The Real Battle In Denver »
Posted By ameliog 3 months ago in News
Hillary Rosen, who does commentary for CNN, told me yesterday that despite the fact that cable news has decided the war between Clinton and Obama supporters is the story of the convention, they're actually having trouble finding delegates who reflect that.
From here on the ground, the real story is the unhealthy relationship between Democratic politicians and their bigwig donors, but woe to anyone who wants to look into it.
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Goppy3 months ago
I'm reminded of that Jodie Foster movie ... "Panic Room".
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In the movie, Jodie Foster is hunkered down in an airtight security room as home invaders try to rob her home.
Except in this case, Mainstream Media constructed their own Panic Room and promptly moved in .... with all their Stereotypes.
And as the world outside moved, breathed, expanded, grew, CHANGED .... Mainstream Media hunkers down inside their Panic Room .... desperate to hold onto their Business Model of ... Providing Updates On Stereotypes.
For instance .... Republicans are STILL referred to as Fiscal Conservatives .... even though of the last 4 of the last 5 four year Republican terms .... the President engaged in MASSIVE Deficit Spending!
Another ... Republicans are STILL portrayed as being strong on National Defense .... even though they proved how incompetent they were in dealing with a Class 3 Hurricane!
Not only that ... they've proven they are incompetent managing an arbitrary war. Their incompetence leads to all our National Guard troops being sent to Iraq .... so who will Republicans call up in case of a disaster within our borders?
Another ... Mainstream Media will feature Democrats involved in a sex scandal for months or even YEARS! When the Clinton & Monica show went 'Live' ... it STAYED Live for as long as the RNC kept funding it.
EVEN THOUGH .... a very large percentage of the Republicans investigating Clinton .... were themselves adulterers ... some were FAR MORE egregious than Clinton!!
I think we must all agree that Mainstream Media is simply for entertainment .... and to sell advertising .... there's nothing else to it.-
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ameliog3 months ago
The media is lazy and the storyline is already in place, so we get to hear this over and over again. One fellow howls about the media's failings, practically on a daily basis: http://www.dailyhowler.com/. Today's column expands on this topic.
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GWHayduke3 months ago
Manufacturing 'Stories of Interest' dominates the political media.
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To insist that the media has a liberal bias completely overlooks the obvious.
Media groups are MEGA moneymakers. They are in business to turn a profit. Their employees are in business to make big money, move up the career ladder and make get their name published in the BIG name publications.
Liberal, altruistic 'providing a service to listeners and readers' as FSEV says below is a concept long past to most journalists.
They are like all other Americans, seeking to pad their wallets and grow their volume to as many viewers and readers as possible.
Creating "news" where none exists is common practice in an age of instantaneous - "I" broke the story - late breaking - we dont care if its true as long as it fits my ideology - media.
Look how they have led us around on this very thread, talking about their nonsense as if it was reality.
There is a "Real" battle in Denver?
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fsev413 months ago
It seems to me that there was a time when radio and early TV looked on news as providing a public service to their listeners. It has since become nothing more that a revenue source. Sleaze sells and the more you can squeeze into a newscast the better. Unfortunately our current lifestyle makes it difficult for many working folks to seek out news in depth. They're always so hurried that two or three minute soundbites are their only source of news. Hard to have an educated electorate under these conditions.
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Goppy3 months ago
Personally, I believe it's one of the tragedies of our time.
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Once again ... it's a highly vocal, paranoid, duplicitous crowd that has ruined it for all.
This time I am speaking of a rag-tag right wing collective. For years ... these people were a very small, crackpot cabal who ranted and whined about how media didn't provide THEIR point of view.
No one bothered to point out that their point of view was decidedly divorced from reality.
But some slick business people saw an opportunity to capture and build this audience with a broadcast machine that justified INSTITUTIONALIZING Bias by referencing IMAGINED Bias!
The upshot is that ... now ... Mainstream Media has simply thrown up it's hands and abdicated it's role of Education. NOW they say ... it's not our role to educate.
Into that vacuum in rushes Rush .... and FOX ... and SBC .... and the hundreds and hundreds of freakishly weird Right Wing Talking Info-Tainers.
It really is an American Tragedy.-
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bluetexasvalley3 months ago
Absolutely right, Goppy. The same thing happened to newspapers when the National Enquirer and USA Today came on the scene.
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bluetexasvalley3 months ago
It's both, Jordan. These days, the two elements go hand in hand.
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Natureboy3 months ago
The real battle in Denver is taking place in the streets - while elitists inside the convention bicker about who will rule us, those outside who march against war and torture are getting their heads busted by cops.
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crespi3 months ago
CNN and Fox"News" have their own very twisted reasons for trying to split the Democratic party.
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Don't let them.
Cable news LIES continuously.
Time for REALITY.
Did everyone catch Wolf Blitzer at the beginning, saying, "Everybody is going to be very disappointed by the rest of the night. Comming up next, Michelle Obama's speech."
He "subtly" told us we were going to be disappointed by Michelle Obama.
We weren't. She was great.
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Tangent0013 months ago
Fox won a court case so they would be allowed to lie whenever they want.
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hyperbola3 months ago
McCain is the candidate of the zionist israel-firsters. Hence the manipulations of Blitzer.
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Wolf Blitzer: From AIPAC Lobbyist to CNN's Chief News Anchor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xatMfqa_C0
Why does a former editor at AIPAC have a job as a news anchor at CNN?
http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/blitzer2.htm
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Hobe3 months ago
Is it Fair to say, NEVER Trust anything BJ bill and hillary clinton say's, they are two Professional
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simonsez3 months ago
The convention tries to control what you see and hear every moment. It seldom works, does it.
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Corporations and lobbyists "host" the parties every night. The number of corporate jets on the ground would make you think the super bowl is on.
Next week, they move on to St. Paul ...
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jordan113 months ago
And I'll bet that NO CON 'speeches' are interrupted by the talking heads. In fact, I plan to watch just so I can track that. I also will be watching to see if Larry King has a bunch of Democrats on his show immediately after to trash what people just watched, as he had CONS on to do just that after last nights democratic speeches.
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Progressive3 months ago
Of course the GOP will have MORE corporate jets on the ground...one of them will no doubt be the one Cindy so generously "lends" to the McCain campaign.
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simonsez3 months ago
"The upshot is that ... now ... Mainstream Media has simply thrown up it's hands and abdicated it's role of Education. NOW they say ... it's not our role to educate".
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The word is "indocrinate", goppy. You cannot even get a college "education" without liberal "indoctrination" And guess what, it's the college kids swooning over Obama. They have the experience required to make a good decision.-
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miklkit3 months ago
Indoctrination? You want indoctrination?
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Tell us about Pat Robertson's regents university.
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jordan113 months ago
On the first day of the convention, a PBS anchor went around talking to delegates & found NO dissension among the delegates she interviewed. So I asked myself why the media had come up with the nonsense about there being dissension, & making it 'the' issue of the convention. Then it struck me today after reading people's remarks here on propeller, that a perceived fractured political party might concern some people, especially when 'fortuitously' the world appears to be coming apart at the seams. I.e. Russia, Georgia, Iran, Cuba, and so on. Added to that is the msm's blacked out speeches of some excellent commentary, & I see a pattern emerging.
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