:48 PM - Edit history (1)

important dispatch from the memory hole!

That's one of the glaring problems with the corporate media news cycles. Rather than being significantly informative, it's like a roving band of monkey-puppets with ADD stirring a pot of voodoo stew.

When there is a event that deals with base fear, as we have seen over and over again. the corporate news and cable opinion tubes gets fixated and beats the issue to death as if gleefully hammering it into our National limbic system. Wolf Blitzer has become a deadpan poet of news drama, (who really could benefit from using a thesaurus) who, rather than reporting, tends to act like he is conducting a symphony of emphatic self-importance and feigned concern while the experts and talking heads play their professional hot-air pipes for him.

How often are events that are still impacting us and important get revisited in a proportionally relative way? The mass media seems to forget what it wants to and then obsess about what it needs and wants us to know and that's why it sounds more and more like a highly polished, tabloid of sensationalistic and, more importantly, manipulative litany of tabloid trash rife with the sent of ulterior motives. Information as a clothes washing machine: cycle-after-cycle, so much is lost in the rinse.

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Thanks for that Newest Reality May 2013 #1
Ha! Good one. CanSocDem May 2013 #5
The coverage does appear to be slanted. AnnieK401 May 2013 #2
Thanks for the clear and concise information BlueToTheBone May 2013 #3
No shit. :( thanks BlueToTheBone. Cha May 2013 #22
Bravo. Fire Walk With Me May 2013 #4
Just like EC May 2013 #6
They were patiently waiting for the Bush appointed Progressive dog May 2013 #7
Thanks for taking the time to research this pangaia May 2013 #8
Somebody mentioned something here on DU yesterday that I thought was good: Proud Liberal Dem May 2013 #9
LOL. Thanks, I didn't see that but it's spot on. nt SunSeeker May 2013 #13
Here it is, SunSeeker.. Cha May 2013 #23
Thanks, Cha. SunSeeker May 2013 #32
I know! I hope this gets straightened out in a reality based Cha May 2013 #34
This, Proud Liberal Dem?.. Cha May 2013 #24
That would be it. Thanks! Proud Liberal Dem May 2013 #25
Perhaps they have to forget. zeemike May 2013 #10
US political memory AgingAmerican May 2013 #11
You're far too generous. I'm surprised when, without 4-wall media coverage, we can remember Egalitarian Thug May 2013 #12
I'd say it's closer to three minutes or however long a commerical is these days. freshwest May 2013 #16
We. Don't. Have. A. Press. In. The. US. DeSwiss May 2013 #14
I believe it was Jefferson who said GeoWilliam750 May 2013 #37
What about tax-exempt churches which have become GOP breeding grounds? ErikJ May 2013 #15
+1000 mountain grammy May 2013 #38
The media is paid to not cover news and to forget. Skidmore May 2013 #17
It's a problem when you hear an anchor who is supposed to be about hard news talking about "JLo". Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #18
The media did seem to allow the chance to grow legs Life Long Dem May 2013 #19
Corporate Media isn't about News or "covering" anything. harun May 2013 #20
Political Finance Reform #1 TRANSPARENCY. Why should a public political resource be used patrice May 2013 #21
The US media are ratings based corporations. Too lazy to look up Cha May 2013 #26
What a coincidence!! *sarcasm* hue May 2013 #27
I guess one man's "Profiler" grok May 2013 #28
yes ma'am. k&r... spanone May 2013 #29
Truth is not something that the GOP values siligut May 2013 #30
Yep, they "forgot" all right..... AverageJoe90 May 2013 #31
+1 HiPointDem May 2013 #33
Your point is spot-on, but we picked the wrong battle in that SCOTUS case. Sensible321 May 2013 #35
The media is owned by the same people who own the tea baggers. n/t Crunchy Frog May 2013 #36
For the most part, yes! Sickening! mountain grammy May 2013 #39
And so the Democratic Party HumansAndResources May 2013 #41
The mainstream media is a platform for right wing extremists mountain grammy May 2013 #40
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