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Random Media Hypocrisies of the Week

  • 04-05-2010 01:55PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭


    And it’s only Tuesday!

    Where are the national media reports on violence from the May Day anti-Arizona Immigration Law rallies? Where are the reports of Santa Cruz business owners spending Sunday repairing shattered windows and doors after a May Day rally Saturday night turned into a riot with approximately 250 people marching along Pacific Avenue, some carrying makeshift torches, throwing large rocks and paint bombs, and spray-painting walls with graffiti. Or in New York City, where on Broadway young guys with baseball bats and Che signs pinned to their backpacks running down the street smashing store windows? Or in San Francisco, were anti-illegal immigration activists were attacked by the May Day marchers?

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    Maybe I’m being too tough on the media though. With all the layoffs they are experiencing because of failed business models, I guess they didn’t have enough resources to cover the May Day protests. It’s got to be tough to file reports when you send all your journalists to shadow uncle Delcan as he pushes his wheelchair down to the local Tea Party rally to protest cuts to his Medicare.

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    And where is the media in taking President Barack Obama to task over his failed response to the British Petroleum Gulf oil spill? Where are the calls of incompetence as the Gulf ecosystem becomes endangered? Why no outcry that if U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan (the "In-Situ Burn" plan produced by federal agencies) for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and the threat eliminated 100 miles from shore? That we didn’t even have the equipment to institute the plan? Why no outrage because Janet Napolitano was too preoccupied bashing Arizona Immigration Law, to let the gulf burn? But again, maybe I got it all wrong, because according to Team Obama, they had the problem under control from “day one.”

    http://www.politico.com/largevideobox.html?bcpid=15202024001&bclid=1201016315&bctid=82523507001

    If only GW Bush would have sent his cronies on a fanciful self serving media blitz, sent a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department, and sent an environmental SWAT team to respond to Hurricane Katrina, all would have been good with the world.

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    And imagine what the media would be saying if a republican governor used the tactics in this video to collect back taxes. Good thing Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle or Kathleen Sebelius don’t live in Pennsylvania.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybcu2itqvEQ&feature=player_embedded

    I hear governor Ed Rendell (former Democratic National Committee Chairman) is considering ordering a couple of Predator Drones.

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    Or is it just me?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Exile 1798


    Well, a bit like your accusation that the "lamestream media" wasn't covering the true cause of the Financial Crisis – Jimmy Carter and The Community Reinvestment Act – this is all rather premised on your own beliefs and not objective facts.

    I suppose it's fortunate for you that you don't really have to pay much attention to actualities because there is an entire entertainment industry geared towards shaping and reaffirming your own subjective reality.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Amerika, for all your whinging of the biased maintream media, you seem to ignore that the most biased, most journalistically dishonest and sensationalist media outlet of them all, is a rightwing 'news' agency and one of the most popular in America. All of your self delusions and sloganising won't escape that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭Amerika


    Guys, I get that you don’t like satirical political humor (granted bad at times) when it comes from the other side, but your tactic of Deflect, Distract and Demonize is getting a bit boorish. Wouldn’t you agree that the mainstream media has been a bit hypocritical in these instances?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    FWIW, I heard about the Santa Cruz thing on the car radio on KCBS.

    NTM


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Amerika wrote: »
    Guys, I get that you don’t like satirical political humor (granted bad at times) when it comes from the other side, but your tactic of Deflect, Distract and Demonize is getting a bit boorish. Wouldn’t you agree that the mainstream media has been a bit hypocritical in these instances?

    I make a living out of being an outraged boor.

    And I should point out that all media is biased, but there is nothing more irritating that hearing the constant 'poor me, poor me, poor me' chorus from the American right about it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭Amerika


    Denerick wrote: »
    I make a living out of being an outraged boor.
    So here you give it away for free? ;)
    And I should point out that all media is biased, but there is nothing more irritating that hearing the constant 'poor me, poor me, poor me' chorus from the American right about it.
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard the whining bias thing before from the Left, but what about "hypocracy?" (And you better be careful, because if you misuse the terms “bias” and “hypocrisy,” someone might start up another one of those definition posts. :))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Amerika wrote: »
    And it’s only Tuesday!

    Where are the national media reports on violence from the May Day anti-Arizona Immigration Law rallies?

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/01/may.day.roundup/index.html?iref=allsearch
    And where is the media in taking President Barack Obama to task over his failed response to the British Petroleum Gulf oil spill?

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/05/04/obama.oil.fallout/index.html
    And imagine what the media would be saying if a republican governor used the tactics in this video to collect back taxes. Good thing Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle or Kathleen Sebelius don’t live in Pennsylvania.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybcu2itqvEQ&feature=player_embedded

    Interesting Vid, but what is it, really, when compared to the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭Amerika


    Overheal wrote: »

    I must say I'm getting a new found respect for CNN, even though one of your links attempted to load a nasty virus on my computer. :mad:
    Interesting Vid, but what is it, really, when compared to the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?

    Orwellian


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Amerika wrote: »
    I must say I'm getting a new found respect for CNN, even though one of your links attempted to load a nasty virus on my computer. :mad:

    Fecking commies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Amerika wrote: »
    I must say I'm getting a new found respect for CNN, even though one of your links attempted to load a nasty virus on my computer. :mad:
    lol what?

    If it directed you to a site other than boards.ie or cnn.com something else may be on your PC.

    I dont care for CNN TV as much. But from what I see and read online, a lot of their reporters like Snow are not afraid to express opinion on their own editorial pages. Nor is CNN online afraid to post it all.
    Orwellian
    And the Patriot Act isnt?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Exile 1798


    Amerika wrote: »
    Guys, I get that you don’t like satirical political humor (granted bad at times) when it comes from the other side, but your tactic of Deflect, Distract and Demonize is getting a bit boorish. Wouldn’t you agree that the mainstream media has been a bit hypocritical in these instances?

    No, because you didn't actually make it clear what the supposed hypocrisy was. And I can't confirm what's been widely reported as I don't live in America. I follow things online but that's quite different from being in country. I'm hardly going to accept your vague claims as I don't view you as a serious person.

    If we look at the one specific example you give of how you think the media is miss-reporting the truth ...
    Amerika wrote: »
    And where is the media in taking President Barack Obama to task over his failed response to the British Petroleum Gulf oil spill?

    ... we can see that it's a complete straw man argument. You claim as a fact your own nutbag opinion, and then attack the media for not reporting your opinion as fact.

    I know all to well just how poor the national media are in America, especially at covering issues of great importance. I was in the US for the period of the build up to the invasion of Iraq. They're pretty awful alright, of that there is no doubt. I didn't get the impression that they were intentionally biased, just pathetic at actual journalism.

    An exception to that off-course was the Right Wing media so beloved by yourself, who worked themselves into a frenzied pro-war fervour that infected much of the country. That I can never forget.


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