Is this proof that the media is not left or right, but actually WRONG!?

Question

Fox News, MSNBC and CNN are all ignoring Ron Paul and Mike Cravel even though many are asking about them. Is this proof that there is no left or right control of media and it is actually one evil entity? Our media is telling us our options for president? Pick your poison.

Answer 1

The media will cover who they want you to choose, it is up to you to sift through their BS. Most of the media is left and run by far left groups. I truly beleive FOX is trying to be nuetral and the fact that Ron Paul won the debate is from an unsientific poll held by NBC i didnt watch the debate so i cant say but i understand the questions came from the far left. IT is HaRD to say but we need to look at FRANCE and carry our debates between the candidates without the interference between media. have the applicants ask and answer the questions.

Answer 2

An excellent question! Not only is the media neither left or right, but is an instrument of corporate control. If you will please indulge me, let me give you a few historical examples of how we lost our fourth estate:

1) In 1917, congressman Callaway from Texas recorded his research for the Congressional Record (Febuary 9th, 1917, page 2947 - 1948) in the House of Representatives:
"In March 1915, the J. P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and power interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States."
"These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the question of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international mixture considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

2) John Swinton*, a leading editor of note prior to WWI, also passed judgement on the Press at an annual dinner of the American Press Association:

"There is no such thing as an independent Press in America, if we except that of little country towns. You know this and I know it. Not a man among you dares to utter his honest opinion. Were you to utter it, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week so that I may keep my honest opinion out of the newpaper for which I write. You too are paid similar salaries for similar services. Were I to permit that a single edition of my newspaper contained an honest opinion, my occupation like Othello's would be gone in less than 24 hours. The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion would soon be on the streets in search of another job. It is the duty of a New York journalist to lie, to distort, to revile, to toady at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or what amounts to the same thing, his salary. We are the tools and the vassels of the rich behind the scenes. We are marionettes. These men pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men...we are intellectual prostitutes."
*There is some controversy regarding whether this Swinton (post WWII) was the same Swinton who was a journalist in 1853. However, an argument can be made that the "150 dollars a week" would be the former.

3) This statement was made by David Rockefeller (attended by Govenor Bill Clinton of Arkansas) at a Bilderberger gathering in Baden, Baden, Germany in 1991. For those who think this is all conspiracy nonsense, please research the Bilderberg Group, then ask yourself why the major news media have not reported on this surreptitious international political body?:

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

These are a few poignant examples facing us in the world of globalist control. In the late 1960s, the CIA was implicated in subverting the major news media outlets by having their own assets on the payroll, within the employ, or under the influence of the CIA. This program was called "Operation Mockingbird."

Thankyou for taking the time to read this response.

Answer 3

Ron Paul should be ignored because he is a bad candidate. I am for freedom and small government, but he is so libertarian that it's dangerous. The role of the government is to protect Americans from the intrusions of other Americans, and he doesn't recognize that.

He believes in too little government control, which is just as dangerous as too much. I also don't see him as being intelligent. He's like a Kerry, he never has any plans, just talking points.

Answer 4

America’s corporate media propaganda machine has managed to maintain a fastidiously manicured façade for many years. Despite appearing to exist as a champion of democracy, equality, freedom, and human rights, the reality of the United States was, and is, that its socioeconomic and governmental systems are racist, bigoted, ruthless and plutocratic in nature.

Democracy has never existed in the United States. A de facto aristocracy has dominated our constitutional republic dating back to the Continental Congress. Capitalism is a brutal, pitiless economic system that encourages and rewards greed, selfishness, exploitation, and annihilation of the competition.

Obsessed with materialism, conspicuous consumption, convenience, physical appearance, and winning, many Americans gorge themselves on the abundant fruits of Capitalism, oblivious to the fact that billions of human beings live in abject poverty and misery to make their feast possible.

America is a nation of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy. Its ruling elite class is buttressed by the poor and working people who have been rendered politically impotent by the allure of conspicuous consumption (which further enriches the elite), the illusion of democracy, and the extremely remote possibility that one of them could be the next Bill Gates.

Wearing its cloak of benevolence, America is an abstract embodiment of the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. Governed by avaricious profiteers produced and enabled by a ruthless system that brings out the worst in humanity, the United States is a predacious nation innocently posing as a bastion of human rights and democracy.

Answer 5

haha yea all media "has our best interests at heart".. ya right.. We are not even CLOSE to the elections and the media is already reducing our choice! Why do the media and political parties feel the need to reduce debate by allowing candidates to expire prematurely?!?!

good book to check out by David Barker- "Rushed to Judgement"

Do Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann and their producers really know who would be best for this country!?!?

Answer 6

I see no evil intent in passing over two relatively unknowns. If they do something that calls attention to themselves, we'll hear about it. I already know all I want to know about Ron Paul but who is Mike Cravel? Never mind, I'll use google.

Answer 7

Wrong is the answer most of the time, Whether it be what they've twisted, or word to influence, or leave out. What could be the most valuable asset we have was allowed to be bought. The repsonsiblity the media holds means nothing to them now.

Answer 8

Yes, the media sucks up to the candidate with most money and fame. They aren't informative but entertainment and a way for these bigshot politicians to get more attention.

Answer 9

The media is a tool of the white house. It never stopped being embedded.

Answer 10

Yes! Finally! The media is nothing but a propaganda tool for the government. They pick what they want us to know and not know about.