tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post2533713957545145101..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Democracy & JournalistsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-2991229668163287112007-08-23T13:05:00.000-04:002007-08-23T13:05:00.000-04:00To SC Mom:Amen! You rock Mom!!From Hawkeye in the ...To SC Mom:<BR/>Amen! You rock Mom!!<BR/>From Hawkeye in the Old North StateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-24094074555317218182007-08-23T11:17:00.000-04:002007-08-23T11:17:00.000-04:00From SC Mom:The MSM, regardless of how it behaves,...From SC Mom:<BR/><BR/>The MSM, regardless of how it behaves, is about democracy only as long as it isn't the only speaker or format. For far too long - over one hundred years - it was the only game in town. Now it isn't, which means democracy is finally working.<BR/><BR/>Take the case of the three students who were murdered in New Jersey. For years the MSM told the Black community how to vote, how and what to think about the rest of the country - it's all white and Blacks are the only minority. This case makes it clear that politicians, using the MSM, lied to the Black community - exactly as it did in the Lacrosse case. Yes, there are plenty of hard working illegal immigrants, but the "safe harbor" attitude of certain cities was merely a cover that protected the city's vested interests who employed illegal aliens as underpaid cleaning staff and cooks. The policy didn't provide a safe environment for those four young black kids, who by all accounts, were on their way to leading successful lives. In this case, the Blacks were just like everyone else: not protected by either the government or the MSM who ignored the dangers and corruption behind the "safe harbor" clause. Perhaps now the Black community will begin to think for themselves rather than believing - carte blanc - the MSM.<BR/><BR/>The greatest problem with the MSM is the assumption that it is apolitical, or at least not biased. It is political and biased. Prior to the War between the State (the War of Northern Aggression as the Southern press called it), the country was blanketed with newspapers, each representing their own view. Prior to the war, Greenville's (S.C.) paper was staunchly unionist, but Charleston's was secessionist. Everyone knew the bias and read the articles accordingly. That's what is missing today, or was missing until the internet blew a hole in the MSM tattered veneer. <BR/><BR/>The MSM has a political bias and should be read accordingly. College presidents and the older professors (Baby boomers) now hold the reins of power. Unfortunately, most of them lack the one characteristic - attribute - that led the Black community in South Carolina to vote for Strom Thurman in his final election in 1996 - thus awarding him an accolade (he was 100 year old) that may - and perhaps should - never be eclipsed. Their vote put him over top when young white voters thought he was an old fogie. Older black voted for him in droves because he recognized that the world had changed. He judged the value of the change - integration was good - and supported it and the black community. <BR/><BR/>Today's Democrats and the MSM seem to be locked in 1968 mode. Hence they called Crystal Magnum a mother and student instead of slut. They need to take a lesson from Strom: change is good.<BR/><BR/>PS: I keep checking this site and other to see when commonsense returns to Duke and both Dick Brodhead and Bob Steel - such ironically appropriate names - quit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-3155743754798539072007-08-22T18:13:00.000-04:002007-08-22T18:13:00.000-04:00John: Once again, I commend you for your persisten...John: Once again, I commend you for your persistence and your civility in dealing with these maggots who infest MSM. Don't you know you're spinning your wheels? Don't you know they will never respond honestly? Do you really think you're accomplishing anything? A pox on the lot of 'em says I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-9917890102535529002007-08-22T15:07:00.000-04:002007-08-22T15:07:00.000-04:00John:"An informed electorate is critical to democr...John:<BR/><BR/>"An informed electorate is critical to democracy"<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, keeping the electrorate informed is difficult because the facts keep changing.<BR/><BR/>Ken<BR/>DallasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-37247111868297916582007-08-22T13:36:00.000-04:002007-08-22T13:36:00.000-04:00There's fun to be had with Rem Reider's pious litt...There's fun to be had with Rem Reider's pious little homily:<BR/><BR/>"Here's why: democracy. <BR/>An informed electorate is critical to democracy...." (and he goes on to praise the large staffs of MSM reporters).<BR/><BR/>After the breathtaking misfeasance of most MSM in its treatment of the Duke LAX case, we see what Reider means when he says 'informed electorate'. Fully informed with necessary and sufficient facts, NOT.<BR/><BR/>He means, an electorate informed by sufficient cherry-picked items (factual they needn't be) that it will vote in the direction preferred by those large staffs of reporters, 90% of whom donate their hard-earned money to candidates with donkey's ears.<BR/><BR/>And if you think that those entering the journalistic profession do so to fully and accurately inform the public of all current events, instead of to 'make a difference' by steering public opinion, I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn you can have cheap, this week only.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com