Posted by
DecoNservAtiVE on Monday, March 10, 2008 1:00:00 PM
The mainstream media bias has become the laughing stock of the circus that is American journalism. Supposed news media outlets such as CNN (also known as the Clinton News Network), ABC (aka the All Bad Channel), NBC (aka Nothing But Clinton) and CBS (aka Clinton Broadcasting Service) have focused on promoting Hillary and to some extent Barrack because let’s face it, on the off chance that he wins the Democrat nomination the driveby’s wouldn’t want to be disenfranchised. I can’t say that FOX News is as fair and balanced as they suggest, most of the commentators are conservatives, however, many of the news anchors that aren’t Gretta, O’Reilly, or Hannity(who, in all fairness does team with the liberal Alan Colmes) are generally fair in both positive and negative feedback for every candidate. There is a bit of a right leaning spin, or maybe it just seems that way because all of the other news networks are controlled via backroom deals in smoke filled rooms by the Clintons. The fact is, you can only believe about half of anything a “journalist” tells you. The people that are getting paid to do research and get more information than the regular citizens are flat out not doing their jobs anymore. Many of them have political ties, party affiliations or take the bribes offered by candidates to keep the negative to a minimum. There’s no REAL objective media coverage these days. You’re certainly not going to get “Straight Talk” from anyone on the Big 4 networks (CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC) and while you get closer with Fox, it’s still a conservative outlet. So, TV media is out but the local papers must surely have flown below the political radar right?
Today’s print media is even worse. Editors, whose party affiliations help them decide what stories to print and what not to print are stealing the truth from the journalists. I have no doubt that there are thousands of objective journalists out there being told to cover Brittany Spears because the editor of his paper is a liberal biased pig who didn’t like the fact that one of his reporters actually dared criticize Obamamania or the creation of Clintonia. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by nature, but you’ve got to wonder sometimes. Now, me being from Delaware I am used to reading nothing but liberal spin, which is why for a long time I read nothing other than the sports section. I’m old enough, and tired enough now of watching my state media slowly brainwash the population into believing that liberal policies will solve all of our problems. That’s why I’m blogging about the driveby media. Can’t get your fair news on TV or the local Paper. I guess all that’s left is the radio.
Ah news radio, with its impartiality right? Not a chance. There’s two types of news radio, conservative talk radio, like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Liberal talk radio, like NPR. Conservatives tend to dominate the ratings markets in talk radio. Rush, Glenn and Sean are 3 of the most listened to shows on radio. Liberal radio simply can’t compete. Because of that, the liberal papers and TV media seek to discredit everything they say. They spend so much time discrediting the Top 3 as I call them, that they fail to be objective, which further discredits themselves. National Public Radio bills itself as impartial, but if you listen, you’ll only hear liberal independents or democrats bashing the Bush administration or the Republicans in some way shape or form. They’re all battling for the ratings slots and not reporting the news. In all fairness, the point of the Top 3 is to ignite the fires of conservatism and give opinions from a conservative point of views on news and issues, not to report the news per say. NPR however, bills itself as a news and information station, and even suggests publicly that it is fair with no bias. Listen to the shows and you will hear points made by decidedly liberal talk radio (yes it exists, somewhere).
So where do we get our opinions? That choice is up to you as an American. If you listen to Rush, Sean and Glenn as I do and agree with their points, listen to that. If you tend to agree with the points on NPR, gravitate that way. My only caution is that, no matter what you read, see or hear, believe half of it. Case in point is the recent video of Marines throwing a puppy off a cliff in Afghanistan. The video looks pretty genuine. It’s convincing, until you tune out the commentary and listen to the audio. If you listen hard you will hear the sound of a puppy squealing. It doesn’t sound like it’s timed up the way it would be if it were a real yelp. Also, the particular type of puppy in the clip wouldn’t sound the way it did. Also, the puppy doesn’t seem to me, to be real. It looks a lot like a stuffed animal to me. It never moves, a normal puppy held that way would squirm, especially a “stray”. Look at the way the thing flies. Its legs aren’t kicking and it doesn’t seem to be fighting to land squarely. The fact is that this is likely another liberal media trick to portray our military as heartless puppy killing war mongers. It’s time we took back our media and demanded impartial, non biased news instead of opinion based thoughts.