Be Prepared:Mainstream Press Will Attack Dems Now

[BayCityProgressive]

over FAUX NOISE. They are deathly afraid of Dems boycotting a new schannel. It may give Dems the funny idea to do it to others who are biased as well. This won't sit well with the media...they will be thinking "are we next". It may be painful but this must be done. Our media is one step away from the right-wing press in Venezuela that has advocated violence, coups, and outright lies for the last 5 years. We need to break the people of this horrible addiction.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Since when have any of those whores been "mainstream?"

And if they're not, why do you call them that?

NGU.

[Atman]

4. They are absolutely "mainstream" by definition.

I posted this in a thread yesterday about the "mainstream" media's watchdog role and the emergence of the online media...

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This article actually points out what the term means and why it is, in fact, correct to refer to the usual suspects as "the mainstream media," or MSM. That term bunches the panties of many here on DU, saying the traditional news outlets aren't "mainstream" at all. But they are. They are the main stream of information dissemination for most of America. This article points out who helped break one of the key stories of this war, the Walter Reed scandal; Salon.com, hardly the "mainstream" media. It's a new world, and basically this article is calling the "mainstream media" into account for being compliant lapdogs while the online media have become the new watchdogs.

The mainstream media, especially print/newspapers, is in a death spiral of its own making. They're still hugely profitable, don't let all the layoffs, circulation reductions and whining fool you -- newspapers are incredibly profitable. But that is because they no longer do "news," they've largely become entertainment rags with one section of actual current affairs in them, as they continue to cater to the lowest common denominator. They don't lay off the human interest reporters, because they're largely interns and newbies anyway. They shut down their news divisions. Then wonder why we go to places like Salon.com for "news."

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Here is the original post and news story it refers to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=375469&mesg_id=375469

[ClassWarrior]

5. Then say "Dominant Media."

Gets the same idea across and frames it much better.

NGU.

[Atman]

6. Still sounds too "nice."

"Corporatist media?"

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[ClassWarrior]

7. Corporate Media... Dominant Media...

Either one sounds more damning to me than "mainstream." Those media may be the main channels of info distribution, but they hardly represent mainstream thinking.

NGU.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. MSM is a projected mainstream ,Doesn't do shit but misinform

through sugar and easy expertise.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Faux is nothing but a tool for the RW. They have zero credibility.

Let them make up their "happy news" and preach to their demented choir.