Do you think the mainstream media is racist ???

yubba · 10-01-12, 06:06 PM

Got this Idea from the Mark Levin radio show,, he's having a ball with this Univisions report on fast furious., in the last day or so. So is the mainstream media just a bunch of white racist that doesn't want to report on the deaths of mexican citizens,,that was the direct result of weapons that came from a botched government operation,,,..or and all the deaths of black youths being killed in Chicago.. And I haven't heard much about Sioux nation ,,,I guess if you are a half white liberal president you can do no wrong...

10-01-12, 06:27 PM

I suppose its an improvement on a stupid five year old story about an idiot.

But come on yubs give us a media link, I want to see if this one has chemtrails and aliens in it too.

soopaman2 · 10-01-12, 06:28 PM

You seem to be the only one here who cares what race the president is.

Maybe the question should turn inward?

You know as well as I do, to the white majority, blacks killing blacks is ok, as long as it don't come into our neighborhoods.

Whites expect it, therefore it don't get the attention the George Zimmerman case gets.

Now that sells papers!

(edit: Black on black crime is not new Yubba, nor is our apathy for it, just stop grasping for things to trash Obama on. Plenty of legit things to kill him on.)

Honest news is dead, they are a business now (busineses cater to peoples wallets, not ideals), not something made to protect the people.

Stealhead · 10-01-12, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

Honest news is dead, they are a business now (busineses cater to peoples wallets, not ideals), not something made to protect the people.

News has always been a business that is not news at all.Ask Ben Franklin.

soopaman2 · 10-01-12, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

News has always been a business that is not news at all.Ask Ben Franklin.

Then why do so many folks take it at face value?

I don't buy something because the commercial for it made me laugh. Geico commercials are hilarious, but they stink for auto insurance.

I am more questioning our gullability, than the media itself. We foster this environment.

I bet some guys won't read Fox, others hate the NY times.

Because they cater to pre-existing beliefs.

I want some kind of neutrality back, we have digressed back to the Hearst days of yellow journalism.

Subnuts · 10-01-12, 06:55 PM

A middle-aged black woman once reported me to my manager on the ground of discrimination because I chose to bag groceries for a white woman with three children and a huge order, while she only had 10 items or so. A couple years after that, a young Jamaican woman accused me of being a racist because I wouldn't write her a receipt for bottles that didn't have a 5-cent deposit. Said I would have given her the money if she was white.

If this is what passes as "racism" these days, I imagine something "racist" is said on the major news networks about once every 6 seconds.

Cybermat47 · 10-01-12, 07:26 PM

I have a friend at school, and he makes fun of the fact that people start screaming RASCIST! whenever you do something.

Sam, could you please pass me a pen?

RASCIST!!

August · 10-01-12, 08:03 PM

The mainstream media is in the business of getting people to pay attention. If being racist, or more correctly, agitating racist controversy gets people to pay attention then they'll happily play one group of people against another using any issue and that includes racism.

But what I think Yubba refers to is perceived double standard in the main stream medias coverage of certain events depending on which party a politician is from.

IE if it was a Republican in office then these incidents would be cast as an enormous racial strife problem that the president isn't doing enough to fix. Since the POTUS is a D then these issues are marginalized and ignored.

Now while I think the people he listens to are just agitating controversy for attention like any other media type unfortunately there is some history of this.

I'm dating myself here but back in 1992 we used to have an enormous homeless problem in America. In nightly news reports it was cast as a national emergency that threatened the American way of life,.... right up until Bill Clinton beat Bush senior, then seemingly overnight the problem disappeared from the national medias radar. I mean the problem didn't go away of course just the medias coverage of it. It became not worth covering any more. Why? Because it would be embarrassing to a D president?

That's one explanation but I'm thinking the reason is more pragmatic. Without the election to cast the issue against, who is for this and who is against that, statements and speeches, party positions, etc, the issue wouldn't generate enough news to be worth hiring all the extra help to properly exploit it any more so they moved on to something else. Sorry homeless, maybe next election.

Stealhead · 10-01-12, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

Then why do so many folks take it at face value?

I don't buy something because the commercial for it made me laugh. Geico commercials are hilarious, but they stink for auto insurance.

I am more questioning our gullability, than the media itself. We foster this environment.

I bet some guys won't read Fox, others hate the NY times.

Because they cater to pre-existing beliefs.

I want some kind of neutrality back, we have digressed back to the Hearst days of yellow journalism.

The problem is that people are not taught to analyze what they read and consider what interests the source and author may have so unless you learn from your parents or someone else that has influence to actually approach media analytically and read between the lines and digest more than one outlet
you will be ignorant and ignorance is bliss.

People are taught pretty much to obey what they read as fact these days and it flows over to the TV and web.I had one teacher in high school he used to say that TV was the raping of your mind.

Long ago during the Revolutionary War the literacy rate was as high as 98% Massachusetts had that rate back then people also read two, three even four different papers in those days as well so they where better able to analyze a given story.

"Almost every man is a reader," wrote the Reverend Jacob Duche in 1772. Duche didn't have to go far from his church at 3rd and Pine Streets, to find evidence to support this observation. "The poorest laborer upon the shores of the Delaware thinks himself entitled to deliver his sentiment in matters of religion or politics with as much freedom as the gentlemen or scholar... such is the prevailing taste for books of every kind..."

You know you can print anything you want in the US you do not need any special permission from any one of course this means that no review is done as to what someone is printing
or saying on TV it is supposed to be the responsibility of the person receiving the information to do that themselves.Only thing is most people don't.

10-01-12, 06:06 PM	#1
yubba Admiral Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: in a neighborhood near you Posts: 2,478 Downloads: 293 Uploads: 2	Do you think the mainstream media is racist ??? Got this Idea from the Mark Levin radio show,, he's having a ball with this Univisions report on fast furious., in the last day or so. So is the mainstream media just a bunch of white racist that doesn't want to report on the deaths of mexican citizens,,that was the direct result of weapons that came from a botched government operation,,,..or and all the deaths of black youths being killed in Chicago.. And I haven't heard much about Sioux nation ,,,I guess if you are a half white liberal president you can do no wrong...

10-01-12, 06:28 PM	#3
soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	You seem to be the only one here who cares what race the president is. Maybe the question should turn inward? You know as well as I do, to the white majority, blacks killing blacks is ok, as long as it don't come into our neighborhoods. Whites expect it, therefore it don't get the attention the George Zimmerman case gets. Now that sells papers! (edit: Black on black crime is not new Yubba, nor is our apathy for it, just stop grasping for things to trash Obama on. Plenty of legit things to kill him on.) Honest news is dead, they are a business now (busineses cater to peoples wallets, not ideals), not something made to protect the people. __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.

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Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	A middle-aged black woman once reported me to my manager on the ground of discrimination because I chose to bag groceries for a white woman with three children and a huge order, while she only had 10 items or so. A couple years after that, a young Jamaican woman accused me of being a racist because I wouldn't write her a receipt for bottles that didn't have a 5-cent deposit. Said I would have given her the money if she was white. If this is what passes as "racism" these days, I imagine something "racist" is said on the major news networks about once every 6 seconds. __________________ My Amazon.com reviews

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Cybermat47 Willing Webfooted Beast Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 5,408 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 23	I have a friend at school, and he makes fun of the fact that people start screaming RASCIST! whenever you do something. Sam, could you please pass me a pen? RASCIST!! __________________ Historical TWoS Gameplay Guide: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2572620 Historical FotRSU Gameplay Guide: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho....php?p=2713394

10-01-12, 08:03 PM	#8
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,233 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The mainstream media is in the business of getting people to pay attention. If being racist, or more correctly, agitating racist controversy gets people to pay attention then they'll happily play one group of people against another using any issue and that includes racism. But what I think Yubba refers to is perceived double standard in the main stream medias coverage of certain events depending on which party a politician is from. IE if it was a Republican in office then these incidents would be cast as an enormous racial strife problem that the president isn't doing enough to fix. Since the POTUS is a D then these issues are marginalized and ignored. Now while I think the people he listens to are just agitating controversy for attention like any other media type unfortunately there is some history of this. I'm dating myself here but back in 1992 we used to have an enormous homeless problem in America. In nightly news reports it was cast as a national emergency that threatened the American way of life,.... right up until Bill Clinton beat Bush senior, then seemingly overnight the problem disappeared from the national medias radar. I mean the problem didn't go away of course just the medias coverage of it. It became not worth covering any more. Why? Because it would be embarrassing to a D president? That's one explanation but I'm thinking the reason is more pragmatic. Without the election to cast the issue against, who is for this and who is against that, statements and speeches, party positions, etc, the issue wouldn't generate enough news to be worth hiring all the extra help to properly exploit it any more so they moved on to something else. Sorry homeless, maybe next election. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

10-01-12, 06:27 PM	#2
Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I suppose its an improvement on a stupid five year old story about an idiot. But come on yubs give us a media link, I want to see if this one has chemtrails and aliens in it too.