Media Fooled by the Enemy…Again
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at
2:29 pm
Warner Hudson at Blogger News Network wonders, “how many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a “massacre of Iraqi civilians” that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists?” He’s got coverage of yet another massacre that wasn’t.
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The media drives me crazy. I think that if we could just tell the American people to cover their eyes and turn away for a minute, we could let our TRAINED forces take care of the problems and come home. Unfortunately it will never happen as long as we continue to have an extremely liberal media presence.
I also have problems with the media. There are so many things they don’t tell us, yet some of the things they do tell us is not true. I just use it as a general guide but I take everything the media says with a grain of salt.
Well, the effect of the new media, especially Internet news sources, has mitigated the problem by opening up new ways to get information. On the other hand, I think it has caused the mainstream media to play more heavily to its biases in order to keep it core constituency. Could be a plus — getting it exposed — or could be a minus — if more people are taken down the misinformed path.
I think the new media has made a huge difference to the way Americans get their news, and the type of news they read, but I’m not sure that I agree about its effect on the MSM.
I think you’re assigning too much strategic thought to the MSM by claiming that they’re playing “more heavily to its biases in order to keep it core constituency” … as far as I can see, they’re simply struggling to play catch-up and decise how best to respond to this new world.
That’s a fair point, but I would note that, in the vast majority of cases, when the MSM err, it errs on the side of the liberal world view, as in the case of fake news from the Middle East. After a while, the question of this being one huge coincidence has to be addressed.
So then, to address your point that I may be assigning too much strategy to this, the question becomes; does the MSM simply get fooled because they are more, in general, sympathetic to the cause the fake news is coming from, or is it an intentional strategy (and has it always been) that they just don’t ask as many questions in those cases? One can only plead ignorance so many times before it begins to look like a strategy. No, they probably don’t have an arrangement with the Palestinian Authority, but playing their useful idiot is just as much a strategy as if they did.
All this talk of false news story’s and nobody has brought up Fox News! There is NO news agency that can hold a can candle to them when it comes to B.S. news!
Agreed on the Fox news thing. They are so sensationalized, it’s like the Newsday for TV. Seems like the increase in speed of technology and everyone wanting to be first to press, that we have sacrificed accuracy with speed.
Don’t you find it interesting Doug that the MSM reports “massacre of Iraqi civilians” as soon as these stories hit the news wires, but other legit stories they scrutinize and have to verify over and over before reporting? Glad we have blogs and forums to go to for the real news.
Coming up on 1 year since this entry was written, and the comments keep coming. Thanks for writing, guys.
Eric, your comment essentially echoes my own, in that they just won’t question stories coming their way that fit their narrative. And they bury the corrections.
To ‘Political Satire’ and Mike, most of what you see on Fox that you don’t see elsewhere are the stories that don’t fit the aforementioned narrative. Yes, Fox News leans right, but ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN lean farther to the left, but no comments about them, eh? (I will note that CNN has worked to correct this, especially in this presidential election season. Kudos to them.)