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MSM sacrifices Content for Access
NY Times: Rush Limbaugh's Newest Lapdog
The lengthy Times profile took that trend to a whole new level, because unlike most previous half-hearted attempts to outline, in very general ways, what Limbaugh says and explain why he's controversial, the Times clearly never had any intention of shedding even the dimmest light on the content of Limbaugh's program. Instead, it hired a conservative writer to wistfully dismiss Limbaugh's critics in two or three sentences. And in exchange for playing dumb, the Times was granted unusual access to the talk-show host.
I guess we're supposed to be surprised. Every morning, we hear Meredith or Katie or whoever promising an interview with the current news focus, but delivering nothing but softball questions and predictable answers. On Sunday, the supposedly hard news shows take a bit longer to do the same thing. Yet the MSM wonders why they are losing viewers and readers to the internet.
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Exactly. Because what is being packaged and peddled as news is not news at all. It's not meant to inform. It's meant to entertain - and most importantly - to create a distraction.
We have to get pissed enough to demand that it stop.
Network - "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
July 11, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
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