Comments on: Top Dems May Be Starting to Flip on Iraq War http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html Real Time News and Satire harvested daily from the Blogosphere... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:41:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: 2006 book guinness record world http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-642 2006 book guinness record world Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:20:39 +0000 http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-642 <strong>Days and Nights at the...</strong> For a young woman, Michelle Parrish is surrounded by old things almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week.... Days and Nights at the…

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]]> By: zzb http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-568 zzb Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:51:12 +0000 http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-568 MSM is actually very shallow. The problem is that many of it's viewers are even shallower. When the general public is bombarded day in and day out with a distorted political agenda pandering to what MSM executives deem to be the "popular opinion" that will bring them advertising dollars and viewing market share they begin to believe their own propaganda and lose all sembalence of objectivity. Years ago.. journalism prided itself on being objective and fact based. Today it's all about sensationalism, creating controversy, and beating any drum whatsoever that medial specialists believe represents the widest audience all to gain listeners or viewers. What that public opinon shifts so does the agenda of the MSM... Like all good prosititutes, they adjust to the needs of their customers for a buck !! The parallels are striking. MSM is actually very shallow. The problem is that many of it’s viewers are even shallower. When the general public is bombarded day in and day out with a distorted political agenda pandering to what MSM executives deem to be the “popular opinion” that will bring them advertising dollars and viewing market share they begin to believe their own propaganda and lose all sembalence of objectivity.

Years ago.. journalism prided itself on being objective and fact based. Today it’s all about sensationalism, creating controversy, and beating any drum whatsoever that medial specialists believe represents the widest audience all to gain listeners or viewers. What that public opinon shifts so does the agenda of the MSM…

Like all good prosititutes, they adjust to the needs of their customers for a buck !! The parallels are striking.

]]> By: ashok http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-559 ashok Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:30:42 +0000 http://zardozz.com/zz/2007/11/dems-may-be-starting-to-flip-on-iraq-war.html#comment-559 The question that remains is how we can make the MSM fully accountable for assailing the President, Republicans, and anyone who believed that the US could carry out a foreign policy that wasn't the same as France's over these last few years. I'm just happy the Democrats are rational enough to back away from the netroots, but the only way to make this backtrack permanent - i.e. to make the Democratic party a party genuinely concerned with the national interest - is to get the media to somehow reveal just how liberal and biased they are to the many voters incapable of seeing this otherwise. Suggestions welcome. My own thought is that Jeff Jarvis is exactly right about dropping the pretense of objectivity from a number of news sources: the transparency that accompanies good blogging can apply to journalism right away if journalists will only get online and use the internet. Ironically enough, that means the MSM by engaging the audience directly can be a force for good. The question that remains is how we can make the MSM fully accountable for assailing the President, Republicans, and anyone who believed that the US could carry out a foreign policy that wasn’t the same as France’s over these last few years. I’m just happy the Democrats are rational enough to back away from the netroots, but the only way to make this backtrack permanent - i.e. to make the Democratic party a party genuinely concerned with the national interest - is to get the media to somehow reveal just how liberal and biased they are to the many voters incapable of seeing this otherwise.

Suggestions welcome. My own thought is that Jeff Jarvis is exactly right about dropping the pretense of objectivity from a number of news sources: the transparency that accompanies good blogging can apply to journalism right away if journalists will only get online and use the internet. Ironically enough, that means the MSM by engaging the audience directly can be a force for good.

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