The Greatest Failure of the Mainstream Media.

[Stuart G]

The greatest failure of the mainstream media in the U.S. is simple and obvious. It is so simple. It has failed to use one word to describe the President. The most descriptive word, yet elusive on TV, radio and mainstream print. That word is liar

I suspect this is an unwritten rule put out by the right wing that control the media. Why? Because everyone knows a liar. You cannot trust him, and everything he says is a lie. We raise our children to tell the truth.(at least to us) It is in our culture. It is in human society.

Yet the Mainstream Media doesn't use the word. The most descriptive word is never used. Time, Newsweek, U.S. News World Reports, etc. never use this word. IT is too descriptive. Too simple. Too easy to understand.

In the 70s and 80s. the media would use all words. Newsweek would have a cover story exposing some important problem. Can you imagine the cover story? President misleads the public on Watergate?..sure..Newsweek would say.. "The President is the biggest liar in all of U.S.History"
.
NOt today. Newsweek, Time, NBC, CBS, and the rest, fail to tell the truth due to their desire to protect Mr.Bush.
What a sad situation we are in.

[annabanana]

1. They have used every euphemism for "liar" so often that they

seem like something else.. something LESS than a lie.

I challenge anyone to come up with another synonym for "liar" that hasn't been completely neutered by media over use.

[Echo In Light]

5. "Incompetence" has been the establishment-friendly 'criticism' of Bushco for a long time

[Stuart G]

8. Yes, incompetence is correct,but other words

are compliant, or in partnership with. (or just as guilty as) For the First Amendment to the Constitution is to prevent this. The media must tell the truth to protect the population. Yet the media does not use this simple word to protect Mr. Bush. The founding fathers would puke.... :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Echo In Light]

11. Re the long list of atrocities/subversions of democracy, "incompetent" is very euphemistic

What this admin has done, and un-done, requires a lot of specific, diligent effort. The powers that be however would sooner have the public mind be thinking along the lines of a Saturday Night Live sketch {oh, that ol dumb-o Bushy!..he's so SILLY!} than realizing the stark truth and motive of these War Pigs.

[Beausoleil]

6. Prevaricator?

Yeah, that'll work!

Although the media is reluctant to use 5 syllable words, for good reason.

[malaise]

2. This man wasn't afraid

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/30.html

[KharmaTrain]

3. Not Very Mainstream Of 'Em...But Surely Corporate

Yep...the corporate media couldn't get enough of calling Bill Clinton a liar at any chance cause he tried to cover up a hummer...somehow blowing their circuit of "moral outrage"...but when his assholiness lies about wars and destroying the constitution or torturing, then he's "mispoken" or was "misunderstood". Dare to call him a liar and you're called "unamerican" and being childish.

The big problem is the corporate media is a part of booooshie's big lie. They've profited from it, they promote it and will defend it. They're also coward by this regime...afraid to rock the boat to lose their "access" or other perks. They're addicted to the same power and greed this regime stands for. Of course they're gonna defend this asshat at all costs.

Thank goodness for alternative forms of media...imagine what we wouldn't know if we didn't take the news into our own hands?

[Stuart G]

4. Why? ..Here is what would happen if they used the word..

Ok, Let us say that a couple of the weekly news magazines publish front page stories on ..President Bush is the Greatest Liar in U.S. History. Then, someone would ask, his mouthpiece, Is the President a liar? Then, the mouthpiece would have to respond, "No the President is not a liar."
.. Then the media would have to prove that the mouthpiece is a liar. Same goes for any question about being a liar or telling lies asked to Mr. Bush by the mainstream media at a press conference. He would have to say.."No, I do not lie." And the media would have to prove that he is wrong. End of discussion.....It is sad indeed.

[KharmaTrain]

9. It's Even Simpler Than That

The corporate media made billions off the Iraq fiasco...from the big ratings of people watching "shock and awe" to no-bid contracts for "special services"...be it new jet engines from General Electric to a lot of the money thrown away at Al Hurrah...the networks were "consultants" on that fiasco...not to mention all the "deregulation" this regime has promoted that also has benefited the corporate media's bottom line. These people have had it good for the past 7 1/2 years...what do the Democrats offer? Reregulation, accountability and a total upheaval of the beltway social order...the corporate media doesn't like change it can't manipulate or control.

The corporate media can't call booooshie a liar cause it would mean calling themselves the same thing. It would be an admission they purposedly lied to us and failed on being the watchdogs of the government. They got too cozy to the power and not to their customers...and most important with the truth.

There's nothing stopping anyone from getting on the tube and saying this regime lies...but they know that when that word is used, their "gravy train" gets derailed.

[go west young man]

16. Well put. They are complicit enablers, good nazi's.

Bill O'leilly and Hannity and the rest of the Faux bunch are still covering for their asses.

[Stuart G]

17. I agree completely with the above 2 posts.

It makes me very sad that we have arrived here. The truth is avoided to protect some corporate profits. That earnings per share are more important than individual life and the fundamental truths that this nation was founded on. Quietly, it looks like the liars have won, and it could be too late to reverse this, or at least, change the direction that the media is going.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Don't forget. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton are liars too. Bush, McCain are not. nt

[Stuart G]

10. That is right,

Lots of use of the word against us.
,,Yet, Mr Bush never gets the word used to describe him (some exceptions..Olbermann, and progressive radio, and of course the internet.

[Stuart G]

12. Can you imagine if the corporate media told the truth?

It happened once. Mr Nixon in response to something said.. "I am not a crook"

I have the newspaper in my basement..with that headline..

Mr Bush says.."I am not a liar".
.. Sure and it will not snow in Alaska next winter..

[KharmaTrain]

13. We Get Truth Through The Backdoor

I remember that Milk Producers press conference in '73 when Nixon came out with that crack...and it wasn't an admission of his lawlessness, but a rare moment of clarity. It's not unlike the many Gramps has that turn into flip-flops on virtually every position.

The ironic line of that exchange with Dan Rather was the follow up...where Nixon asked Rather "are you running for something"...and Rather's classic reply, "No sir, are you running FROM something"?

This regime will never admit to a lie and we'll always hear that it had "good intentions"...even if it was a clusterfuck, it was a "good try". Again, the corporate media has to follow this line or be proven to be both enablers and totally inept for missing so many important stories. But in a country where the media IS the message now, they feel no need to set the record straight and be accountable.

[Echo In Light]

14. If the media actually fulfilled its obligation to the people, there'd be no Bush/Cheney admin

[DogPoundPup]

15. It's virtually 1984