Our "Liberal" Media

[Q Classic]

well, as long as they weren whi--, er, americans.

[Eli]

Oh, stop whining. There's nothing wrong with wars for interests*.

*- as long as those interests are mine.

[oedo]

as far I remember the war was about squirrels. I read that somewhere.

[Traianvs]

I heard some nasty **** about this Carlyle group..

[Eli]

Oedo :
Please changed your avatar, it freaks me out.

[Edan]

Re: Our "Liberal" Media

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports today on the utter failure of the media to inform the American public.

A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.

Is it just me or does that say more about the lack of attention of a third of the American public and less about the media?

[Ming]

Gee... a politican actually lied...

STOP THE PRESSES... BIG NEWS STORY... A FIRST IN POLITICAL HISTORY...



At least he didn't lie under oath like "somebody" else did

[chequita guevara]

Re: Re: Our "Liberal" Media

Originally posted by Edan
Is it just me or does that say more about the lack of attention of a third of the American public and less about the media?

The study also found a very high correlation between those who believed that WMDs had been found AND supported the war.

[Carver]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
On top of that, there's not an iota of evidence this war has made the U.S. or its people the slightest bit safer.

If Iraq did have WMD we are now less safe. Because the US has failed to find and secure these fabled weapons they could now be transferred to terrorists or other non-state actors. And, of course, the Baath Party would like revenge upon the US.

Bush & Co. are hoodwinking the American public with a slight-of-hand that is painfully obvious. Too bad so many are willing to be duped.

Many people in the US have decided that Bush is "one of us" and is therefore trustworthy. Facts are irrelevant to such people.

As Hitler said, "What luck for rulers that men do not think."

I have to remember that.

[Defiant]

How narrow thinking of the liberals, once again.
Your Pal Slick Willy fired a sh!thouse full of missiles at Iraq in 98 because it was thought by him and even Tom Dutchhound that Saddam has chem/bio weapons and he is a threat to America and his neighbors. Now of course Tom is changing his tune just to counter the Republicans who actually acted on it. WMD, EVIL man, these are nice enough reasons for eliminating the ***** but the real reason is the USA needs to have a foothold in the Middle East, in the hotspot that is breeding terrorists, now we are in the backyard of Saudi(where all the 19 terrorists were from), Iran(which is already feeling our pressure), same with Syria and even Turkey is on notice. Saddam just gave us the reason.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by Ming
Gee... a politican actually lied...

STOP THE PRESSES... BIG NEWS STORY... A FIRST IN POLITICAL HISTORY...



At least he didn't lie under oath like "somebody" else did

It might not be unusual for them to lie but when they get caught out by it you have to tear them apart.

Blair's having a nightmare at the moment because of this supposed "intelligence" about WMD. If Bush doesn't get the same kind of treatment then why not? You can't just say, oh, politicians always lie so it's OK. Whether under oath or not makes no difference as far as I can see. I'd rather a politician lied about getting a blow job than lied about something that took our country to war.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ming
Gee... a politican actually lied...

That's not actually my point. Although lying to Congress is an impeachable and removable offence, lying to the American public is not. My point, is rather, about how the media has completely failed to inform the American public. A similar study after GW1 found that more people believed Kuwait was a democracy after the war than before the war. In other words, the media does not look critically at government propaganda (used here in the general sense, not the pajorative) or promote critical thinking among the American people.

Rather, in their quest to prove their loyalty, almost all opposing viewpoints (those would be the liberal ones) were shut out. Approximately 3% of the voices heard on the nightly news were anti-war. The best was NBC's Nightly News with 6%. Fox, oddly enough, was average (3%), and even beat out Dan Rather, who had 0% of viewpoints on his program from an antiwar perspective. MSNBC canceled their highest rated show, Donahue, because they were afraid it would become a haven for antiwar viewpoints.

Yeah, so, so liberal.

[Ming]

As somebody else pointed out... it's more a matter of stupid people vs the press. I've read MANY MANY MANY stories saying we haven't found squat yet. Some people are just "selective" on what they actually hear...

Don't blame the media for people being stupid or ill informed.

[Q Classic]

wow, defiant, could you be any more disparaging of the democratic party?

i mean, i don't like them all that much, but you take it to an art form...

[chequita guevara]

I will blame the media because they make a big issue every time smoeone claims WMDs are found, but then don't make a big deal when it turns out to be nothing . . . yet again.

And again, those who are most likely to be misinformed are those who support the Prez up the butt.