Comments on: Greenwald on Carlson on Peev on Power on Clinton

by: Steve

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:51 +0000

I don’t really pay attention to the MSM anymore. I get all my news from a few blogs and Salon.

CNN runs all the time in the elevator lobby where I work. Last time I walked by they were discussing how Charlie Sheen once hired a prostitute.

by: knarlyknight

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:09:59 +0000

Seems like all the cutting edge videos get removed or moved quickly whenever a significant source links to them. If anyone finds they are available elsewhere please post the link(s).

by: enkidu

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:56:28 +0000

GG is one of the best writers out there right now
too bad most of those videos (except the repugnant Bolton weasel) are unavailable

by: knarlyknight

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:02:28 +0000

Precisely why so many people augment MSM news with independent media, e.g. http://www.globalresearch.ca/ and www.Rense.com, and do not automatically discredit what supposed “radical” journalists have said e.g. Michael Rupert, Alex Jones. Line them up fact for fact and you’ll find the biggest lies come not from them but from the MSM, and the biggest scoops, by far, are from them.

by: ymatt

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:50:50 +0000

Businessmen call that a “win-win”. The rest of us call it “being a lapdog”. Guess who’s hiring and paying the journalists.

Media is always a business, but you would hope with a free press that there would be economic incentive for media outlets to keep their journalistic integrity. Unfortunately I think this game of keeping access to the powerful is real, in that if you’re the only one not playing the game you get quickly locked out. You need some level of agreement between media outlets to give the powerful no choice but to talk to a hostile press. As Fox News has sadly proved, access tends to flow to the least (most cooperative) common denominator.