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Until this moment I have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me "what Canadians think". In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
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at work. Wapo – it looks good on a leftist slobber outlet.
*snicker*
Hey Kate;
Good to see ED’s hat tip. He has one of the best hat tips going.
Could the revenues be down because the ONE doesn’t need to get elected this year?
Just asking.
I do believe that the American public is waking up, thanks in part to independent journalism on the Internet, but mostly thanks to Barrack Obama, who has gradually put everyone’s bullshit detector pegged well past the red line, and whose soothing rhetoric is at last being recognized for what it is, and always has been, the sale of snake oil.
Over time, I’ve become a bit less convinced that maintaining a deathwatch over mainstreamers like WaPo is a particularly good idea. This is not to excuse the rampant bias and cronyism that exists in too many(ok, most) MSMs, but WaPo is not the worst of them (I reserve that claiom for the NYT). To be sure, they’ve been in the leftard tank as often as most, but on occasion, some of their writers hit the mark.
With the demise of Big Print, I’m not sure what fills the gap. Citizen journalism fills a big part of it, but there are issues with accuracy, context and agenda just like the big boys. Neither am I satisfied that the increasingly successful HuffPo business model is the best replacement. In fact, I think it might be the most insidious of the lot.
Replacing Big Print and Big Media with an unfathomable swarm of blogs, arm-chair pundits and cell-phone photojournalists doesn’t guarantee the correct story gets told either – the reader still has to filter the input. It is good there are more sources to filter. Its not good sometimes that there is no cohesive presentation of events. There are exceptional story tellers and reporters in the big media; they are not all rabid partisans, though their bosses might be. Many of these are falling out of the industry and I think that’s unfortunate. Photojournalists especially are being hit hard.
Big Print and Big Media still has a role to play in holding the line against Big Propaganda. The problem for the moment is convincing them they have to separate themselves from Big P, not become it.
Or – it could be that a lot of the new hires in WDC are functionally illiterate?
Die Main Stream media, die.
“Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop”
Whah wha wha wha wha whahhhhh WaPo!!!!
Next stop…..Toronto Star.
Gee Zakaria is pulling a multi-MSM trifecta. He’s helping to pull down the post, CNN, and Time.
He’s doing a hell of a job! And he’s almost finished.
Where’s the mindset of the heads of these corporations, when they hire avowed leftists to spout nonsense, while their revenues dry up?
Calling Mr Soros……
The death of a propagandist news organization is a blessing for all.
If there is a market for honest, factual reporting, then another organization will grow to fill that demand.
Because trust is the “product” they are selling, the likes of Wa Po, Toronto Star, Globe &Mail, CBC,MSNBC are all going down.
Integrity is like virginity, you only lose it once.
I will raise a beer and cheer as each of these sleazy outfits slides into oblivion.
Even Soros & Turner cannot prop them up forever.
Funny thing about people, we may not know for sure what is happening, but we have superb senses when its pure BS we are being sold.(PS some reservations may not apply in BC,Ontario,California…)
How I detest the moralizing hypocrits and how I enjoy schaudenfreude 🙂
I agree with your doubts, as to actual facts, but Big Media have become Big Propaganda. My friend from an ex-communist country sees what passes as “news” in North America and recognizes it perfectly well as the same stuff that he got in Yugoslavia.
Even Pravda was obliged to report facts occasionaly, when the lie could not be denied; how the media worked in the communist, or even fascist, countries was not the reporting of facts, but the interpretation of them for mass consumption.
This is where the propaganda lies (literally and figuratively).