The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Shock of the Century: WaPo, NYT Continue "Hit Parade" Attacks against Fred and Rudy
If it is election season, then it must be time for the MSM to begin its slanderous hit pieces against leading Republican candidates. (while of course singing the praises for the former President's wife and the devoid-of-message "messiah" from Illinois...) If it weren't so transparent and pathetic, it would be almost comical.
Still, I can't help but think that this sort of thing is likely hastening the end of the MSM newspaper giants' heyday. If big media really wants to know why its circulation numbers are declining dramatically the answers are blowing in the wind.
For example , why is it that conservative talk radio ratings shoot through the ceiling while the Left has to lobby Congress to get "equal" airtime in the one area of media it doesn't dominate--and "coincidentally," the one area of media where the genre of news and talk is profitable? Hint: it is the same reason why CNN and MSNBC (and the major networks) are losing market share to Fox every single quarter. It isn't the medium; it's your message, stupid. The majority of the consumers of news these days are quite frankly not buying into your transparent propaganda anymore.
And so when the next big terror attack does come--due in no small portion to the way that Democrats and the MSM tried to handcuff Bush every step of the way in trying to prosecute this war, and finish off the enemy in Iraq and Iran--and then the Left tries to blame Bush for not protecting us from the very enemy he is now trying to kill over there--well I seriously doubt that at that point that all the Commisar's horses and all the Commisar's men will be able to sell that one to a very angry and out-for-blood people. But they will try. And they will continue to hasten their own demise.
Still, I can't help but think that this sort of thing is likely hastening the end of the MSM newspaper giants' heyday. If big media really wants to know why its circulation numbers are declining dramatically the answers are blowing in the wind.
For example , why is it that conservative talk radio ratings shoot through the ceiling while the Left has to lobby Congress to get "equal" airtime in the one area of media it doesn't dominate--and "coincidentally," the one area of media where the genre of news and talk is profitable? Hint: it is the same reason why CNN and MSNBC (and the major networks) are losing market share to Fox every single quarter. It isn't the medium; it's your message, stupid. The majority of the consumers of news these days are quite frankly not buying into your transparent propaganda anymore.
And so when the next big terror attack does come--due in no small portion to the way that Democrats and the MSM tried to handcuff Bush every step of the way in trying to prosecute this war, and finish off the enemy in Iraq and Iran--and then the Left tries to blame Bush for not protecting us from the very enemy he is now trying to kill over there--well I seriously doubt that at that point that all the Commisar's horses and all the Commisar's men will be able to sell that one to a very angry and out-for-blood people. But they will try. And they will continue to hasten their own demise.
Labels: 2008 Congressional Races, 2008 Presidential Race, Media Bias, Media War
