A LESSON LEARNED? I DOUBT IT
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Even after the forged documents on CBS, the constant anti-bush reporting, and a biased look at Iraq have failed to achieve victory; the liberal media has failed to learn it's lesson. I think that the flawed exit polls were not flawed at all. Rather, (No pun intended), they were contrived. In an effort to discourage Bush voters and encourage Kerry voters, media members breathlessly hinted, although subtly, that the election was over. Kerry had won, and yet......not a single vote had been counted. We, sadly, have learned to live with this. We win anyway.
I, for one, wish to send the media a message. And, happily, we have done that together as a Nation. The unfortunate part is that they were not listening, or......don't really care. Watching the media's shock and mourning, their gruesome Kerry autopsy and their priceless faces was humorous, but sad. To be so dedicated to a lost cause must be frustrating, but the truth is: They are fast becoming irrelevant. Think of it. An entire industry created for the sole purpose of being current and relevant is now,...neither.
The reason for their demise? It's simple really. They are victims of their own success. Before there were alternate sources of information, people lived by the words spoken by bodiless heads flickering in their living rooms. This information monopoly was great for a while. Until one day.....it got an idea. The media slowly, around the time of the Vietnam war, began to affect change in the policies of the country. It began to realize that is had un-bridled power to persuade. It could persuade millions, sometimes subtly and sometimes with brute force....repeating the same thing in many different ways until the lie became a fact....in people's minds.
The masters became drunk on their power and abused it. They took down a president and elected Carter. They invented political correctness and jammed it down our throats. They were unstoppable. Until one day, they were circumvented by a former California governor. Reagan went directly to the people and left them out of the loop. This Enraged them to the point that they lost sight of who exactly it is that grants them their power....us....their viewers. We began to look elsewhere for information.
This left a HUGE void in a marketplace screaming for information. A long dead format, Talk Radio, was revived and seemingly overnight....had dominated the OLD media. They forgot to protect their flank. Soon after talk radio roared from it's former obscurity, the internet was popularized. Suddenly, people could share information over great distances, instantly, and at very low cost. The monopoly had been broken. The old masters had lost their precious power to their own arrogance. Touche!!
The old masters, a few of which are still around, still refuse to acknowledge these new media as if they will someday go away. Well guess what my friends....We are here to challenge the so-called 'facts' disseminated to the masses. We are here to scrutinize and defend. We are here to analyze and discuss. We, my friends, are here....to stay.
I watched them trying to find a way for Kerry to win. I watched them twist and reach for a way, any possible way that Bush, the evil one, could be vanquished. But in the end, they had failed to persuade enough people that up was down, that wrong was right or that black....was white. Not enough of us were fooled by forged documents, lies, and conveniently omitted challenges of Kerry's so-called 'plan'. We beat them honestly and with a clear view of the facts. We beat them with truth and sober analysis. We beat them, my friends...with GOOD. This is the beginning of truth in media. If they fail to learn this lesson, they will vanish, and I for one, believe....they will vanish.
Even after the forged documents on CBS, the constant anti-bush reporting, and a biased look at Iraq have failed to achieve victory; the liberal media has failed to learn it's lesson. I think that the flawed exit polls were not flawed at all. Rather, (No pun intended), they were contrived. In an effort to discourage Bush voters and encourage Kerry voters, media members breathlessly hinted, although subtly, that the election was over. Kerry had won, and yet......not a single vote had been counted. We, sadly, have learned to live with this. We win anyway.
I, for one, wish to send the media a message. And, happily, we have done that together as a Nation. The unfortunate part is that they were not listening, or......don't really care. Watching the media's shock and mourning, their gruesome Kerry autopsy and their priceless faces was humorous, but sad. To be so dedicated to a lost cause must be frustrating, but the truth is: They are fast becoming irrelevant. Think of it. An entire industry created for the sole purpose of being current and relevant is now,...neither.
The reason for their demise? It's simple really. They are victims of their own success. Before there were alternate sources of information, people lived by the words spoken by bodiless heads flickering in their living rooms. This information monopoly was great for a while. Until one day.....it got an idea. The media slowly, around the time of the Vietnam war, began to affect change in the policies of the country. It began to realize that is had un-bridled power to persuade. It could persuade millions, sometimes subtly and sometimes with brute force....repeating the same thing in many different ways until the lie became a fact....in people's minds.
The masters became drunk on their power and abused it. They took down a president and elected Carter. They invented political correctness and jammed it down our throats. They were unstoppable. Until one day, they were circumvented by a former California governor. Reagan went directly to the people and left them out of the loop. This Enraged them to the point that they lost sight of who exactly it is that grants them their power....us....their viewers. We began to look elsewhere for information.
This left a HUGE void in a marketplace screaming for information. A long dead format, Talk Radio, was revived and seemingly overnight....had dominated the OLD media. They forgot to protect their flank. Soon after talk radio roared from it's former obscurity, the internet was popularized. Suddenly, people could share information over great distances, instantly, and at very low cost. The monopoly had been broken. The old masters had lost their precious power to their own arrogance. Touche!!
The old masters, a few of which are still around, still refuse to acknowledge these new media as if they will someday go away. Well guess what my friends....We are here to challenge the so-called 'facts' disseminated to the masses. We are here to scrutinize and defend. We are here to analyze and discuss. We, my friends, are here....to stay.
I watched them trying to find a way for Kerry to win. I watched them twist and reach for a way, any possible way that Bush, the evil one, could be vanquished. But in the end, they had failed to persuade enough people that up was down, that wrong was right or that black....was white. Not enough of us were fooled by forged documents, lies, and conveniently omitted challenges of Kerry's so-called 'plan'. We beat them honestly and with a clear view of the facts. We beat them with truth and sober analysis. We beat them, my friends...with GOOD. This is the beginning of truth in media. If they fail to learn this lesson, they will vanish, and I for one, believe....they will vanish.
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