I'm curious as to how many people (like me) are NOT going to be rushing out to get the adapter thingy for digital teevee. I certainly can't afford a new set.
Posted by Sharon at May 23, 2008 08:33 AMI've stopped watching television due to their biased coverage of this revolting primary. The media was anti-Gore and anti-Kerry and now they are way overboard with their anti-Clinton bias. The results of the media's biases have been two Bush terms and now they have anointed Obama. The media is literally killing this country
Posted by OxyCon at May 23, 2008 08:54 AMAnd just wait until you see how slickly they will package John McCain as the antidote to the Bush Blues for the gullible, while trivializing the Democratic candidate -- the media landed the most damaging blows on Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, not the Republicans (Bush never laid a glove on either in any of the debates).
Posted by HenryFTP at May 23, 2008 09:00 AMYou seem bitter Paradox. What has your candidate done to make you so?
Posted by peter at May 23, 2008 09:34 AMTry all you want, Peter. I'll be fighting until the day I die. Proudly.
Posted by paradox at May 23, 2008 09:47 AMThe most disappointing development of this primary season has been the utter failure of certain blogs to hold themselves to any standards of objectivity and fairness -- precisely because they were our best hope to counteract what the MSM has become.
I once had great faith in the community . . . surely no false and unsupported accusations would stand unchallenged!
Ha ha ha ha.
For many months, the blogs have been not just allowing lies to go unchallenged but have been actively promoting them.
We had a shot at creating a space where reality-based reporting could thrive, and I think that might be gone.
Posted by hitchhiker at May 23, 2008 09:47 AMI'm glad you're fighting. What's the alternative to not fighting? Neither of us would like that.
Posted by peter at May 23, 2008 09:49 AMThe only show I watch nowadays is Olbermann, which is because the Mrs. turns it on for dinner.
Oh yeah, and Battlestar (I'm a geek, I know).
Aside of that, an occasional DVD flick and that's it. I just can't watch the media blowhards anymore on any station. The he-said/she-said bullshit that the media lapdogs have latched on to is just disgusting. Investigative laziness and journalistic integrity have fallen by the way side long ago. Eriposte had done an amazing job on the media a while back, which I still have bookmarked and reference from time to time.
All news that is received is found on the web, and often times without the filtering by the blowhards on TV. I have no use for them at all, and I pray that their ratings continue to fall.
Posted by MisterOpus1 at May 23, 2008 10:01 AMSupertramp (The Logical Song) was NOT a pop band.
Posted by myiq2xu at May 23, 2008 10:39 AMI stopped watching MSM for National news a long time ago.
Posted by jwrjr at May 23, 2008 10:58 AMoxycon, why does everything have to lead to a discussion of how Poor Hillary was brought down by the media? Maybe you've forgotten, but the same media annointed Clinton with the nomination for the 3 years running up to the primary season. And when she won NH, they were right back there with her, telling everyone that she found her stride and would be making miced meat of Obama any day.
Truth is, Obama won the campaign by bringing his message to the entire electorate rather than relying on a few big states and super Tuesday to get the job done. Clinton ran a bad strategy and a bad campaign. It's true that Obama quickly became the media darling, but he did so in the vacuum created by Clinton's bad campaign strategy. Clinton just hadn't been properly vetted yet. If she had, we would have known that she's a bad campaign organizer and a candidiate who couldn't inspire the electorate.
It's time to move on and try to beat McBush in November. Clinton ran a bad campaign with a bad strategy where she put all her eggs in one basket. That's not the media's fault.
Posted by turtleguy at May 23, 2008 11:23 AMThe 2006 elections were very, vert close and many excellent candidates lost to vile GOoPs per usual.
In the crucial 2004 presidential election, Pinhead Majority failed spectacularly, after watching their prezlidenter simply thrashed in every debate.
Why? The MSM and its two Big Features: failure to develop and explain stories and slavish daily reporting of GOoP-issued talking points as "news"--i.e lying. This hasn't changed at all (in fact on Iraq it's worse!) and most BushAmericans are so ill-informed on every political and economic topic that one simply can't even talk to them. They are comic in their utter ignorance.
The electorate has permanently failed, the MSM is the main cause, although increasing stupidity is an important factor too.
Does this mean they are doomed to "get it wrong" in the next presidential election? No, but their decision will clearly not be based on anything meaningful like policy failure or destruction of the country or vision for the future. Our "elections" are more like playing craps now, hoping that a 7 won't crap us out.
Come on, snake-eyes! Daddy needs a new energy policy!! (throws dice......?)
Posted by euzoius at May 23, 2008 11:26 AMMisterOpus, what do you think of Battlestar Galactica this season? (Or, with Grace Park and Tricia Helfer, "Battlestar Attractica.")
I think it's been pretty poor. The last couple of weeks were much better, though. But the whole plot has me not liking any of the characters.
Yeah, Paradox's post. I don't know. Just kind of a bitter outlook on the world I think. I think there are many more things right with the world.
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Posted by dee559 at May 23, 2008 12:01 PMMs.Clinton is now blaming the Obama "camp" for starting the Ms. Clinton for VP deal rumors. That's a laugher for sure, and, hopefully the final, end, finale, period, finito chapter in the very scary possiblity that Obama would throw his candidacy away by "rewarding" her with the VP slot. Obama, please run very fast in the opposite direction.
Oddly, her chief fundraiser went on record today threatening Obama with a "risk" of losing Clintonian support if she's NOT given the VP slot. What a messy day for the Clinton campaign. Not much in the way of communication going on. Maybe they miss Mark Penn.
Hey Muck,
It's funny, I got the Mrs. hooked on that show as well. She commented on it the other day (to which I agree with completely) that this sucker is really dragging out without answering any questions it's created so far. IOW, it's creating more questions than it is answers, and I highly doubt it will be able to put it all together very well in the remaining final episodes. If it does I'd be damn surprised. I do like the current plot right now with the cylon rebellion and "final 5", but it's got a lot of ground to cover in a short period of time.
I heard or read somewhere about last season on how the directors created the first handful of episodes, and then pretty much ad libbed the last few on short notice. I thought if that was true, it really showed last year. Don't know how well planned they are this year, however.
Okay, now my geekiness is really showing........
Posted by MisterOpus1 at May 23, 2008 12:50 PMMs.Clinton is now blaming the Obama "camp" for starting the Ms. Clinton for VP deal rumors.
I saw that on TPM. I was really surprised she did that, and at a very crucial time in the campaign for her, that was really bad judgement.
First, the rumors were explicitly sourced to her camp. Second, two of her supporters, Sen. Feinstein and Hassan Nemazee (her top fundraiser) came out today pushing for her in the VP spot (with the natural "if she loses the nomination" caveat). For her to then try to blame this on the Obama "camp" -- well, that's just bad news for her. Either she's lying or she's unaware of the actions of her close supporters -- neither option is likely to help her change minds in her favor at this point.
Furthermore, that makes her look like someone who blames her opponent for all her ills. Of course, we've seen that behavior from fans of both Clinton and Obama in this campaign, but I'd thought that the candidates would try to avoid that, especially at this stage.
Posted by Anonny at May 23, 2008 01:27 PM"Furthermore, that makes her look like someone who blames her opponent for all her ills." Maybe because she does blame everyone but herself for her current situation.
Posted by T2 at May 23, 2008 01:42 PMROTFLMAO
The Corrupt Left Wing Media even ADMITS to having a left wing bias. The reason the Liberals have their panties in a wad is that there is now the internet which get news out uncensored by the the "Mainstream" Media. Also, AM Radio found a niche and Talk Radio took off as a balance to NPR and PBS. Thank God!
Keep up the good work. I predict you have a real future as a humor columnist. Dave Barry, move over!
Hey MisterOpus, the mini series and first season were fantastic. I feel obligated to watch this thing to the bitter end, though. I'm not sure I like any of the story lines at this point. Do we even care about the characters? Baltar is nuts. Starbuck is nuts. Who knows what the heck Apollo is. Cylons are in the fleet, at civil war, seeking religion. The President is loopie. The President's assistant is now a major character. Adama seems to have lost control. Etc...
It's all over the place! Some of those one-hour episodes seem like 2 hour episodes, even FFing through the commercials!
Posted by Muck at May 23, 2008 03:27 PMMuck, sounds like they're following the original loosely at least.
Posted by peter at May 23, 2008 04:25 PMIt's all over the place!
Exactly. Couldn't have said it better.
In other news, umm, Hillary, what the hell were you thinking today?
Posted by MisterOpus1 at May 23, 2008 05:19 PMABC, NBC, CBS, PBS Newshour, CNN, MSNBC and FOX are propaganda broadcasters for corporate America. This true statement also produces an inevitable polite silence to be followed yet again by a change in subject, for many reasons most Americans simply will not believe that Almighty America would produce such a sewer of childish lying and culpability
Ah, you fail to mention Pravda On The Hudson and its partner in crime, Izvestia On The Poltomac. The New York Times and the Washington Post.
Posted by mmeo at May 23, 2008 08:44 PMhow did this happen, you ask?
Ronnie Raygun's first official act was to abolish the Fairness Doctrine/Equal Time Amendment.
Then he de-regulated everything in sight, including media ownership rules.
Why? This was a DIRECT response to the fact that the Watergate scandal was exposed and kept alive by a not so compliant press, substantially freer than the advertising, marketing, propaganda whores in it now. Journalists? Maybe one in the bunch...possibly two...but most of em are empty vessles, know nothings who dutifully recite their talking points.
So by having comandeered the press, broadcast media, cable companies, etc, the reich wing have turned America's media into the fucking politbureau.
We need to reinstate the controls and force these media conglomerates to break up. Enough of this unbridled free market bullshit.
An unregulated free market will result in a race to the bottom.
OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE IT.
Posted by getaclue at May 24, 2008 09:01 AM"ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS Newshour, CNN, MSNBC and FOX are propaganda broadcasters for corporate America."
Paradox is correct, and we have seen the result of that kororate propaganda: the tyrannt Bush
princess Markle: "Corrupt Left Wing Media"?
you mean like NBC? owned by well know liberal General Electric?
the stoopid, IT BURNS
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