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Post by This Just In on Jul 7, 2018 17:08:37 GMT -5
At around the 7:15 mark Ed Schultz talks about what happened with corporate controlled media when he was about to air that Bernie Sanders would run for President.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 7, 2018 20:05:44 GMT -5
At around the 7:15 mark Ed Schultz talks about what happened with corporate controlled media when he was about to air that Bernie Sanders would run for President. Ed Schultz's departure from MSNBC was not some corporate conspiracy but the result of ratings. MSNBC viewers preferred the wonkish style of Maddow, while Schultz (a former conservative host) was heavy on bluster and not much on substance. In that sense, he was a peer of Glenn Beck, another host who changes his tune when it suits him. That Schultz ended up on the propagandist RT network is evidence that he ran out of places to go. |
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Post by This Just In on Jul 7, 2018 22:35:13 GMT -5
At around the 7:15 mark Ed Schultz talks about what happened with corporate controlled media when he was about to air that Bernie Sanders would run for President. Ed Schultz's departure from MSNBC was not some corporate conspiracy but the result of ratings. MSNBC viewers preferred the wonkish style of Maddow, while Schultz (a former conservative host) was heavy on bluster and not much on substance. In that sense, he was a peer of Glenn Beck, another host who changes his tune when it suits him. That Schultz ended up on the propagandist RT network is evidence that he ran out of places to go. All media we have here in the U.S. is now propaganda too and has been like this since the "Fairness Doctrine" was over turned and further removed from real news when Fox News sued around '96 and won to be labeled "News" even though their mainly opinionated expressions being passed off as news. We disagree on why Schultz was fired as out of the all the commentators on CNN, Fox, MSNBC he was the only one talking about the TPP and pushing Bernie Sanders as a serious candidate. You can also look at happened with Cenk Uyger at MSNBC when he started questioning the political positions of Obama, even though his ratings was among the highest on the network. At the 3:25 mark Cenk Ugyer starts to talk about what happened when he had his come to Jesus meeting with the head of MSNBC in 2011. I want to ask, do you think the Democratic Primary was rigged towards Hillary Clinton? |
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Post by tashoya on Jul 7, 2018 22:52:15 GMT -5
Fox News is a brand name and a cable only station that isn't subject to the same rules as the "big three" networks. "All media" in the US isn't propaganda. Maybe the outlets some choose are but it's not "all" and we have plenty of access to other outlets. And Fox News, by far, is the most egregiously marketed. It's state TV at this point and that's not a secret. Other outlets are partisan but not, remotely, to the same degree. They all cater to an audience that agrees with their bent but Fox News doesn't even bother mentioning alternative viewpoints. The others do.
It's an issue that will, likely, work itself out as mostly retirement age (or close to it) people are the demo of those "news" outlets you're posting about. I think, in the end, it'll serve us well because they all, to some degree, are becoming a caricature of themselves. We'll be forced to look for sources and outside perspectives (likely foreign networks) that may actually inform our view of ourselves as a nation that's a part of an interdependent world as opposed to this "America First" horse that Trump is peddling which, as we all know, is also (coincidentally) just a brand and not a real thing.
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