The Spectacle Blog
Why MSM Continues to Tank
It’s been at least a half-day already with Drudge, bloggers, and talk radio highlighting the 2001 Chicago NPR interview with then-State legislator Barack Obama clearly laying out his socialism ideology, and still the major media outlets have no stories about it — at least none that are in a high profile position on their Web sites.
It’s been at least a half-day already with Drudge, bloggers, and talk radio highlighting the 2001 Chicago NPR interview with then-State legislator Barack Obama clearly laying out his socialism ideology, and still the major media outlets have no stories about it — at least none that are in a high profile position on their Web sites. Not on CNN, not on the Washington Post or New York Times, not on ABC, CBS, or NBC.
This will likely be the story up until election day. But the MSM still haven’t learned: that this 6-plus hours this morning amounts to an eternity in the Web news cycle; how to identify a big news story that harms their favored candidate; or why their industry is in the toilet.
Update 1:30 p.m.: True to form, CNN is emphasizing last week’s Palin wardrobe controversy and the alleged whispers from McCain advisers that she is viewed as a rogue “diva.”
Lghtning4u| 10.27.08 @ 1:44PM
I'm not sure which is worst, the ignorance of American society or Obama's socialist ideology.
Who said we were born with the right to have healthcare and now wealth? The fact is some folks just don't deserve neither and I for one refuse to give up mine!
Zellerbach| 10.27.08 @ 3:01PM
It's amazing the constitution is about to be shreded, and the main stream media could care less. The document that allows these folks to operate, is now forgotten so that the "choosen one" can rip this country apart. Don't they realize, that they are next? Look at what happened to that reporter in Orlando who asked questions off the approved list. I wonder when its over, and the dust clears will anything be left of our great country?
Obamao| 10.27.08 @ 4:09PM
The You Tube audio has had an amazing number of hits: over a million since last night. The MSM might not be reporting it, but they are sure looking at it.
Ken| 10.27.08 @ 5:48PM
It's amazing that Sarah's wardrobe continues to be an issue. Has anyone asked how much Michelle pays for her clothes? I doubt she has ever bought off the rack. And Barack sure didn't get his suits at Sears. What about Hillary, did anyone question where she got all her pantsuits when she was first lady? And who can ever forget Bill Clinton declaring his underwear as donations on their taxes.
Richard M| 10.27.08 @ 6:30PM
There's no question that the bias issue is an issue in the decline and fall of the old media -now that consumers have ample other (less biased, or, if you like, more rightly biased) avenues from which to obtain news quickly, easily, whenever they want. You don't need to wait to hear it distilled from Dan Rather any more.
But there's more. Newspapers were slow to go online, and when they did, failed to put guys who actually knew the web in charge. As a result, few papers had compelling sites, and few had viable revenue models. And for effective monopolies with lots of fat now facing competition for the first time, that was deadly.
Especially when you look at reading habits of the 18-35 demographic, which have been falling off a cliff for the last decade and more. That's the newspapers' future, and it's been fleeing print media - and nightly network news - as fast as it can given the availability of online news sources and increasingly hectic lives.
Newspapers will mainly survive in some form but it will be unrecognizable from what it has been in the past (and a whole lot smaller, and mostly online). The network news - well, I am not so sure about them.