|
|
We appreciate your help
in keeping this site going.
|
|
05-19-2012, 12:32 AM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,228
|
|
Dan Rather on Realtime.
I'm buying his book, "Rather Outspoken" and I'm cheap but this topic has been a concern of mine since the Nixon years when the Washington Post broke the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. That's when the RNC got the news corps in their sights and it would appear that they have been immensely sucessfull since.
The real elephant in the room is the fact that of the 50+ independent news corps with national distribution has shrunk to six only (four by Dan Rathers count) These were news corps who had a independent (more or less) news desk mostly unfettered by the corporate office dictates and stringent editorial control, which is the norm now.
Only six (or four) main news purveyors on the tube now compared to the bad old days of the independent liberal media? Maybe the FCC has been asleep at the switch? Their is a legal basis for the ether being a public resource, isn't there?
This is disturbing to think that the marketplace has grown maybe just a little bit since the '70s and our choices have shrunk to 10% of their heyday in the '60s.
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
05-19-2012, 04:39 AM
|
|
Area Man
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: The Swamp
Posts: 27,407
|
|
"Unperson, Smith, Winston............"
"We are at war with East Asia. We have always been at war with East Asia......"
__________________
"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
|
05-19-2012, 09:52 AM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
There is now a lot of competition from the internet. One can easily get information of many different shades.
|
05-19-2012, 02:20 PM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,228
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dondilion
There is now a lot of competition from the internet. One can easily get information of many different shades.
|
I agree but the peril of the internet is that opinion based news is for the most part what the fare is. It is difficult for most people to distinguish between what's factual and what isn't. Generally they are too tired or lazy to check any facts before regurgitating it.
The corporaider conglomeration of the broadcast waves has turned anything resembling a real news source into a string of endless advertising and no reporting of much that is controversial. They can't risk pissing off their audiences because after all, pissed off people ain't jamming corn chips and soft drinks (or shitty beer) down their throats.
Dan Rather was shit canned for reporting that story about GWB's national guard un service (he was AWOL for a year) No one should get fired for telling a true story was another point in this episode.
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
05-21-2012, 11:34 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: San Diego via Vermilion Ohio and Points Between
Posts: 11,538
|
|
The dangerous thing about the internet is that the blogosphere is basicall a national dormroom college bs session on mega steroids with little fact finding or investigative reporting....we still need reporters.
__________________
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
|
05-21-2012, 12:21 PM
|
|
Sir Lord Vader of Cheam
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lewiston, ID
Posts: 5,065
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by bobabode
Dan Rather was shit canned for reporting that story about GWB's national guard un service (he was AWOL for a year).
|
That and being a pompous blowhard with ever-declining ratings but I get your point.
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
__________________
"American" means calling everyone who disagrees with you a traitor?
|
05-21-2012, 12:56 PM
|
|
Admin
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Behind the Orange Curtain in California
Posts: 37,228
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke
That and being a pompous blowhard with ever-declining ratings but I get your point.
"What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
|
I'm of the Uncle Walter fanclub and agree with ya as to Dan Blather's style. Back to the topic at hand, I find it strange that with all the over the top description of the Liberal media the fact that we get our news from just a handful of soapsellers with very little news that might upset the advertisers.
Doesn't pass the litmus test as to being liberal or conservative IMHO.
__________________
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- Mr. Underhill
|
05-24-2012, 05:22 AM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
I check BBC and RT (Russian tv) for balance. I love the Keiser report on RT. This has some comic relief but very often it leads to real sources.
|
05-24-2012, 06:52 AM
|
|
Reformed Know-Nothing
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,913
|
|
Al Jazeera is a better news organization than any of the four networks. However, I still like 60 Minutes and find it well produced.
__________________
As long as the roots are not severed, all will be well in the garden.
|
05-24-2012, 10:17 AM
|
|
Jigsawed
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 10,580
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by finnbow
However, I still like 60 Minutes and find it well produced.
|
Very true!
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:23 AM.
|