If you hate the corporate media and blame them for fucking us all check in here

[Lorax7844]

Bush, the Iraq War, letting Cheney off the hook, pushing the "free trade" garbage that has destroyed our middle class, for trying to kill healthcare reform, put your hate where it belongs on the corporate media.

[kenny blankenship]

1. They should die puking blood.

[johnfunk]

2. Not agonizing enough.

[kenny blankenship]

3. OK, they should be slowly suffocated in a vat of their own filth

[redqueen]

7. Then resurrected, then suffocated again... etc.

Decades of this shit... decades of serving their corporate masters, to the detriment of their country.

[The Doctor.]

36. You mean, 'to the detritus of their country'.

[The Doctor.]

35. Ummm... but they breathe that to begin with... n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. NO NO NO... JUST SUFFOCATE ON THEIR OWN VOMIT

[backscatter712]

41. I hope the right-wingers in the media die of cancer!

Give 'em a few rounds of chemo hell, first...

[MrsBrady]

85. now Kenny, don't hold back, dear n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. The corporate media whores definitely deserve some of the blame

And their entire purpose is to keep the general public ignorant and uninformed.

But it's the DLC traitors and BlueBalled cowards who willingly voted (along with the Repukes) to enable all the things you mentioned. And they cannot be let off the hook either.

[ecstatic]

5. I think I'm going to abstain from the MSM the rest of the week

Between the Birther coverage, "polls," and the Gates story--I'm really f*cking done for now.

[Jester Messiah]

8. True enough, but I also blame their enablers:

Enablers being those who delegate their thinking to the media in the first place.

[nebenaube]

9. I fought back in the only real way that matters...

I've packed the satellite receiver up; tomorrow I get the returnable components off of the roof...

[corkhead]

47. I assume you have to be talking about Dish Network. I just sent them back their shit

I got a washing machine sized box instead of the one they finally sent sent me and packed up the ENTIRE dish (wasp nests and all) and shipped it off using their shipping label.

I have been at war with dish network for about 3 months. it started when I had equipment failure and they wanted to charge me $100 to look at it. I had been easy monthly money for them for 5 years. I canceled my service and they have been nothing but pricks ever since, including trying to charge my credit card $700 for not sending their shit back fast enough when they hadn't sent me the box with the shipping label.

I am on a life mission to tell everyone I can how much of a horrible waste of money Dish Network is. They can't go bankrupt quickly enough for my satisfaction.

[Truth Talks]

10. Scum

There are few life forms lower than media whores. If there was a revolution, and I wound up installed as dictator, they would pay a very terrible price for their crimes.

I turned my TV off several years ago and don't subscribe to any newspapers or magazines. I get all my news from the Internet. Of course, the 'Net itself is rife with media whores - many of them posing as the good guys.

I'm really interested in Hugo Chavez' war against the media. I'd like to learn more about his methods and results. Many people accuse him of censorship, but how do you take out a media whore without somehow resorting to censorship? I'd like to "censor" Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, the Seattle Times and literally thousands of others.

[wryter2000]

11. Checking in

I remember Watergate. If we had news organizations now the way we did back then, after Joe Wilson revealed what he knew about the yellowcake, Bush wouldn't have had a chance to take a pee, he would have been so busy with hearings into everything he'd done since he took office.

[redqueen]

12. Yes... it seems the press really took a nosedive during Reagan's administration.

And then it went into turbosuck mode during the buildup to the PR War.

[intheflow]

16. Yes, that would be b/c of Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

I was predicting this media downfall way back then, and still can't believe so many people are blind to its repercussions.

Of course, that's probably b/c the media never reports on the Fairness Doctrine. Since most Americans are pretty clueless about any news or history that isn't force fed them by the CM, they don't even know to question the practice--or lack thereof. Chicken and egg situation. :(

[FiveGoodMen]

19. Yup.

It's amazing how many posters on this site(!) oppose the Fairness Doctrine, but it was a great idea. We need it back.

[kenfrequed]

80. I agree.

Yes, I suspect some of those that oppose the fairness doctrine are stealth repugs.

[PainPerdu]

96. Saint Ronnie Raygun ain't saint

The decline of this country and workers rights began with Ronald Reagan,who was a Dem BEFORE he was a REPUBE,and a member and President of Screen Actors Guild-a UNION!

[Mythsaje]

13. Hanging's too good for 'em

Burning's too good for 'em.

They should be chopped into itty bitty pieces and buried alive!


I've been bitching about these assholes for years.

[Zodiak]

20. STERN!!!!!! n/t

[kenny blankenship]

30. But not overly harsh.

[Gabi Hayes]

33. baba booey to you all!

[texastoast]

14. Liberal media, MY ASS

Anyone who thinks the media is liberal is just highly mistaken.

There are no more journalists who get prime time play. Walter Cronkite thought so too. You have to be brave to be a journalist and not have a brownose.

[fascisthunter]

15. checking in

they deserve a lot of the blame. I'm tired of corporate America running things in this country. I think they have way too much power and influence and we now see the results.

The media is nothing but a for hire mouth piece for corporate interests.

[Orsino]

17. I blame us...

..for letting them fuck us all. For letting them tell us whom to elect to ensure that they get to fuck us even harder.

[kevinbgoode]

18. They should be removed from the public's airwaves

and those of us who subscribe to cable and satellite services need to be asking THOSE companies why we are paying for 100 channels when we only find six with any content worth viewing.

[formercia]

24. We should be able to pick and choose what we want to wach.

Let the dregs die.

[boobooday]

21. They should have many root canals

without novocaine.

[FarLeftRage]

22. I have HATED the fucking m$m from way back...

When that prick ford became presidente, you had that ASSHOLE bob schieffer kissing his ASS big time!
I knew right then and there, the m$m was never "Liberal", but rather assholery cantservative... So the m$m has been fucking We the People for quite some time now.

[formercia]

23. Take away their broadcast permits.

Let them be relegated to cable.

[corpseratemedia]

25. see my name

they are a dead entity, they just don't know it.

[Greyhound]

26. They're not solely to blame, but they do bear much of it.

:kick: & R

[Larry Ogg]

27. I been looking for an objective definition for the mainstream media

And short of calling them treasonous evil bastards I came up with following definition that seems to keep on growing.

The unelected powers that be, corporately owned, conservative biased, hypnotic fraud, propaganda, fake news, entertainment machine, aka the M$M.

[gleaner]

28. I don't like the media....

I don't think they are truthful most of the time. I think they slant the news. I read several accounts of reporters taking money from entities representing the Bush administration. That is corrupt and illegal.


However, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and all of Bush's other flunkies are responsible for their actions too. They are even more corrupt and cynical than the people who reported their actions. I think there is enough blame to go around if you are into blaming. Let the perpetrators share the wealth with their town criers.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. I blame them for telling the American people to be mindless consumers and couch potatoes

It's appalling to hear how many people are brainwashed and don't know it.

The people of the USSR mostly KNEW that they were being lied to. A Soviet emigre I knew in grad school told me that whenever a government official gave a TV news conference or speech, he and his friends would buy a liter of vodka and sit their getting drunk and mumbling insults at the screen.

[City Lights]

31. Here!

I despise the corporate toadies, and keep most of 'em on ignore.

[The Doctor.]

32. Working on it. n/t

[Cha]

34. How can we

put a stop to them? I can't it going on forever like this.

[heppcatt]

37. doodz everyone knows the media is librul

/s

[donheld]

38. ok

:hi:

[emulatorloo]

39. K&R n/t

[Plausible]

40. Hate is a strong word

I find them despicable. Does that count?

[johnaries]

67. That pretty much sums up my feelings!

It pretty much sums up the Media when the 2 most trusted and reliable news shows are "fake news" comedy shows.

[snot]

42. They're owned; what did we expect. What REALLY freaks me out is

that the vast majority of Dem pols evidently could care less -- the issue's just not on their radar, no matter how they're beat up by the media.

I don't get why they don't get it.

[cliffordu]

43. If religion is the opiate of the masses, the Media is their lobotomy.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

44. Pacific nw here,

this morning on regional cable news, (nwcn) they played viewer comments on Obama's health plan, and every single comment was negative. every single one.

i realize that it is not so much that the station or the commentators themselves that are extreme conservatives, perhaps they are, but the owners and the people who sign the paychecks definitely are.

The traditional media is not our friend, and is not on the side of the average working American.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

45. The Corporate Propaganda Machine

is a huge blight on this nation.

[deminks]

46. "Sometimes ya gotta catapult the propaganda"

Smirk the First quote.

[Cobalt-60]

48. I consign them to oblivion

I get most of my news from foreign sources.
I won't listen to anything the fascist media has to spew.

[Lorien]

49. I'll keep demanding a return of the Fairness Doctrine, and those brainwashed

by the RW who don't remember what the media was like BEFORE Reagan will keep standing in our way; good little soldiers for their corporate conservative masters who believe that "letting the market decide" who gets the megaphone is somehow best for America. Yeah, right; 30 years of nothing but GOP talking points have done WONDERS for our country, eh? :eyes:

[Ilsa]

50. Checking in. I'm sick of the fascists running our country through the boardrooms. nt

[Echo In Light]

51. Not ONE Bushco/MIC lie or PSYOP could've occurred minus M$M selling it for them

Rec'd

[Richd506]

52. K & R

[Hubert Flottz]

53. I shit in their general direction!

May their children's armpits be infested with the fleas of 10,000 camels!

[Uncle Joe]

54. They are the mouthpiece and dream-maker behind corporate supremacy.

Considering their financial configuration, they will never represent you; the American People and will always represent either the corporations; that own them or purchase their commercials.

Corporations are the corporate media's De Facto clients first, last and in the middle, the American People; are only customers or consumers; to be sold a product, candidate or down the river.

There is a significant difference in allegiance and fiduciary responsibility owed to a client versus a customer or consumer with the client being in the supreme position.

I believe the long term dysfunction; of the American People not having an honest broker and significant free press institution looking out for their best interests; as the Preamble to the Constitution and First Amendment calls for, while holding government to accountability creates an adverse dynamic with a rotting effect to our nation from the inside out. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, the middle income class will shrink becoming insignificant in size and the resulting strain will put serious stress on our democratic republic.

My only reason for optimism; is the growing power and influence of the Internet, but we must remain ever vigilant against the same monopolistic forces; doing their best to neutralize the people power of the Internet by taking it over in form or another.

Thanks for the thread, Lorax.

[pauldp]

55. The corporate media IS THE ENEMY of the people.

Notwithstanding a few decent reporters.

[santamargarita]

56. I have not watched the fascist media for 9 years and never will again!

They lie about everything!

[aquamarina]

57. I turned off the cable tv in April - best thing I've ever done and I

highly recommend it.

[swilton]

58. You Left Out the Global Warming Deniers

:hi: :kick:

[avaistheone1]

59. Wow. This thread got a lot of recommends.

I am only too happy to add my recommendation as well.

Corporate mainstream media are a bunch of lying whores. That is the best thing I can say about them.

[SOS]

60. They are owned (90%) by six Republican men

After Watergate, the owners of the US decided to control the information flow by buying every TV network.
It's worked well for the top 1% while helping to destroy our nation.

Interesting timing on this OP.
Last night was the first night in many years that I simply could not watch anymore.

Instead of cable news, I watched 30 Rock and the Office.
I couldn't bear one more word from anyone. Not even KO.
Not one more word of this follow fashion shit.

[MonteLukast]

68. Exactly!

Fewer companies = fewer points of view.

That's what corporate personhood really means, for me... everybody in a company has to have the same point of view, when it comes to media influence; so that no matter how large a company might be, it is, essentially, ONE philosophy, ONE point of view, ONE opinion.

And those six "persons" copycat each other to stay competitive in the marketplace. How many points of view, then, do we REALLY have?

[indimuse]

61. Culpable BASTARDS!!

Hate them!!



knr!

[pansypoo53219]

62. the gnews need to feel some lions on their asses

AND get some big game hunters in there too.

[valerief]

63. You mean the See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil media?

The only bad things they talk about are LIES.

[newtothegame]

64. Hey, I'm not a big fan either. But remember...

that corporate media that we despise so much got our President elected.

[Echo In Light]

66. So, given the track record and reality of M$M's function in an oligarchy, what does that tell you?

[Pat Riot]

77. I wouldn't exactly say that...

media helped, jumping on the Obama wagon pretty late in the game, but what I think really got our Prez elected was that Bush/Cheney Co. fucked everything up so badly that Americans were ready to vote for the opposite.

[freddie mertz]

65. We really need to shut most of them down

The best way would be to reinstitute the fairness doctrine, then revoke licenses for violations.

[RufusTFirefly]

69. Hellish. Even if you don't watch, listen, or read, it's a totally closed loop!

The corporate media completely define the agenda in this country.

You can't escape them -- even if you unplug completely.

Why? Because your friends and neighbors -- even those you trust and admire -- are unwittingly acquiring their topics, their priorities, and their views from the corporate media and then passing them on like a virus to everyone around them.

Much of the propaganda winds up in supposedly independent, free-thinking blogs, masquerading as original ideas.

[MonteLukast]

70. *raising my hand*...

:thumbsdown: to six individuals being so arrogant as to think they can speak for 300 million plus.

[Oldtimeralso]

71. K & R and proud to help find the truth.

[get the red out]

72. The mouthpieces of evil and ignorance

They make me ill, I hate them. If we had real reporting we could have a real free country.

[gpopple]

73. And yet...

...you keep hearing Conservatives blast the "libruhl mee-dee-ya".

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

74. So, this must be Hate Speech.

way to go.


Good thing it's on the Homepage here at DU.

[newspeak]

78. hate speech?

Both Bushes hired a PR firm to sway the American people to go along with their wars. Most of the media, instead of asking hard questions or having those promoting attacking Iraq-mostly had their "cheerleaders" on air. Under the last * administration it was more blatant. You could turn from one network to the other, and I swear, it was almost the same content coming out of the talking head's mouth. Repetition, repetition of lies, they make the zombies (I mean masses) regurgitate their talking points. I'm sure many here remember the Kuwait baby incubator lie during poppy's Iraq war, then the WMD lie-Saddam has the capability to launch an attack on the US lie (hell, after the embargo, Saddam was just trying to keep the country together).

The right wing has repetitiously yelled for twenty years that the media was liberally bias. Twenty years of seeding that thought to the public. Now, repetition is a useful propaganda tool, for repetition is used to influence the subconscious mind. A catastrophic event, an authoritarian figure and repetitious propaganda make for swaying the general public.

I'd say for some, the rose colored glasses have been stripped, and because of such blatant moves by the media, it's intentions are seen. For it is MSM that actually attempts to "sway" the public into voting for elected leaders, usually by making one candidate more palatable than another. A scandal is only a scandal if the media says it's so.

I appreciate viewing KO, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart and Colbert. But, they are not on main networks (less people have access)-what's on the main networks, are corporate influenced talking heads, nothing more. These corporations have tentacles in other business interest-I doubt you'd ever see a news piece on one of their products, unless it was an advertisement. I'd say they influence the general public, not for our health or interest, but theirs. And, that can be very harmful to the public.

Dialogue and debate makes for a healthy democracy. Healthy debate with actual tough, knowledgeable debaters--not some token shill used as a target for some neo-con (or should I say neo-cons-since it's usually two to one) to obliterate on TV.

[Joe Bacon]

75. Tired of the press whores!

Kick this to send a message to the whores! No More Lies!

[Amos Moses]

76. Myth of the liberal media :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic

[winyanstaz]

79. I want them stripped of any rights to be on the air...

If they cant do the job right, then let someone else have that frequency and to hell with them. They have lost the confidence of the American people and do not deserve to continue to use our airwaves and put their crap into our living rooms.

[dana_b]

81. add the insurance companies to this

all part of the corporatization of this country. All for the almighty buck and fuck the truth, fuck us.

[orbitalman]

82. They are truly killing our democracy

Otherwise there would be true justice.

[katkat]

83. deeds, not just words

I took my television to electronics recycling. Only get the very local paper newspaper.

Plenty of news on the web other than the MSM via my computer.

DVDs, Netflix = no need for what else is on tv.

Save a bundle on cable bills (antennas don't pull in anything in my area of the boonies.)

Cheer when someone talks about newspapers going out of business.

[otohara]

84. HATE EM....I Was On Ed Shultz This AM

why???

The viewers liked what the president said, the media jumped up and screamed "boring".

Shultz asked this question - 6000 tweeters said 60/40 for POTUS

Way too many uninformed people in this country and they make it worse. No wonder Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in the news

[byronius]

86. Traitors to the nation.

[KansDem]

87. I agree with other DUers--CorpMedia whores are traitors

"Truth" is foreign to the "Whoreth Estate."

[newtothegame]

88. I don't know...

I'm kind of of the mindset that if both sides are vehemently, rabidly declaring that the media is biased towards them, it's more than likely somewhere in the middle, which is right where it should be.

[tiny elvis]

93. I blame commercial media

for your belief that there are only two sides and that their critics are rabid.

[glowing]

98. No, the media should always be after the truth and report the truth..

not spin, gotchya, and ignoring stories of import (like the anti-war protests, yet covering 15 people showing up for a tea party). Its not about sides; its about the truth.

[Voice for Peace]

89. yeah

after walter cronkite, somebody had a revelation about controlling the media.

[flor de jasmim]

90. checking in...

[Third Doctor]

91. I hate the MSM

The fact that they would over cover the Gates affair and ignore or side corner the health care story and congress speaks volumes. This s half due to tabloidism and half due to politics. They also think I give a damn about dancing wedding parties.

[NorthCarolina]

92. K&R n/t

[hay rick]

94. Hate! Hate! Hate! nt

[graywarrior]

95. I am sick to death of them

I cannot watch any more tv news. I'm done with Harball, CNN, Countdown and all the rest. I am sick of them telling me how to think.

[misanthrope]

97. As a member of it, I agree**nm

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