The MSM: “In the tank for O”

September 29th, 2008

Glenn Reynolds receives the e-mail of the day:

A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.” I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.

The Anchoress also concurs:

I have a couple friends who work in the MSM, too, and one of them tells me the newsroom is (exact words) “unbelievably cavalier� about any complaints viewers register about their reports, what they ignore, their bias or the way they edit Republicans vs. the way the treat Dems. “Cavalier� as in the fix is in and they don’t even have to pretend to care what half the country thinks or wants.

I suppose this is why print media and the press in general don’t care about their tumbling revenues; when The Pelosi gets the regulated internet and restricted Congress that she wants, and Obama gets his thugs and his Justice Department monitoring, intimidating and shutting down alternative media (and the dissenting voices we’ve been told are “patriotic� when a Republican is in the White House) the incestuous mainstream press will go back to being the only game in town. Pravda West.

(Shrug) everyone sees it coming; the voters don’t seem to want to stop it.

I had a long commentary to add to the above, but WordPress lost it. I guess the bias demons are out and about tonight. *sigh*

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2 Responses to “The MSM: “In the tank for O””

  1. ben on September 29, 2008 September 29, 2008 - 9:54 pm

    It’s not that the voters want to stop it… half of them are actively in denial about it, and the other half fear charges of racism. It’s a lose-lose.

  2. Orion on September 29, 2008 September 29, 2008 - 11:56 pm

    Lo, these many moons ago, in a lounge in the Student Union at my college many of us were gathered to watch the liftoff of SS-1 on a TV set: The first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia. As the countdown progressed a TV news crew trotted in and started filming the students watching the countdown, which was OK with us…until the jackass cameraman pointed his camera light at the set, which washed out the screen, which prevented us from watching the countdown.

    Immediately some of us began asking, more-or-less politely, for him to turn the camera away from the set. The news dingdong with him whispered something to him and he kept his light fixed on it, ruining the picture. It was something like a minute from launch so we started asking more urgently and he ignored us doggedly. With about 30 seconds to launch a mini-riot broke out and we physically removed Dingdong and her cameraman from the lounge, threatening bodily harm to them and their !@#$%^ camera if they came back.

    My deep-seated anger and resentment toward the media can probably be traced to that instance. From that day forward I’ve wanted to drown ever reporter I’ve ever met. Though frankly most of them earned my ire all on their own. To a man they’vebeen arrogant, condescending, and just plain snotty as hell toward me and those around me. I’m sure that as they advance in their careers from beat reporters to assitant editors, associate editors, and finally general editors they don’t improve. This email from one of the few remaining humans in a news room doesn’t surprise me in the least. They used to pretend they were impartial and unbiased: Now they don’t even bother.

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