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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- 2009-06-03 :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...
- 2008-04-21 :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...
- 2008-02-11 :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_Shame_on_Bush_and_Us
- 2006-11-13_BANNED_Pres._Bush_Interview
- 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
