Freedom of press.

[Dill]

(02-21-2017, 01:50 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: If the majority of the media is biased against a certain political party and willfully withholds information to sway public opinion against that party, that makes the media the enemy of the American people in my opinion.

The media in Nazi Germany was the enemy of the people.

We are hearing an uproar now because the majority of the American media is Liberal but where was the uproar when Reed said that Romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years and the media didn't correct that statement until after the election for example?

As for Hannity, the guy is a shill. He has a show because he has an audience.

The American people have got to get away from the Prime Time Opinion shows and only watch their local news broadcasts. The opinion shows out there are full of bias to the extreme and are destroying this country. People will gravitate towards their own ideology and these media outlets know it. They are in business to make money, not inform the people. Newspapers are the same way.

It will never change, the genie is out of the bottle, Pandora is running rampant. The genie and Pandora had a baby and his name is misinformation.

I agree that the media in Nazi Germany was the enemy of the people--when it came under Hitler's control. Before that, it was not. Before he got the power to control the media, Hitler called it the lying press and did all he could to undermine it, to encourage people not to trust it. The free press was another liberal institution that had to go.

Where was "liberal" media when Reid lied about Romney's taxes? They were busy fact-checking and awarding pinocchios. It was hardly on his side then or since.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/four-pinocchios-for-harry-reids-claim-about-mitt-romneys-taxes/2012/08/06/c31a1402-e007-11e1-8fc5-a7dcf1fc161d_blog.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.dde371fbdaef
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/06/harry-reid/harry-reid-says-anonymous-source-told-him-mitt-rom/

What sets the "liberal" media at odds with right wing politics is that they take journalistic standards much more seriously. At Fox you get fired for criticizing Trump. At the NYT or Washington Post you get fired for mis-reporting.
Claims of "bias" are mostly rightwingers working the ref--often successfully.


I also agree with what you appear to imply in your last statement--media based upon capitalism is a problem. Fox is profitable.