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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Mainstream Media Suffers from Conservative-Induced Stockholm Syndrome
The Mainstream Media Suffers from Conservative-Induced Stockholm Syndrome
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
I was reading an opinion piece by Howard Kurtz on CNN this weekend titled, For Obama, its no more Mr. Nice Media.
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That immediately made me think of the power of perceptions. For example, I hadnt been aware Obama and the media had ever been married. The honeymoon is over? The honeymoon cant be over for the simple reason that there never was a honeymoon....I begin to wonder if the MSM is suffering from conservative-induced Stockholm syndrome. Certainly, after years of simultaneously defending the conservative viewpoint and being attacked for supposedly defending the liberal viewpoint, they have a right to be messed up. I wonder if, due to dangerously high levels of delusion, it is time to put the MSM, if not the Fourth Estate as a whole, away as a threat to society.
Kurtz wrote that,
I dont think that in general, Obama was ever given the benefit of the doubt by the so-called liberal media elite but the conservative viewpoint has gained wide currency...Fox News can say Romneys problems were trivial but they were clearly not trivial for the American voter. I dont know about you, but being characterized as an uppity taker cannot be defended as a gaffe or misstep unless by that you mean Romney accidentally said what he actually thought about us...For just about the first time ever, the Republican Partys extremism bit itself in the ass, becoming so extreme that even the mainstream media could ignore it no longer. They actually had the audacity to, as Fox News put it, (Pound) Romney With Partisan Fact Checking!...refusing to conform to Republican propaganda is apparently a form of media bias. Anything less than a free pass for their extremism is pro-Obama bias.
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Of this incident, Kurtz wrote, The Karl report turned out to be based on an inaccurate, misleading characterization of an email, somehow managing to fail to mention that the Republicans had doctored those emails, and ABC News own culpability, as though poor Karl was the victim of a hoax...If the media is so pro-Obama, why are they suspicious of Obama and not of the Republican Party, which so adroitly manipulated this episode?
They may not all be Fox News, but sometimes, there isnt a lot of difference. The Republican point of view shows up everywhere, like US News & World Report contributing editor and Fox News opinion guy Peter Roff, who in September 2010 provided More evidence of pro-Obama mainstream media bias; or former Bush speechwriter Mary Kate Cary September 2012 opinion piece in the US News & World Report, that Americans Are Sick of Medias Pro-Obama Bias.
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https://www.politicususa.com/mainstream-media-feelings-hurt-pretends-obamas-friend.html
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
I was reading an opinion piece by Howard Kurtz on CNN this weekend titled, For Obama, its no more Mr. Nice Media.
<...>
That immediately made me think of the power of perceptions. For example, I hadnt been aware Obama and the media had ever been married. The honeymoon is over? The honeymoon cant be over for the simple reason that there never was a honeymoon....I begin to wonder if the MSM is suffering from conservative-induced Stockholm syndrome. Certainly, after years of simultaneously defending the conservative viewpoint and being attacked for supposedly defending the liberal viewpoint, they have a right to be messed up. I wonder if, due to dangerously high levels of delusion, it is time to put the MSM, if not the Fourth Estate as a whole, away as a threat to society.
Kurtz wrote that,
Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators even some of the presidents usual defenders are bemoaning his shortcomings. Suddenly, Obama isnt getting the benefit of the doubt.
I dont think that in general, Obama was ever given the benefit of the doubt by the so-called liberal media elite but the conservative viewpoint has gained wide currency...Fox News can say Romneys problems were trivial but they were clearly not trivial for the American voter. I dont know about you, but being characterized as an uppity taker cannot be defended as a gaffe or misstep unless by that you mean Romney accidentally said what he actually thought about us...For just about the first time ever, the Republican Partys extremism bit itself in the ass, becoming so extreme that even the mainstream media could ignore it no longer. They actually had the audacity to, as Fox News put it, (Pound) Romney With Partisan Fact Checking!...refusing to conform to Republican propaganda is apparently a form of media bias. Anything less than a free pass for their extremism is pro-Obama bias.
<...>
Of this incident, Kurtz wrote, The Karl report turned out to be based on an inaccurate, misleading characterization of an email, somehow managing to fail to mention that the Republicans had doctored those emails, and ABC News own culpability, as though poor Karl was the victim of a hoax...If the media is so pro-Obama, why are they suspicious of Obama and not of the Republican Party, which so adroitly manipulated this episode?
They may not all be Fox News, but sometimes, there isnt a lot of difference. The Republican point of view shows up everywhere, like US News & World Report contributing editor and Fox News opinion guy Peter Roff, who in September 2010 provided More evidence of pro-Obama mainstream media bias; or former Bush speechwriter Mary Kate Cary September 2012 opinion piece in the US News & World Report, that Americans Are Sick of Medias Pro-Obama Bias.
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https://www.politicususa.com/mainstream-media-feelings-hurt-pretends-obamas-friend.html
More examples of the media's pro-Obama bias:
- Tea bagger coverage before health care law passed.
- CNN on SCOTUS health care ruling
- Any Fox Noise report
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022868542
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