With the GOP in Power the Media No Longer Cares About Civility

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Bill Hedges of MO 8:38PM April 21, 2011

Its all about "cramming down your throat" feeding you with BS all the time with almost no liberal media out there. Most the American media markets are owned but conservatives who put on these extreme right political hatemongers regardless what the audience want. The plan is to eliminate any competing voices to offer contrary views. So there is not hardly any liberal or progressive media. The GOP has been savagely attacking NPR because they actually offer accurate reporting, when all the Right wants is only Extreme Conservative media all the time. Fox News is a self-admitted partisan media with no pretense to offer balanced views. The GOP is a minority in the government, in the electorate but dominate the media , they even have their own network, Fox.
Spin the dial on a radio or your tv and there is almost nothing but rightie BS, with the exception of a handful of contrary points of view, and those are moderate. Extreme left perspectives are banished from the airwaves like the plague.
That's the point. Conservative media owners are trying to push through the GOP Hard Right Agenda and keep voters misinformed. Why do you think Trump could ride a roman candle in popularity with the birther issue, if the GOP hadn't been investing so heavily in the birther agenda and all the hate it includes as one of their main talking point. Its great that so many can get bamboozled with fear by a birth certificate already in plain sight. That's the fearmongering the GOP is selling. Like solving the Republican deficit by giving out more corporate welfare.
The thing is the conservative point of view doesn't want any competition. These guys do not believe in the free market of ideas, and that's why they suppress any opposing point of view
Why they don't want people to really understand what republicans are pushing is simple. Republicans are pushing a radical agenda and they don't want any other voices opposing them. They are talking about killing Medicare, Social Security, the VA, and child labor laws. There are Some Republican governors in the Midwest eliminating elected local government to impose corporate managers to sell off public assets.
Even with Conservatives controlling all the media, information still gets out, even under dictatorships.
So it should come as no surprise Paul Ryan got booed at a town hall in his own district, yet the msm didn't seem to catch it. Ryan will have a hard time getting reelected in Wisconsin. There is hope the people will prevail, even conservatives flooding the media with their lies and fake propaganda.

Jesse of OK 8:19PM April 21, 2011

Provide some proof, examples, numbers, etc.. All you provided was an opinion piece. Nothing to your so call “humble (but well researched) opinion ” level. When I want to prove my point, I supply links.
Raise the gantlet when you provide more. I just see political dislike of the RIGHT...

Bill Hedges of MO 7:31PM April 21, 2011

Back in the late 1980's I began tracking Rush Limbaugh for some articles I wrote. Rush, at the time, was the sole owner and proprietor of incivility. He inaugurated the "movement" to shout at each other across the abyss rather than debate each other with the facts and ideas. Building ratings not only took talent and moxie, it took Rush a few years of encouraging incivility and anything but debate.
Now look what we have.
It's an interesting phenomenon, folks, and Rush, in my humble (but well researched) opinion is behind it all. He not only spawned Sean Hannity, he ended up the patriarch of a line of shouters--Mark Levine, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Mona Charin, and others. Just look at the titles of their books for starters.
Right-wingers like Peter Roff work to harness Liberals with blame, but there's more to the story, and that more is the unwillingness of those on the Right to openly discuss and debate the effect of conservative "principles," the motives of those who are conservative backers, and, most important, what constitutes the voice of labor. There's a lot involved in what Peter Roff chooses not to discuss but, instead, chooses to shout across that divide at us.
Is it time, Roff, for some very serious debate? I'm ready when you are.

Ron W. Smith of UT 7:00PM April 21, 2011