Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
Thirty or more years ago you used to have a much higher standard of journalism. But with the advent of cable/satellite news, the 24 hour news cycle and especially the internet signalling the beginning of the end of printed newspapers everything has changed. It's now all about ratings or clicks on the internet and rather than have a couple of dusty old professors providing expert context to news events the media want two talking heads screaming differing viewpoints/abuse at each other because that's what gets the ratings.
Cable so-called news outlets are totally agenda-driven. Question is whose Agenda?

I think of how America's so-called liberal media and the so-called fair and balanced FOX cable op-ed news basically gave a blackout to Ron Paul in 2008 & 2012. Ron Paul had a sellout ralley in Minneapolis-- the same day McCain accepted his nominee. And this wasnt news worthy?

Or In 2012, the Republican national committee was accused of changing rules which took delegates away from Ron Paul, ---giving them to Romeny; end result? I didn't hear any major news outlets speak on it.

Ron Paul was quoted about FOX: "they didn't want to hear the message. Maybe they're intimidated. Maybe they're frightened. Maybe they don't want to hear the truth. Who knows?"

Yet the mainstream media could have used this to show division in the Republican ranks- they didn't cover it either, wow...
Totally agenda driven when the Independent film @ the Sundance Film Festival in Utah higlighted a documentary titled, ‘Mitt’....and when I google it, yahoo it or go to FOX's website...mumm is the word.

Romney questioned how he was winning when his rallies drew 200 supporters while Ron Paul’s were drawing 20,000.
In the final moments of the film, Romney states to his staff what his campaign managers said to him: In some ways, we kind of had to steal the Republican nomination. Our party is Southern, evangelical and populist. And you’re Northern, and you’re Mormon, and you’re rich. And these do not match well with our party.”

CNN, MSNBC, FOX all seem to drive points that lead to subjective analysis, which usually is imbalanced, so people come away knowing one side of a story really friggin well, then dismiss the rebuttal because it was placed in a packaged labeled with a negative connotation: Liberal or Conservative...WTF...and this is what our press has come to?