Daniel Halper @ The Weekly Standard:
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, White House reporter Jake Tapper said that the media is failing the country.
“A lot of people are hurting out there. Unemployment is 8.3 percent. That doesn’t even take into account the underemployed,” he said, arguing that too much time has been spent not talking about the economy.
Tapper also criticized the media for not giving enough attention to the war in Afghanistan.
“We are spending a lot of time in the last few weeks, those of us in the political world, political journalists and also politicians, talking about things other than the economy,” said Tapper. “[A] lot of people are hurting out there. I’d like to see more action taken and more emphasis given to this issue.”
Tapper also said he relates to Mark Halperin’s recent comments about the media. Over the weekend, Halperin said, “I think the press still likes this story a lot, the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this.”
If no one from the MSM calls Obama on this story, then they really have failed our country!
Tonight, unless he tells him not to show, Obama will be fundraising with “NBA heroes,” including Carmelo Anthony.
Carmelo Anthony helped make the pro-drugs YouTube video called “Stop Snitchin.”
“Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony is featured in an underground DVD that is circulating in his hometown of Baltimore, Md,” the Denver Channel reported.
The DVD is called “Stop Snitching” and shows alleged drug dealers talking about what happens to people who cooperate with the police, and Anthony is standing next to one of them.
He is also seen on the DVD talking about his Olympic bronze medal and saying that he threw it in a lake. The man he stands next to later goes on to tell how he would take care of snitches by “putting a hole in their head.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fundraises-maker-pro-drugs-stop-snitchin-video_650507.html
OK, MSM, where are you???
As though media would be better under a Republican President.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): That’s all you got?
From SCHOPENHAUER’S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT:
#2 – Use different meanings of your opponent’s words to refute his or her argument.
and
#3 – Ignore your opponent’s proposition, which was intended to refer to a particular thing. Rather, understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. Attack something different than that which was asserted.
Back to the real discussion:
The issue is that the MSM favors the left and garners support, and votes, by promoting a liberal agenda. This is done through phrasing, headlines, and implications more than direct means (though those are quite prevalent, too). Critics of the media simply want fairness. We want them to report the facts and not manipulate us into thinking what they want us to think. That includes Fox.
By becoming a propaganda arm instead of a source of objective reporting, the MSM is permanently losing many Americans who will always question what they are being told and never believe anything.
Most people I know want to have a dialog with others, not a petty, lowest-common-denominator debate in which the “winner” is simply better at playing tricks and using rhetoric devices to pretend they have a point.
Right now, I believe the Republicans, Romney and Ryan, are more committed to rational, reasonable discourse than Obama and friends. They have a point, and that is why there is so much scrutiny over how the media tries to sabotage one side while promoting the other.
@Liberal1 (objectivity):
No, Lib1, we don’t think the media will be better. We believe that it will remain hostile to conservative ideas and positions, and continue to give passes to liberal/progressives in all manner of ways. In other words, we don’t think it will change at all.
I used to love pro basketball. Than thugs like Carmello became the main stay. Haven’t seen a game in over 20 years and could care less.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): Ah! BOHICA man2: Again, such sterling insight.
@MM: And do not buy their for crap $300 sneakers either!