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Originally Posted by filtherton
Some of us do.
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I think that the posters on this politics forum, and probably in the "3D" US,
can be pretty much put into one of two "mindsets":
...those who support or see "nothing wrong" with the following goals, and those who would give up their comfortable lives and financial security to prevent these goals from ever fully "taking hold" as the "rules" for news reporting in our country:
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Pol...ophy/HL380.cfm
......Imagine, if you will, a future wherein the media willfully support the foreign policy objectives of the United States. A time when the left can no longer rely on the media to promote its socialist agenda to the public. A time when someone, somewhere in the media can be counted on to extol the virtues of morality without qualifications. When Betty Friedan no longer qualifies for "Person of the Week" honors. When Ronald Reagan is cited not as the "Man of the Year," but the "Man of the Century."........
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http://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/2/flag-scherer.asp
....For the Media Research Center, the conservative watchdog that authored the report, Hume's dispatch represented yet another success in its campaign to hew reporters to open support for the war. Already the nation's most vocal critic of the media's perceived liberal bias, the center took on a "new and vital mission" in the months following the attacks on Washington and New York........"We are training our guns on any media outlet or any reporter interfering with America's war on terrorism or trying to undermine the authority of President Bush,".........
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A self appointed "decider" of what is...or isn't "liberal bias", should have no more influence over the reporting of the media, than a self appointed censor of "pornography" should have. The reason that the SCOTUS has declared attempts to "ban" pornography, unconstitutional, is because no national authority has been recognized to have the infallible judgment to be able to claim to "know it when I see it", accurately, fairly, or uniformly....when it comes down to restricting the rights of adult Americans to view, read or publish "erotic or obscene", media.
Yet many sign on to and support the furtherance of L. Brent Bozell's "research" driven intimidation of the news media, and the isolation that he has influenced, of too many Americans, from the rich and diverse details reported by the vast multimedia of the American news reporting establishment....and they look forward to seperating the "rest of us" from this information stream, ASAP...if we permit them to finish their 19 year agenda.