Can We Please Stop Referring To IT As the MSM?

[Clara T]

One could go on for hours about the deceptive practice of the TV news outlets and the Papers of Record and then get into the subtleties of the way the issues are framed, how narrow the range of discussion is, the way the images are put forth and/or kept from view, the stories that ARE NOT told and so on.

One could also trace and display the corporate owners of the various BIg News Outlets be it NBC or the New York Times and expose how this influences every aspect of their disingenuous and deceitful practices, and this too would take days and days and such people as McChesney, Bagdikian have thankfully done so.

So let us use the proper terminology and place the proper name to the propaganda echo chamber and call it, especially when referring to it in public, the "Corporate Media"; or "The Mighty Wurlitzer"; or "News Goo" or make up your own incisive term.

In using the term "Mainstream Media" one lends an aura of credibility to these News Machines that practice to deceive. With some terms it is just semantics and it should be let go, in this case it is too important, too much of a vital cog in the Empire's repertoire of mass medication of the masses.

Just the simple phrase, "Hey did you read that in the Corporate News?", changes the way the discussion may go when referring to any sundry news item spit from the tongue of the Media Whores.

[havocmom]

1. Works for me! Recommended

[EFerrari]

2. What you said. Corporatist press serving the Kleptocrats.

K&R

:hi:

[movonne]

3. How about calling it what it is...propaganda ministry!

[valerief]

21. Bingo!

[Mrspeeker]

4. the liberal media.....

is somehow owned and operated by 5 huge Conservative corporations....I'll go with "the story from the Corporate News" because they sure are good at telling stories :)

[LisaLynne]

5. Yes, that's a good idea.

Calling it "Mainstream" legitimizes it. It's not mainstream. It's the catapult of the propaganda.

[gatorboy]

6. I've been reading about the use of the term "Media" by the Right.

During the Nixon/Goldwater era when the battle to paint the news as liberal took off, the hard right conservatives took great pains to paint them more liberal than they were. The term itself , "media" was one of the words the conservatives pushed hard to replace what we had been calling them for years: "The Press". To the right, the term "media" had a more elitest feel to it and they've been pushing it ever since.

I was actually surprised by how far back they've been pushing their schemes (Including buying right wing books in bulk to help them make Best Seler lists).

[truth2power]

7. I've been referring to it as the corporate media for a long time.

[MazeRat7]

8. Like it or not, its Main Stream. (MSM)

These are the same people that gave you "Survivor", "I Want to Marry A Millionaire", "Blonde white girl missing/killed", etc, and a host of other brain dead shows geared toward the least common dominator. These people are in business to make money. Thats means ratings and ad $$$... it has nothing (and I repeat nothing) to do about news.

There is really no point in getting your panties in a wad over something you can do nothing about. I would suggest looking to alternative sources for your information and let the rest of the sheep go rot in hell. Bad information leads to bad choices... thats why chimpy is our selected resident.

MZr7

[Clara T]

9. Panties Not In Wad

The phrase has become MSM in common usage by it being used without thought and repeated ad nauseam by the very same MSMbots.

So by using the proper terms you can change the perception and break the cycle of thought control.

Myself sans TV for 15 years and would never dream of using NY Times, WAPO etc. as legitimate news source. Waste of time and moolah.

[MazeRat7]

14. Oh I know... its a figure of speech. I didn't mean it to be personal...

My point was that we can call it whatever we like to be more "accurate", but the bottom line is when you have people that think shows like I referenced are worthy of watching...they really don't care if the news is accurate or insightful. Just so long as its entertaining.

We are on the same page, really. My rant is against the dumb fucks that support them by watching. Obviously you are not on that list. *grin.

*peace.

MZr7

[Bucky]

19. Panties in a wad is ALWAYS personal. Just not always unpleasant

But I digress

[MazeRat7]

22. Now thats funny *grin

[Frank Cannon]

17. I agree. The bulk of America watches/reads this garbage...

and therefore it is, painful though it may be, mainstream.

[Rocknrule]

10. How about "the Republican cheerleader industry"?

[zonmoy]

11. So what would be better

corpo-christo-fascist news.

[Peace Patriot]

12. You're probably right (re, a simple phrase, "Corporate News") but I

favor...

...war profiteering corporate news monopolies...

I've learned to speed-type it. And, when I say it out loud, people smile or laugh with recognition. It's a hit.

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Journalistic crime of the ages: Nov. 2, 2004. Kerry is winning the news consortium (Edison-Mitofsky) exit polls all day long. Meanwhile, two private Bushite corporations, Diebold (under CEO Wally O'Dell, Bush-Cheney campaign chair, major donor and fundraiser, who promised in writing to "deliver" Ohio to Bush/Cheney in 2004), and ES&S (spinoff of Diebold, and brother corporation--the two of them run by the Urosevich brothers, Todd and Bob--initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave a million dollars to the Chalcedon Foundation (death for homosexuals)), are tabulating 80% of the nation's votes, using "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it--with virtually no audit/recount controls. Their secret vote count results start to come in, via an A-P computer, and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies shut down the reporting system (they call it a "crash") for about an hour, during which they FALSIFY their exit poll numbers--in ridiculous, impossible ways--to force their exit polls (Kerry won) to 'FIT' the results of Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae (Bush won)--thus denying the American people strong evidence of election fraud, and squelching protests and calls for investigation.

Our democracy was stolen that night. All of our fail-safe systems failed us, except this one, the internet. All other "checks and balances" are gone--including the main pillar of our freedom, the news media. The war profiteering corporate news monopolies were DIRECTLY COMPLICIT in that stolen election.

They are not "mainstream." They are fascists--a small coterie of about 5 fatcat CEOs, who squeeze and shape "news" and "opinion" to fit the agenda of a fascist minority. It's odd, but even their own issue and opinion polls, along with all other polls, consistently show a 60% to 70% progressive, anti-Bush American majority in this country, on all issues, over a long period of time. They have not convinced anyone of anything, except this: they have convinced much of that progressive majority that it is in the minority, and thus have made the members of the great progressive American majority feel isolated and alone. Their sneakiest bit of subliminal messaging.

The ownership and control of our election system by rightwing Bushite corporations is/was the biggest black hole in the news. The corporate news monopolies' doctoring of the exit polls is perhaps the second biggest black hole.

People feel it, but they can't make it quite conscious: WHY they are oppressed, disempowered and disenfranchised.

Please stop dignifying this murder of our democracy with the word "mainstream." Call them what they are: The war profiteering corporate news monopolies. Even if it's a mouthful. Even if it gives you carpal tunnel syndrome.

That's how I feel about it. What they did on Nov. 2, 2004, is unforgivable--and desperately needs exposure.

But I would be happy if people here just start saying "Corporate News." Big improvement.

[valerief]

13. I call it The State News.

Because the Corporations are the State.

[Peace Patriot]

16. People might not get "state news," immediately, thinking it's California

or Minnesota news. But it gave me an idea: The Bush junta news.

[valerief]

20. Yeah, or maybe BBN. Big Brother News.

Or Shill News.

[Joe Fields]

15. Corporate News sounds okay.

But then, how do describe CNBC? Corporate Corprate News?

[Peace Patriot]

18. "Corporate News Monopolies" is a bit less of a mouthful than...

"War profiteering corporate news monopolies."

I like how "monopolies" covers the territory--from financial monopoly to highly managed "news."

You'd be amazed, though--especially if you savor, and believe in, every word--how easy it is to get used to typing and saying...

War. Profiteering. Corporate. News. Monopolies.