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Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media bias. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Independent voters and The Media: What are your Top Ten Thing To Do Other Than Watch TV Election Coverage???

After several conversations with my co-workers at my job this week, I'd like to offer a "Top Ten Things To Do Besides Watch the "Election News" While We Wait to Vote...."

We talk about corporate media and certainly the media is exposed this year in being COMPLETELY politicized. Well, of course the media has ALWAYS been politicized, it's just that never have SO MANY people been SO DISSATISFIED with the "reporting".... WHY? My guess is that it has to do with SO MANY people being disillusioned by the political process INCLUDING THE MEDIA, and choosing to become independents.

Becoming an independent is a real thing in America right now! We know that because EVEN the media recognizes it. And we all know that the media is the FIRST to opportunize and the LAST to know. Or at least the last to report.... Hmmm......

So, here's my list:
#10 Watch David Letterman, who actually created this famous list

#9 Watch re-runs of Seinfeld and start a support group

#8 Play Lindsay Lohan songs on your iPod while watching re-runs of "The Golden Girls" on mute

# 7 Get home in time to see the REAL NEWS on Jon Stewart

Well, you get the idea! Send me your TOP THING TO DO OTHER THAN WATCH ELECTION NEWS!!!

I'll print it!
Thanks!
Hanks

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

REFORM
The Parties Oppose The "Open Primary" (Steve Rankin, Free Citizen)

LOCAL INDEPENDENT NEWS
Poll: Many Minnesotans would support independents (Minneapolis Star Tribune) 77 percent of the state's likely voters say they would consider voting for an independent or third-party candidate

MEDIA
  • Everyone Trashes The Media — Especially The Media (NPR.org) The press is trying to figure out what the heck it will look like as the previous economic models are disintegrating and major newspapers are falling apart.
  • CNN Worries About 'Too Liberal' Democratic Convention (NewsBusters.org)