Friday, July 24, 2009

American Cable "News" - - A Vast Wasteland

On the heels of my previous post highlighting the MSM's disturbing penchant for creating non-news out of whole cloth, in this clip MSNBC's Chris Matthews hosts right wing kook, Watergate felon, and all-around vile human being G. Gordon Liddy to spew his own "Birther" lies and nonsense on the public airwaves. Granted - Matthews challenges Liddy on his bullshit and in the end makes the tired old criminal look like the lying ass-clown that he is, but why even give such unscrupulous people a platform to spout their slander to begin with? And that is the point I and others are trying to get across -- namely that the MSM perilously undermines it's own credibility (what shreds of it remain) by continually and irresponsibly parading these despicable individuals over and over and over again on our television screens.

"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."

(FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow
May 9, 1961






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