"Blind adherence to ‘balance’ makes the media dangerously dumb"

[TomCADem]

I am sure the media will holdup House Republicans' offer to extend the debt ceiling to just before Thanksgiving, but leave the government shutdown, as some great compromise on their part. Of course, this ignores the fact that this means that we would have another debt crisis right before the Holiday season starts. The fact of the matter is that this crisis is direct result of not only the Fox News right wing propaganda machine, but the false equivalency that is pushed by the MSM, which effectively protects Republicans from being held accountable for their actions.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/11/blind-adherence-to-balance-makes-the-media-dangerously-dumb/

Let us state this unequivocally: false equivalency – the practice of giving equal media time and space to demonstrably invalid positions for the sake of supposed reportorial balance – is dishonest, pernicious and cowardly.

On the other hand, according to the grassroots American Council of Liberty Loving Ordinary White People Propped Up by the Koch Brothers, the liberal media want to contaminate your precious bodily fluids and indoctrinate your children in homosocialism.

Haha, kidding. Of course, there’s no such group. But false equivalency in the news has been very much, in fact, in the news lately – thanks to reporting on the US government shutdown that characterizes the impasse as the consequence of two stubborn political parties unwilling to compromise on healthcare.

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As an institution, the American media seem to have decided that no superstition, stupidity, error in fact or Big Lie is too superstitious, stupid, wrong or evil to be disqualified from “balancing” an opposing … wadddyacallit? … fact. Because, otherwise, the truth might be cited as evidence of liberal bias.

[gopiscrap]

1. No fucking kidding

[Cha]

2. "Blind Obedience to their Corp Masters" is more like it.

Is any wonder PBO and Jay Carney are not calling on tv mediawhores during this unprecedented crisis of Gov.

Brought on by the Mediawhores themselves?