Look, if one drives across America and only listens to broadcast radio, one is struck by two major trends. The first is religious radio of any number of sorts. The second is conservative radio. The two aren't bound and are often at odds. But in most of America, these two formats dominate the AM and FM (To a lesser extent.) bands. But if one watches television in any of the major or smaller cities from network to local broadcasts, one is struck but the overwhelmingly liberal slant of all stories. Even in cities with largely conservative constituents, the local TV news is still incredibly liberal.
Per station, if one includes all radio and all television, a case could be made that the media is mostly conservative but this is an illusion. The illusion is that a radio station may have low wattage and only have an audience of a few hundred at any given time while even small television outlets have much larger audiences. So audience reach is skewed to the liberal side even if station numbers show a different story.
In print, it's the same proportion. Because so many small papers utilize wire services and larger papers for stories, the overwhelming bias is liberal and democratically slanted.
If one seriously reads articles and spends the time separating hard news facts from opinion, the impression is soon reached that the old axiom of "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" have been replaced with "What" and the slant to a specific viewpoint. In simple words, most journalism has been replaced with editorials that use facts based on current events and real-world occurrences. In the fiction world, this is called expository fiction. In the news world, we should call these abortions Journatorials.
Watching the spate of opinion programs, the democratic side speaks from a set of talking points and are actively trying to apply simple slogans to difficult situations. Take the recent failed bombing in Times Square. If one were to only look at CNN and MSNBC the view would be completely different that if one watched FOX from the cable or satellite side. The broadcast stations don't even rate a view because they are so biased. But here we have democratic mouthpieces uttering such ridiculous statements in support of anything Obama that the only conclusion that can be derived is that these people are told to lie and lie they do. Lie after lie after lie to so distort and confuse the situation that a reasonable person cannot possibly fathom fact from fiction let alone find a truth. Why wasn't this as prevalent under Bush or was it? Did so-called conservative commentators forgive every Bush act and make inappropriate comparisons to Clinton? It may have been there but I just didn't see it. I don't recall such a concerted program to support a president since
Pravda would have loved to have such control. The democrats have taken the art of obfuscation to the level of Goebbels. Who would have figured that it would be the democrats who would become the largest proponents of totalitarian and fascistic thinking? Frank Benjamin thinks that Benjamin Franklin is rolling over in his grave. The goals of the founders, for all their flaws and missteps, have been completely perverted by democrats rushing towards power and they are using jounatorials to so pervert facts as to make them non-apprehendable.
G. B. Shaw wrote in the play "Don Juan in Hell" that people mistake opinion for intelligence. It is a tragic flaw that most just don't have the time or energy to really examine the absolute lies they are being fed day in and day out by the major news outlets and so-called opinion makers. One wonders if the American Republic and withstand 24/7 news when it is so distorted and untruthful. Harrison Bergeron would say "Turn it off. Turn the media off and shut out the noise that is nothing more than lies and obfuscation designed to sell soap."
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