Media admits it's Bias toward Obama

[PicsorShens]

propaganda has little to do with the sensational, it is most influential when it steadily drills into the public the fundaments of an agenda until people begin to believe in that agenda without question. by harping on those few things wrong with the workings of capitalism, the media has convinced a majority of the population that the entire system is at fault and has handed us the socialist ideology of the ivory tower left as our only salvation. with that ideology they also handed us our next president.

the desperate attempts by his opponents that you have pointed out were never enough to stem that tide of propaganda and even those were ladled out in such a fashion as to appear ludicrous. the anti-war machine has painted the democratic party as the great opponent of our foolhardy venture into iraq, even though they too profit from each bloodbath, and the republicans as blood crazed fiends, intent only on the accumulation of power through the force of arms. the media has given us our imminent ecological and social demise, blaming both on the uncaring greed of those evil corporations. while showing us the altruistic motives of a liberal establishment, intent on spreading the nations riches and forcing harsh penalties and restrictions on business; they have also given us the conservative faction as the henchmen of a callous capitalist empire, whose only goal is wealth at the expense of nature and the poor. if you cannot see the intent in all this, then i fear you have already become one of the true believers that these streams of information were made to create.

the intent of this propaganda is not merely the election of some temporary political animal, but the promotion of an entire ideology that runs contrary to the goals of this country as a whole and is designed to limit the freedoms of its people as individuals. it is another attempt to end this experiment in individual liberty and replace it with the outmoded concept of each man as just another member of the complacent herd. seldom is any mention ever made of the inherent corruption of the massive bureaucracy needed to control such a herd, that might give us a glimmer of the truth behind the rhetoric of change.

What, exactly, are the goals of this country? I'll bet you ten bucks my goals are vastly different from yours.

[maladroit]

"propaganda has little to do with the sensational, it is most influential when it steadily drills into the public the fundaments of an agenda until people begin to believe in that agenda without question."

- like the way those people at the mccain rally believed obama was a socialist muslim terrorist sympathizer who was going to rally the black to rise up against their white masters...no need to question that!


"by harping on those few things wrong with the workings of capitalism, the media has convinced a majority of the population that the entire system is at fault and has handed us the socialist ideology of the ivory tower left as our only salvation. with that ideology they also handed us our next president."

- i don't recall the media harping that the entire system of capitalism is at fault...i don't recall the media handing us the socialist ideology as our only salvation...i watched CNN quite a bit over the past few months and they reported on the public outrage over george bush's 'socialist' nationalization of the banking system...they reported mccain's 'socialist' plan to buy bum overpriced mortgages from banks and renegotiate them down to a lower amount to the workers could eat their cake and ale under a roof...the usa is currently going through the largest socialist prograrm expansion in the past 50 years and you're complaining about a guy who won't be president for another two months


"the anti-war machine has painted the democratic party as the great opponent of our foolhardy venture into iraq, even though they too profit from each bloodbath, and the republicans as blood crazed fiends, intent only on the accumulation of power through the force of arms."

- the anti-war machine is often the anti-democrat machine, issuing propaganda about the democrat party enabling and supporting the invasion and occupation of iraq, intent only on *appearing* to oppose the occupation without actually doing anything that might be used as proof that dem dum dems are surrender monkeys that don't support the troops...the dems aren't anti-war



"the media has given us our imminent ecological and social demise, blaming both on the uncaring greed of those evil corporations. while showing us the altruistic motives of a liberal establishment, intent on spreading the nations riches and forcing harsh penalties and restrictions on business; they have also given us the conservative faction as the henchmen of a callous capitalist empire, whose only goal is wealth at the expense of nature and the poor."

- except for the bit about "imminent ecological and social demise", i agree with you on that one



"the intent of this propaganda is not merely the election of some temporary political animal, but the promotion of an entire ideology that runs contrary to the goals of this country as a whole and is designed to limit the freedoms of its people as individuals. it is another attempt to end this experiment in individual liberty and replace it with the outmoded concept of each man as just another member of the complacent herd."

- isn't that what george bush and congress have been doing for the past 8 years with the patriot act, homeland security, no knock warrantless raids, snooping on private citizens, free speech zones *snicker*, legalization of kidnapping/torture, undermining habeas corpus, and threatening to add constitutional ammendments banning gay marriage and flag burning? what is the new ideology that is worse than that? i was kinda hoping obama would undo those things and put the liberty experiment back on track

[daihashi]

why are people here fixated on george bush, Obama or McCain.

Really this thread has nothing to do with them. Can't everyone here put aside their partisanship and stop saying it's ok for the media to do this?

[maladroit]

what about endorsement of candidates by newspapers? is that bad?

[daihashi]

what about endorsement of candidates by newspapers? is that bad?

I don't really thinks newspapers should endorse anyone but that is different from what I am talking about in this thread.

[maladroit]

i agree that media shouldn't show a bias too...newspaper endorsements are tricky

[Hollywierdtoker]

The media is bias...?No way. That's why I use to the interwebs for info. No bias. No censor. People still allow themselves to be controlled and there is nothing you can do except suggest that they start thinking for themselves. Tis life.