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2008-04-22 Iraq

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Posted by ed 2008-04-22 06:45|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 Bad news brings in the eyeballs and advertising revenue.

While true to a degree, the MSM is also deeply in bed with the dhimocrats who have invested in defeat and will do anything to help bring it about. Including lying, and not publishing stories that fit their mold.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-22 08:10|| 2008-04-22 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Darth is exactly right. The MSM will not report good news because it challenges their Iraq as Vietnam meme. The shibboleth that bad news sells is pure BS as evidenced by the tanking of New York Times and other major media stocks over the years. Truth sells. I'd buy the NY Times in an instant if they could be relied upon to tell the whole truth and keep their political pandering out of the news stream. They can't and so I don't.
DanNY

Posted by DanNY">DanNY 2008-04-22 08:24|| newyork.gatheringofeagles.org]">[newyork.gatheringofeagles.org] 2008-04-22 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 It is not merely a question of advertising revenue. In the late fourties there was a communist-led concerted effort to infiltrate Hollywood in order to mold American minds. I cannot believe the commies missed that far more strategic target.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-22 08:25|| 2008-04-22 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 In the late fourties there was a communist-led concerted effort to infiltrate Hollywood in order to mold American minds. I cannot believe the commies missed that far more strategic target.

They didn't miss it, JFM. They tried by taking over the Screen Actors Guild, but were stopped cold by the SAG President at the time. A B-movie actor called Ronald Reagan.

Posted by ptah">ptah 2008-04-22 09:36|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-04-22 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Strategy Page is incorrect with respect to the "bad news brings in eyeballs".

The 'bad news' paradyme has been used for decades now and the viewership of the nightly national news shows and the readership of the NYTimes and WaPo continuing declining.

However, bad news not only reinforces the ideology of CBS, NYT, etc. A really compelling bad news story (if the USA was made to look bad)would have a better chance for one of the journalism awards. Of course if the news made the mullahs look bad, it wouldn't have a chance for an award.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-22 10:33|| 2008-04-22 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Ironically, the education establishment and the media propaganda establishment are at cross purposes on this one, and non-brainwashed people win as a result. The educrats have tailored the system to produce few high school graduates who give a damn about reading a newspaper. Drop-outs sure don't read papers. The entertainment media wants the empty-headed focussed on American Idol, Britney Spears and other such irrelevant crap. Upshot - world gets run (for the most part) by the earnestly educated and informed...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-04-22 10:58|| 2008-04-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Reading the above, I'm very glad "If it bleeds, it leads" no longer works.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-22 13:42|| 2008-04-22 13:42|| Front Page Top

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