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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.
It commonly attacks what it sees as media bias. Despite AIM's claim of political neutrality[1], it is frequently described by the mainstream media and other media watchdog groups as a conservative organization.[2][3][4][5][6]
Critics say AIM's attacks on the media seem to have little to do with actual misrepresentation or inaccuracies in media accounts. They assert that Irvine and AIM is quick to attack groups that do not fit in the group's ideological niche. Donald Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, alleges that Irvine tends to "throw around accusations about people being communists."[citation needed]
AIM has also been vigorously defensive of former Senator Joseph McCarthy, referring to his critics as "liars" and "communists," and defending his legacy, claiming that he never once fingered an innocent person in his accusations during the red scare he helped to fan. [5]
The New York Times characterizes AIM as an often effective right-wing advocacy organization, "their criticism of television and the press is often provocative. But it is always tendentious. Accuracy in Media, to judge by its newsletters, finds television to be a hotbed of leftist propaganda.[12]
So, yea, I guess they would be telling people that media is a "leftist" - that's their job.
The *media* is entertainment, wings. Television, radio, newspapers....all entertainment, and it has been that way for quite some time. Mostly, it has been dominated by right wing spin machines-now, I have sensed that it is going to turn around since the disgrace of Bush and the advent of Obama.
A person who wants to get non-propagadized information has to go online and get "facts" and opinions of educated, qualified people in order to form a relatively unbiased opinion. But, I think we all have a worldview that we like to use as a framework.
as choux says, unbiased opinion is a myth.
everything that has ever been written is pretty much biased, the only people who could present an unbiased opinion are people who dont care, and someone who doesnt care would not bother presenting an opinion would they?
What I find interesting, is that "free speech" isnt as prevalent as people think. Freedom of speech isnt in the australian constitution, and i have heard that america is still in a state of emergency left over from ww2 which can legally suspend peoples rights to freedom of speech.
yes, and in the end, the consumer decides what shows stay on the air, unless they recieve government funding like Public Broadcasting does.
The reason there is less liberal talk shows, they can't keep the advertisers, if they could get more, there would be more of thier talk shows.
...Radical right are feel-good hatemongers. That is why right wing shows have been more popular... NO ONE WANTED TO HEAR THE TRUTH, Chuck, they just wanted to hate who they were told to hate.
Those days are going to be over soon, I hope. Time for Americans to grow up; no more hiding from real life in ignorance and fear.
we all should take responsibility for the information we are fed. we should not just sit back and accept it, if the media says something, we should check it with other sources before swallowing it, and listen to all sides of the story if possible. There is a similar problem with music. The radio mostly just plays the mainstream hip hop/ pop stuff, when there is plenty of much better music out there, but people just want to swallow what is fed to them directly, no matter how mindless and how sexist the music can be, instead of actually seeking out the right music for them.
I gave up watching, reading and listening to media "stories" of both the right and the left when the media made an ar$e of itself with Watergate. Stuff like "when Nixon traipsed off to China"...It is almost impossible to relate the truth when a person's words and time are limited by full page ads and commercials. I can't believe that so many intelligent people quote the newspaper or the local news. The facts have become a progressive soap opera which I would like to rent later, laugh and watch without the commercials.
Television, radio, newspapers....all entertainment, and it has been that way for quite some time. Mostly, it has been dominated by right wing spin machines-now, I have sensed that it is going to turn around since the disgrace of Bush and the advent of Obama. 
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