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Media's Moral Morass

Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/06/18 17:11:58
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From the original article, by Robert Knight of The Washington Times:

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The unabated moral confusion flowing through the media is stunning. It’s so bad, you can’t look away. But we should try.



With a few exceptions, the major TV networks are a torrential sewer of leftwing propaganda and smutty sitcoms.


Print and online media are more diversified, but The New York Times has so many certifiables writing for it that I can’t even decide which one to quote. Elsewhere, columnists like the Miami Herald‘s Leonard Pitts Jr., spin out nuggets like:


Racial animus is an element of tea party ideology, but not its entirety.


Why, thanks for that caveat, Mr. Pitts.


The Washington Post‘s Courtland Milloy, after watching the
Iowa caucuses on TV back in January, complained bitterly that “nearly
everybody was white.” Imagine that shoe on the other foot.

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Imagine that, indeed. If you follow the article, you'll see a lot more, from The Washington Post.

How about this? Do you think the media are delivering a consistent moral message? Or have they become a collection of thoroughly bad content and worse craft, with only their connections to keep them alive?

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  • Peewee 2012/06/18 17:25:43
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Peewee
    +11
    They are a disgrace, deliberately letting out what they want the people to hear and leaving out important news such as Obama's connection to the New Party - which would have been a circus if it was a Republican.

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  • Beverly 2012/06/19 12:30:40
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Beverly
    +1
    They have lost their integrity and right to report anything. I have not listened to NBC newe since June 2008 nor will I ever go back to that immoral, Obama servant media.
  • The Duke 2012/06/19 07:19:42
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    The Duke
    +1
    The liberal/progressive/socialist movement is long on agendas but pitifully short on morals.
  • Rodney 2012/06/19 06:03:37
    Undecided
    Rodney
    +2
    There are no Journalists left in America. All we have are college programmed sheeple who know how to tap on keys of a computer and use spell check.
  • zapped 2012/06/19 05:39:01
    Undecided
    zapped
    +2
    considering the sensorship & bias of the left media , and the rest souldnt be a surprise ....!
  • texasred 2012/06/19 02:38:59
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    texasred
    +2
    The main stream media has no morals. Period... end of story.
  • Ozzyboy 2012/06/19 02:12:00
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Ozzyboy
    +2
    Isn't it the media's job to tell us all how to think, act and feel? We used to call it yellow journalism but now it is just main stream media propaganda. It is sad when Russian, government controlled, newspapers are more reliable than those here in America.
  • JoeM 2012/06/19 01:22:48
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    JoeM
    +2
    Even the "entertainment" shows are unfit for children, and most of the drama shows are unfit for civilized folk.
  • redhorse29 2012/06/18 23:53:14
    Undecided
    redhorse29
    +1
    Not really sure how to address this question. The media is mostly controlled by wealthy liberal progressive elitists that feel it is their right to try an control the flow of information and channel our analysis and decisions. Most poor media is provide by narrow-minded bigots and hacks trying with the intent to create decent and disharmony in the name of open communication.
  • Kaleokualoha 2012/06/18 23:45:56
    Undecided
    Kaleokualoha
    It is not the job of the media to feed anyone "moral messages." It is their job to provide information in line with the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Conduct (see http://www.spj.org/ethicscode... ).

    (IMHO) The New York Times is center left while the Wall Street Journal is center right. Mainstream liberal views are represented by the Huffington Post and MSNBC. Mainstream conservative views are represented by Fox News and The National Review. Left wing views are represented by The Nation, while right wing views are presented by World Net Daily (WND) and so-called "Accuracy In Media" (AIM). Radical Left views are represented by CPUSA's The Daily Worker, while radical Right views are represented by John Birch Society's The New American.
  • exhon2009 2012/06/18 21:24:58
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    exhon2009
    +5
    It gladdens my heart to see the media suffering from declining readership and viewership. I love sending NY Times solicitations back in the mail empty to charge their Business reply postage. I'm doing my part 30 cents at a time.
  • Matt 2012/06/18 21:24:04 (edited)
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Matt
    +5
    Glorifying liars, thieves, drunkards, drug addicts, adulterers and perverts... and that's just C-Span !


    Clowns
  • Mitchell McAleer 2012/06/18 21:00:46
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Mitchell McAleer
    +2
    The fact that the mass media is wholly owned by a group of entities with a single agenda to exploit ignorance of the masses for profit, even when it means promoting war based on lies, and subverting morality and the mechanism of justice for murder in the wars based on lies, is exactly the definition of accessory to murder. In a real world, where sane, moral human beings object to murder, the highest levels of the executive branch of the US government, and the managers of the mass media must be prosecuted for the murder of civilians and US military. http://legal-dictionary.thefr...
  • JT For Political Reform 2012/06/18 19:57:58
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    JT For Political Reform
    +3
    "With a few exceptions, the major TV networks are a torrential sewer of leftwing propaganda and smutty sitcoms."

    Temlakos....That's the best description I have heard about the TV networks. It is so fitting.
  • rocat 2012/06/18 19:38:27
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    rocat
    +1
    one of my favorites...
    for a giggle...
    is paul krugman...
    and they say he's an economist...ok-

    kind of a toss up tho...
    between he and e.j.dione...
    as to who speaks more out their ass-

    and damn that e.j.sure is funny looking...
    like a toddler super-sized -

    then there's the redoubtable[snicker] gene robinson-
    often good for a hoot or two-
  • marylou5 2012/06/18 18:41:33 (edited)
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    marylou5
    +6
    We presume a reporter will report the truth and not slant the facts.
    Alas that is not the case. Reporters have their own biases which are blatantly obvious in
    all media!

    There are usually code words imbedded to promote whatever the agenda is for the day!
    The liberal media wins the trophy for disinformation without shame.

    It appears that many reporters are morally bankrupt and more interested in selling their programmed message than telling the truth.

    We no longer have a free press. It has been totally corrupted to promote the agenda of those who wield the money and the power, to the detriment of the people.
  • SunShine marylou5 2012/06/18 19:05:00
    SunShine
    +2
    good comment
  • marylou5 SunShine 2012/06/20 05:53:37
    marylou5
    +2
    Thank you!
  • teigan 2012/06/18 18:39:51
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    teigan
    +7
    The main stream media has become the Inquirer. They just like the Unions served their purpose years ago, they are no longer crediable and are as worthless as teats on a bull. Today if you want the truth you have to spend the time to look for it yourself, if you depend on the media, you will remain uninformed.
  • Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody 2012/06/18 18:35:37
    Lay off! The media are giving us a consistently moral message.
    Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody
    +3
    Consistantly bankrupt. But consistant.
  • 3kidsandamom 2012/06/18 18:33:22
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    3kidsandamom
    +3
    Those who willfully ignorant enjoy the appearance that what they are standing for means something and sadly the MSM has no problem feeding them the lies needed for them to continue with their life as usual. Morals are unwanted as they may show people that something isn't ok, that may offend them & we can't do that!
  • hayesml47 2012/06/18 18:28:57
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    hayesml47
    +3
    We no longer have a "free press". What we have now is a Corporate America mouthpiece that spouts both left and right mis-informatiion in order to conseal their take over of our country. They have been playing both sides against each other for many years now and to say that the American public is in the dark doesn't begin to cover how bad off we are! We have been declining in our attention to our public duties over the last several decades and with the corporate buyout of the media we seem to have lost all control of our government of the people, for the people, and by the people.
  • Kimmel hayesml47 2012/06/18 18:46:09
    Kimmel
    +2
    I'm not so sure it is worse than before except there are not many of the small independents left out there. If you go back to the William Randolph Hearst days, you were still getting his agenda from the papers on the street.
  • Doc 2012/06/18 18:19:00
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Doc
    +3
    nothing balanced there.
  • Cognito22 2012/06/18 18:04:42
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Cognito22
    +3
    The meaning of this eludes me. Can you elaborate?

    "The Washington Post‘s Courtland Milloy, after watching the
    Iowa caucuses on TV back in January, complained bitterly that “nearly
    everybody was white.” Imagine that shoe on the other foot."

    "Imagine that shoe on the other foot"? Huh?
  • Temlako... Cognito22 2012/06/18 18:06:38
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +4
    How about this: suppose that, after watching coverage of the New York City primary, someone complains bitterly that "nearly everybody was black."
  • Cognito22 Temlako... 2012/06/18 18:21:04
    Cognito22
    +2
    I think they would be talking about Rangel's district.
  • JT For ... Temlako... 2012/06/18 20:00:11
    JT For Political Reform
    The Al and Jesse posse would show up and start their racist blabber once again.
  • Tinka123 2012/06/18 17:55:22
    Undecided
    Tinka123
    +6
    It's not the purpose of the media mold the morality of a people. imo Their function should be exposing truth. They don't do that. None of them. It's all demagoguery these days.
  • Philo-CommieHater! 2012/06/18 17:51:57
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Philo-CommieHater!
    +7
    The myth of an unbiased media - which persisted through the latter half of the 20th century in the USA only - is finally collapsing under the weight of it's own lies. As I've said elsewhere, "unbiased media" is an oxymoron...

    ...anyone who believes such exists is a regular moron.
  • Sister Jean 2012/06/18 17:47:23
    Undecided
    Sister Jean
    +2
    it's all over
  • wicked soda boy 2012/06/18 17:41:44
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    wicked soda boy
    +4
    Much of the entertainment writers churn out crap, and so do many of the news media.
    Thank goodness for the internet, although there is no shortage of garbage there too.
  • Kat 2012/06/18 17:39:44
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Kat
    +9
    Moral and media in the same sentence. LOL That's a good one, they haven't had morals since 19?? way back when Walter looked at the camera one night and said "There was a jail break today, 12 dead, the pictures are so horrific we can't show you on tv" then a few days lter it's " there was a jail break, look there's blood half way up the walls" .
  • mk, Smartass Oracle 2012/06/18 17:31:23
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    mk, Smartass Oracle
    +3
    More leftist yellow journalism.



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  • Peewee 2012/06/18 17:25:43
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Peewee
    +11
    They are a disgrace, deliberately letting out what they want the people to hear and leaving out important news such as Obama's connection to the New Party - which would have been a circus if it was a Republican.
  • JT For ... Peewee 2012/06/18 19:58:42
    JT For Political Reform
    +1
    That's no joke.
  • HarleyCharley 2012/06/18 17:21:11
    Undecided
    HarleyCharley
    +3
    the media has a liberal bias for sure...
  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/06/18 17:14:53
    Bad content and worse craft. How does such junk get into print?
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +7
    This goes beyond nasty liberal politics. Whatever they talk about, they produce such awful prose. The dialogue from Plan 9 from Outer Space was better than this!

    Stuff like this, you have to see to believe. Follow the link to the original article, and you'll see further links to some of the worst prose that ever crossed your consoles.

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