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?Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."-Richard Salant, former president of CBS News
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?We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage, by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.?- Richard Cohen, Senior Producer, CBS Political News
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?There is no such thing, at this date of the world?s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth: to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.? -John Swinton, highly respected former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, at the New York Press Club, 1953, when asked to give a simple toast before the New York Press Club, stunned a roomful of admiring peers into total silence with the preceding remarks (as reported in the January, 1993 issue of The National Educator, and also quoted in the book ?Pure Sociology? by Professor Lester T. Ward)
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?We are gratful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directores have attended our meetings and respected their promises of descretion for almost forty years.
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government.? -David Rockerfeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
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?The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ?liberalism? they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing what happened.? -Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Presidential candidate
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?Nothing can now be beleived which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.? -Thomas Jefferson
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?Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a beleif in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a seperate entity. It?s up to you, teachers, to make all the sick children well by creating the international child of the future.?- Chester M. Pierce. Professor, Department of Educational Psychiatry, Harvard University. During keynote address to 2000 teachers attending the Childhood International Seminar, Denver. Source: ?Brave New Schools?, by Berit Kjos, Harvard House Publishers, 1995, pg.160
Anyway I agree with Murdoch. The media should be absolutely ashamed of its conduct. In the last election far too many news agencies actually shielded Senator Obama from any meaningful scrutiny while at the same time literally gang raping Governor Sarah Palin. I thought Cutie Curic was going to give Obama a BJ right there on TV. I don't know of any news source that I actually trust anymore.
It is prohibited for me to do the above but It is okay for news agencies to do it? What a bunch of hypocrites.
Hey AMC, I think the CBS exec is confusing the blogger with you. ;)
News is no longer 'news' but more like propoganda...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/16/AR2008111602374.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns&sid=ST2008111602457&s_pos=
The MSM may be losing trust and customers, but they certainly did prove that 80/20 rule - Americans really ARE too dumb to think for themselves; the power of persuasion being their most treasured asset, even over truth and trust.
What universe are you from? Obama's past got a TOTAL pass this election cycle. He is not a properly vetted candidate, and if he were, he wouldn't even be allowed to be his own bodyguard. Remember the Palin proctoscopy this fall? Saying the media is harder on Democrats is just so out there, you're not even worth talking to.
And Mr. Cooper "who he said..." Maybe some English lessons will allow you to keep your job: it's WHOM he said....
There is no way that the 2000 election, the 9/11 myth, the Iraq war, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the Patriot Act, torture, covert Iran Ops, Valerie Plame, the 2004 election, Alberto Gonzalez, wiretapping and the bailout-turned robbery would be possible with a heavily liberal media. Show me one time this media has held GB accountable for anything!
Now, there are a few elements of the "MSM" that are critical of the Republican Right, but that's because they deserve criticism. Hannity, O'Rielly, Murdoch et al sound like abusive husbands who trot out the "there are two sides to every story" or "it takes two to tango" whenever they feel a challenge to their facist leaders. No, democrats are not perfect, but Gore would not have invaded Iraq. Period.
I have often wondered if Michael Steele who ran for the Senate in my state, would have received the same endorsement of the media as a whole. He is a wonderful man who when running with Bob Ehrlich as his Lt.. Governor was cast a token black man by the Sun Paper of Baltimore, when running for Senate in "06" people threw Oreo cookies at him during a press conference and this was gleefully reported as a joke.
Needless to say we stopped our Baltimore Sun and will never order again. I have often thought how would tyranny creep into our lives...I believe it is when no watch dogs exist...when the press ceases to be the press and forms a bond with one side of the political spectrum.
The lack of reporting on the insider trading ("so to speak") with Fannie & Freddie Mac that went on with some of our top legislators in the US Senate by way of the so called sweet heart deals that went on.
I want to know the details on what type of Loan deals and political donations Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Barack Obama and many other legislators received but, will I find out??????? I don't think so.
When I speak with others on this matter they all feel the same way.
The analysis on election night and days that followed of how the campaigns were run and why McCain lost were kind of comical...they did not include the incredible advantage they gave Barack Obama in more of an endorsement mode that reporter mode for the entire election cycle, as if I am not a thinking person and could not conclude this by the reporting or lack of reporting in most cases and the effects it had on the outcome of the "08" Presidential election.
I grew up in Baltimore City and remember when we would go down town and shop at Hutzler's Department store for clothes...there was a man with 3 walnut shells and a small marble...he would take the peoples money, my Mother would stop and we would watch...I being a small child wanted to play, thought I could win...I can still remember my Mothers wise words....Sweetheart this person has made it so this game renders him a hot meal and plenty to drink...he has practiced and made it so it's what you don't see that renders your loss. She knew better than to trust someone who has stacked the odds in his favor and passed that lesson on to her five daughters.
I do not trust the media, they have stacked the odds in one Party's favor and I learned along time ago from my Dear Mother to be aware of false hoods that lead to loss for everyone.
The Employee Free Choice Act offers to make binding an alternative process under which a majority of employees can sign up to join a union, which takes your freedom away by taking your aneminity and not allowing you to vote secretly and could lead to pressure being put upon the worker to join.
The Fairness Doctrine which takes the peoples choice away by forcing stations to develop talk shows which have proven a revenue loss for the stations, let the people decide and leave the air waves to them for that decision.
Will we hear from the main stream media about the details of these proposals and many others and how they will infect censorship and slowly deteriorate our Freedoms as Americans or will they hide that marble under the right shell and effect the information game so that we all lose?????????????????
News flash Murdoch, new is supposed to be UNBIASED
OF HOLLYWOOD (NO SOUL FOLKS), etc.
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ALL OF CONGRESS !!!! Who can do nothing = except spend tax dollars = no thinking required !!! plus,
consistenly lie. They create the problems & then want tax dollars to bail our their stupid thinking.
- by inachu November 17, 2008 8:15 AM PST
- He is so right on with this that they have taken readership as granted.
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Showing 2 of 10 pages (252 Comments)As a teen I loved reading over articles that i liked and now over 20 years later I do not see anything in the paper I like to read.
everything except the sports page seems so filled with propaganda. The media has been drinking too much koolaid.