MUST READ--26 stories the media SHOULD report but doesn't.

[nolies32fouettes]

http://progressiveu.org/145224-must-read-26-stories-the-media-refused-to-report

Brace yourself. You'll be ticked off!

[Fierce]

1. I got in trouble last week

for pointing out that my hometown daily reported on quite a few of these and that therefore no censorship was involved.

[nolies32fouettes]

2. hometown papers and school papers do a better job.

[Fierce]

3. I should add, though,

that it was stuff pulled off national wires -- not stuff generated locally. So is a national wire part of the MSM, or not?

[nolies32fouettes]

4. there's two different things:

1. the wires do have the news. BUT is msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs, fox reporting it? That's usually what they mean by the msm.

2. How much time/attention is spent on any story especially when compared to the theatrics of hollywood or dead blondes?

Where do most people get their news? radio? over 1500 christian broadcasting networks alone--and yet few 'progressive radio' stations. And add to that the stuff on Republican networks, there's no real factual-main stream voice on politics. Only overwhelming 'neoconservative' blather.

The tv stations have few 'progressive' news. There's specials like K.O. or Jon Stewart (nonnews) but the mainstream networks are usually considered those listed above.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. When I volunteered for a radio station, I learned about news wires

They contain an incredible number of stories, more than anyone can actually report on in one day, so the announcers pick and choose. If Announcer A was on, the news was very political, with a definite left-leaning twist. If Announcer B was on, the news was all fluff pieces. If Announcer C was on, the news was about the same as you would read in the local paper, nothing particularly edgy or fluffy.

The same is true of newspapers and TV stations. They get an incredible amount of potential news every day, and their editing process consists of deciding what to leave out.

[thingfisher]

7. The stories that the various media do cover

are pretty much the same aren't they? I sthis because all are tuned to the same frequency of relevance. I think it a little strange that the tv news is usually so uniform sometimes down to the order in which the stories are presented.

The whole Gary Webb affair still sticks in my craw. A eal reporter breaks a real story (fraught with danger to those in power) and he is pilloried in the MSM, and hounded into quiting his job and ends up dead (a two shot suicide?) for his trouble.

GHWB says,"I was out of the loop."

[leftchick]

8. "what to leave out"

much like Chinese editors for state run news.

[nolies32fouettes]

9. good point. I was also told that they want to repeat news every 10 min.

so they limit what they say.

[nolies32fouettes]

5. kick

[nolies32fouettes]

10. thanks for the one rec. any more?