[R-390] (no subject)

Dave and Sharon Maples [email protected]
Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:17:16 -0400


All: As a DoD contractor in the 1980s I witnessed news broadcasts that
demonstrably got the facts wrong in favor of favoring the positions of the
leftists in the country.  The kinds of errors made were not those that could
be excused by anything other than drooling incompetence or a deliberate
agenda.

One of my friends' daughter was a nurse in Grenada in 1983 when the action
took place there.  She was able to confirm that the things the Reagan
administration said were taking place really WERE taking place.  She was
interviewed by a Nashville, TN, TV station.  At the end of the interview her
dad (my friend) asked the TV crew, "You aren't going to use this interview,
are you?".  Needless to say, they didn't.

The success of Fox News is quite simple.  The political conservatives were
made fun of and consistently denigrated throughout the 70s and 80s by the
leftist mainstream press and their entertainment brethren as selfish,
greedy, racist warmongers who'd stab their own mother in the back for any
reason whatever.  Their most cherished beliefs (including most particularly
their religious faith) were absolutely round-the-clock fair game for
ridicule.  Complex issues were degenerated into emotional "soundbites" that
could be rapid-fired during the course of a news show to attack those on the
right.  It was all very cosy.  In the early 1990s Rush Limbaugh and others
figured out that there was a HUGE set of disaffected folks in the country
who were tired of being manhandled and kicked in the teeth daily by the
mainstream press and entertainment branches, and there was a relatively
cheap medium (AM radio) to use to reach them.  Those folks determined to
serve this disaffected body and give them a voice, and the rest, as they
say, is history.  The folks at Fox did precisely the same thing, with the
same results.  None of this would have been necessary or successful if the
rest of the press hadn't sold their birthright by quitting the business of
reporting the news completely and accurately in favor of emotional nonsense.
In case there are doubters about this, the book by the former CBS reporter
on bias in the media is a highly-recommended read.

My dad was a print journalist for almost 50 years and I am thoroughly aware
of the way a REAL journalist practices his craft.  His governing principles
were quite simple:

1. Don't print until you absolutely have the truth by the throat.

2. Once you do, don't be afraid to print it all.

3. If you make a mistake, OWN IT and FIX IT.

If a journalist practices in that fashion, he probably won't win a Pulitzer
prize, and he sure won't work for the NY Times or CNN, but he will be
treasured by those around him as few folks are.  I can state with assurance
that the majority of the current crop of journalists haven't practiced that
form of journalism in 30+ years, and I don't expect they ever will again.

That's my opinion, as Mark expressed his opinion.  Please recall that
opinions are like socks in a drawer.  Many times they are mismatched, and
some have holes in them.

R390s, anyone?

Dave Maples



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Mark Richards
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [R-390] (no subject)


Wow!  I have a sneaking suspicion that the last time Barry tuned into these
networks was 1972! Back then, he could have picked up their broadcasts of
Republican Nixon's arrogant and self-engineered demise from news networks
the White House considered beyond "left-leaning".

A lot has changed since then.  The R-390 can still pick up a few of these
same networks on medium wave, but the tune has changed radically.

CNN especially, and all the others to a large degree, act as a cheering
squad for the current US administration.  Each war has a theme song, a
slogan, and for TV fans a ticker at the bottom of the screen scrolling off
the latest "propaganda".

News, and the real work associated with it, is out of the question.  Pushing
the limits of the First Amendment, being bold and beyond commercialism, and
holding true to the heady principles of real journalism and the public's
right to know are long gone.  Advertising and ratings is the only answer and
so news has become another entertainment.

I really think the monikers "Castro News Network" and "propaganda" have long
since died.

Fox is the rabid exception, which is doing a better job of P-R than the
White House Press Office itself.  Why are their ratings so comparatively
low?  They continue to preach to the choir and I suggest it is dwindling
rapidly.

My 390 is wide open, yet all I hear is pro-war static.  I found a good
filter for it, too: The "off" switch.

Mark
K1MGY



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of blw
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 21:54
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R-390] (no subject)


> I put a moron filter on my R390A a few years ago and haven't heard Rush
> since..
> Joe W2DBO


A good antenna may cure your problem as the moron filter would only block
all CNN (Castro News Network), NBC, ABC, and CBS propaganda, i.e., anything
they produce. Also, the BBS doesn't stand a chance of passing your filter. I
read where the Royal Navy has moron filters on every ship for the BBC.


Barry non-Hauser

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