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This article made me feel sad and angry to think our freedom of expression may end, along with so many other freedoms we've recently lost.
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Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid charged today that liberal “media reform” activists, who expect a Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election, plan to limit conservative access to the media and force stations to put more left-wingers on the air. Kincaid will report the details of the unfolding plan as he covers this week’s “National Conference on Media Reform” in Minneapolis. Kincaid’s preview of the conference can be found in the column “’Media Reform’ Targets Conservatives,” at Accuracy In Media - For Fairness, Accuracy and Balance in News Reporting..
“The ‘progressives’ are angry that since the deregulation of the media, beginning in the 1980s, the liberal media monopoly has been challenged,” says Kincaid. He notes that most of the Big Media remain liberal but that “progressives” are angry that talk radio and cable news have found a receptive audience for conservative programming. One of their new tactics, he reveals, is calling conservative programming “hate speech.”
Personally, I enjoy hearing different views on things so I don't become a robot programmed the way the media or government wants. I don't have to agree with everything I hear.
Do you think this can happen here in the 'land of the free'? Do you think it should happen just to prevent 'hurt feelings'?
How can we preserve our right to say what we believe? I'm worried and a little angry.
purplewings agrees: Now wait a minute. If we can't believe the news media, how are we supposed to know what's going on around us? I can see my own neighborhood but I can't see the rest of the world. I need accurate reporting.
I'm not saying you can't ever believe them, just that you need to be aware of what drives them in order to accurately interpret what they put out.
I don't trust for one second that the information I get is accurate. Even if it is based on facts too often commentary is weaved into the narrative . Unfortunately that is the reality .The only cure is to assume that reporting does not tell the whole story ;and to have sufficient freedom of speech and options for consumer to filter the news themselves. If not ;then you are consigned to accept the forgeries that Dan Rather presented as authentic proof.
The remote is the best invention to man since the wheel. Don't have to move to put on cartoon network. Did you know the Mickey Mouse club has a new song?
Everybody is a shock jock, and its about ratings. This is America and our dreams are built on money, and its no different if your conservetive, liberal, or radical. What do you think would happen if all the talking heads would have to get real jobs? Or worse yet, real opinions, who would pay for that?
My grand daughter and me, learn more from Dora the Explorer, than Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, or Lou "boohoo" Dobbs.
So, yea, I guess they would be telling people that media is a "leftist" - that's their job.
NK, if the message is true what difference does it make who the messenger is? Goggle "restore the fairness doctrine" and tell us what you find. Liberal congressman have made it no secret they want to restore the fairness doctrine which is anything but fair and has no place in a free nation.
Hurray for you Steve. Fairness in reporting is important - especially now. Of course it's been pretty one-sided for many years already and will continue if no one cares.
For everyone's information....some* facts*.....so right wingers can skip this since you only like lies. lol
These are the issues of real Liberals...
1. Constitutional amendment to ban capital punishment.
2. Gun control in cities.
3. Equal rights for all Americans including homosexuals
4Gee I am so sick of right wing liars and propagandists after all these years.
Exactly!
1. There are some crimes so brutal and senseless that capital punishment is the only appropriate punishment. A needle is far kinder than being slashed to death, for example.
2. Why are libs afraid of honest people having guns? In Texas we have a right to carry law, and the crime rate has not gone up. If some sociopath comes into a resturant where I am dining and starts shooting, I really hope there are at least a dozen armed citizens there.
3. I don't object to homosexuals having rights. I object to them calling what they have "marriage".
Don't you think that those who disagree with you just might be reasonably intelligent?
[quote=magprob]I shot my TV months ago. My wife was quite upset because I didn't take it outside first. Now, I just read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. They say history repeats itself and I am finding that to be true. At least I now know what to expect.[quote]
"[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. ...All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." - Hermann Goring; April 10, 1946
My problem is that I can still remember when everyone hung onto the Newscasts because it was all we had & we needed to know
Oliver Wendell Holmes said "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market"
I think it was with the advent of the television broadcast when those good ole days began. Before that the press was more like the founders envisioned as advocacy and not simply the dry reporting of news. Check out how the press was in their times. I have described the press of the 18th and 19th century as the bloggers of their day.
The problem with those good ole days when the 3 networks and the NY Slimes were the news of record was that there was no competition in the marketplace. It was the accepted truth because they told you it was .Not much different than the old Soviet Pravda if you ask me. When Walter Cronkite told us the war in Vietnam was lost (it was not ) we believed him and the anti-war movement went mainstream from that point on.
I think the news disemination if not the presentation is much better now than then . The dinosaurs have proven themselves untrustworthy. Dan Rather manipulated and fabricated stories and presented them on prime time telecasts . It took the internet (those pesky people in the pajama media) to out his distortions. The NY Slimes has had a reporter(Jayson Blair) who faked stories .
The system is much better now because it is free and accountable to the market place. That is why the people in power are so hungry to slap controls on it. In 1985 The FCC ruled that the Fairness Doctrine had a "chilling effect" on speech;and the Supreme Court agreed ( Meredith Corp. v. FCC) .
There will always be bias in the presentation of the news .It was true then and it is true now . The question really comes down to this ; do we want the overseers to be the final arbiters of the truth ?
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