Comments on: Agee on Journalism: ‘…a broad, successful form of lying’ http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/05/31/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/ Conservative and Libertarian Intellectual Philosophy and Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rich Sherlock http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/05/31/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-6375 Rich Sherlock Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:26:58 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/#comment-6375 Well, Mr. Stix, feel free to ignore the entire substance of my post and focus on two words. How clever of you to dismiss my points with a single word, "sloganeering." That way, you do not have to actually answer any of my points at all. It's so easy. Just identify your adversaries with simplistic, one word responses used like epithets (bigot, homophobe, Nazi, etc) and you don't even have to think to refute someone. As I said, the MSM's market share is dwindling. Precipitously. Internet and talk radio, as well as networks like Fox News, are making huge inroads. The MSM no longer has a monopoly on the news, they no longer can manipulate what people see and hear. Their game is unmasked. People can easily get alternative perspectives, and fact-checking the MSM is now at our fingertips. Or haven't you noticed the monolithic presentation of the MSM? If you miss the news on CBS, just turn to ABC. If you miss it there, just turn to NBC. If you miss it there, CNN will have the same stories with the same take. Thank God for extremist, right wing, hate-filled, evil Rush Limbaugh. Well, Mr. Stix, feel free to ignore the entire substance of my post and focus on two words. How clever of you to dismiss my points with a single word, “sloganeering.” That way, you do not have to actually answer any of my points at all. It’s so easy. Just identify your adversaries with simplistic, one word responses used like epithets (bigot, homophobe, Nazi, etc) and you don’t even have to think to refute someone.

As I said, the MSM’s market share is dwindling. Precipitously. Internet and talk radio, as well as networks like Fox News, are making huge inroads. The MSM no longer has a monopoly on the news, they no longer can manipulate what people see and hear. Their game is unmasked. People can easily get alternative perspectives, and fact-checking the MSM is now at our fingertips.

Or haven’t you noticed the monolithic presentation of the MSM? If you miss the news on CBS, just turn to ABC. If you miss it there, just turn to NBC. If you miss it there, CNN will have the same stories with the same take.

Thank God for extremist, right wing, hate-filled, evil Rush Limbaugh.

]]> By: Nicholas Stix http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/05/31/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-6367 Nicholas Stix Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:58:25 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/#comment-6367 How are they "increasingly irrelevant"? Do tell! Because your criticisms sound like empty sloganeering to me. How are they “increasingly irrelevant”? Do tell! Because your criticisms sound like empty sloganeering to me.

]]> By: Rich Sherlock http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/05/31/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-6320 Rich Sherlock Wed, 31 May 2006 14:51:33 +0000 http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/agee-on-journalism-%e2%80%98a-broad-successful-form-of-lying%e2%80%99/#comment-6320 It's easy enough to identify the bias and shoddy reporting in the MSM. What is confounding, however, is their active, hostile resistance to criticism. It's as if they are on a "mission from God" (to quote Dan Ackroyd in "Blues Brothers"). They have no bias, no sir. They are journalists, they are better than us, they understand more, they report the facts. And when one of them missteps, rather than hold each other accountable, the MSM band together as if they were one entity, circling the wagons to shield the errant reporter. They defend each other to the death (literally, it seems, as market share in the MSM is dwindling away). Their myopia concerning bias is oddly limited, however, since they can so easily spot bias at Fox News. In the meantime, as their ratings slide and their anchors reshuffle, they miss the salient point: They are dinosaurs, relics, increasingly irrelevant. And they don't know why! It’s easy enough to identify the bias and shoddy reporting in the MSM. What is confounding, however, is their active, hostile resistance to criticism. It’s as if they are on a “mission from God” (to quote Dan Ackroyd in “Blues Brothers”). They have no bias, no sir. They are journalists, they are better than us, they understand more, they report the facts.

And when one of them missteps, rather than hold each other accountable, the MSM band together as if they were one entity, circling the wagons to shield the errant reporter. They defend each other to the death (literally, it seems, as market share in the MSM is dwindling away).

Their myopia concerning bias is oddly limited, however, since they can so easily spot bias at Fox News. In the meantime, as their ratings slide and their anchors reshuffle, they miss the salient point: They are dinosaurs, relics, increasingly irrelevant. And they don’t know why!

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