Saturday, September 3, 2011

"All the news that's fit to invent"

By Tim Dunkin

"Another way in which news media bias manifests itself is in the choice of what stories to emphasize, and what stories to bury. Oftentimes, the MSM will take upon itself a censorship role that it would decry in any other entity, private or public, if they were to do the same thing. Some stories — typically those that can be spun to make conservatives, Christians, Republicans, patriots, and other crimethinkers look bad, or which would serve to advance some element of the leftist agenda — will receive wall-to-wall, nonstop coverage for weeks on end. Other stories, ones which would do the opposite, get spiked like a rail timber, barely or never to see the light of day. The point is that the MSM sets itself up to act as a filter, sifting out or passing through (in modified form) depending on whether "the people" should be allowed to know about the story or not."

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