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Newsweek/The Bigger story |
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One other contributing factor |
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05/18/2005 |
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You're expecting cable news to do this? Pardon me while I have a aneurism from laughing too hard.
The "News" business has no interest in offending anyone, investigating anyone, doing any research, reporting or even any questioning.
You're right: the administration took advantage of the perfect storm .. 9/11, combined with a lock-step, bullying cable channel that couldn't have done more effective work if Riefenstahl and Goebbels were doing the programming.
The brilliance of FOX is and was that it gets out front of stories, and demonizes the messengers and obscures the story.
It's not hard to do:
You're a "muckraking" journalist:
Pick a story or an issue from the litany of crimes this administration has committed .. repeat it out loud ... and wait to get labelled a liberal ... a pessimist .. an obstructionist .. a do-nothing ... a turn-coat .. Godless/God-hating .. a traitor.
By the time you get around to the idea of defending yourself for doing your job, you'll have forgotten what the hell it was you were reporting on in the first place.
You'd think that there would be plenty of news organizations that a) could recognize and negate those tactics .. and b) gladly pick up the warclub and fight fire with fire.
But no ... spineless turds that most of them are: they'd rather turn tail ... stick their heads in the sand ... and go throw up countlessly endless hours of idiocy like runaway bride. |
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is that the government allows a single company to own hundreds of radio and TV stations. Why would these owner's then bite the hand that feeds them?
In a normal America, an administration that has lied to the public, initiated a war under false pretenses, tortured captured prisoners, and failed to catch or kill the instigator behind a vicious attack on our country (9/11) would have been replaced by now. Beware people, we are all drinking the kool-aid.
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