Comments on: Why American Media Sucks

By: dave3

dave3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:57:15 +0000

this cover is from october 2, 2006. more here: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Newsweek_features_Losing_Afghanistan_in_international_0925.html

By: StuckACanuck

StuckACanuck — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:57:27 +0000

It’s looking more and more like there is no mainstream any more. Common ground has been ceded to idology, division reigns supreme. You have to wonder who benefits most from that outcome…

The graphic, recent history or not, seems to say Americans are being fed pablum to keep the “matrix” running smoothly. Do ya think? Maybe?

In the age of spin, who knows what is real, true and accurate? That seems the real genius of the puppet masters, to get to the stage where any issue can be dissolved in opposing spin and we can’t tell what is truth. Then the ever-turning info cycle turns again and we are onto something new. So what if NewsWeek is a good example of getting the media/etc you deserve, the real sadness is the almost total surrender to the age of spin. If we demanded better, we might get it.

By: Tuzgai

Tuzgai — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:26:31 +0000

#8 “Suck it @KingGeorge ! http://tinyurl.com/229gx #revolution #britainsucks #notaxationwithoutrepresentation”

How’s that?

By: Tuzgai

Tuzgai — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:26:09 +0000

#8 “Suck it @KingGeorge ! http://tinyurl.com/229gx #revolution #britainsucks #notaxationwithoutrepresentation”

How’s that?

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:38:45 +0000

Just giving Americans what they want. Time magazine sold out long ago the moment they put Jacko on the cover.

By: lydia69

lydia69 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:47:44 +0000

This is typical and has been going on for years. Although I think this example is a bit old.

By: RSweeney

RSweeney — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:27:30 +0000

2006?

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:36:32 +0000

#11 Diesel said You forgot to mention Olberman, Curic, Franken, Oprah, Gibson, CNN, MSNBC, HNN, ABC, NBC and CBS..

Agreed. They are all a sack of shit. The only live news person I listen to is Anderson Cooper. He is honest and he is cute.

#20 Yes, Pedro. Cronkite, William Buckley and other great commentators…as well as Captain Kangaroo. We are now surrounded by Bill O’reilly’s of the world and Rush Limbaugh. How’s them apples?

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:45:57 +0000

#9 Cronkite’s dead? Really? When was this?

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:34:55 +0000

Why do you need a short wave radio. Just use the internet. That is what I do.

I would like to recommend the web site “Watching America”. They cull news articles from around the world, translate them into English (as best they can), and put them together in one place. It is very interesting to read what the rest of the world writes about us with content intended for local consumption. Trust me, most of it it not nice. Some of it is outright propaganda and lies designed to divert blame from the local government to the US. And there is occasionally praise from something we do right.

http://tinyurl.com/632kf8

Anyhow.. they do good work… and it is always a very interesting and eye opening read.

By: DoctaWally

DoctaWally — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:15:45 +0000

Newsweek — which I have subscribed to for over 30 years — did recently undergo a massive redesign toward less “news-of-the-week” (which is better served on the internet) and more in-depth, thoughtful and well reported pieces. Those who can only digest news in twitter-sized bites don’t like this and should stick with Fox News, where someone else does all that hard work for them and just tells them what to think. If you had actually READ the magazine, you would know that it does not kowtow to one party line or the other, but rather to reason and intelligence. Since these are not virtues of the conservatives these days, I see why they think it is biased against them. When Fox and rest of the right-wing talkers went on and on about how there just had to be WMD’s in Iraq, Newsweek ran a piece saying the facts said no, there weren’t. They were right of course, and the President’s guys were lying. That’s just one example of superior journalism demonstrated by Newsweek.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:29:16 +0000

Just a suggestion for what it is worth. Get a shortwave radio and listen to news broadcasts from other areas of the world. You still have to heavily filter the garbage, but it will give you a very different perspective on current events and their interpretation. . . a real eye opener.
The US media sold us out a long time ago in the name of profit. The profit incentive (not only money) has destroyed all credability. Too bad.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:01:02 +0000

Newsweek has fallen so far. I read it in the Katherine Graham era when I was a kid. They recently updated the format specifically to target my age cohort. Now I wouldn’t wipe my butt with it.

Newsweek is even worse than FOX news. FOX, at least, has a persistent lean to its coverage. Newsweek is happy to suck up to anyone in power. Are major news outlets merely PR organizations for government?

Look, my post is purely opinion. Perfect for Newsweek!

By: Animal Mother

Animal Mother — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:56:33 +0000

WTF? This is old, old news.

dvorak.org is a plodding dinosaur just like Old Media.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:52:32 +0000

#12 Yep, good reporting can be found there.