STOP calling it the "Mainstream Media"

It's the CORPORATE media. Say it, mean it and don't forget it. Please.

but when we are out of our bubble here, we should call it the Corporate Media. It just might start to sink in where it needs to.

first started reading DU about 4 years ago, I didn't even know what people meant by MSM, and I had just left a job with what would be called MSM here.

When some RWer tells you it's the liberal media, counter with it's CORPORATE media owned by multi-nationals lock stock and barrel. I know this from direct personal experience.

Mainstream meaning where the most people get their information. There are folks that travel down the smaller tributaries, but CNN, FOX, CBS, NBC, have dug the deep channel that most people travel.

Mainstream could be corporate or not, but it means where most people get their information.

...of reliability, trustworthiness, soundness - a lack of extremism.
Probably because the word is coupled with "thinking" so often.
"Mainstream thinking" is safe, sound - to the point of provincialism and dullness.
The "mainstream media" are now increasingly radicalized and freaky.
And even though they have not yet managed to alienate the majority of their viewers, their growing right-wing radicalness clearly puts them outside of mainstream thinking.
So, in that sense, they've lost the right to the term mainstream to me.
See below for my replacement term that is much clearer (Captive Media)

As the media goes further to the Right it is less main stream. They are showing their cowardly and craven unwillingness to stand up to the administration. The corporate powers that own today's media are pulling all of the strings.

In a lighter vein, I sometimes call it McPravda.

My name for them. Designed to contain a description of what's wrong with the "MSM" right within the name. And I got it down to 2 little words.

No longer a free press at all but one that's captive to huge monied interests.

Use freely. No charge.
;)

The corporations work for the GOP.

Regularly Scheduled Programming.

I've never thought there was much "Mainstream" in what a bunch of elite stenographers who live in the DC fishbowl write or think.

Our media has been consolidated and "deregulated" into the hand of a few large corporations who view news either as entertainment or to further the company's agenda.

They are as much an enemy this year as the Repugnicans...and should never be trusted or believed without suspicion. Many of these corporates see an Obama victory as a threat as it surely means a big change at the FCC and other government agencies and a much promised review of 20 years of corporate abuse of the cables and public airwaves.

Meanwhile, Gramps, along with his close friend, Vickie Isemann have done a lot of their bidding...and why we never hear her name or her work in buying Gramps (that worried his staff).

Never was free to begin with. The MSM is just a bunch of whores selling lies to the highest bidder.