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TheKentuckian

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15. The corporate media isn't there to think or ask questions

Reply to randome (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 22, 2012, 11:36 PM

Feb 2012

other than to disseminate propaganda, distract the people, and refute anything that might make the pigs lift their chins from the trough.

They are none too slow to dig up pointed questions and present them combatively if the beltway frame is even placed in a shadow of a doubt.
They are not what we pretend and aren't blatently, in my opinion.

Giving the corporate media even the label "news" is an act of willful suspension of disbelief. I think the weather drives the legitimacy, along with the scores.

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GOP Debate: Ahmadinejad=no power,Supreme Leader=power.Why the FUCK doesn't someone call them on it? [View all] BrentWil Feb 2012 OP

Thanks for the rant.... Bigmack Feb 2012 #1

No problem NT BrentWil Feb 2012 #2

if obama is a nazi commie warmonger pacifist tax-hiking kenyan muslim with a crazy preacher unblock Feb 2012 #3

The problem isn't with them, really. It is with the press. Basic mistakes on facts should not BrentWil Feb 2012 #4

The press doesn't think on its feet, that's the problem. randome Feb 2012 #5

THen that is sad. It is sad that King cannot come back with harder questions NT BrentWil Feb 2012 #6

their job is scribe, not fact check. unblock Feb 2012 #9

That isn't fact checking. That is asking a relevant fact on what is common knowledge about Iran BrentWil Feb 2012 #10

The corporate media isn't there to think or ask questions TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #15

I don't think it is some big scheme... BrentWil Feb 2012 #16

I'll agree to an extent but still hold that asthetics aside, the gubbleheaded beach blonds and goofy TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #17

I hope things start to turn around... BrentWil Feb 2012 #18

I agree grantcart Feb 2012 #7

Depends on the type of attack, etc. BrentWil Feb 2012 #8

If America were run on the same rules Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #11

Some limited domestic power, at least in the past.... BrentWil Feb 2012 #12

Who knows? Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #13

Life is a "mystery wrapped in an enigma"... BrentWil Feb 2012 #14