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2008-10-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-10-02 08:13|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Chance the Gardener in "Being There?"

MSM = Unabashed, Unapologetic Trumpeters for the Left. Too lazy and too agenda-driven to do incisive, hard-hitting investigative reporting of abuses in its Democratic Party.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 08:39|| 2008-10-02 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Some of these magazines for lefties are give-aways that I have gotten in the past from airline frequent flyer miles only because they don't have anything more useful such as woodworking, gun magazines, camping, sports, Shotgun News, how to make your home brew, saving energy methods, hunting, otherwise useful stuff, etc. You know JohnQ-SixPack types of magazines. I do recycle them for landfill and other stuff. Rantburg is still the finest thing out there. Besides I am certain that Sun Tzu (Art of War) must have said somewhere: "Know what your enemy is thinking."

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 08:51|| 2008-10-02 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 The gray lady needs to sink, with BO tied to the mast(head).

I'm SAILING!...glub glub glub.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-10-02 09:33|| 2008-10-02 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 BNice but not enough: if the media are biased in favor of liberals it is in no small part because their staff is chock full of liberals and that is because that is the only variety availbale in the market. It would be time that conservatives embreace careers in journalism. And it would be time they attcked the root causes: those universities where teachers don't content themselves with using their classes for indoctrination but give bad appreciaytions to students who don't toe the line. Once they find that having Ward Churchils or Chomkis in their payroll is baaaaaad for business, universities, spevcially in soft sciences, will stop brainwashing students.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-02 09:57|| 2008-10-02 09:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Its a business. It goes out of business just like any other. It should be subject to the same standards as they demand by any other business. It's not a free speech issue. It's a commerce issue. The intent to defraud and misrepresent is punishable in both regulatory and civil law. If GM knew of a defect or a serious problem with their product and withheld that information they become liable as a consequence. We've been entertained to no end by the media hammering on other businesses. They should be subject to the same treatment. The truth is a defense. The lie is not. Just as GM can't avoid blame or penalties because a subcontractor fails to meet requirements, neither can the media that willfully neglects to check for the truth, escape the consequences for acting as an agent in any misrepresentations. I'll give them an out with a prominent front page disclosure posting, just like on the side of the cigarette packages, 'that the contents are not to be assumed to be true and that it is provided for entertainment purposes only'. Otherwise, they're in for the full consequences.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-02 12:41|| 2008-10-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Most of these general-circulation magazines are in fact niche products serving their version of the NPR demographic (and, in Newsweek's case, doctor's offices).

Perhaps you should tell your doctor that you dislike them

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-02 14:21|| 2008-10-02 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 The next bailout by the Dimwitted Congress will be the liberal media newspapers and networks when they go broke.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 17:19|| 2008-10-02 17:19|| Front Page Top

#8 "The Cure for Media Bias"

If I say "use a .45" will I get sink-trapped?

If so, then I won't.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-02 17:46|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-10-02 17:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Rupert Murdoch looked at media bias in cable news and saw "underserved market segment". Fox has taken tremendous market share from it's competition and has been very profitable.

Posted by DMFD 2008-10-02 18:32|| 2008-10-02 18:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Doesn't someone sell a T-shirt that says:

Rope, Tree, 'Journalist'
- some assembly required.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-02 19:01|| 2008-10-02 19:01|| Front Page Top

#11 40 cal hollow point

Posted by Hellfish 2008-10-02 20:45|| 2008-10-02 20:45|| Front Page Top

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