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How the News Became Propaganda

Canada Free Press ^ | January 30, 2009 | Judi McLeod

Posted on by NeoConfederate

The never-ending campaign of President Barack Obama finds a cornerstone in 24-hour television network CNN. CNN, home of Wolf Blitzer and Larry King Live among other talking heads, now leads the Newsfront Cult called Obamamania. While the viewers of most television networks watch the news, CNN viewers wear the news: Apparently CNN, having abandoned any effort to appear impartial, is now selling T-shirts that commemorate Obamas newborn presidency, reader Fred Dardick wrote in a Canada Free Press (CFP) letter to the editor yesterday. CNN T-shirts include slogans such as Obama raises hand, lifts a nation and Obama: Its time to remake America. How is it possible for a major news organization to get away with this? asks Dardick. This is anti-American to the core as far as I am concerned. CNN may as well be considered an extension of the apparently never ending Obama campaign. CFP would answer Dardicks question in this way: Major television networks started moving away from the delivery of the news long before Senator Barack Obama appeared on the scene. In those days, the news was quickly morphing into--Entertainment. During the presidential election campaign, television networks were joined by members of the print media, who jumped into the tank with Obama paving the way for the reality: 2008 the Year the Mainstream Media Died. CNN is not only cashing in on the sales of the T-shirts, it provides tangible proof that The News is Propaganda.



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To: NeoConfederate

They've got that right.



To: NeoConfederate

INTREP



by 3 posted onby LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)

To: NeoConfederate

I want to rip my eyes out of my head and shove sharp pencils into my ears when I am trapped by involuntary CNN toxic exposure at airports. Who in their right mind can watch CNN?



To: NeoConfederate

To: FormerACLUmember

...now on continuous loop on the wall monitors in Hell.



by 6 posted onby RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))

To: NeoConfederate

CNN and MSM have received plenty of revenue from Obama campaign ads. It is almost like they are all paid off to sing for Obama. They get paid enormous wages to praise Obama. If they questioned Obama’s qualifications, they would be fired on CNN or MSM networks. Obama owns the MSM.



To: NeoConfederate

The "Mainstream Newsmedia" has been a Propaganda Machine for years. This is why unscrupulous Democrat politicians (a redundant phrase) are determined to destroy uncensored outlets of information such as uncensored radio. The Propaganda Machine is in their service. This is exactly why uncensored outlets of information MUST continue to inform the public. A truthfully informed electorate is essential to representative government, i.e. a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Opposition to freedom of speech, a truthfully informed electorate, and uncensored outlets of information is directly proportional to the unscrupulousness, corruption, dangerousness, cynicism, and unfitness to hold public office of the politician who advocates it.



by 8 posted onby Savage Beast (The Left is decadence. Hubris and denial lead to tragedy.)

To: NeoConfederate; B4Ranch

Last night I was listening to a radio station out of Reno, Nevada. Moveon.org and others are merely continuing the election campaign and running spots about the HORRIBLE republicans trying to destory America/Obama by their obstructing the stimulus. Barry’s propaganda money machine, along with the media, is going to use every resource...and they have plenty....to push their agenda through. B4...have you heard those ads?



by 9 posted onby AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)

To: FormerACLUmember

“Who in their right mind can watch CNN?” I removed CNN from all the remotes in my house years ago when they broadcast a video that they bought from a terrorist sniper murdering one of our GIs. I’d had enough. Took ‘em off my remote so they don’t accidentally get watched when I channel surf.



To: laweeks

Good idea: I plan to remove CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News from my TV remote!



To: FormerACLUmember

not only airports but doctors offices, stores almost everywhere you go in

atlanta is a flatscreen tv with cnn on.



To: FormerACLUmember

“plan to remove CNN, MSNBC, and Headline News from my TV remote!” Good for you . . . they don’t exist.



To: FormerACLUmember

We can already predict the Pro-Obama News Network’s words.

They poke fun at the GOP and praise Obama and Democrats.

Why watch when they are not providing anything new but the same old “We love and worship Obama” tune? It is almost like they are all brainwashed talking heads, paid to promote Obama. If this is the best the MSM can provide, there is no hope for the media ever being balanced or objective.



To: AuntB

I saw an ad, but not on a news station. It was on a regular station & it was kids on a playground & Obama’s voice. I was thinking the same thing - that it was a campaign-style ad even though the election is supposedly over...



To: JMKirnan

I don’t know how we can even compete with their big money and the media doing their bidding. I’ve never seen anything like it in this country.



by 16 posted onby AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)

To: NeoConfederate

CNN and Time Magazine are owned and controlled by Time Warner.



by 17 posted onby TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)

To: Bon mots

To: gussiefinknottle

true in Asheville NC



To: NeoConfederate

The drive-by media is now the Ministry of Information.



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