Should citizens start smacking "journalists" upside the head?

[devilgrrl]

Until the point comes across that they should start covering news stories that effect 99% of the population and stop making shit up to please the White House?

[against all enemies]

1. It's worse than you know. Check out how CNN sucks. Bob Novak is slime

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/arts/16rich.html?oref=login

[JohnOneillsMemory]

15. Novak has been a CIA mouthpiece for years along with much of the MSM.

Understand that the propaganda machine has been running since alteast the 1950s when ALL the mainstream media complied with CIA efforts in the Cold War long before Faux Noose.

CIA even installed employees into the mainstream media to ensure compliance with their 'needs.'
It never stopped. It was/is called Operation Mockingbird.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html


It came to light in the public eye in the 1970s and a pretense of ending it was made for PR purposes.

The management culture of profits dovetailed perfectly and anyone who sticks their head up is fired or marked as a 'kooky conspiracy theorist.' Usually both like Gary Webb who documented the CIA/Cocaine connection of Iran Contra under the Reagan/Bush cabal.

After 9/11, some journalists got a little gift of US military-grade anthrax along with some Democrats in Congress.

The unread USA-PATRIOT-ACT was quickly passed thereby giving up the Bill of Rights with no questions asked. Funny how that works, ay?

Search engine up this-
Cokie Roberts+father's plane crash+Nixon+Hoover.

Folks have to fly and nobody wants to go down for challenging the invisible secret government the way
several of the Watergate perps did http://www.skolnicksreport.com/shistory.html
Sen. Heinz and
Sen. Tower and
Sen. Wellstone and
JFK Jr. and
did after threatening the BushFamilyEvilEmpire.

[against all enemies]

16. Sobering stuff - more right than wrong I'm afraid. How about Candidate

Mel Carnahan, if Carnahan and Wellstone weren't killed in plane crashes the Senate might have a different look.

[Warpy]

2. That would result in an assault conviction and jail time.

Personally, I'm boycotting the bastards. I haven't watched TV news since 11/2. I don't subscribe to the rightwing fishwrap that calls itself a newspaper. I don't listen to talk radio (or commercial radio, for that matter). I don't buy "news" magazines at the newsstand.

The funny part is how little I miss it. The reruns of The Simpsons during the evening news tell me more than all those blowdried bobbleheads ever did. I read online news all over the country and all over the world and do a lot of reading between the lines.

They've proven that they aren't merely useless. They've proven that Jon Stewart is right, that they've been hurtingus, especially with the blackout on the massive election fraud story.

Deprive them of a market share, deprive them of an audience, deprive them of subscribers, and you'll start to hurt their revenues. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen.

[devilgrrl]

3. Oh, I'm totally with you!!!!!

I haven't watched TV news (with exception of the CBC) since 'hackElection 2004' - don't miss it a bit. However, reading some of the posts claiming that * was leading in exit polls, Condisleeza's confirmation hearings, etc., prompted me to ask the question.

[Taxloss]

8. Quite. If you don't agree, don't buy.

[mslux]

4. Figuratively, yes.

Has guests from San Diego overnight. First friend I have spoken with who have fallen into the black hole of MSM. Although they were Kerry supporters, it was astounding how little they knew of what happened in Ohio and the rest of the country during the election season.

[demosincebirth]

5. This is the first year that I really and truly...

feel that media is truly a bunch of whores.

[Harry S Truman]

6. Yes

And smack 'em hard. Get out and confront your local TV and newspaper people. The whole "filth estate" stinks from the ground up.

[forgethell]

7. An excellent idea.

And why stop there? Once they've learned the lesson, make sure to give reinforcemnt so they don't backslide.

Let me know where they imprison you. I'll send cookies.

[devilgrrl]

10. I think I'll be able to get off provided that I wear white silk gloves...

how much damage can you do wearing those?

Just a good open handed slap to the side of head. SLAP!!!! "Fuckin' cover the news! Who gives a shit about Amber fucking Frye? Do your job!!!!!!!" :grr:


:silly:

[bliss_eternal]

14. And I don't care about Brad Pitt & his break up or

what some celeb is wearing on the red carpet,the ratings for American Idol, or Mel Gibson's farm status, etc., etc., etc.

By the way, wouldn't they have to pull their heads out of their asses for you to smack them? If you can get that to happen, let me know and I will help you smack them all!

[Up2Late]

9. Eggs

Rotten Eggs! :evilgrin:

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. It's all about their bank accounts, beyond that, the

Katie "Navy Seals rock" Courics' and the Matt "I'm too sexy for myself" Lauers' et al, don't give a rat's ass about "journalistic" integrity. Fifteen million/yr contracts buy alot of "journalistic" integrity in their view. Am I jaded and cynical or what?

[devilgrrl]

12. Not any more jaded or cynical than I am.

I hear you!

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Good to know I'm not alone!

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I think I hve a teevee

I think

Ok it went on for the parade on C-SPAN today... GOOD FOR THE BOOS... then I went and did the jumping jack on the stenography corp to see how they woul;d ahem spin it

I was suprised to hear George (I am a right wing whore) will state that this was more akin to a banana republic and that it was out of a George Orwell novel... (they do tell teh truth every so often), but after that, they did not disapoint.

They were in top spining form today...