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To those few who still believe or insist there is no such thing as a liberal media, liberal bias in the media, or some coherent shared world-view shaping how and what our media presents to people... I submit this. There definitely IS a coherent and motivated group think within the media shaping and manipulating how content is presented - such that a political or world view is favored: IE, the liberal/progressive mindset. We now can see what went on in the 2008 election season behind the scenes.
The reactions may be, "Well, this is why I don't watch Network News" or "this is why I only get my information on the internet" -- well, the internet is exactly where these plans for manipulation were created. If you think that your sources aren't manipulated and the news or information isn't shaped by the SAME people who put them on television or in newspapers, it's time to get a clue. Only now do we get the real story --- 2 years after it occurred when it's too late to really have an impact as the people of this country? This furthers the "manipulate now" and "ignore it later" tactics.
Calls for picking out a "rightwing" person on TV and calling them a racist purely to put them off the story and on the defensive... well... we all know THAT doesn't happen (ie., Tea Party, Palin, <insert conservative here>) right?
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Why indeed? Why indeed....
*note: My emphasis in bolded or underlined area's.
The reactions may be, "Well, this is why I don't watch Network News" or "this is why I only get my information on the internet" -- well, the internet is exactly where these plans for manipulation were created. If you think that your sources aren't manipulated and the news or information isn't shaped by the SAME people who put them on television or in newspapers, it's time to get a clue. Only now do we get the real story --- 2 years after it occurred when it's too late to really have an impact as the people of this country? This furthers the "manipulate now" and "ignore it later" tactics.
Calls for picking out a "rightwing" person on TV and calling them a racist purely to put them off the story and on the defensive... well... we all know THAT doesn't happen (ie., Tea Party, Palin, <insert conservative here>) right?
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
The Daily Caller said:Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
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Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people ... We need to throw chairs now, try as hard as we can to get the call next time. Otherwise the questions in October will be exactly like this. This is just a disease.”
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Jared Bernstein, who would go on to be Vice President Joe Biden’s top economist when Obama took office, helped, too. The letter should be “Short, punchy and solely focused on vapidity of gotcha,” Bernstein wrote.
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Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to “particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media” who were members of the list ... “It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.”
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Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction."
Kevin Drum, then of Washington Monthly, also disagreed with Ackerman’s strategy. “I think it’s worth keeping in mind that Obama is trying (or says he’s trying) to run a campaign that avoids precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why vote for him if it turns out he’s not going change the way politics works?”
Why indeed? Why indeed....
The Daily Caller said:But it was Ackerman who had the last word. “Kevin, I’m not saying OBAMA should do this. I’m saying WE should do this.”
*note: My emphasis in bolded or underlined area's.