Shaping The Message

The Liberal Media Doesn't Want You To Read This!


You'll find a lot of posts on the media, censorship and such on this board. As a lifetime media person I've followed and studied it closely. This is an interesting post. Truth be told, I am quite astounded at how effectively the right has used it and shaped a message. Another group to carry the cause:

It is just one tactic used by an aggressive new neoconservative think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), to shape American thinking on war, terrorism, and the Middle East. The Foundation is only two years old, but already the group is making its influence felt on the nation’s policymakers.

I wish my side was half as good. The bad part about it is that people don't realize that this is how it works. This is whats being done today. Not very effectively by my side but it's the way the world works these days. To keep up with one media/message shaping machine, the other side obviously needs to have one to survive. Why is necessarily a bad thing to have a "conservative media" and a "liberal media". What's important is that people understand them for what they are and they have truth in what they say they are. This is my major complaint with Faux News. My next biggest is that it gets too much like cartoons sometimes.

With mega-donor funding, a very capable staff, and a presence on campuses across the country, FDD is making a difference for someone. At the very least, the billionaire activists who established and support the foundation seem to be getting their moneys worth.

Ya, but that evil George Billionare Soros! MAKE ME LAUGH!!!!!!!!