From Big Hollywood, Ed Driscoll: "John Nolte writes at Big Hollywood, “T’was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide”:
"Once trailblazer media watchdogs like talk radio, The Media Research Center and Bernard Goldberg were joined with the awesome power of the Internet and Fox News, the media’s sins of omission and commission could no longer be hidden from the general public, or denied. This gave the Fourth Estate two options. They could either: A) Clean up their act and do their jobs honorably … or B) Surrender their fig leafs of objectivity and run amok as the ideologues they really are.
"Doing their jobs honorably would mean a setback for the Leftist cause, and so they chose B....
"The Dinosaur Media is losing money, viewers and readers hand over fist. The reason they’re folding or on life support isn’t because there aren’t enough left-of-center Americans to keep them in business, it’s because, like everyone else, liberals don’t want to sit in a choir and be preached to. They want information. They want to know what’s going on in the world.
"Our liberal friends may not like hearing Van Jones, the NEA and ACORN are under fire, but they still want to know. What a disappointing revelation it must be to open the New York Times or turn on the network news only to discover after the curtain has already fallen that one of Obama’s Czars was forced to resign or that the U.S. Census Bureau let ACORN go.
"The liberal media is failing for the exact same reason a dozen-plus anti-war films flopped: propaganda is dull. No matter your politics, people want stimulation and information, not affirmation....
Read the rest at links: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/09/12/twas-accountability-that-killed-the-mainstream-media/
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/09/13/twas-accountability-that-killed-the-msm/
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