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Originally Posted by 92bDad
Correct me if I'm wrong, but did I not make a statement that not 100% of the media is to blame?
In other words I am taking the good with the bad. However it doesn't mean that we have to rollover and get bummed from the bad, we can actually stand up as a community and challenge the status quo to make a difference and change.
Isn't that what Obama wants, is a community to use its power as a people to create change.
I just happen to believe we can make an impact as a community and Change the way our media is providing information.
One of the perhaps unwritten rules of a journalist is to ask what you want the story to say. Should we not ask the reporters to tell the story the way it is and let the story tell its story?
Think about the situation in Iraq.
Was there not a ton of bad news coming out for several years and blame being cast on the Bush administration for a failed or wrong war?
Yet, over the past several months, we have seen some huge success in Iraq go UNder reported or perhaps even UNreported. Why is this?
Is it perhaps because the story would actually bring praise on the Bush Administration???
We have succeeded in Fulluja (SP?) - We have American troops coming home under the Bush Administration and because of the success.
Is the Media waiting for Obama to take office, since that will be about the time that the troops are indeed home and coming home? Are they waiting so they can pin 'Success' on Obama when he has done NOTHING for this war?
The media has an overwhelming majority of liberal interests and they admit it. I'm not sure what we have to do to change the media...but surely speaking out is one of our first options.
Of course I have two sons, conservative minded and both taking a look at going into journalism as a career...so perhaps that's the answer, it's time to Breed the liberal out :-)
Sure we joke, we vent, we attack one another...it's all entertaining on these boards...how do we take our little group and generate power to change?
If one vote is powerful, how powerful can the voices of this board become?
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Why do you bring partisan politics into everything???
Liberals think the media is too conservative and conservatives think the media is too liberal... You know what - they're both right!
Media is a business just like any other industry - they go where the money is (and that's no secret...)
The US media was 100% pro-Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 because it made them money... They were anti-Bush once people got tired of the war in Iraq because it made them money... They're pro-Obama now because it makes them money... They'd eat your children if it would make them money - JUST LIKE ANY OTHER MAJOR CORPORATION IN AMERICA (after all - corporations don't become "major" without stepping on a few toes...)
This ain't news - it's been going on forever (sounds more like sour grapes to me...)