Secrets of TV News: Confessions of an Anchorman

[SVPete]

Secrets of TV News: Confessions of an Anchorman
The following was written by a well-known news anchor from a top-10, big city station
The Daily Caller   01/15/10 at 2:35 am

For the last 30 years, I’ve devoted the better part of my life to frightening you, trying my best to make you believe that you are weak, vulnerable, dependent and at risk. I know what’s good for you. You don’t. I’ve tried hard for three decades to defy the laws of nature and return you to infancy, cradled in your mommy’s arm, suckling at her breast, all warm and cozy, not a care in the world. I am the tip of the spear of the liberal nanny state. I am ANCHORMAN!

Actually, I’m mostly serious. For the better part of my adult life, I’ve worked as an anchor and reporter at CBS, NBC and ABC affiliated newsrooms across the country — often complaining about the nanny-state liberalism that infects so much of news coverage. Arguably, local news is a more insidious and destructive force than the widely accepted liberal bias of networks and other national components of mainstream media. After all, study after study has demonstrated that local news is more widely watched — and, more importantly, more trusted than other forms of mainstream media.

A behind-the desk peek at the broadcast news sausage machine.

[Javelin]

Secrets of TV News: Confessions of an Anchorman
The following was written by a well-known news anchor from a top-10, big city station
The Daily Caller   01/15/10 at 2:35 amA behind-the desk peek at the broadcast news sausage machine.

Without a doubt I believe the guy is telling the truth and I know that most people here will believe the same.  They have always used the media to control issues and also in an attempt to curve the view to how they wish it to be.  Yet there is a major problem with this attempt today.

The internet has become a major news outlet.  Most people who want to know whats really going on in Iraq read blogs from the soldiers over there.  Most people who want to know the truth about health care also follow blogs and other "alternative" outlets that offer something than the usual spam of the NBC type outlets.  Want proof... look to the Tea Parties.  A massive portion of the formation, organization took place online.  This is why the government has pushed net neutrality so friggin much.  It is such a problem for them that one forum I was heavily involved in before I came to the conservative cave was essentially shut down from pressure placed on the forum owner from Homeland Security.  They didnt like what they saw on the forums and then began to place pressure.  The owner decided he couldnt handle it and shut the forums down.

Welcome to the modern Gestapo.  Anyone who cannot see this today is just blind.  The new media war is online.

[JohnnyReb]

Without a doubt I believe the guy is telling the truth and I know that most people here will believe the same.  They have always used the media to control issues and also in an attempt to curve the view to how they wish it to be.  Yet there is a major problem with this attempt today.
The internet has become a major news outlet. Most people who want to know whats really going on in Iraq read blogs from the soldiers over there.  Most people who want to know the truth about health care also follow blogs and other "alternative" outlets that offer something than the usual spam of the NBC type outlets.  Want proof... look to the Tea Parties.  A massive portion of the formation, organization took place online.  This is why the government has pushed net neutrality so friggin much.  It is such a problem for them that one forum I was heavily involved in before I came to the conservative cave was essentially shut down from pressure placed on the forum owner from Homeland Security.  They didnt like what they saw on the forums and then began to place pressure.  The owner decided he couldnt handle it and shut the forums down.

Welcome to the modern Gestapo.  Anyone who cannot see this today is just blind.  The new media war is online.

And that is why democrats want to control the net. An informed public is dangerous to their socialist plans.