Not Watching For The Asteroid

It seems to me that a large segment of MSM has totally prostituted itself and does not even attempt to be objective any longer.

The ladies of the View are considered main stream media? Seriously?

My sister-in-law considers The View to be an important part of her day - a place where many important people come to be interviewed and present their thoughts and ideas. And she's a liberal so she always knows about she's talking about. I gave her an Ann Coulter book for Christmas. We don't talk much any more, she and I.

Nobody's more mainstream than Barbara Walters.

I have NEVER understood the reverance afforded this Walters person.

Her morally superior tone every time she opens her mouth, makes me gag! Such feigned deep knowledge of every interviewee's field of expertise is such horse-shit.

And she needs to get her mouth fixed. What is it with this New York socialite anyway? Trying to speak regally, yet looking as if she'd had a stroke.

I just don't get it. And haven't for years!

The earliest popular newspapers were famously corrupt, little more than election flyers,
fronts for fraudsters, or scandal mongering designed to ruin business rivals. What seems
new today is the brazen deceit and entitlement mentality of the left when it comes to a
choice between the truth and the party line on almost all occasions.

Thus the old adage don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see...

A classic case of the mental illness called Liberalism wherein those afflicted believe that what "should be" IS in fact reality.

Behar defending Palin has more to do with Behar considering herself Walter's equal now and was nothing more to Behar than possibly an opportunity to knock Walters. When Behar first landed her own show, she mentioned it daily much to the dismay of the rest of the panel. Walter's had an increasingly difficult time time concealing her ontempt/disgust for Behar's gloating (eye rolling, Yes Joy we all know you have your own show now type of passive aggressive communications).

"Thank God for the Internet, says I. I wonder how much longer we’ll be able to traipse its environs freely.”

What's more disconcerting is the sense of resignation that seems to be in the air when it comes to the possible loss of internet freedoms. Instead of launching some type of strategic offensive, it's like we have simply accepted it as inevitable. It saddens me that it is becoming easier and easier to condition the population into accepting tyranny, for our own safety of course.

"Thank God for the Internet, says I. I wonder how much longer we’ll be able to traipse its environs freely."

it's the golden age of the Web.

learn to look back fondly and dont bother bookmarking Wayback or any such site.

the power-system-boys will see to it. BOTH cons and libs alike are itching to get their hands on all those routers and servers to make sure the spin, spin, spin is just so.

control freaks + technology = police state. all part of The End Times.

Kate, your envy of people in the media -- and of anyone not trapped in dead-end work in the middle of nowhere as life ticks by -- is sooo cute.

Speaking of cute, I guess we know how Lloyd spends his time.

Uncle Floyd Lisper:

Your definition of what a successful life looks like is appallingly superficial.

That definition of the MSM problem is spot on but you're being much to polite to them.

In a way, the linear communication systems have been rendered obsolete by the networked or interactive communication systems.

So, the linear systems, that one-way voice/post that sets up an authoritative path from the Expert to you, the Non-Expert...are obsolete.

The networked communication processes, the net, text, email and so on, which reject linear expertise in favour of a 'community of scholars', means that if X person posts something, it can be readily factually rebutted by Y person. And both show up 'in public'. This instantaneous rebuttal and debate is not possible in the linear media.

So - TV and newspapers have degenerated into the opinion press. Whether it's Barbara Walters or Chris Matthews or Rachel ..whatever..they present their opinions outside of the reach of facts and critical analysis.

I'm not saying that the result is a more educated public! After all, the number of people declaring that '60% of Canadians didn't vote for Harper' ..and that this comment isn't challenged enough..is indicative of a refusal to face or an indifference to: facts.

The facts, by the way, are not merely that 70% didn't vote for Layton, and 80% didn't vote for Ignatieff...but that the percentage of Canadians who voted was 61.4% (not bad and up from 58.8% in 2008)..and therefore, one cannot factually assert that 60% of Canadians..etc., because 40% of eligible Canadians didn't vote.

My point is only that a networked communication system rebuts misinformation faster and also, enables greater participation in the political process.

It seems to me that the MSM knows they are perceived as having a bias. That is why in any storey with an obviously political bent they attempt to appear unbiased by stating at the end, “X (of the other view) said that (and here they shape the perception of the view of the other side).

For example in a story that might come out during an election about Jack Layton going to a “rub and tug”, they might report that Stephen Harper said he disapproved of such behaviour referring to scripture about the sanctity of marriage.

They might report that Michael Ignatieff said that what goes on in the bedrooms or massage tables of the nation between consenting adults has no place in the newspapers. They might report that Lizzie May said that all is well so long as it does not create a conflict of interest and impair his ability to represent his constituents.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/06/07/chris-titus-id-assassinate-sarah-palin-if-she-was-elected/

I found this article at the link far more interesting. A "comedian" says he'd assassinate Sarah Palin if she was elected President.

What ever happened to that "new civility" the current Prez asked for?

Maybe he was just kiddin'.

The View is mainstream? Really!? I always though it was a vehicle for propagating fringe left fanaticism/alarmism through the nattering jaws of over-caffeinated Hollywood harpies.

ET said: "My point is only that a networked communication system rebuts misinformation faster and also, enables greater participation in the political process."

Absolutely. Single case example of the truism that free societies always outperform centrally controlled ones. Freedom treats stupidity as damage and routs around it.

Boots
The ladies of the View are considered main stream media? Seriously?

Yeah, thats what I thought when I heard this tid bit of lunacy.
To me there the real life version of the "Golden Girls: All Mauds in mad mode, all the time. railing against reality.

Thanks for the Medicare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Du4JtiXzI

Palin the Undefeated
A new documentary film illuminates her achievements, and possibly her future.

Jim Geraghty

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268845/palin-iundefeatedi-jim-geraghty