How Working In Washington Taught Me We’re All A Little Like RT America

Nutes and Nugs

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Why did I have to go through a security check and post up numbers b4 I could post the above^ ?

Are you guys running some sort of script?
 

UncleBuck

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I suspect the manipulation of media happens in every major outlet, right or left, because the same principles apply.
all institutions share some degree of conservatism by necessity. the media is an institution like any other.

that's why unlike us, they do not get to mock and laugh at creationists. they have to simply report on such views just because a lot of idiots believe in them.
 

UncleBuck

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I know how but when I click rui sits there and locks up.
I just get that blue circle and nothing happens.
I click the back arrow and rui works again.
Hmmm
Why did I have to go through a security check and post up numbers b4 I could post the above^ ?

Are you guys running some sort of script?
OMFG if he had ever come off as anything other than hopelessly stupid, i'd swear that he's trolling us.
 

Padawanbater2

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all institutions share some degree of conservatism by necessity. the media is an institution like any other.

that's why unlike us, they do not get to mock and laugh at creationists. they have to simply report on such views just because a lot of idiots believe in them.
I understand that, but I think with the monopolizing of media over the years, I think it was something like 70 different outlets in the 50s-70s compared to 6 today, it presents an entirely new, much more powerful way to sway public opinion. So instead of trying to change 70 different minds, now all you have to do is financially sway 6. Pressure comes from the top and the dominoes fall in line or face termination
 

Nutes and Nugs

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I think that's what makes the US's subversion of real journalism much more dangerous; that it retains it's credible appearance . While Russia can shut down 2 stations with the drop of a hat, the US can't. It's all doublespeak
I'm sure the US can bomb media station or whatever if need be but it's not our policy.

The point is, if you want to control people, you need to take over the media.
They believe what they see and hear on the TV or radio just like anyone else.
 

twostrokenut

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I understand that, but I think with the monopolizing of media over the years, I think it was something like 70 different outlets in the 50s-70s compared to 6 today, it presents an entirely new, much more powerful way to sway public opinion. So instead of trying to change 70 different minds, now all you have to do is financially sway 6. Pressure comes from the top and the dominoes fall in line or face termination
financially sway you say? the top of finace is progressive douche notes...hot off the press...pun intended.

are you going to pretend we both dont agree on this already?
 

Padawanbater2

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I'm sure the US can bomb media station or whatever if need be but it's not our policy.

The point is, if you want to control people, you need to take over the media.
They believe what they see and hear on the TV or radio just like anyone else.
Exactly, you can't control public opinion without controlling the media, and you can't get a 90% approval rating without controlling public opinion..
 

Nutes and Nugs

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If you were high and mighty like GodHere, you would know the truth of all the minds of all the world leaders.
otherwise we're fucked into listening to the only new sources we have.
 

Dr Kynes

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So why would it be any different here, regardless of which party is in the oval office?
Boo0oo0o0ooosh's experience with the press deomnstrates clearly that you are simply WRONG.

Bo0o00o0o0o0oosh did not eject the lefties from the press corps, which he should have, particularly helen thomas, but Bwana Obama has controlled the press like they were puppets or an arm of his political campaign

juan williams got booted from PBS because he refused to toe the Party Line, yet Tingles Mathews has been a staple on the lefty press for decades despite his vehement and deplorable treatment of the Bo00o0o0oosh administration, his lies and his partisan bromance with Bwana Obama
 

Dr Kynes

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Exactly, you can't control public opinion without controlling the media, and you can't get a 90% approval rating without controlling public opinion..
and if you only listen to MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, the new york times, the LA times, the chicago tribune, etc etc etc, you get lefty spin and lefty talking points without a whisper of objectivity, yet the Columbia Journalism Review article (which youdidnt bother to read) clearly stated that lefties on fox are NOT sacked for opinions counter to the editorial board's views, while on the left media, sacking dissenters is common as dogshit.

Protip: the Columbia Journalism Review is NOT a right leaning publication. it leans left, just not as transparently as most of the lefty "journalists" who are in fact simply mouthpieces for the democrat party line.
 

Padawanbater2

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Boo0oo0o0ooosh's experience with the press deomnstrates clearly that you are simply WRONG.

Bo0o00o0o0o0oosh did not eject the lefties from the press corps, which he should have, particularly helen thomas, but Bwana Obama has controlled the press like they were puppets or an arm of his political campaign

juan williams got booted from PBS because he refused to toe the Party Line, yet Tingles Mathews has been a staple on the lefty press for decades despite his vehement and deplorable treatment of the Bo00o0o0oosh administration, his lies and his partisan bromance with Bwana Obama
OK.. how are your cats doing, eating well?
 

Dr Kynes

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OK.. how are your cats doing, eating well?
reagan faced a hostile press, bush 1 faced a hostile press, bush 2 faced a hostile press, but carter, clinton and obama all have the press in their pocket.

clearly this proves that the republican administrations also controlled the press, just like the democrats.

somehow...

way to throw out a non-sequitur distraction.

i dont have cats. but more importantly, when did you stop beating your wife?
 
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