Propaganda Pundits and the Corporate Media Equal to Hostile Invaders

[Independem]

Propaganda Pundits and the Corporate Media

Not only is this a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism, but spreading "covert propaganda" is illegal under federal law. Free Press activists are leading the call for Congress to investigate and reveal the ties that link the Bush administration and defense contractors to our national news media.

http://www.freepress.net/pentagon_propaganda

Propaganda

1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
3. the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.

Propagandist


1. a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
2. a member or agent of a propaganda.

The National Media is so dangerous to are country it is equal to hostile invaders, manipulating the news with opinions instead of facts, interpreters that lean against people instead of just being truthful is ramped misinformation, no longer is it news but pure propaganda.

[certainot]

1. yeah but if limbaugh and hannity can say it all day long from

1000 radio stations it must be OK.

[Independem]

2. Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, often presents information primarily in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

[freshwest]

3. Getting the MIC out of the media would do a world of good. Great post.

[The Wizard]

4. They control the message

the money and the weapons. Our media would make Goebbels green with envy. Pravda, TAAS, and Izvestia look like honest brokers compared to what we get packaged as news.
Pox News blatant propaganda provides cover for the major corporate outlets to poison the public discourse with a more subtle brand of bullshit.

[txlibdem]

5. Anyone who wants to know what's really going on will ignore the US media outlets

I get my news (and facts) mostly from the UK where journalism is still functioning. Here in the USA, journalism has died over the past 20 years, and it was never up to the standards of UK journalistic standards to begin with. Today there is only the "approved" message that the corporate owned media wants to put out. On the "TV machine," MSNBC is good after 4pm but even it's a crapshoot any earlier in the day than that.

I also like the news from Asia and Russia for specific criticism of our government and corporations.

[nxylas]

6. I think that's only true of UK broadcast journalism

With a few notable exceptions such as The Guardian and The Independent, our print media is a bully pulpit for ideological Thatcherite media owners who regard pre-New Deal/post-Reagan America as paradise on Earth.