"I did a little social experiment of my own last week – I DVR’ed the evening news from NBC, CBS and ABC and watched them end to end. Each one of them followed almost the same script, reporting on the same things, and using the same language and perspectives."
This has been going on since the late 1970s, but in those days you had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I did that one evening back when the nightly news was still only a half-hour show. In those days one network was a half hour earlier than the other two. After watching the news on the earlier broadcast I couldn't help but notice that I was watching a story about a plane crash, complete with the very same video footage, that I saw in the earlier broadcast. So I began switching back and forth between the two later shows to confirm, yes all networks were showing the same three major stories, though not all in the same order.
I thought, in a country of nearly 300 million this is it for important national news stories? Networks and newspapers had the power in those days. They owned the channels of communication. Networks owned the air waves, and newspapers bought ink by the barrel. The only way the average citizen could be heard was when the local paper would print a letter to the editor.
Fortunately, there are alternatives now. The internet provides a channel that can potentially reach the entire world to anybody that wants one. Newspapers and TV networks aren't the money makers they once were. They lose money. Wasn't Newsweek magazine, the organization, recently purchased for a dollar? They lose money because they are not in the news business anymore. They're advocates.
“ They depend on someone else’s patience, tolerance, attention, and money to exist – and because they are necessary for Democrats to succeed, they get elevated beyond their importance, they receive preferential treatment, and they get rewarded.
….our attention, our agitation and our dollars are fertilizer to them.
Michael, you know that Wisconsin and Colorado no longer require passing the Bar Exam to obtain a law license?? Seems non-English speaking Lithuanians couldn't pass it.
Or some other group...
I await the day when every Newcomer, as part of the Welcome Wagon package, will find a law license include. All that need be done is fill in the "your name here" field.
What can possibly go wrong? Next, no residency for doctors? The opportunities are ENDLESS .
"I did a little social experiment of my own last week – I DVR’ed the evening news from NBC, CBS and ABC and watched them end to end. Each one of them followed almost the same script, reporting on the same things, and using the same language and perspectives."
This has been going on since the late 1970s, but in those days you had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I did that one evening back when the nightly news was still only a half-hour show. In those days one network was a half hour earlier than the other two. After watching the news on the earlier broadcast I couldn't help but notice that I was watching a story about a plane crash, complete with the very same video footage, that I saw in the earlier broadcast. So I began switching back and forth between the two later shows to confirm, yes all networks were showing the same three major stories, though not all in the same order.
I thought, in a country of nearly 300 million this is it for important national news stories? Networks and newspapers had the power in those days. They owned the channels of communication. Networks owned the air waves, and newspapers bought ink by the barrel. The only way the average citizen could be heard was when the local paper would print a letter to the editor.
Fortunately, there are alternatives now. The internet provides a channel that can potentially reach the entire world to anybody that wants one. Newspapers and TV networks aren't the money makers they once were. They lose money. Wasn't Newsweek magazine, the organization, recently purchased for a dollar? They lose money because they are not in the news business anymore. They're advocates.
All of the above, but especially THIS:
“ They depend on someone else’s patience, tolerance, attention, and money to exist – and because they are necessary for Democrats to succeed, they get elevated beyond their importance, they receive preferential treatment, and they get rewarded.
….our attention, our agitation and our dollars are fertilizer to them.
They don’t deserve our time or reaction.”
No one has said it better.
Absolutely, but we have to find a way to stop financing them. The Republicans can't/won't do it.
Unfortunately we must think of them. We're forced to finance them.
You are not supposed to compare ABC NBC CBS to know they are using the same script.
Hilarious to see dozens on X posting exactly the same text. In lockstep,
“Biden is leading in polls!”
“What a wonderful leader Biden is!”
”The world respects America now under Biden!”
Michael, you know that Wisconsin and Colorado no longer require passing the Bar Exam to obtain a law license?? Seems non-English speaking Lithuanians couldn't pass it.
Or some other group...
I await the day when every Newcomer, as part of the Welcome Wagon package, will find a law license include. All that need be done is fill in the "your name here" field.
What can possibly go wrong? Next, no residency for doctors? The opportunities are ENDLESS .