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Topic: The Media Threat to Democracy |
The Media Threat to Democracy
American Thinker, by J.T. Hatter
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Posted By:thudlike, 2/26/2013 3:18:20 AM
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| Ann Coulter, in a recent Kudlow Report, enraged the punditry by suggesting that the mainstream media was a threat to democracy. "I mean, you really wonder if Democrats would win any elections if we had an honest media in this country," Coulter said. "As Pat Caddell says, the media is becoming a threat to democracy." In the runup to the last presidential election, Pat Caddell, a Democratic pollster and staunch liberal, said, "I think we´re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
flatwater, 2/26/2013 3:27:23 AM (No. 9196399)
We have a pathologically dishonest (p)resident being protected by a pathologically dishonest press corps.
Journalism in America is DEAD.
Yes, media dishonesty is a clear and present danger to our nation. Should America run into massive civil strife in the near future, I hope and pray that the mouthpieces of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN all get their teeth kicked in. They more than deserve it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/26/2013 4:04:02 AM (No. 9196407)
I´d vote for Caddell before a lot of republicans running for office.Unfortunately,an honest liberal like Caddell is a dying breed,in fact he might be the only one left. The rest of the media is in a race to the bottom on absurd story lines.the latest example is carrying Obama´s water on sequester cuts.
When you look at the millions of kids who can´t read at grade level,it should tell you Head Start is an abysmal failure but since it´s such a huge program designed to hire unionized teachers,it ain´t going no where.
Now Obama and the left wants to get their hands on kids as soon as they´re out of diapers to get an earlier start on indoctrination.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 2/26/2013 4:12:23 AM (No. 9196408)
Exactly so #2. We have to suffer ABC "news" on local radio and they always peddle the wrong end of the stick - obviously news is taken from the dem talking points and the rest is spun so hard it makes you dizzy. We stopped the newspaper and now use a mix of and internet sites for the actual news.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 2/26/2013 4:14:39 AM (No. 9196411)
should read mix of Fox Business news, Fox and The Blaze [got lost in above comment]
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
steveW, 2/26/2013 6:10:29 AM (No. 9196454)
You can call an institution whose sole purpose is to lie and cover-up for powerful, anti-American Marxists many things, but you cannot call it a free press. The actually free press is that very small, oppressed minority of journalists are not afraid to report the truth about powerful, anti-American Marxists.
Must Read.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/26/2013 7:45:09 AM (No. 9196570)
The drive-by Pravda media is exactly why Lucianne is the success story it is. Where else are you going to get the truth about anything except maybe Fox Business?
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