OMG! Corporate Media Headlines Are Just Pushing The Narrative

[TomCADem]

Once upon a time it was considered poor journalism to call the election prematurely. But the media is already discussing a postmortem about how this election reflects voter hostility to governmental programs. Go privatization?

[d_b]

1. +1 for corporate

sick of seeing 'mainstream'.

[barbtries]

4. you know you're right

as of today i'm going with corporate. after all, blogs are getting more mainstream every day. and forums like du, where i get most of my news.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. +1 for your +1

[RayOfHope]

2. I was shocked at a yahoo article I saw at 11:30 am, using all past tense verbiage

IT WAS ELEVEN FUCKING THIRTY A.M.

[tblue37]

3. Reorters often write their postmortems well in advance, to publish after the

polls close, because they are so sure they know what the outcome will be. That's how the "Dewey beats Truman" headline got written and then mistakenly published.

[barbtries]

5. ok, but publishing it

well in advance?

[tblue37]

7. Maybe it was a slip-up--like when they accidentally publish the obituaries of

famous people (which are typically prepaared in advance and kept on file) before those individuals have actually died.

[barbtries]

9. may be

or maybe they're just advancing the narrative. at any rate i just went to yahoo to check and found it unobjectionable. actually if i read the graphic right the senate looks good for the dems.

[RayOfHope]

16. I've quit giving the MSM the benefit of the doubt. They don't deserve it n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. And the spin will really get under way

when what they expect don't happen.

You heard it here first.

[spanone]

8. wait 2 years till they turn all of this on Obama...it's ugly now, will be uglier then

[barbtries]

12. we don't have to wait two years for the ugly.

it's been ugly since he took office and it's just going to get worse. if they take over the house i see another impeachment in the near future. for no good reason of course. because they can. because republicans are hateful power mongers who couldn't care less about the people in this nation.

[otohara]

10. It Suppresses Voting IMO

so many apathetic lazy ass people on the net will rationalize not voting because the MSM said it was already over, "by their predictions"

[David Zephyr]

11. Like a friggin' drone. Republicans will sweep...Republicans will sweep..."

I hear you, TomCADem.

I've never seen an election with the "predicted results" drilled into our collective psyches for six friggin' months.

It's the only thing they know to say.

[Binka]

14. The Fucking Media Can Shove It

Remember the incessant Yankees V Phillies meme? Fuck them! GIANTS RULE.

[David Zephyr]

17. The Giants rule! San Francisco spanked George Bush and Dallas.

We spanked them bad.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

15. Heard that on the way home. Why the f*ck bother with elections anymore?

Why not just let the media tell us who won and lost? That's what they're doing and all the votes aren't even in! On the way home, they didn't entertain any other meme other than that Dems lost the House and that Obama will have to make a 'concession' speech (essentially) tomorrow.

NO other possibilities were discussed. They talked about it like it was already over and done. :wtf: