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Topic: In the 2012 election, the mainstream
media's stranglehold on the political
narrative has finally been broken |
In the 2012 election, the mainstream
media's stranglehold on the political
narrative has finally been broken
Telegraph (UK), by Dan Hodges
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Posted By:lasvegaslou, 10/29/2012 10:16:35 AM
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| Yesterday Mitt Romney pulled level in Ohio. “A late surge by Mitt Romney has made the contest between him and President Obama to win Ohio too close to call”, screamed Fox News. “Presidential Poll sees dead heat in Ohio”, announced the rather more measured UPI wire story. “Romney, Obama Tied in New Ohio poll”, said the Wall Street Journal, with characteristic hyperbole. Somewhat surprised at this dramatic turn of events, I immediately logged on to the internet to see what lay behind the reversal of fortune in the Buckeye state. And promptly found it was rubbish.
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Comments:
Very interesting and more than a little worrisome. Do both sides want to mislead us?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
fransand, 10/29/2012 10:25:42 AM (No. 8971297)
Oh, I see...Fox news "screams," WSJ engages in "hyperbole" but UPI is "more measured"...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/29/2012 10:30:12 AM (No. 8971317)
The brits have been enamored of hussein obama's negritude, since day one.
The reporter seems to be engaged in peculiar thinking.
And because the pollsters are over counting democrats, the numbers are skewed towards obama.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
alliecat, 10/29/2012 10:40:28 AM (No. 8971355)
What the hell is this guy talking about? A confused mess of a read, IMHO.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EQKimball, 10/29/2012 10:44:45 AM (No. 8971381)
Ohio: R-50, O-48. See Drudge.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lilo, 10/29/2012 10:46:35 AM (No. 8971392)
Ah, no it hasn't. The fifth column, formerly known as the fourth estate, is firmly, stridently attached to the Obama kneepads.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mass Minority, 10/29/2012 10:53:17 AM (No. 8971419)
Apparently, pollsters are always telling the absolute truth and it was only the Media that tried to skew it. So if Gallup reports O47 R44 an O win is inevitable and the fact that the papers report a narrowing gap is irrelevant.
The guys point seems to be "I can read Gallups headline without reading the NYT's headline therfore I'm too smart to be a moron".
Never seems to occur to this loon that "truth" requires more than a 15 second search on the internet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoPack, 10/29/2012 11:03:43 AM (No. 8971454)
Battleground has Romney up 5. Gallup 4-5. Both have O at 47% and have had forever.
This explains why Obama is such an a-hole the last few weeks, why Romney is not calling O out on Benghazi, and why he still supports Murdoch. I'll be sleeping well, folks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 10/29/2012 11:56:48 AM (No. 8971651)
I think the wall crumbled with Rathergate, when a left-wing media attempt to bring down a GOP President resulted in right-wing bloggers destroying the career of a left-wing journalist. Yes, we have do now have access to raw data and have the ability to interpret the data for ourselves. But that doesn't mean every interpretation will be correct. A left-wing Blairite at a British paper can still twist the data into a misleading blog. Just because we are now free to ignore the Alphabet Networks doesn't mean we're free from leftoid propaganda.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lucky4, 10/29/2012 12:06:49 PM (No. 8971681)
He says Obama is going to win and the facts are obvious. And yes the article is a mess.
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