There is No Liberal Media
For years the Right-Wing spin machine has force-fed the American public about the “liberal media conspiracy”. This has spawned careers, websites, and millions of dollars to the neocon political spin doctors.
Really though, the only conspiracy in the media is over what kind of sensationalisim sells the most advertising dollars.
Case in point: Last week a reporter from KSTP contacted the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis inquiring about condo conversions - or something. They had previously done some work with Legal Aid on a story in New Brighton. Legal Aid was more than happy to discuss condo conversions in Minneapolis. When KSTP broke the story, they actually went with a condo sales are down due to recent murders in Minneapolis angle. With a “most buyers understand the risks of living downtown” quote from Realtor Joe thrown in for good measure.
Friggin’ Yellow Journalism. There is no media conspiracy. They all just make up stories to sell more ads.
The only way to make them stop is to turn off your TV.
Wednesday, May 10 6:20 pm
I was watching the news (NBC) last night and the story was about Charlie Stopford, an American, who has been posing as British, Lord ‘Buckingham’ for around 20 years. Right at the end of the story a news headline from a British paper flashed onto the screen saying, “Is Stopford an American Spy?,” but NBC made no (verbal) mention of it. Weird. Seems to me to be the interesting part of the story. I’m going to go read the BBC’s side, even though they are wanna-be-right-wingers most of the time, they at least report the news and not just propaganda.
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