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You find this pointless?
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The  '''mainstream media''' ('''MSM'''), often referred to as the '''lamestream media''' for satirical purposes, are the increasingly [[liberal]] media organs that censor the dissemination of honest news and repeatedly applies liberal [[double standard]]s. 
 
  
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The common denominator of the "mainstream media" is their [[censorship|censoring]] or downplaying stories that would lead viewers to [[conservative]] conclusions, and their use of [[photo bias]], [[placement bias]] and other forms of deception to mislead viewers into drawing incorrect [[liberal]] conclusions.  The term '''mainstream media''' usually refers to how the majority of commercial-based or taxpayer-funded news reporting and commentary consist of [[liberal media|liberal bias]], while falsely pretending to be objective providers of information.
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Well I'd care to disagree,
  
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{{cquote|''They [the media] are not becoming irrelevant, but they are getting to the point where they are worse than irrelevant,” and “They’re the scourge of the American people.''|||[[Andrew Breitbart]]<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75274 Tea Party Must Stand Up to Liberal Smear Tactics, Conservative Activist Says, CNSNews, September 14, 2010]</ref>}}
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Because every moment you spend reverting my work,
  
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Examples include:
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Is another moment you won't spend spewing your lies,
  
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*Without any evidence of church attendance or Bible-reading by the [[Anders Behring Breivik|defendant]] accused of murdering 92 people in Norway, the headline of the leading Australian newspaper declared, "Norway suspect 'fundamentalist Christian.'"<ref>[http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/norway-suspect-fundamentalist-christian-20110724-1huqg.html Norway suspect 'fundamentalist Christian']</ref>  The headline appears to be based in part on a [[Facebook]] page that was likely not even authentic.
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Another moment you won't spend hurting people.
  
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== Fairness Doctrine ==
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Because the one thing you've forgotten,
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In 1987, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] voted 4-0 to revoke the [[Fairness Doctrine]]. The Fairness Doctrine mandated that if any opinion considered "controversial" were ever discussed on the public airwaves, the station over which that opinion aired was required to give [[Censorship|equal time]] to any person wishing to reply. However, the FCC never set a standard about ''interpretations'' of current events that might be disputable, or even examined that issue.
 
  
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With the revocation of the Fairness Doctrine, [[radio]] and [[television]] stations were now permitted to air any opinion or interpretation of the news, no matter how "controversial," without regard to the giving of "equal time."
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Is that every single person on this earth is human,
  
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On August 1, 1988, a new radio commentator named [[Rush Limbaugh]] began [[broadcast]]ing in national [[syndication]].
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All sharing one base desire,  
  
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== List of mainstream media organs ==
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To be accepted and loved in the Light they so cherish.  
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[[File:MSMbyTEA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Protest sign expressing [[Tea Party Movement]]'s attitude toward MSM]]
 
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Mainstream media outlets are based in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/1/liberal-media-distort-the-gun-debate-loaded-langua/ Liberal media distort the gun debate; loaded language misleads the public] - [[Emily Miller]], ''[[Washington Times]]''</ref>
 
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Significant mainstream media outlets include:
 
  
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'''Newspapers'''
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But you, who choose to shout "faggot" at those men who hold their hands together while they walk down the sidewalk.  
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* ''[[The New York Times]]''
 
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* ''[[The Washington Post]]''
 
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* ''[[The Boston Globe]]''
 
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* ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''
 
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* ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]''
 
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* ''The [[Los Angeles Times]]''
 
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* ''[[The San Francisco Chronicle]]''
 
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* ''[[USA Today]]''
 
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* ''The Rolling Stones'' (magazine)
 
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* ''The [[Wall Street Journal]]''<ref>The inclusion of ''The Wall Street Journal'' might strike some media observers as strange, until one remembers that, though its editorial board is [[conservative]] on most issues (except for immigration), its [[city room]] is definitely [[liberal]] in orientation and coverage of the news.</ref>
 
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* All major, standard-newspaper-format dailies that have existed since before the Fairness Doctrine repeal.
 
  
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'''News Syndication Agencies'''
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What you've forgotten is those people are YOU,
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* [[Associated Press (AP)|Associated Press]]
 
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* [[UPI|United Press International]]
 
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* [[Reuters]]
 
  
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'''Television'''
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The same in every respect, except for one crucial detail,
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* [[CBS]]
 
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* [[NBC]]
 
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* [[ABC]]
 
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* [[National Public Radio]]
 
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* [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]]
 
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* The [[CNN|Cable News Network]]
 
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* [[Fox News]] (see below).
 
  
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Some media consumers do not consider [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]] to be part of the "mainstream media" as Fox News frequently presents viewpoints that do not fall in line with other mainstream outlets. For example, in 2007, the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[2008 Presidential Election#Declared Democratic Party Candidates|presidential candidates]] declared that they would not appear in debates hosted by Fox News, but they did appear on other MSM news outlets.  
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They have more Humanity than you will ever posses.
  
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However, ratings indicate that because of its massive popularity, Fox News could be considered to be part of the mainstream media by definition. According to ratings organization [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsen]]:
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So I ask you, servants of the Darkness,
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:* Fox News has the 10 most viewed cable TV news shows (as of Dec 2009).
 
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:* Fox News mean prime-time viewing figures are triple that of [[MSNBC]], and double that of CNN,  and exceed the total ratings of CNN, MSNBC and [[CNBC]] combined.
 
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:* "In 2006, more than half the people watching cable news were watching Fox News" <ref>Authors unknown. "[http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2007/narrative_cabletv_audience.asp?cat=2&media=6 The State of the News Media 2007]." ''Project for Excellence in Journalism,'' 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref>
 
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[[File:Leftist News.gif | right]]
 
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===CNN===
 
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In 2006 CNN.com ran an article by columnist R. Emmett Tyrell Jr. entitled "Tyrell: Goodbye MSM... and good riddance!" <ref>[[R. Emmett Tyrell|Tyrell, R. Emmet]]. "[http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/tyrrell.msm/index.html?iref=newssearch Goodbye MSM... and good riddance!]" Creators' Syndicate, 2006. Retrieved August 2, 2007, from [http://www.cnn.com CNN].</ref> Examining the relationship between the [[alternative media|alternative press]] and the MSM, Tyrell writes:
 
  
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<blockquote> So we hear this week that President George W. Bush is taking delight in the spread of the "alternative press" (read conservatives on the Internet, in talk radio, in print, and at Fox) and the gentle detumescence of "mainstream media" (read liberal media, or more precisely, Democratic media). Well I join him in his satisfaction. </blockquote>
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When will you give up your anger?
  
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=='Alternative Media'==
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When will you finally heed the calls of your brothers and sisters?
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Differing opinions also exist over the definition of a similar term - '''Alternative Media'''.  Although some consider, for example, [[Rush Limbaugh]]'s launch to be the birth of 'alternative media', so too do the left consider publications like [[The Nation]] to be 'alternative media.'<ref>Albert, Michael. "[http://www.zmag.org/whatmakesalti.htm Alternative Media: What Makes Alternative Media Alternative?]" ''[http://www.zmag.org/ Z]'' Magazine. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref> In fact, many would view the [[Village Voice]] group to be the most widely published 'alternative media' outlet in the United States.
 
  
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By whatever definition, most media watchers would classify as "alternative media" any media organ that is primarily hosted on the [[Internet]] rather than printed and delivered or mailed to subscribers. The alternative media ''is not'' exclusively conservative. It includes [[liberal]] organs as well. Some writers on these organs have suggested that the mainstream media has a ''conservative'' bias—by which they actually mean that mainstream-media organs are not as revolutionary, or as radical, in their thinking as are the writers themselves.<ref>[[Peter Dreier|Dreier, Peter]]. "[http://alternet.org/workplace/58108/ For a Brief Moment, The Media Rediscover Poverty]." [http://alternet.org AlterNet.org], July 26, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref><ref>[[Rory O'Connor|O'Connor, Rory]]. "[http://alternet.org/mediaculture/55915/ The Future of Citizen Journalism]. [http://alternet.org AlterNet.org], July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref><ref>[[Sheldon Rampton|Rampton, Sheldon]]. "[http://alternet.org/story/54339/ Has the Internet Changed the Propaganda Model?]" [http://alternet.org AlterNet.org], June 22, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref>
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"We've moved on," they'll say "Let go of your childish hate, life is more than what you know."
  
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At least one MSM organ, [[CBS]] News, attempted in 2006<ref>Pogue, David. "[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/09/sunday/main1786520.shtml?source=search_story Brave New Blogging World: David Pogue Ventures Into The Blogosphere]." [http://www.cbsnews.com/ CBSNews.com], July 9, 2006. Retrieved August 2, 2007.</ref> to describe what a particular alternative-media segment (i.e., [[blog]]s) thinks of the MSM:
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Sometimes I wonder when that day will come,
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{{Cquote|They don't believe that you are unbiased, objective, fair a lot of times. And so what they want is they want to read a lot of different sources themselves. because they don't trust the mainstream media..that would be [you].}}
 
  
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It is worth noting that liberal blog activity on the internet declined after the election of [[Barack Hussein Obama]],<ref>http://bloggasm.com/blog-traffic-for-liberal-blogs-down-58-in-three-months-following-election-conservative-blogs-down-36</ref> and continued to decline after his reelection. This shows that the distaste for bias in the liberal MSM is spreading to the alternative media.
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When brother does not fight brother,
  
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==See also==
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When the mother doesn't weep for them, for they do not know what they do,
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*[[Liberal media]]
 
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*[[Advocacy journalism]]
 
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*[[Journalistic malpractice]]
 
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*[[Deaths directly attributed to the liberal media]]
 
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*[[Alternative media]]
 
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*[[Biased journalists of the Obama administration]]
 
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*[[Left-wing smear machine]]
 
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*[[Government by Journalism]]
 
  
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== External links ==
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When the sisters will not have to be the voice of calm in the family.
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*[http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp Media Bias Basics.]
 
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*[http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx Media Bias Is Real-Finds UCLA Political Scientist.]
 
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*[http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/archive.aspx Bias Alert.]
 
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*[http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html Who Controls the Media?]
 
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*[http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main Ownership Chart: The Big Six.]
 
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*[http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=626979 Media Lies on Libya Ongoing.]
 
  
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==References==
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Sometimes I think that day will be a million years off,
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{{Liberalism}}
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But when I see those two men holding hands on the sidewalk,
  
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[[Category:Media]]
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I think that day might be sooner than I expected.
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[[Category:Political Terms]]
 
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[[Category:Newspapers]]
 
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[[Category:United States Newspapers]]
 
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[[Category:Broadcasters]]
 
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[[Category:Liberal Organizations]]
 
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[[Category:Liberal Media]]
 
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[[Category:Anti Second Amendment]]
 

Revision as of 00:27, September 9, 2016

You find this pointless?

Well I'd care to disagree,

Because every moment you spend reverting my work,

Is another moment you won't spend spewing your lies,

Another moment you won't spend hurting people.

Because the one thing you've forgotten,

Is that every single person on this earth is human,

All sharing one base desire,

To be accepted and loved in the Light they so cherish.

But you, who choose to shout "faggot" at those men who hold their hands together while they walk down the sidewalk.

What you've forgotten is those people are YOU,

The same in every respect, except for one crucial detail,

They have more Humanity than you will ever posses.

So I ask you, servants of the Darkness,

When will you give up your anger?

When will you finally heed the calls of your brothers and sisters?

"We've moved on," they'll say "Let go of your childish hate, life is more than what you know."

Sometimes I wonder when that day will come,

When brother does not fight brother,

When the mother doesn't weep for them, for they do not know what they do,

When the sisters will not have to be the voice of calm in the family.

Sometimes I think that day will be a million years off,

But when I see those two men holding hands on the sidewalk,

I think that day might be sooner than I expected.

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