Recently, Keith Olbermann, on his MSNBC news show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, cited Fox News as the "worst persons in the planet." He claimed that the Fox News Channel is blatant perfect-wing propaganda. He also noted that President Obama, in a latest Tv interview (the same interview, incidentally, as the now-notorious fly-swatting incident, in which, according to news reports on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN and elsewhere, the President demonstrates his "exceptional fly-swatting abilities") claimed that there was at least 1 news channel dedicated to undermining his administration at all fees. Olbermann suggests that the President was referring to Fox News.
Back in the day when the Republicans controlled each houses as effectively as the Presidency, a period that may possibly effectively go down in history as a modern-day Dark Ages or Reign of Terror, the Fox News channel was considered to be the bastion of credible news. So significantly so that all other news agencies had been too afraid even to question their authority.
Fox News, owned by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., had started on the premise that conventional news sources like CNN and network news operated on a principle of a subtle left-wing cultural bias resulting from the educational and social milieu of their journalists. The solution that Fox News apparently proposed was to dedicate a news channel to supposedly "fair and balanced" news coverage. "Fair and balanced" became their watchword, but it soon proved to be ironic. Over time, their supposedly objective news coverage has been exposed as perfect-wing propaganda that was fairly blatantly pandering to the Bush administration though they had been in power.
This brings us to MSNBC's news lineup. MSNBC is a news channel that is produced as a joint venture, as the name suggests, among Microsoft (the monolithic software giant founded by Bill Gates) and NBC. Their lineup of news shows supposedly gives us the option to Fox News, but, as implied by Keith Olbermann, what they are really offering us is left-wing propaganda that panders to the Obama administration.
The tragic consequence of all this government pandering and institutional propaganda is that the number-1 casualty in mainstream news coverage is credibility. Exactly where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins of at present, with their beautiful exposs of corruption in high locations? Definitely not at either Fox News or MSNBC.
Possibly the answer to where we can locate credible news sources lies with CNN-still bland and presenting the faade of objectivity though concealing a subtle left-wing bias-who now, apparently, resorts to blogs, Twitter feeds and Facebook posts to supplement their on-web-site correspondent reports. CNN even encourages you to submit amateur videos by way of the "iReport" section on their web-site, which allows them to feature the videos on their news shows following a method of vetting and verification. In truth, in the ongoing Iranian uprisings, where mainstream journalists are getting banned and extradited by the authoritarian Iranian regime, western news sources are getting to rely on Twitter feeds, blogs and amateur video from Iranian citizens as their news sources.
This brings us to the argument that mainstream news organizations have lately been producing against the Blogsphere, in particular in the wake of such latest films as State of Play, directed by Kevin Macdonald, namely that the Blogsphere is composed mainly of amateurs who are out of their depth, whereas if you are looking for cutting-edge Woodward-and-Bernstein style in-depth reporting, you will locate it only at the significant news organizations who have the abilities and resources at their disposal to support that kind of news coverage.
The reality-at least two of the so-known as significant news organizations are dedicated to creating partisan propaganda that fairly shamelessly panders to politicians though the third is increasingly resorting to the Blogsphere to provide its news sources. As for Woodward and Bernstein, they are each retired and writing books for a living.
The moral of the story appears to be, thus, that if you are looking for cutting-edge journalism, skip the news networks and, rather, check out the Blogsphere!
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