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----- Original Message -----
From: Amelia Edgeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > From: Amelia Edgeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Note the part about 89% of journalists voting for Clinton.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > >> The New Australian
> > >> Remember: 89 per cent of Washington journalists voted for Clinton
> > >> and everything he stands for, including the destruction of our
> > >> military. What America needs is a moral revival and the media is
> > >> a good place to start.
> >
> > Questions that come to mind: Where did that 89% statistic come from?
> > What percentage of EDITORS [gatekeepers], not REPORTERS [newsserfs]
> > "voted for Clinton and everything he stands for"? Are "Clinton" and
> > "everything he stands for" identical? Could some have voted for Bill
> > [I didn't] not because they liked "everything he stands for" but
> > because they somehow perceived some difference between the nearly-
> > identical platforms of Clinton-Bush [92] and Clinton-Dole [96]??
> That statistic may have come from the survey taken by MSNBC News. I
> remember the survey but not the exact percentage. That seems about
> right.
Sure, I remember that 'survey' too, but the other questions remain
unanswered. That survey, and the NewOzzy piece, misconstrue power
relationships in media. Line-workers don't make policy, managers
do. I have a simple little quiz re: "Liberal" media:
Q: How do you become a journalist in the US?
A: An editor hires you.
Q: How do you become an editor in the US?
A: Senior management hires you.
Q: How do you become senior management in the US?
A: The owner(s) hire you.
Q: How many media corporations in the US are owned by Marxists?
A: (the answer is left as an exercise for the student)
Q: Who controls biases of US media - journalists, editors, or owners?
A: (the answer is left as an exercise for the student)
Q: What is the religion of for-profit corporations?
A: Money.
Q: What is the driving force behind media corporations?
A: Money.
Q: What will corporations do to make more money?
A: Anything they can get away with.
The logic is simple: If a perceived bias, if polarization of the
populace, will sell advertising space in any media, that medium
WILL present polarizing, biases productions. If ad space can be
sold in productions about talking equines, alien invaders, cabals,
soft-core porn, conspiracies, vampire slayers, Elvis, or anything
else, such productions WILL be presented, with much fanfare.
Keep in mind that, for commercial media, their actual product is
the audience, not the production. They sell their audience to their
advertisers. When we consume TV, radio, periodicals, WE are the
product. The content of the media is but a lure. Every pundit and
politico before the public eye is a performer, a dancing bear, a
talking parrot who squawks to grab our attention for the next sales
pitch, the next chance to sell US to the advertisers. When a media
outlet spouts an ideological line, it's because they have enough
of an audience to generate dividends for the shareholders.
So in presidential campaigns, the finalists have indistinguishable
political platforms, and the only way to induce candidates/parties
[advertisers] to plow MASSIVE amounts of cash into media biz, is to
produce presentations magnifying the minute distinctions between
Tweedledee and Tweedledum, to garner sufficient audiences [we, the
product] for the show. Never let truth stand in the way of a good
story [that's showiz]. Misconstrue every possible detail. Omit
every embarrassing contrary detail. 89% OF JOURNALISTS VOTED FOR
MARXIST CLINTON!! But how many editors/owners did, and who controls
what journalists write, and is corporate-whore Dixiecrat Clinton any
more Marxist than was Reagan? Hey, don't answer that, the readers/
viewers will get bored and switch channels and ad revenues will
drop and the shareholders will be pissed and I'll be pounding the
streets looking for another cushy job. Keep the juices flowing.
Never underestimate the power of greed.
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