Reply #21: It's an acronym. It's shorter than typing "mainstream media." [View All]

[dorkulon]

It doesn't necessarily connote any opinion, but it serves to distinguish major corporate news outlets from alternative/foreign press. For example, if you said, "I haven't seen anything about Sibel Edmonds in the media," or "in the press," that would be wrong. You haven't seen anything about Sibel Edmonds in the MSM.

You could just as easily say, "I think the MSM does a great job, and people are too subjective and critical of it." I doesn't imply anything; it's not a value judgment or a pejorative; it's just short for "mainstream media."

What, we're not allowed to make that distinction?