Two words that will get the msm to do their jobs...

[MotorCityMan]

President Obama

:patriot:

[Stellen]

1. I hoped that would be the case, but after what I heard this morning

I have little hope. Bill Pres announced that MSNBC is "concerned" about the left wing bias KO brings to election coverage, and is thinking about removing him from that. KO says he'll walk if that happens.

GOD FORBID we get the truth from even one man in the whole of radio or television. I'm worried now that the right wing bias will just escalate. I'm totally fed up.

[bdamomma]

2. welcome to DU Stellen!!

it's going to be a bumpy ride. :hi:

[Stellen]

14. Thank you.

I'll fasten my seat belt. :)

[warren pease]

3. I was thinking more like "Sherman Anti-Trust" (if the hyphen makes it one word)...

I was also thinking something like "RICO violations," or "Class-Action Suit."

Too bad you can't appeal to "journalistic integrity." Unfortunately, speaking as somebody who used to be "one of them" back in the day, in the US the so-called free press has gradually redefined the phrase to suit the ethos of the times.

So "journalistic integrity," which used to be a professional canon, has devolved over the past 30 or so years to represent -- at various times -- an impediment, a convenient camouflage, total propagandist bullshit, a standing joke and now a universally understood oxymoron.

Too bad. It used to be a hell of a way to make a (very modest) living. Now it's the moral equivalent of working in a product development lab that tests pain thresholds by torturing live animals.


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[malaise]

4. I'm looking forward to their new views on

Executive Privilege.

[Jeanette in FL]

8. Ha Ha Ha, yes their "New Views"

on Executive Privileges. Isn't that the truth. All of a sudden they will find all kinds of "new" questions to ask President Obama. "After all, it's their job to ask the hard questions", they will exclaim.

:hi:

[dysfunctional press]

5. blow job.

or it could be hyphenated as one word: blow-job.

the current lapdog media should be coming down with a bad case of rabies round about 1-21-09

[zbdent]

6. They will suddenly remember that they are supposed to question

the President, instead of just delivering orally the White House press releases ...

[NewJeffCT]

7. You're correct, of course

and, after beating up Obama for years on minor issues, they'll suddenly say the public is tired of it when they stop questioning the next Republican president...

[truebrit71]

9. How about this one "Fairness Doctrine"....?

Threaten those presstitutes with actually having to be balanced and they might begin to do it voluntarily...

[mmonk]

10. The Fairness Doctrine and media reform are the things

we will be voting on at the NC Democratic Convention in June (approving should I say). We are sending the message to Washington with our congressional representatives.

[Orsino]

11. Which job?

Whoring for Big Money? They're already on it.

[Supersedeas]

17. expect no change there -- advertisers and marketeers demand RW sensationalism

[Echo In Light]

12. Dead wrong

Irrespective of who "the president" is {what a fuckin' joke, anyway}, the corporate/state nexus can always rely on their megaphone mouthpiece to pimp whatever falsity/spin/propaganda/obfuscation the powers that be want 'sold' to the public mind.

[mmonk]

13. We need to make it hard for them.

This is so such things as embedded journalism which was created by Nazi Germany isn't repeated as an American practice.

[Echo In Light]

15. The good news is, M$M has been in a panic over the internet

Some months back, C-SPAN covered a major pow-wow/conference of mainline media owners, CEOs, guru's, etc, who were visibly upset over their loss of control over the public mind.

It's easy to take it for granted, but imagine how fucked we'd be without it...

[mmonk]

16. Yep.

It's the reason they are trying to gain control of it and the reason America is divided without common ground due to information and its availability and knowledge of what is reality and what is propaganda.

[warren pease]

18. And the bad news is garbage legislation like the (thankfully dead for the moment)...

..."Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" AKA S 1959.

I posted the other day that people who track these kinds of outrages say S 1959 will never make it out of committee and is effectively DOA. I confirmed that story with somebody else before posting, so I'm hoping this POS bill is, in fact, a corpse.

But, like sewage, repression always floats to the surface. The same day the death of S 1959 was announced, ol' Jumpin' Joementum (asshole - Tel Aviv) started blathering about how the Intertubes are breeding "Islamist Radicals" bent on the destruction of Israel. His solution, of course, involves censorship, a strategy beloved by all blue-nosed right wing repressed turds like this slime creature from hell.

This time it's Youtube, where Joe feels much of this indoctrinating material lives. To their tremendous credit, Youtube execs politely but firmly told him to take a flying fuck at the Third Reich.

But you know it'll be back again and again, in one stealth form or another, maybe hidden in the fine print of some resolution where a "nay" vote is politically toxic -- something like a proclamation designating, say, October 31st as "Support Our Troops or We'll Kick Your Ass and Happy Non-Denominational Pretend Veneration of the Souls of the Departed Which Don't Really Exist Day."

The war on (some) drugs provided the template for this crap. It also prepared the legal path toward voiding the Fourth Amendment and habeas corpus in "cases where the security of our nation is threatened." They're even using the same script.

Find some target group you want to mess with, run full background checks on the main members, set up full audio and video surveillance, tap the phones and monitor all internet activity, get an alert when somebody goes to a site like 9/11Truth.org, send in the undercover guy and give him a couple of weeks establishing credentials and befriending the alphas.

Next steps: if nobody's advocating or planning violence -- like tossing a brick through some corporate window -- do a little provocateuring and stir up some shit, aid and abet the process of planning and carrying out some meaningless act of random destruction featuring dud explosives that couldn't even harm one of Bushie's frogs, bring in a couple dozen heavily armed robocops, the provocateur's badge comes out, the cuffs click shut (once the obligatory beatings are over), into the cars, teary last looks at the streets for a very long time.

Mission accomplished. Terrorist cell exposed and eliminated. Dangerous people in custody. Plots exposed. Bomb- making materials seized. Homegrown terrorists linked to Iranian radicals. Cheney threatens Tehran with reprisals.

Sounds about right so far. Complete the story to fit your favorite apocalyptic scenarios.


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[Echo In Light]

19. Now that is a quite a duzy, Warren