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TomCADem

(17,380 posts)
Sat Oct 4, 2014, 08:58 PM Oct 2014

Internet Portals Are In Full Pro-GOP Mode

Has anyone taken a look at supposedly neutral portals like Yahoo or even supposedly liberal leaning sites like MSNBC. In the month leading to the election, Republicans are largely ignored unless they are attacking Democrats and the leads are primarily focused on pumping up the GOP. For example, today Yahoo has:

1. Kashkari aims to rebrand GOP in gubernatorial bid.
2. What the GOP Will Do If It Wins Congress
3. A Republican wave
4. Poll: Voters say they would most like to kick California out of the U.S.
5. The Real Reason Your Doctor Dislikes Obamacare
6. Obama Offers Amnesty And Evasions To Latino Caucus

The links to these stories? The New York Post, Examiner, Wochit?

Even MSNBC tends to simply parrot back memes pushed by more overtly right wing sites and no longer featuring stories talking about the huge amounts of outside money flowing into battleground states like Alaska and Kentucky in corporate America's bid to buy back the Senate.

At one time, the internet offered an alternative to corporate media narratives, but now with the growth of sponsored content, real news has fallen victim to thinly disguised corporate propaganda.

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Internet Portals Are In Full Pro-GOP Mode (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 2014 OP
Should votes 'magically' swing Democratic abbeyco Oct 2014 #1
Annoying and disgusting, isn't it? mojowork_n Oct 2014 #2
Media outlets fashion narratives to try to depress DEM turnout, blkmusclmachine Oct 2014 #3
Yahoo loves the Daily Caller's shit as well Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #4

abbeyco

(1,555 posts)
1. Should votes 'magically' swing Democratic
Sat Oct 4, 2014, 09:20 PM
Oct 2014

on voting day, I'll be laughing my ass off at all of 'em. I honestly do not think that there's a snowball's chance in hell that the republics will be gaining ground.

I could be wrong but I think the 'major' news outlets have to be buttering their own bread on this one.

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
3. Media outlets fashion narratives to try to depress DEM turnout,
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 03:10 PM
Oct 2014

and the secret black box vote "counters" deliver the expected results
(DEMS lose).

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