According to CNBC all the Major Cable/Media/Print Outlets are in Trouble!

[KoKo]

Ad revenue is way down..and their movies suck..

Have any of you thought that "Scotties" Blowback has less to do with "Media showing spine" or is it "Media Growing Tails" as they turn into whores for the Devil Corporate Masters who need RATINGS ABOVE ALL ELSE?

And...what would help their declining ratings the best? A PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL! They've run through the J-Lo, Missing Blonde Whites--children and females, the Serial Killers, Shark Attacks, Virus Scares, and even the "Terra Scares" are losing attention as Americans go "ho hum" and figure the Chimp is better than Tony Blair.

So...what's left? The "Media Whores" have gotten enough E-Mails and polling data from us to know that we on the middle left are FURIOUS with them. So their "Ace Card" in the deck is to now "look as if" they are sending their "attack reporters" out ther to slay the McClellan Dragon. "Make Scotty Sweat" the "Media Managers for the Corporations" tell their willing little reporter/whores...And for a few days "Plamegate" is all over the airwaves...as if that's the only Bush story that deserved a grilling of "Scotty Whore." :shrug: What about the rest of the Bush Lies...and as we all sit here (myself included) waiting for every press conference of "Whore Scotty" to see the "spinless ones" suddenly go on the attack...aren't we nothing but folks watching the endless weekend "sports hype" from ESPN? The game, the thrill, the players the obstacles...what they need to do to "overcome." Aren't we being "GAMED AGAIN?"

But, in the end...the "spinless" group is only working for their "Corporate Masters" and give a SH*T about the REPORTING THE TRUTH!

Does anyone else agree with me...or you think this post belongs in the "DU 9/11 Forum" for the Conspiracy Theorists to have fun with?"

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

1. We warned them , They ignored us

Americans will get our country back .

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Yep

It always happens where it hurts. The pockets.

[Stirk]

2. Their parent companies make plenty of cash, and they need the PR dept.

That's what big media has become: the PR wings of their respective conglomerates. What's a little ad revenue compared to war profiteering?

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

6. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

[Kahuna]

13. Yep! They do not care about ad revenues as much as the PR

function. If they cared about revenues and viewership, CNN would have cleaned up its act long ago. They are a willing purveyor of right wing propaganda.... Though I was surprised and thrilled to bush fembot Paula Zahn bitch slap a bush stooge over rove on her show last night. She beat him to a bloody pulp.

[dbonds]

3. Much more likely all reporters feel they are no longer protected.

They have all been shilling for bushco and now they see the loyalty that got Judith Miller (one of their special choosen). Bushco bit the hand that feeds and now its time to take down the tiger.

[KoKo]

8. At first I thought what you think. Media finally stands up for their own.

but the CNBC report made me rethink my normal "altruistic" thoughts...and then I thought about the years of Clinton and Bush first term and how they sat back and did NOTHING!

So...I went with the cynical...that they need a kick in "ratings" so they come back to the old dogs they kicked in the withers and shut out without food for years and ask them to come back begging and crying for a bit of meat. It's all in their cynical game plan. I had to pull myself back from applauding the "Media" for growing spine when I came to the conclusion that it was all about their "Whoremaster" telling them to:

"GET OUT THERE and GET RAITINGs YOU POS! RATINGS! RATINGS! I've got a Mansion in Florida and Aspen that I'm paying for...and wife and kiddies are pressing me to get out in the stores and BUY, BUY, BUY! Get out there you Media Whores...I AM THE CORPORATE PIMPMASTER AND I RULE YOU...and I NEED MORE MILLIONS!"

[KharmaTrain]

4. The Living Legacy Of Telcom '96

An old broadcast chestnut is that in hard times, the first thing advertisers do is cut their budgets. Either they cut their advertising or are more selective on where they spend. This is the real trouble facing broadcasting/cable in general.

A lot of these companies got real fat...especially in the late 90's when advertising revenue increases were clipping at 20-30% a year. For the past couple years those numbers are 20-30% in the other direction...less this year than last year.

Next it a problem similar to the airlines...a time bomb that is beginning to explode on some of these large corporations. Telcom '96 was carte blanche for the Comcasts and Clear Channels to gobble up stations and cable systems all over the place. They took on a lot of debt...at the time cashing in on higher stock prices, but now the bill collector is at the door...and with less revenues coming in, it's harder for these companies to meet their nut.

I wish this were a reflection of the corporate media's "accoutability", and maybe there's a wee bit of that in play here, but it's more the results of corporate media's largess than anything else. A good example is the amount of money Time/Warner still is trying to make up from its disasterous "merger" with AOL.

I'm sure there are some in the corporate media who would love a big White House scandal, but that sure isn't their Washington bureaus. Look at all the appologists that are parading across the screen the past couple days...many of these people know there's laws broken (probably knows who broke those laws) and now are playing judge and jury? Spare me.

[KoKo]

5. Yes..and thanks for that post...about the media...n/t

[Initech]

7. Great post!

I keep saying that Fox has shown epic levels of stupidity last week.

My personal favorite line was from Jon Stewart last night - "At this point, the White House Press Corps has been replaced with actual journalists!"

[mike_c]

9. I don't think it's possible for the corporate media...

...to serve the role of an independent press any longer except accidentally. Their interests will ALWAYS be aligned with the country's political powerbase as long as that base remains staunchly free-market capitalist. Greed always trumps social responsibility at when the share holders want their dividends.

[KoKo]

12. My hopes are pinned to the Internet and the real journalists that "we"

have helped by feeding them our free research, time and devotion. I hope it pays off in the end. Our country needs this to survive. Or, we will go the way of other "Empires" throughout history. Down the road to ruin. :-(

[1932]

10. You can make money from corp tax cuts only for so long.

Then you have to start shifting wealth to people who work for you so that they can actually be autonomous, willing purchasers and happy, productive people.

[sojourner]

11. ohhh --- I had my hopes up there for a moment. what you say makes sense.

[natrat]

15. time and newsweek better? i may buy a coppy

nytimes and wsj are forever lost and will hopefully burn in hell