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Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Media vs. the People

Let’s face it people, the press has a long and glorious history of being partisan. In the “good old days” that partisanship was out in the open. I’m too young (mid 60s) to remember those days but I read history. In my lifetime that press has pretended to be unbiased, neutral and ‘fair.” That stance was only supportable as long as there was nothing to compare it to. When the three TV networks and every major newspaper took its lead from the NY Times, there was unanimity of opinion. And if you wondered if the perceived wisdom was right, or worse yet disagreed, you knew in your heart of hearts that you were part of what they called “the fringe.”

But gradually, over the last decades, alternative voices and opinions have reached a national audience. Rush Limbaugh has not just “talent on loan from God” to thank for his popularity and wealth. He can thank his lucky stars that he found millions of people who thought just like he did but were afraid to say so. People who believed, thanks to the media gatekeepers, that their belief in individualism, American exceptionalism, faith and adherence to classical values made them fringe kooks who should stifle their views lest they be ridiculed.

Technology, alternative media, the Internet all have combined to remove the blinders installed by the MFM. So the media is exposed as a bunch of partisan hacks, promoting their own agenda. And this agenda now appears to be opposing the majority of the American people.

Recent examples include the media’s adherence to the Obama star despite widespread disillusionment with this arrogant young socialist. And more recently the media’s excoriation of Arizona for attempting to get control of its borders and clamp down on crime caused by illegal aliens. With 70% of Arizonans and 65% of the rest of the country in support, the media is now exposed. They are the “fringe” they always accused us of.

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