"The media is not doing it's job"?

Yes they are. They have been hired by their corporate bosses to say what they've been told to say. The idea that they've been lax or lazy or afraid or unwilling to look partisan is pure stench. The entire world is up-to-date on the who these fascists are. Some Air America hosts say it, And it's true. But the corporotists want their version spread, and it's a lie. We, the lone defenders of the constitution, should consider the "media" similar to how the Iraqi's view the occupation. Enemies.

...a TV channel called "The Real News" which is based on individual donations instead of ads.

They are looking for hosts, people to appear on-camera.

If you know someone charismatic with journalism experience, send him or her the following:

thanks

marketing is important. Sex up the name a bit.

Do you like the original name better than "The Real News"?

http://www.iwtnews.com/

The channel is still called Independent World Television.

Marketing, the underhanded study of how to play up to peoples base desires

who might be interested.

Millions of people giving $25 to start an independent network up? I think that idea is FABULOUS!

...I'll donate again after the election, but right now I just want to donate to Democratic candidates like Patty Wetterling, who is in a close US House race in Minnesota:
http://www.pattywetterling.com

I donated to them too, and just sent some $$ to Casey, Webb, Carter, Sherrod Brown and Ned

I believe the quote is inaccurate english, and that the real concern is that
news has become information without constructing a context, as lazy journalists
and ignorant editors let fly a misinformation media that lies through omission,
where derelict journalists do not report the truth, but rather PR for ratings.

THe ethics of ameircan journalism are a bit wanting, indeed.

Fluff Pieces, Distractions and Overt Propaganda on 24/7 via the Television Cable News Networks.

In fact, the smarmy promoters are shamelessly proud of the CRAP they shovel at us, plus the bubble headed news-models are beaming in their soap opera stage ... so happy that their presence serves to spread to "us little people" INFOtainment and not boring NEWS that BBC provides.

The media INSULTS the American People 24/7 with this mindless CRAP. They actually think that they are getting away with it. It worked for Iraq, but now the Average American has ZERO respect for the USA news media - lock, stock and barrel. :grr: :puke: :grr:

We are being dumbed down and the programming isn't even of half-a**ed decent quality. But that's our one true viable hope: The people of the USA turn-OFF their news and glean it from "reputable sources."

Leave it to the Media to even SUCK at distributing the "made to order" Pentagon's Propaganda.

Thanks you corporate media LOSERS, your worthless programing decisions may just come back to bite you in the pocketbook ... especially since we're not buying into your NEW prepackaged OIL WAR promotions.

Hope springs eternal! :P

to enhance the sales of war machinery on the other.

The USA Military Industrial War Machine will NOT thrive.

Wait for it. It's coming soon.

Military personnel shortages, lots of them!

I know in my heart and soul that the average American has not been convinced that "perpetual war" is a positive for either This Nation or the World. Further, the detached powers that be are about to receive a wake up call should they even CONSIDER re-implementing the draft. Future protests will make the Vietnam dust-up look like a day at the park. I honestly believe that this Perpetual War meme is about to be torn to shreds by good ole Joe and Jane AMERICAN.

Enough! It's time to stop the killing and negotiate. :grr:

was a letter from a, probably, Republican, but not a fundie nut, that said he actually trusted his government more than the media now.

I'm a former reporter. I was a reporter for 12 years. It's all I ever wanted to do (and still would, excepting it's not a good profession if you actually want to raise children) and that letter sent shivers down my spine.

I cannot imagine trusting any government, even a Democratic one, over the media, but, you know, when I thought about it, I know I can't trust the media, either.

How sad how far we've come from what the Framers of the Constitution wanted.

and the government are the same entity?

Which makes me even more sad.

I loved my profession, but it's nothing but an eye on the orgy of the power elite and entertainment industry now.

rout the malignant growth known as corporations. Before solving a problem one must figure out what the problem is. Greed eventually always loses to the plurality but sometimes it just takes longer than other times

but wrong. Greed always wins.

Our society is structured in such a way that the ONLY job of the media is to make money for the stockholders, and that's exactly what they are doing. Even if it means turning "news" into just another form of entertainment to capture eyes for the sponsers.

Remember how they made it so that it looks like FDR wasn't in a wheelchair?

The media also did not used to put any emphesis in civilian casulties during war. In World War 2, we carbet bombed Nazi cities. The only dead reported was how many Nazis we knocked off. When we dropped the nuke on Hiroshima, one newspaper the next day read, "VICTORY!!"

So no, I don't see any difference really with the media of decades ago and the media today.

It's funny too because the right wing swears up and down that the media is obviously tilted and bias towards the left. Meanwhile the left claims it is tilted and biased to the right. So by many people's standards, that is exactly where the media wants to be...hated by both sides.

Something like the internment of the Japanese in the US would hopefully be unacceptable today.

Similarly, lack of reporting on civilian casualties should be unacceptable to us today.

Some say that if we didn't drop the bomb, we would have had to invade Japan. Imagine the loss of life in such a battle. Millions would die.

And Hitler didn't give a damn how many civilians die.

When you deal with those kind of people as your enemy, and they have that much power, the death toll in such a war with them is going to be astronomical. And it was. In world war 2, 55 million people died around the world. More than half were civilian.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030224/alterman2

"In a careful 1999 study published in the academic journal Communications Research, four scholars examined the use of the "liberal media" argument and discovered a fourfold increase in the number of Americans telling pollsters that they discerned a liberal bias in their news. But a review of the media's actual ideological content, collected and coded over a twelve-year period, offered no corroboration whatever for this view. The obvious conclusion: News consumers were responding to "increasing news coverage of liberal bias media claims, which have been increasingly emanating from Republican Party candidates and officials."

>>snip<<

"In the real world of the right-wing media, the pundits are the conservatives' shock troops. Even the ones who constantly complain about alleged liberal control of the media cannot ignore the vast advantage their side enjoys when it comes to airing their views on television, in the opinion pages, on the radio and the Internet.

Take a look at the Sunday talk shows, the cable chat fests, the op-ed pages and opinion magazines, and the radio talk shows....Across virtually the entire television punditocracy, unabashed conservatives dominate, leaving lone liberals to be beaten up by gangs of marauding right-wingers, most of whom voice views much further toward their end of the spectrum than any regularly televised liberals do toward the left. Grover Norquist, the right's brilliant political organizer, explains his team's advantage by virtue of the mindset of modern conservatism. "The conservative press is self-consciously conservative and self-consciously part of the team," he notes. "The liberal press is much larger, but at the same time it sees itself as the establishment press. So it's conflicted. Sometimes it thinks it needs to be critical of both sides." Think about it. Who among the liberals can be counted upon to be as ideological, as relentless and as nakedly partisan as George Will, Robert Novak, Pat Buchanan, Bay Buchanan, William Bennett, William Kristol, Fred Barnes, John McLaughlin, Charles Krauthammer, Paul Gigot, Oliver North, Kate O'Beirne, Tony Blankley, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Tony Snow, Laura Ingraham, Jonah Goldberg, William F. Buckley Jr., Bill O'Reilly, Alan Keyes, Tucker Carlson, Brit Hume, the self-described "wild men" of the Wall Street Journal editorial page, etc., etc.? In fact, it's hard to come up with a single journalist/pundit appearing on television who is even remotely as far to the left of the mainstream spectrum as most of these conservatives are to the right.

>>snip<<

As a result of their domination of the terms of political discourse, conservative assumptions have come to rule the roost of insider debate. And they do so not only because of conservative domination of the punditocracy but also because of conservative colonization of the so-called center--where all action in American politics is deemed to take place."

the mags are all crap. On the T.V., the news is now crap. Common denomenators are winning.

after this country tanks, then begins to dust itself off.

they're on "film" afterall, and we loves the pretty pictures!

The freepers are not the only ones guilty of bad punctuation.

it is genuinely pathetic to see the MSM kowtowing to this assclown.

to them anyways, and will most likely get the truth via the internet. So they serve a tradition that serves up corporate marketing.