The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News
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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the “liberal media.” Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of “elite propaganda.”
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Obama DID inherit …
Obama DID inherit the war. Bush knew his policies were a failure, but he didn’t want to admit failure. Bush kept us in Afghanistan and Iraq and ran the clock on his presidency out. BUSH BAILED. The intel? It was cherry picked. With the benefit of hindsight, we KNOW Bush knew his supposed “intel” was questionable. Since WHEN does the US need foreign intel to decide on going to war?? What about OUR intel? Remember the “Mission Accomplished” banner in 2003? It’s 2010 now. Is the surge working????
What declaration of …
What declaration of war? Oh, and the Democrats didn’t come back into power (in Congress) until 2006. That left several years for your repuglikan overlords to shove Bush’s bullshit down our throats.
You fucktards can continue to rewrite history to suit your special needs (yes, another poke at how retarded you are), but most of us aren’t buying it as we were paying attention the entire time.
Yeah, you’re not …
Yeah, you’re not very bright, are ya?
Obama didn’t …
Obama didn’t INHERIT it…Obama asked to take it over and you guys gave it to him. Therefore, IT’S HIS WAR! Bush couldn’t be re-elected BY LAW, therefore he was not bailing out. If Bush lied about the war, blame all the intelligence agents in various countries (Britian, Russia, etc.)who backed the assertion that Saddam had nukes, including the Bill Clinton CIA who Bush held over. So, it’s Obama’s war now…deal with it! He wanted it, he got it! If you wanted the GOP to blame, vote for McCain.
Obama inherited the …
Obama inherited the war from Bush. Obama came into office with the US already deep in the wars.Nice time for Bush to bail so he can’t be blamed for the war–by some.Right. Obama should impose an exit strategy and he hasn’t, but this is still Bush’s war. Bush lied us into it, he kept us in it even though Bush knew his policies were failing. But Bush didn’t want to look like a failure, which he is. Congress never declared war and Bush had a Republican Congress 6 out of 8 years.
Besides, it’s been …
Besides, it’s been over a year now so it’s Obama’s war now. He’s had over a year to stop it, bring the troops home and stop the spending, but he hasn’t. He even has a Democrat Congress to help him and it hasn’t been done even as he promised to do. And emergency spending measures couldn’t be used without Congress okaying the war to start with.
May be so, but …
May be so, but every president has bypassed Congress with executive orders and such. It isn’t just Bush. Besides, Obama has just outspent all Bush has done with his bailout and wants even more spending. Tax cuts as for everyone, not just the rich. Only those who are jealous of the rich and don’t believe in private property want the rich taxed more than themselves. Everyone should be paying the very least they can in taxes, including the rich.
FACT: Bush used …
FACT: Bush used emergency spending measures, bypassing Congress, to finance the war he lied the country into. Bush also passed his tax cuts for the rich using reconciliation, so he wouldn’t need 60 votes in the Senate to block a filibuster. There are PLENTY of ways to bypass Congress to get things done. “Dubaya” used them to pass his agenda quite frequently.
BTW, stop taking …
BTW, stop taking the easy way out and blaming BUsh for everything. Read the Constitution. Congress makes the laws and spends the money. Bush can ask for spending but Congress has to authorize it. Last time I checked, Congress was run by the Dems. They also gave Bush, not one but two, declarations of war. Bush may be Commander-In-Chief but Congress authorized the war as well.
…of your taxes …
…of your taxes and not tax your savings account. But the govt is working hand-in-hand with corporations. The less control the govt has over YOU, the less control the corps have over you. They work together in this and the govt actually has you convinced they have your best interests at heart. They get voted in by telling you one thing and voting another. READ THE HEALTHCARE BILL! It’s a takeover of healthcare to be administered by the govt. You choose NOTHING. Does that sound like FREEDOM?
But you’re wrong. …
But you’re wrong. This just gives politicians more chances to get kickbacks from their govt stooges. Why do you think corps. are corrupt but politicians are honest? If you shrink govt corruption, corps corruption will sink with it. If govt gets out of the way, more businesses will start up giving corps competition. Govt control stifles competition leaving their friends in corps to run unchallenged. You could start a healthcare savings plan at your bank if the govt would allow you keep more…
The question is not …
The question is not a case of underfunding. 60% of govt spending is social programs. The whole thing is that the fed govt already interferes with healthcare with massive regulations. When will govt regulation be enough?Plus, they have no CONSTITUTIONAL authority to be involved with medicine, auto industry, housing industry, etc. Govt is entirely TOO big. It can’t run much effectively and they have exceeded their constitutional limits. You just hate corps. and think the govt will control them.
Liberals make up …
Liberals make up about 20% as well. The 60% that are left can be any where from socialists/communists/nazis/fascists on the left to moderates in the center to anarchists on the right. Definitions depend on the persons point of view. I support Reagan’s statement of very limited government. I want them to stay within the confines of their constitutional limits. Unfortunately, they have far outgrown that and they don’t want to lose their power. The more power govt has, the fewer freedoms we have.
The US has THE most …
The US has THE most expensive health care system in the world. Why? Because the US system is a PRIVATE, for profit system. Private insurers in the US are profitable because they can deny coverage to whomever they like. It has nothing to do with regulations. It’s actually the LACK of regulations that contributes to the mess. The deficit? It comes from massive war spending, NOT social spending. Blame Bush for that. Current attempts at public financed health care are sabotaged by being underfunded.
The other thing is. …
The other thing is…read the healthcare bill. It isn’t about reform, it’s about a complete TAKEOVER. That is what government has done throughout history. History teaches us it gets bigger and bigger until it strangles the people and their freedoms. Do you actuallt think some nameless bureaucrat cares about if you receive the proper healthcare. All they care about getting their next promotion. I was in federal civil service for a long time, I’ve seen it first hand.
The reason …
The reason healthcare needs reform to begin with is because of government intervention. Do you know how many rules, regulations, forms, etc. have to be followed to ensure fed, state and local laws have to be dealt with? Do you really want the same government that is $11 trillion in debt, bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc. to handle your healthcare? My family and friends in healthcare are deluged with CRAP from the govt they have to do to try to help people.
You must have a …
You must have a special dictionary to come up with all these distinctions between Republican and conservative. Even then you are wrong. The Republican “base” has shrunk to about 18%–20% of the electorate. All that’s left of the Republcan Party are the hard core right wingers. Michael Steele had to formally apologize to Rush Limbaugh for Streele’s comments. Republicans, as the health care debate shows, are EXTREMELY unified in their voting. To a person, they have stonewalled reform, voting NO!.
Republican doesn’t …
Republican doesn’t mean conservative. If any of these owners Republican they are blue-blood (liberal-elitist) Republicans who vote Democrat and support liberal ideas. Therefore, you are right…they DO control content…slanted to the left.
What does that …
What does that prove? NOTHING. The actual content of reported news IS important. Name ONE non right winger on Fox. Compile a list of all the right wingers in the media: Pat Buchanan, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Oreilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin. This list of conservatives is only a PARTIAL list. There is absolutely NO shortage of right wingers in the media. And Media OWNERS are almost exclusively REPUBLICAN. You don’t think management controls content? That’s FALSE
@Paolo7219 You need …
@Paolo7219 You need to check out MSNBC and ask why most media members clearly identify themselves as liberal Democrats.
hey my name is …
hey my name is petedorr i got more games then a gamestore
The clip focuses on …
The clip focuses on messages and journalists, which are the surface of the issue of liberal tilt. More to the point are story selection and treatment. At some news organizations, a percentage of stories about “diversity” (featuring minorities) are actually mandated. I find this appalling. Re: treatment… compare the pre-confirmation coverage of Clarence Thomas to Sotomayer. Thomas’ past was put under a microscope. Sotomayer was rarely if ever even quoted, much less interviewed.
get over yourself, …
get over yourself, Chomsky is a left libertarian
We’re grateful to …
We’re grateful to media whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would’ve been impossible for us to implement our NWO if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.”
-David Rockefeller June, 1991
scratch a “liberal” …
scratch a “liberal” and you find a racist nazi underneath.
btw Noam Chomsky is a communist,
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