How Fox News created a culture of idiots

[Bill USA]

8. it's a very challenging problem not made less so by the fact that ALL corporate media is involved in

Last edited Wed Apr 9, 2014, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)

misinformation.

How many times (in the thousands?) have we seen 'discussions' about President Obama's 'leadership' and how many times has the word "filibuster" been mentioned on M$M since Obama took office (how about ZERO). The 'discussions' of Obama's "leadership" are right out of a Frank Luntz play-book on framing (twisting) the presentation of an issue. They've had probably thousands of these 'discussions' framed on Obama's 'leadership' but never have the M$M ever mentioned during Obama's administrations that the Repugnants have set records for filibustering legislation (they have madereport on the GOP filibustering Presidential appointments).

I don't know if the meeting, organized by Luntz, the GOP had on the day of President Obama's innauguration, detailed in Draper's book: "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives", has ever been brought up on M$M (possibly on 60 Minutes before Don Hewitt retired). But I do know, I have never seen it or heard of it. The GOP toadies making up the M$M prefer to have discussions of Obama's leadership rather than bring up the fact that the GOP leadership, at that meeting, decided on a strategy to fight everything Obama and the Democrats tried to do - in particular anything he tried to do to rebuild the economy after the Republicans Trickle Down - Deregulation disaster.

This is why millions are running to the internet and away from NBC's Brian Williams, ABC's Diane Sawyer, CBS's Scott Pelley and PBS (Fox News - light) Gwen Awful and Judy Woodruff, to try to find out what's really going on. M$M carefully edit's their reporting so as to not offend the GOP.


For one of the best articles on the GOP mission of Government destruction/sabotage (so they could then campaign saying: "See, the Democrats/Obama can't get anything done/ Obama lacks 'leadership'! &quot by Peter Beinart, published in Time magazine, read "Why Washington is Tied up in Knots".


For more on Frank Luntz see: Introducing a Searchable, Easily Accessed, Text-Version of the Frank Luntz Republican Playbook

the Luntz Republican Playbook was noted way back by DUers: freeandbrave, and Papau and NAO.

also from the Frank Luntz Republican Playbook PART X "APPENDIX: THE 14 WORDS NEVER TO USE" - this is a good short indicator of the crafty machinations of the Luntz mind.


[div style="border: 1px solid #000000;" class="excerpt"] NOte to anybody interested: note that I used names of celebrity news readers of M$M. This increases likelihood that the criticism of M$M will be seen by them. They all google their names to see how the public is responding to their performances. I suggest that when critiqueing M$M use names and any other terminology (i.e. if your criticism is specific to an issue) relevant to the issue/coverage you are talking about to increase the likelihood that it will be seen.

***********************************************************************************************************
ON EDIT:

I checked this out a bit. Found that FRONTLINE had something about the meeting on Obama's innauguration day. They talked to Draper, among others (Republicans) about the meeting: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/inside-obamas-presidency/transcript-36/
(emphasis my own)

NEWT GINGRICH, NEWT GINGRICH, Speaker of the House, 1995-99: The point I made was that we had to be prepared, in the tradition of Wooden at UCLA, to run a full court press. And we had to see how Obama behaved and to offer an alternative to what he wanted to do.

ROBERT DRAPER: So they decided that they needed to begin to fight Obama on everything. This meant unyielding opposition to every one of the Obama administration’s legislative initiatives.

NOte Gingrich said "we had to see how Obama behaved and to offer an alternative to what he wanted to do"... this is exactly how the GOP operated. They didn't have any ideas of their own. They just waited to see what Obama wanted to do and then they came up with a plan that would obstruct delay or kill whatever it was Obama wanted to do. They brougth no ideas of their own to the table. This is nothing new for the GOP, but it was much more blatant.

PBS Frontline gave Luntz a chance to RE-FRAME "the meeting" of the GOP leaders (no doubt because Luntz knew the account of 'the meeting' in the broadcast of Jan 15, 2013 "Inside Obama's Presidency" sounded pretty bad, the GOP probably demanded a Luntz Reframing of "the meeting" which appeared on Feb 12, 2013 as a part of the broadcast "Cliffhanger: "How how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit". (don't expect anybody at PBS to agree this is how the interview came to be and came to be included in Cliffhanger). The Frank Luntz interview transcript is here: "How the “21st-Century Republicans” Changed Washington". The part about the meeting is pure Luntz disinformation wizardry. Luntz could get a murderer on trial off by convincing a jury that the murderer was using the gun as a fireworks display and unfortunately: "the victim ran into the bullets ... 24 times."