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Populist Anger


Is there some subliminal messaging happening over at the MSM?  I am getting irritated by the references to populist anger every day.  What I hear is a taunting media luring the sheep to anger with some high school jab.  "Why are you not angry?  You want to be populist, don't you?"  Another jab, "Are you going to the Tea Party?  Why?  Aren't you a patriot?  A real American?"  It's the MSM bully taunting the little people, it seems to me.

 

This taunting also comports to the latest Christian strategy that we have probably all seen, those e-mails insisting you will be damned if you do not forward them to all of your friends.  Putting your eternal soul in jeopardy if you fail to forward some challenge to your faith is a seriously demented form of torture, in my humble opinion.  I see many Christians as individuals struggling with themselves to believe that they are good people.  Many of them are sincere people wanting to be good people.  Then there are the Christian manipulators who see these pilgrims and prey on them with Big Box religion, media masterpieces of populist worship, and those e-mails. 

One thing that was true of the Bush Administration.  w came right out and told us he was repeating the propaganda to make sure it worked, and he was planning things to sell the American people by timing when he would initiate his campaigns to create popular support.  The Bush Administration announced that he was playing us.  The MSM knew how to report the news from there.  Now, we have this unorganized MSM, still trying to play us.  Goading us with their adolescent taunts, "Be angry.  You want to be populist, don't you?!?  Everybody is doing it!"  But the poll numbers show Obama has terrific public support, so what gives?  IDo they have their own agenda now? 


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There are lots of instigators around and propagandists.

Isn't it annoying they simply can't let us think and feel for ourselves???

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Yes, it is! Or, if they actually reported what we were actually thinking, i.e. the American people overwhelmingly support the President!

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TPM does the exact same thing using financial industry employees as the focal point. It seems anger and outrage is the product they have all decided to sell. Each outlet carefully crafting the hook for their select audience.

I just wonder if it's coordinated for political purpose - or a simple quest for profits.

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Is there a difference?

Frankly, I can see where TPM gets enthusiastic in its resistance to the Right, but over all, I think we are headed in a direction more closely related to facts then not. This is not to suggest anger is not a hook into the market, but at least the anger is better founded.

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Is there a difference?

As a rule, controversy sells. The more provocative, controversial, sensationalized, the more readers and viewers. Articles or stories with the most drama, conflict/tension; or the ones that are the most riveting, capture the most attention.

I think the more interesting question would be, should there be a difference? The dilemma as I see it, what's the point of a newscast, newspaper, blog, television show, etc., if no one reads or no one watches?

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It works in the short term, I think, to make a sensational story. But if it becomes a habit, the pursuit of this sensation, then it loses its value.

When I was younger everyone watched the 6 o'clock news. That was an important part of every day. Dinner revolved around it. It was practically a tradition. Then we went to 24/7 news and it's become background noise. It's so common, it's not worth stopping to see what's up. Now a lot of news goes unnoticed, I believe.

Maybe all this has to do with our present financial crisis? We want the sensational stories every day, rather then grinding it out with predictable profits that have fewer highs and lows. It's more successful overall, but less exciting. It's also less susceptible to hype.

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Cable is no longer reporting but manipulating the events. CNN wonders why their ratings are down? Gee, I'm not.

As for FOX, it's 'their' home.

Punditry, opinions and goosing the facts does not deliver the facts.

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