Mainstream media
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The term "mainstream media" (often abbreviated "MSM") generally refers to the most popular conventional sources of factual (non-fiction) news and discussion, i.e. television and print media (newspapers and magazines). It also refers to any information published, via whatever media, by companies whose primary business is one or more of those traditional media.
The term appears to be more intensively used in the United States, where the largest media companies are privately-owned and have no significant competition from government-run services or from each other – and, unfortunately, very little accountability as to the accuracy of those views.
[edit] Companies
- Associated Press writes news articles which are widely syndicated
- CNN: cable TV, web
- Fox News: broadcast TV
- NBC / MSNBC
- Reuters
this is a partial list
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[edit] Reference
- Wikipedia
- Conservapedia sees the revocation of the fairness doctrine and the beginning of Rush Limbaugh's radio career as the two main events in the history of the MSM; also, there is apparently a "leftist news" where writers are only allowed to write what they are told (as opposed to Conservapedia, where you just get reverted or banned if you write anything they don't like)
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dKosopedia: no equivalent page (as of 2009-02-13); see Media. - SourceWatch
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- 2009-10-12 :more:talk: CNN Leaves It There § Stewart highlights CNN's tendency to juxtapose a reasonable viewpoint with an unreasonable one and then "leave it there", leaving the viewer with the impression that both viewpoints are equally valid. more...
- 2009-09-29 :more:talk: Hanging citizen journalists out to dry - shield-law amendment excludes unpaid bloggers § The Free Flow of Information Act is intended to prevent journalists from being forced to divulge confidential sources, except in cases such as witnessing crimes or acts of terrorism -- but specifically excludes citizen journalists (aka bloggers) from being considered as "journalists", and would enshrine this definition in federal law. more...
- 2009-09-08 :more:talk: Matthew Dowd's False Equivalence: Obama Hatred Equals Bush Hatred § “In Matthew Dowd's world, the left being upset about [long list of scandalous actions by the Bush-Cheney administration] is exactly the same as the right wing freaking out over a speech given to school children by President Obama. I don't think so.” more...
- 2009-08-14 :more:talk: False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots § “the rumor – which has come up at Congressional town-hall-style meetings this week in spite of an avalanche of reports laying out why it was false – was not born of anonymous e-mailers, partisan bloggers or stealthy cyberconspiracy theorists [but rather] from many of the same pundits and conservative media outlets that were central in defeating President Bill Clinton's health care proposals 16 years ago, including the editorial board of The Washington Times, the American Spectator magazine and Betsy McCaughey...” more...
- 2009-07-27 :more:talk: Chris Mooney is Not My Friend Anymore § “It was not until a Boston Globe article in which Mooney and Kirshenbaum place the blame and responsibility squarely on the shoulders of scientists that the camel’s back broke.” more...
- 2009-06-03 :more:talk: Project Expose MSM Reports § “Mr. Isikoff's story [in Newsweek] instead advanced the FBI's already-discredited point of view that the FBI's Translation Division's problems could be summed up as a 'shortage.' The article completely ignored and omitted established cases, problems, and severe weaknesses in the FBI's background security check of applicant translators, security measures in preventing espionage and security breaches, and quality control for translated work.” more...
- 2009-06-02 :more:talk: Governor Bush told Houston Journalist: If Elected "I'm Going to Invade Iraq" § “(Bush) said he wanted to [invade Iraq], and the reason he wanted to do it is he had been led to understand that you could not really have a successful presidency unless you were seen as commander-in-chief, unless you were seen as waging a war.” more...
- 2009-05-04 :more:talk: In Congress We Trust... Not § “The people do indeed look at Washington and know that this city is 'badly' broken ... Activists scream about promised hearings that never took place – without explanation. They express outrage when investigations are dropped without any justification. And they genuinely wonder out loud why, especially after they helped secure a major victory for the Democrats.” more...
- 2008-07-18 :more:talk: Girls gone guilty: Evolutionary psych on sex #2 § “That is, if you went in with a different framework for explanation – like, "too many guys in one-night stands don't know how to satisfy women" or "women are better at sex than men" – you could construct another story around this data that was ... more plausible than 'women are programmed to want long-term relationship'...” more...
- 2008-07-10 :more:talk: The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes § “During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, ...,released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, ...flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he clearly made -- TWICE. Yet watching and reading the mainstream press you would think McCain was having a pretty decent political week...” more...
- 2008-07-09 :more:talk: Photoshop of Horrors: The Frightful Faces of Fox News § “...Fox & Friends, the Fox News program hosted by Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, ...aired doctored photos of two New York Times reporters who had dared to write semi-critically of Roger Ailes's right-leaning cable network.” more...
- 2008-07-07 :more:talk: When Fox News Is the Story § “Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters – Fox News – a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. Warning. Much mayhem ahead.” more...
- 2008-06-22 :more:talk: Lara Logan, I Tip My Smack-o-Matic 3000 to You § “You know, I was asked once, 'Do you feel responsible for the American public having a ... a negative view of the war in Iraq?' And I looked at the reporter and I said, 'Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. ... Who in America knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does.'” more...
- 2008-06-10 :more:talk: Countdown: The Impeachment Of George W. Bush § “Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich spent some 290 minutes on the House floor Monday, reading Articles of Impeachment against President George Bush. Not that you would notice, as there was a virtual media blackout on the story, but Keith Olbermann ran with it right out of the gate...” more...
- 2008-04-21 :more:talk: 12 Answers to Questions No One Is Asking About Iraq § “Despite a lack of decent information and analysis on crucial aspects of the Iraqi catastrophe, despite the way much of the Iraq story fell off newspaper front pages and out of the TV news in the last year, despite so many reports on the "success" of the president's surge strategy, Americans sense [..] perfectly well [that] Iraq has been unraveling [..] since the invasion of 2003.” more...
- 2008-02-21 :more:talk: The Great Guantánamo Puppet Theater § “Specific accusations concerning the roles played by each of the six in the tragedy of 9/11 were all over the media. For the most part, the media has only lightly embroidered the Pentagon's script.” more...
- 2008-02-11 :more:talk: How the spooks took over the news § “For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.” more...
- 2007-12-28_Hillary_Clinton_and_Ron_Paul_winning_big_on_AOL_straw_poll
- 2007-07-06 :more:talk: Shame on Bush – and Us § “Like freed hostages who gradually cease to identify with their captors, mainstream media outlets seem to have been seized by a new spirit of liberation in their coverage of the Bush administration.” more...
- 2006-11-13_BANNED_Pres._Bush_Interview
- 2006-09-14 :more:talk: Media ownership study ordered destroyed § “The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.” more...
- 2006-08-30 :more:talk: Clinton, 9/11 and the Facts § “Clinton's dire public warnings about the threat posed by terrorism, and the actions taken to thwart it, went completely unreported by the media, which was far more concerned with stained dresses and baseless Drudge Report rumors.” more...
- 2006-08-15_Is_Bush_an_Idiot
- 2006-05-18 :more:talk: Uncovering Project Censored § “There once was a time when you couldn’t trust anyone over 30. Today, some are wondering if that isn’t true of Project Censored.” more...
- 2005-08-22_A_Funny_Little_Story_About_The_Media
- 2001-09-26 :more:talk: We Must Retaliate: Blind Rage or Measured, Focused Rage? § a satire of the mainstream media push for retaliation in response to 9/11 more...
