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Yavin4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 07:49 PM Original message |
Why Can't The Media Tell It Like It Is? |
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Greenpeach (375 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. Think who signs their paychecks. |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. It really isn't their job to editoialize. The lunacy or whatever |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. It is their job to report the facts even if those facts may make some people look bad. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. What the MSM does is called "false equivalency". As in: "On the one hand historians say that... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. "Guess which style has been in vogue for over a decade?" |
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Robber M (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Do the words "bought and paid for" mean anything? |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Welcome to DU. |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. Their purpose is to profit, not to inform. |
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The Gunslinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
6. The media will find a way to twist his words |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. to paraphrase |
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santamargarita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. The mainstream media is run by fascist pigs |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-07-09 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. Remember when those people were known as the "lunatic fringe"? |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
12. I'll answer that with a question: Who owns them? |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-08-09 02:13 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Right: follow the money and follow the org charts... |
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