But the media will not die. In fact, if you’ve been watching, they are now stronger than ever. What’s that you say? They are bleeding readers and viewers? That may be true, but they STILL managed to get an America-hating racist totalitarian elected president without breaking a sweat.

I don’t comment here alot, but the last few times I’ve had a consistent theme. Leftists ALWAYS prevail. I didn’t say “win”, I said prevail. Because when leftists prevail, we all lose. However, this was as inevitable as the sunrise. It happens every single time. No free society has ever managed to keep leftists at bay, and all have descended (or are well on the way too descending) into totalitarian wastelands.

I don’t like to point out such things, but the stunning ignorance of historical inevitability that I’m seeing on this thread just amazes me. We, of all people, should know what’s coming. We are not blinded by our ideology as the typical leftist voter is. We should know better how to prepare for what we all know will happen. Harping about the “death of the media” is a waste of time, and will only serve to further marginalize you publicly. Me, I’m gonna keep my head down and keep voting for the good guys until they tell me my vote is no longer required or welcome. It’s really just a matter of time.

Maybe this would help.

Given the economic abyss that Obama is going to face when he’s in office, you’d think his worshippers in the MSM would be trying to lower expectations for him now.

AZCoyote on November 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM

Oh, they are. It’s one of the latest memes that’s taking shape: those nasty conservatives, trying to revive their ruined party, are trying to raise expectations of Obama to an impossible level which he can’t possibly meet. I suspect that’s also one of the motivations behind Kurtz’s article.

ddrintn on November 17, 2008 at 6:32 PM

To be fair they did the same to McCain and Hillary Clinton, looks like Clinton is being paid off I guess they don’t care how it looks to the public. This tells me Hillary Clinton had a Price…that isn’t really news to anyone.

ddrintn on November 17, 2008 at 6:32 PM

You clearly and concisely detail the problem with a mostly liberal working press. I see that as an invitation for conservatives to get into the game. MM, Amanda Carpenter and MKH cannot do it on their own.

Of course there are conservatives reporting at the Chicago Trib, Wash. Times, SD Trib and other papers across the country. But I think new media will be our savior — as soon as we collectively learn to wrangle the Interwebs.

Being a Republican is “alternative” by default. We are the current underdog. The media cannot ignore that once we start speaking their language. That means more citizen reporters, more youth groups, more conservative social networks.

Get all up in their face…on their turf. HotAir puts Drudge to shame. Libs love Drudge, but deny it. I think many people would be converted or at least consider the right side of things if they were exposed to it in a non-adversarial context.

blahblahyadayada..rambling..ill shut up now..

I just don’t share his confidence that reporters that are finding new love by adulating Obama are going to want to bring down President Barack King-Roosevelt-Kennedy-Lincoln.

MayBee on November 17, 2008 at 6:32 PM

Of course they won’t. After being in the tank, how is anyone going to trust anything at all the NYT (for example) has to say about the Obama administration? The NYT-WaPo-NBC-CNN-PBS-NPR-CBS-ABC-LAT glob are the last places I’ll be looking for news. They have about as much credibility as Daily Kos or HuffPo. It’s hard to tell them apart, in fact.

It’s an AP story running in ADN. How much circulation would quell your concerns?

After you’ve finished hurling insults at me and calling me a Democrat, as is typical, I hope you find within your good graces to answer my question.

It’s a simple question from a simple mind. Hopefully it will prove equally simple to reply sanely and civilly. We’ll see.

The Race Card on November 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM

The problem isn’t in reporting on every nook and cranny of Sara Palin’s life and record and problems. The problem is/was the blind eye turned toward the Messiah. A strange, even shocking lack of curiosity, wouldn’t you say? An aversion to anything that might have had even a remote possibility of bringing discredit to Obama, while trumpeting anything, however unfounded, that would make Palin look bad. We know more about Joe the Plumber than about Obama, still.

And they swear up and down they’re not out to help Democrats. Let ‘em rot.

I just don’t share his confidence that reporters that are finding new love by adulating Obama are going to want to bring down President Barack King-Roosevelt-Kennedy-Lincoln.

What kind of idiot would criticize those guys?

Bruno Strozek on November 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM

We are witnessing the death spiral of institutional journalism.

Amen. Thanks for the link.

The hagiography of Obama includes, but is not limited to, illustrious comparisons to The Great Emancipator, A. Lincoln. (I don’t know why, either)…

It will be so much fun to watch the MSM flounder when Obama screws it all up.

Firebird on November 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Agreed. Keep building that pedestal higher and higher, MSM, because it’s going to make Obama’s inevitable fall from it that much sweeter to watch.

Given the economic abyss that Obama is going to face when he’s in office, you’d think his worshippers in the MSM would be trying to lower expectations for him now. After all, it’s highly unlikely that his presidency will be perceived as anything but a failure 4 years from now by a public deeply disillusioned by Obama’s inability to make good on his extravagant promises. (Except for the “change” part — there’ll be “change” all right, but it won’t be the kind most people wanted or expected).

I think a serious question might be, how long and how much will the public stay deluded and how long will they tolerate the real Obama?
Preceded of course by the confusion of dissolution from liberal politics as usual.

I didn’t notice.

It is a defense mechanism

And hey, someone be sure to thank Howard Kurtz for his courageous ombudsmanship on the MSM’s Obama-worship before the election. The way he pounded away on all of the stories about Obama that the MSM was ignoring, and the obvious bias against McCain, week after week, was truly inspiring. I’m thinking Pulitzer.

Then, of course, Hitchens did exactly that.

So it was funny.

Call me any name in the book, but I say we make ‘em pay where it hurts, and that is in the pocketbook, not by calling it a boycott per se, but by choosing not to spend money with the advertisers of MSNBC, GE, New York Slimes, Washington Post etc.