CNN & MSNBC and the End of Journalism
Wednesday made clear that two networks – MSNBC and CNN – have truly jumped the shark. They have made a tremendous turn to the left – they did years ago, and especially last year already, of course, but their left-turn has now reached the point it cannot get any worse.
The two networks have simply become outlets for the liberal-wing of the Democratic Party, and (therefore) for the White House.
Case in point: CNN made fun of the tea party protesters, trying to portray them as crazy idiots, who were told to protest by Fox News. A CNN reporter who attended one of the parties refused to treat the protesters with civility and respect. Sadly for her, however, the protesters fought back.
As if that is not enough, MSNBC and CNN both made fun of the parties by constantly referring to them as “teabagging.” For those who do not know Fox News explains what “teabagging” means: “Teabagging, for those who don’t live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person’s face or mouth. ”
Examples:
“It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging,” Anderson Cooper told analyst David Gergen.
The protests, MSNBC’s David Scuster explained, amount to “Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it.” He described the parties as simultaneously “full-throated” and “toothless,” and continued: “They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.” Shuster also noted how the protesters “whipped out” the demonstrations this past weekend.
Classy, isn’t it?
It’s a sign of the times. Fox News was always a conservative network, and it has become even more so in the past couple of months. Compared to CNN and MSNBC, however, FN is professional journalism personified.
It seems likely that the media wil become even more partisan in the years ahead, which could have a significant impact on elections, society, and the political debate: a democracy can only function when people take each other serious.
H/t to Gateway Pundit for the image.
Ah, I see now, I think, what you meant in the comment on the other thread about CNN lurching farther left.
I guess I saw the tea party reaction a little differently, as most of CNN’s coverage seemed aimed at using it as an attack against their top competitor, Fox. Their motivation for discrediting the tea parties seemed to be to use it as a reason to convince viewers that Fox was in the tank for the GOP since Fox promoted the rallies.
It’s true though that some of their commenters went to the junior high level with their criticisms, though that wasn’t as prevalent on CNN as it was at MSNBC.
You really have to be kidding me – Fix Noise is ‘professional journalism personified?!?” Which Fix Noise have you been viewing? Anyone or anything that promotes phony ‘protests’ 24/7 for a week and a half on ALL it’s shows is not journalism, let alone professional, except in the sense that the Noise commentators are handsomely paid to shill their propaganda. And personally, I thought the double entendres on CNN and MSNBC were hilarious, which certainly wasn’t the only humor associated with sociopaths ginned up to phony outrage by Fix’d News.
Not even next to the childishness and bias of CNN or MSNBC will Fox News seem like a fair and constructive entity. “It’s now my great duty” – that must ring a bell.
I see you a Stuart Varney and raise you a Chris Matthews, Garland:
http://www.poligazette.com/2008/11/06/chris-matthews-my-goal-is-to-make-obama-presidency-a-success/
My idea was to show a symptom of a far more serious tendency, not see which network shows the most individual examples of bias. I wasn’t raising anything, just suggesting that Fox News doesn’t have a claim to anything just because CNN and MSNBC appears to have deteriorated.
It was just a joke, but to an extent I do see MSNBC being the worst offender. Fox has some really bad offenses but then their news segments are more straight up and they have a few people who advocate more balanced opinions. MSNBC has nothing to balance out the left slant, as far as I’ve seen- and their juvenile behavior is obviously playing to a certain audience (Fox has it’s own version of such demographic appeal with it’s sexy female hires.)
You are exactly right the mainstreammedia has become just another wing of the democratic pary.
A great documentary was made detailing this phemomenon available at mediamalpracticemovie.com