I came to a conclusion after watching F9/11...

[Bush_Sucks]

The American media is a joke.

[southernleftylady]

1. it took you this long ;)

[Bush_Sucks]

2. No, but this really solidified it.

[indepat]

3. They are far worse than a joke or media whores: they have sold

their souls and sold out our Republic and its Constitution to back a regime whose almost every action is antithetical to this nation's moral authority, its goodness, its fairness, its honor.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Katie Couric: "US Navy Seals Rock!"

[jobycom]

5. They are the advertising department of the Republican Party

Nothing more. It's sad that we don't have a journalism industry anymore.

[jackstraw45]

6. Question is: What are you going to do now?

Are you going to keep turning on CNN? MSNBC? FAUX?

Or have you, like many of us, finally had enough of their propaganda?

[Bush_Sucks]

7. I have CBC Newsworld so I'm not worried.

[jackstraw45]

8. Good answer :)

CBC has been a breath of fresh air for news.

[monchie]

11. I turned them off in January 2001.

The final straw was the triple-headed media feeding frenzy over a) the phony Marc Rich pardon "scandal", b) the phony WH trashing "scandal", and c) the phony Air Force 1 trashing "scandal."

Contributing factors included a) the media's "move along, nothing to see here" attitude with regard to the theft of a presidential election", and b) the media's Soviet-style suppression of coverage of the "inauguration" protests, including use of close-ups in order to avoid showing the angry crowd lining the parade route, and the mindless banter of the commentators who went out of their way to ignore the very visible fact that roughly 50-70% of the spectators were anti-election theft protesters. (C-Span was an exception to the rule--their cameras portrayed the event honestly and without commentators.)

The only honest cable news show is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

[monchie]

9. I realized the American media was a joke in July 1992...

...though many things they did had been raising my eyebrows since 1981.

The incident that really opened my eyes happened wrt a bimbo eruption during the 1992 campaign--and no, it wasn't Clinton's. Remember that just 6 months earlier, in January 1992, Clinton had been relentlessly and viciously raked over the coals about Gennifer Flowers, yet he managed to survive the media feeding frenzy. Now, Spy Magazine, which was a then-popular NYC-area publication, came out with a cover story about Papa Bush's mistress, Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Did the media go into a feeding frenzy, complete with satellite trucks lining the streets of Ms. Fitzgerald's neighborhood? Hell no. The media did its best to ignore the elephant in the room.

One reporter, CNN's White House correspondent Mary Tillotson, dared to ask Papa Bush about the alleged affair. Instead of answering the charge, Bush went into a rage and pulled the oldest trick in the book: the non-denial denial. He said something along the lines of "I won't dignify that question with an answer"--which of course was treated as an actual denial by the tiny portion of the whore media that even mentioned it.

Years later, I learned that Tillotson immediately had her WH press credentials lifted--and not a single reporter wrote about that at the time. She was eventually reassigned by CNN to host a "The View"-type program during the weekday late morning hours, not exactly CNN's prime time. She disappeared from CNN in the late 90s, and last I saw, she was working for some website that I'd never heard of.

I think Ms. Tillotson's colleagues in the SCLM got the message about what happens to your career if you get too uppity with the Bush Crime Family.

[Oddman]

10. The press and reporting has completely changed in the last 20 years

especially in televised reporting. Every reporter is trying to make a name for themselves, to get connected to the big names, to be asked questions by the big names, to get interviews with the big names. This is how the reporter gets ahead, get noticed and notoriety, get more air time, gets his/her own show, becomes a success. A reporter can't do that by asking the big names hard questions, they become successful by catering to and cowering from the big names. That way they stay on good terms with the big names and are allowed in the "inner circle".

The press and reporters in particular have lost their soul to the mighty dollar and their mighty ego and they have lost their way with the blind ambition of the advancement of their career.

Thank god we have people like Michael Moore who can effectively communicate our side of the story.


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