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Mainstream media is threatening our country's future
« on: September 30, 2012, 05:00:23 AM »
Drudge linked to this column by Pat Caddell.

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Mainstream media is threatening our country's future

By Patrick Caddell   Published September 29, 2012   FoxNews.com

Editor's note: The following text is from a speech delivered by Democratic pollster and Fox News contributor Patrick Caddell on September 21. It was delivered at Accuracy in Media's Conference: Obamanation: A Day of Truth. The title of the speech was “The Audacity of Corruption.” For more on Accuracy in Media, click here.

I think we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not.  You know, when I first started in politics – and for a long time before that – everyone on both sides, Democrats and Republicans, despised the press commonly, because they were SOBs to everybody.  Which is exactly what they should be.  They were unrelenting.  Whatever the biases were, they were essentially equal-opportunity people.
 
That changed in 1980.
 
There are a lot of reasons for it. It changed—an important point in the Dukakis-Bush election, when the press literally was trying to get Dukakis elected by ignoring what was happening in Massachusetts, with a candidate who was running on the platform of “He will do for America what he did for Massachusetts”—while they were on the verge of bankruptcy.
 
Also the change from evening news emphasis to morning news by the networks is another factor that’s been pointed out to me.
 
Most recently, what I call the nepotism that exists, where people get jobs—they’re married to people who are in the administration, or in politics, whatever.

The rest is here:  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/29/mainstream-media-threatening-our-country-future/

It's good that this is finally getting out there into the discussion.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/29/mainstream-media-threatening-our-country-future/#ixzz27whCkinM
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Re: Mainstream media is threatening our country's future
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2012, 10:13:13 AM »
The basic problem with Freedom of the Press is that it is only a freedom from government control, not true freedom of thought.  a "Free" press will still go with supporting what they see as the trend and play to emotion, in order to increase their market.  Ultimately, the press delivers what its market asks for, good or bad.  They are only partly the opinion-makers they think they are, they are really just as much followers themselves, chasing trends and driving logic from public debates with their relentless search to find newsworthy victims of any public or private action.
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