More From My Buddy Ed Driscoll
Posted by Dirty Harry on Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The speech the Edward R. Murrow character gives here I think had a serious effect on this new breed of fact-checking journalists who ran block for Obama all during the campaign. Essentially, Clooney (who wrote the script) is telling them throughout that “truth” trumps objectivity and equal time. The film made no money but you need only watch Olbermann’s pathetic impersonation of Strathairn’s Murrow to understand the spell it cast over the charlatans at MSNBC.
The problem, of course, at least for those of us who believe the media should get out of the way and remain objective, is that “truth,” as we’ve seen with these corrupt fact-checkers, is now in the hands of a biased few. They are the guardians of truth, our fact overlords. By grabbing truth for themselves they effectively keep the public from hearing both sides and coming to a conclusion of their own. The reasoning behind this is due to the fact that when a center-right public decides, the liberal media doesn’t care for the decision.
Regardless of who wins tomorrow, an important part of any 2012 strategy will be to find a way to counteract this media corruption. It is both insidious and dangerous to liberty.
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Scotton 03 Nov 2008 at 9:09 pm 1Welcome to the “Fairness” Doctrine…
Tommy Von 03 Nov 2008 at 10:05 pm 2I think the rise of the Democratic advocacy press is the single greatest threat to our Democracy.
We’ve always had Obama’s. They have always been out there.
We have just never had a press determined to keep information about them from the public.
I don’t see the press going back. I think they will circle the wagons around Obama if he wins. They will protect their man. After all, they have a stake in his success now.
Conservatives have to find a way to maneuver around the New National Order if we are to save our Democracy. If we win tomorrow it will be by the skin of our teeth. If we lose we must find a way to never allow this kind of informational warfare corrupt our democracy again.
Snarfblatton 03 Nov 2008 at 10:44 pm 3“I think the rise of the Democratic advocacy press is the single greatest threat to our Democracy.”
I have to agree. Democracy demands an informed populace in order to work, and we aren’t being informed by the msm in anything more than Obama propaganda. Before, the media used to influence us in what they chose to cover and not cover, what they deemed important. If we didn’t hear it, then we couldn’t use it to make up our minds. I thought that was as bad as it could get, but that was before they began “fact-checking” and deliberately misleading the public when they were forced into covering something. “Ayers? Oh, Ayers and Obama don’t know each other that well at all, and it was a long time ago. McCain is lying. McCain is being negative. This is just a desperate and irrelevant ploy by the Republicans who can’t win.”
At least Rather was fired for Rathergate. Would it happen this cycle? I’m not so sure.
Carolynon 03 Nov 2008 at 11:18 pm 4The self-righteousness. Just watching that ‘Ed Morrow’ speak, I was overwhelmed with the smug self-righteousness.
Folks, here’s a confession. I spoke like that once. Embarrasses me down to my roots - but it’s the truth. And you want to know the reason why? Because it felt good. No, it felt DAMNED good. Speaking like that, hearing your righteous words vibrate inside of you, savoring the eloquence, the beauty of them, feeling your ego swell with your f**king eloquence (’wow! that’s one helluva phrase I just gave’) - well, it was something. The careful, the deliberate way you made your voice stern, righteous - and incapable of being argued with - watching your performance, your words quieten the room, hearing your voice silence those people - well, damn, it was a high. One helluva high! You were transported with that sermon you gave, you were raised up to a higher level, exalted - damn, it felt good!
Yeah, Strathairn does it superbly. The righteousness, the arrogance, the contempt for anyone who dares stupidly to argue with you (those little morons). Oh, yes, he does it well.
Scotton 03 Nov 2008 at 11:32 pm 5How the paper tiger roars at our enemies…
Opuson 04 Nov 2008 at 4:29 am 6There have already been polls saying the public believes the media favors Obama when he was going against Hillary and then McCain. It’s a matter of making people really understand how horribly biased the media is.
The question is then what was worse? The information they did put out or the information they purposely withheld and things and people they very deliberately did not investigate?
If we want to counter act the media as it is today it’s not about waiting until the next election cycle, it’s about starting today. Start publisizng every single error they make, every bias they show no matter how small the story or irrelevent the mistake. From the local news casts to the networks and cable shows.
Writing book after book, magazine article after magazine article disecting this election coverage and hammering away at it loudly day after day after day, then tying that to the daily coverage they see on the news between the elections.
Finally promote the hell out of the new media on the web.
Those are just my thoughts, I could be wrong.
Growltigeron 04 Nov 2008 at 5:52 am 7“The reasoning behind this is due to the fact that when a center-right public decides, the liberal media doesn’t care for the decision.”
In 1994 when Newt Gingrich’s “Contract for America” swept the Republicans into majority in the House and the Senate which surprised everyone - esp. the media (polls obviously were wrong then, too), Peter Jennings lost his famous cool and pronounced that the electorate “had a tempter tantrum tonight and we can’t be governed by a nation of two-year-olds.”
In other words, the “electorate” didn’t do what the media told them too and the paternalistic, know it all, big daddys of NBC,CBS, ABC et al were piqued.
Michael Hutchisonon 04 Nov 2008 at 5:55 am 8My gosh, that is a long, boring speech. That’s the stirring ending to “Good night and good luck”?
Growltigeron 04 Nov 2008 at 5:57 am 91. Tommy V’s 100% right
2. So are the rest of you.
3. The only thing that will stop the media bias is to defund it.
Boycott biased media and the advertisers who advertise on biased media. Don’t try the shotgun approach — too many were in the tank. Start with NBC, the worst offender (along with MSNBC). GE owns NBC. Boycott GE. Write them and tell them that’s what you’re doing and why. Stick to it. Don’t buy any product with GE on it, including lightbulbs. In the past, this was impossible because there was no way to enroll large groups of people. With the Internet, this no longer is impossible. We all have email lists. There are conservative and moderate web sites. Believe me, if the propaganda media had been in the tank for McCain, this is what the left would be doing and effectively.
PerfectTommyon 04 Nov 2008 at 7:24 am 10At the nation’s founding the only press was an advocacy press. Every newspaper was very clear in its bias and most would happily slander the opposition.
It is up to us as conservatives to provide an alternative voice, and the more accurate we are (as opposed to the MSM), the more attractive are voice will be to the public as a whole.
Growltigeron 04 Nov 2008 at 7:44 am 11Fox is an alternative to the msm. They are not biased and present the truth. The media have convinced the useful idiots, however, that Fox is biased and propaganda media is truthful.
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