Has Anyone Else Completely Lost Faith In The Media?

Alright im taking a note from BleedBurgundy by starting this thread. Hopefully it can be used when we notice biases or events the media seems to ignore or gloss over for whatever reason they may believe they have.

There have been 2 recent things that have really bothered me:

The difference between how the Tea Party was treated and how the OWS has been and is being treated be the media is night and day. Every time a extremist or racist tea party protester got in front of a camera or was interviewed the media seemed to jump on it and report it to the public like that was the regular voice or tone of the tea party. The tea party was also regularly mocked by mainstream news channels when they called tea party posters tea baggers. The OWS seem to be getting preferential treatment. There has been tons of violence, rampant drug use, 10 rapes/sexual assaults (give or take), tons of extremest groups associating with OWS, an anti Semitic tone and tons of protesters saying hateful and bigoted things. And yet the media largely ignores this? I just dont get the double standard.

The Herman Cain media cover of alleged sexual harassment is getting ridiculous at this point. In the last week ending Monday there have been 84 stories by the major 3 networks (http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20111107011321.aspx) on the Herman Cain scandal. For comparison sake in the week when the Bill Clinton Juanita Broaddrick rape scandal broke there were 4 mentions, when Bill Clinton was accused of groping Kathleen Wiley there were just 3 stories. There was barley any coverage whatsoever when Larry Sinclair came out with a story that he smoked crack and had sex with Obama and that Donald Young did too. The problem i have is not that the media largely ignored the unfounded stories about Bill Clinton or Obama, but that they are prematurely jumping on unfounded stories on Cain. I just dont get it. Today MSNBC and the senior Politco reporter that "broke" the Herman Cain allegations mocked (http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/nov/msnbc_code_ethics.html) the idea that theres a Journalism Code of Ethics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards).

Another very recent thing, that was actually the tipping point for me to get up and take and stand by doing something (starting this thread.....), was journalist conspiring together not to report a conversation between Sarcozy and Obama about Netanyahu.

Sarkozy tells Obama Netanyahu is a liar | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-mideast-netanyahu-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A720120111108)

But whats not in the Reuters article is the mention of the journalist acting to first to try and cover it up:

Report: Sarkozy calls Netanyahu 'liar' - Israel News, Ynetnews (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4145266,00.html)

Anyone else fed up? What else do you have? I know NCSkins has to have some stuff on Fox....

The media is a business.
They will peddle news that will make money for them.
You may as well lose faith in Wal-Mart because their underwear selection sucks.

David Gregory: No "Grand Wizard" In GOP To Force Cain Out | RealClearPolitics (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/09/david_gregory_no_grand_wizard_in_gop_right_now_to_ force_cain_to_go_away.html)


hahahahahahahaahahaha :laughing2

It's so offensive, you just have to laugh at the stupidity.


I've lost faith in the media long ago.

Larry Sinclair and Donald Young had sex with Obama???

Anyhow, I'll abstain from this only to say y'all give the media too much credit. Not everything is some shrewd, duplicitious, conspiratorial plan. People looking for a sinister motive behind everything when more often than not it's just laziness

You can't trust Smoot. He works for tha man!



I'll post more on this media when I gather some thoughts and examples.

well, she got like a 180million dollar settlement from the company and cain admitted guilt in 2002 when they were planning his senate run and possible obstacles.

now, all of a sudden, 9 years later, he's forgotten all about it, and tells people they're stupid for bringing it up is idiotic.

As AlvinW said, it's business. In today's multi-channel cable media filled world, everyone preaches to their own choir. This doesn't change the fact that "the truth is out there". Facts exist and can be discovered. Separating fact from fiction can be difficult though I find, generally, it's not the facts that are hard to discover - it's that various outlets only report the facts that best illustrate their point so getting the complete picture can be difficult and time consuming.

For example: Go to MSNBC and the OWC is painted as diligent, disaffected middle class folks. They tend to play up the police presence and downplay the health, safety and security issues of the various locations.
On the other hand, go to Fox and OWC is a bunch of granola (fruits, nuts and a bunch of flakes) living in their own excrement and who lay in wait for women and small children to fall into their evil grasp.

In between the spin, however, the facts do exist. You just have to look. In today's information world, I believe people who want to do so - are getting more and more savvy at finding out all the facts.

Think about it - the information that was the catalyst for this thread would probably never have seen the light of day 10 years ago. Yet... here we are. Everyone knows exactly what was said. How various news agencies spin it, in terms of context and placement will vary on their own political agenda.

I haven't "lost faith" in the media - I just don't expect it to report the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Rather it reports the facts it likes, in the manner that it wants to and that sell the most advertisements.

Generally speaking it takes only one person to keep a secrete so if you have a secret and someone else knows it there will be a time when it will be disclosed.

Why have faith when you can follow the advice of my man Reagan to "trust but verify?"

If news organizations are willing to sign away their freedom of the press rights and their responsibility to their readership in exchange for access then perhaps it's time to look for and switch to ones that won't?

The competition between news organizations nor ad revenues leads to competition for a breaking stories. Despite the attempts of politicians to control information it will eventually be disclosed.

Cain story is pretty legit and so long has it has new news I am interested in reading about it. Karma is a bitch and so is Cain based on all the shit he has said. If I were him I would perform Seppuku as soon possible.

...and that's all I got to contribute.

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Color me shocked.

Larry Sinclair and Donald Young had sex with Obama???

Anyhow, I'll abstain from this only to say y'all give the media too much credit. Not everything is some shrewd, duplicitious, conspiratorial plan. People looking for a sinister motive behind everything when more often than not it's just laziness

This.

The only bias in media is the personal bias that every reporter can't see in themselves. For the most part its humans being human.