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The Media Bubble 2

Posted by Bob on May 28th, 2010 under Coaching Session


I experienced the media bubble personally after the 1980 election. The media did not know anybody who had made the Reagan landslide.

And they were PROUD of it.

They even had ME on National Public Radio at least three times! They admitted freely that they didn’t know anybody in the group that had nominated and elected Reagan, but if you listen as carefully as I do, it was noticeable that they were no at all apologetic about it.

In any other country on earth, it would be considered a bit odd if no one in the media had any contacts in the group that just took over the government by popular vote. But the American media considered itself a world unto itself. You belonged to it because you did NOT belong to the masses.

Reporters who wanted to be “in” referred to American between New York and Los Angeles as “flyover country” even if that is where they worked

ESPECIALLY if that was where they worked. They had to work harder to prove they weren’t hicks.

This is a lot less blatant today, but it was absolutely universal when I was coming up. They made a point of it. As “inner circles” the media people pointed out that they didn’t know anybody in the Reagan ranks to show that they were above all that. Of course big city sophisticates didn’t know those people.

They also made a blatant point of who they DID know. I remember one time during the 1980 convention when they followed a liberal Republican around, someone they knew well, and he bitched constantly about how none of the people he had “worked with all these years” were there.

Well, if you are part of a group that has consistently lost both Houses of Congress for a generation, one might expect even the dumbass Republicans to cut them out, but that was of course never mentioned as a reason.

I got the impression he thought there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy” at work.

And after Reagan got a landslide against a sitting president and led Republicans get to a majority in a House of Congress — the Senate — for the first time since 1952, they kept repeating that “the votes are in the middle of the road.”

Jerry Ford kept repeating that until he died, but he was the original person Lyndon Johnson said couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

Republicans won in 1980 and in 1994. Both times they went what the media called “far right.”

And today you can’t be a professional commentator unless you say, “the votes are in the middle of the road.”

The media are not in business to be right. If you are a member of the media, you have to answer to your own bureaucracy. I can’t remember anyone being punished for being dead wrong, as long as you are dead wrong saying what FITS.

Yes, it sounds like I am repeating what you already know. My problem is that everyone who SAYS the media are out of touch act like it is IN touch.

It is about time we started seeing this advantage as a PRACTICAL reality. It doesn’t do a hell of a lot of good to keep noticing that the other army makes a consistent set of errors unless you take advantage of them.

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  1. #1 by Simmons on 05/28/2010 - 12:27 pm

    Go to any site outside of the hard political left (Kos DU) and you will find a loathing and contempt of the media that must approach near murderous hatred. Back in 1980 Dan Rather had an audience, that audience is literally dying as fast as the WWII generation, and the only replacements it has are a few jews with great PR (Jon Stewart types).

    One of these new mandarins shows up writes anything and within minutes of it being posted the detractors show up. Like I wrote yesterday these people live in a bubble, they even put their kids in a bubble. And if one of Mommy Prof’s enforcers must travel outside of a bubble they have to compromise their message or be sent packing.

    THEY have one weapon left and that is the word “racist”, but one day someone will publicly ruin its taboo effect, and then bar the door because “liberalism” will have lost its lubrication effect on the populace, and the “media” will be irrelavant.

  2. #2 by Dave on 05/28/2010 - 1:19 pm

    The very essence of siegecraft (siegecraft is offense, e.g. “laying siege”), is taking advantage of what the enemy is not aware of and does not see.

    Of course, the MSM sees from within only its own silos! Just like academia, no one gets into the MSM without first having made arduous efforts to climb over the walls of the industry. Everyone participating sees only the walls and the vigorous competition inside, they never see anything else.

    Everyone participating in the MSM made arduous efforts to be a part of it. They want prestige.

    So you really think the MSM gives a damn about it content? Any content will do! Any! Just as long as it gets you prestige.

    For example, Al Jazzeera, counterculture? Give me a break. It is the BBC with an Arab face and more competitive polish. Forget its anti-Israel slant, that’s minor.

    And forget Israel, these people absolutely love imitating Americans! In their world, EVEYBODY on earth is an American (in the “we are the world” sense), except “subversives and terrorists”. They lump these together as all being same. The MSM in China and across most of the developing world has the same bent; they put American Tea Partiers right in there with Iraqi terrorists and no contractions at all.

    This is the WORLD CORPORATE MSM, from Indonesia, to Taiwan, to China, across India and Africa and the Mid-East, to South and Latin America, to the Americas and Europe, in short, the whole shebang.

    All of them are on the same page. It is the INDUSTRY. Competitive as hell. Corporate is hell.

    They deliberately shove in unpredictable stuff to provide cover for their sterility in exactly the same way academia does. That way you get a “National Geographic” and the touts go around telling you “it’s a quality product” but it is hard as hell to get anybody to read it.

    They are soooo hungry for somebody, anybody with supposed brains, to give them some praise.

    The funny part is that internally these MSM organizations go around dissing each other, and it is insults that really dust up the competition among them.

    The general public doesn’t realize this, how infectious the competitive game is in the MSM. This gets to the world’s elites, like the Saudi royals, who put store in “face” and are willing to pay big bucks for it. All rich nonwhites act the same way, the psychological “compensation” we are so familiar with in America. But it sometimes results in quality work, for narcissistic reasons, though.

    For example, astonishing and interesting stuff that you would not expect like in Aramco’s corporate magazine that the Saudi’s put out in English. It’s like they say to themselves, “screw peer review”, we are going to publish stuff that bright engineering and business success types who speak English will actually read, and then when the Anglo-Saxon academics complain, we will accuse them of having a colonial attitude.

    That is how funny this stuff gets.

    It is corporate culture. It is competition. The MSM are global corporations. Don’t lose sight of that.

    It is far more prestige oriented, than politically oriented.

    Elites care about it, more than you think, for narcissistic reasons entirely.

    And it is all in flux.

  3. #3 by backbaygrouch4 on 05/28/2010 - 2:23 pm

    We all have a hobbyhorse that is not going to be ridden, but we love it anyway. Suppose they should all be called Don Quixote. On of my favorites is a sunshine report on airway license holders. It would entail a simple annual sociological survey of all employees and contracted appearances broken down by department, such as janitorial, news, entertainment, etc. It would inform the public of who was exercising the power of licenses by gender, race religion, etc. It would tell the public who was over represented and who was being shut out.

    Just a wee bit of sunshine.

    It would also apply to the staffs of all Senators, Representatives, and Congressional Committees. They would also be required to provide local content information. Wouldn’t it be great to get an annual snapshot of who is making the laws? Whether your Congressional delegation gives opportunities to up and coming ambitious youngsters from the area? And have this information in real numbers?

    Note that both sets of reports would not require any hiring standards. All they would do is give to the public an accounting of the use of public assets, that is, licensed airways and Congressional salaried positions.

    This tilt at a windmill would promote real diversity. It could help to puncture the Media Bubble and the Beltway Bubble which is why it will not happen.

  4. #4 by Dave on 05/28/2010 - 5:08 pm

    Politically, simple mindedness is strength in the hands of manipulators.

    Most people can be fooled by elementary tricks.

    But this is not the issue with the MSM, that colors its content to suit corporate interests.

    It is NO DIFFERENT than academia, to which it is married.

    The problem is intellectuals. They are a menace, not because they are stupid and blind, but because they are smart and self-deceive in an entirely different and much more insidious way than the simple minded.

    You can even take people who are highly trained in research, and they fool themselves by over investment.

    Something perfectly rational becomes something graven in their hands. They slip into idol worship without knowing it. They really and truly become self-deceived. How it happens is very subtle and insidious.

    It becomes so much easier for them to double-think their way out of contradiction, than to back out and cop to being blind.

    This is the curse of academics, and it the curse of MSM punditry.

    They are way too invested, and their ability to accurately assess slips, slips so subtly away.

    They have to be whacked hard, really hard, to wake them up.

  5. #5 by Alan B on 05/30/2010 - 12:23 am

    The Establishment Media is operated by so called Elitist. Most media Elities are Leftwing, wealthy and affluent, educated yet worldy ignorant. These sad and isolated souls are trapped in a quagmire of ignorance, they stay up to date on issues and events by attending high society cocktail parties where they socialize with, other Leftwing Elitist. No folks, Leftwing media bias is not bias, it is 100% Leftwing and that is the extent of their worldly view on everything.

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