Obama’s 4 Steps To Dissent Free TV

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Obama’s 4 Steps To Dissent Free TV

Written By : John Hawkins

The way that Obama is dealing with Fox News is transparently cynical. Fox News has the biggest cable news ratings. CNN and MSNBC are a joke beside of them. Moreover, while the other stations give sycophantic coverage to the Obama Administration and spend an inordinate amount of time beating up on hapless Republicans who have no power in DC, Fox is the only check in television news against the excesses of the Democratic Party. Journalists love to crow about their “watchdog role,” but other than the ones at Fox News and a few rogues like Jake Tapper at ABC, they’re all lying on their backs waiting for Obama to scratch their tum-tums.

Here’s how Obama’s attempt to delegitimize Fox is supposed to work:

1) The Obama Administration says Fox News isn’t a real news organization.

2) Liberals, who control almost every other mainstream media outlet, are supposed to nod along.

3) As a result, other news organizations are supposed to ignore the damaging stories broken by Fox because “they’re not legitimate.”

4) Then, since the other mainstream media organizations don’t do the same sort of investigative reporting on the Democrats that Fox does, the stories never go live and Obama gets a free ride from the press.

First off, the really disturbing part here is that Obama assumes the rest of the mainstream media is so servile that they’ll simply go along with this.

However, servile though they may be, Obama has overestimated his control over the liberals in the MSM. Because of that, step 2 of the process has only partially worked and that’s not good enough. The Obama Administration needs almost total acceptance of what they’re saying from the other libs in the media. If say, the Washington Post is breaking stories a few days after Fox and the New York Times never does it, then the WAPO gains an advantage over the New York Times. It works like that all through the media.

So, this is an extraordinarily old school strategy that works on the assumption that there are only a few important outlets and they can be “gatekeepers” for the news. In today’s world, it’s doomed to failure, but the fact that the Obama Administration is trying it tells you a lot about their character and how they see the world.

Majic

He needs a diversion, his foreign policy is a failure, His domestic policy is a failure, and people are catching on that he is a conman. The people are beginning to look at his advisors and are less than happy. Hell, he hasn’t done anything except run for the next election since he got this job.
http://www.comics.com/editoons/asay/ Zheldon

He got us out of the recession! Just please ignore the fact that just about all experts said it would end late 2009 if the government did nothing.

He bailed out companies to save the economy! Just please ignore the fact that it was liberal controlled House and Senate that created the mess.

He is getting taxpayers their money back! Just please ignore the fact that the government gets the money that is repaid not the taxpayer.

He is fighting the war he believed was a real war. Just please ignore the fact that he just doesn't know what to do. After all, most of his votes were present; never taking a stand. Well you could say his war on Fox News…

He is turning this country into the socialist utopia that has been created time and time again in other places. Just please ignore the fact that the United States of America allows those utopias to exist by providing protection, emergency resources, and so many advances in science, technology, and the human condition. Without the United States of America in her best form this innovation will end. And please ignore the fact that there is no utopia on this Earth.

He is leading the charge against man made climate change. Just please ignore the fact that it is not proven to be man made. The models cannot predict anything, in fact reality is 180 degrees out of phase with their models. Oh, and ignore the manipulated data, lies, and half truths used to support man made climate change.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Hell, he hasn’t done anything except run for the next election since he got this job.

Posted by Majic

2009-10-23 16:06:46

He has too, done something! He'd tripled the deficit, pissed off allies, and sucked up to our enemies!!!
Jack Schite

Faux is just a huge megaphone for a bunch of zealots who Want to see the Obama administration and this country fail.

Raitings don't make it right. You can convince the lowest common denominator to but rocks as pets, so it makes perfect sense you can convince the ignorant that Faux has significance.

Kudos to the administration for calling a spade a spade.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Posted by Jack Schite

2009-10-23 23:16:14

Yes, child. Fox News bad, Obama good.

*gentle pat on the head*

Now run along and play with your blocks. The grownups are having a discussion.
ohleruno

Raitings don't make it right.

Posted by Jack Schite

2009-10-23 23:16:14

I would agree with you there. However, I would also say that ratings, in the television world, are like votes in the political world. Just because Obama won the majority of votes over a terrible canadate, does not mean that he has the right to throw out the Constitution of the United States, and make this a Socialist country.
ohleruno

And back to John's post: You are correct about the fact that Obama does not understand how competition works in the market place, which is why he pursues this strategy. However, that is okay for his supporters, because they do not understand the market either. If they did understand that, then they would support a free market economy, rather than this nightmare that Bush's and Obama's excessive spending, under Keynesian principles, has brought us.
Bill_Dalasio

Jack Schite fails to realize that Hawkins' point is not that Fox is better because of its ratings (they are easily explained by Fox's near monopoly on conservative leaning news coverage), but rather that the larger general market will want access to the stories Fox breaks. Given that, competition, not between Fox and the establishment media, but between the establishment media themselves, means that they will air the stories themselves. This means that the lid on the stories need some sort of enforcement mechanism. In this case, to the extent the attacks on Fox are punitively intended, the disdain of the establishment media for Fox actually plays against Pres. Obama's agenda. The intent to punish in a multi-player game is less to send a message to the punished as it is to send a message to the other players. However, the designation of Fox as illegitimate has limited deterrent effect on the rest of the media. They already do not view Fox as legitimate, as part of the club. As a result, the establishment media are largely viewing the administration as the loser here.
Jack Schite

Ratings in tv land are not like votes in Politics land. They are like coke versus pepsi. Both are carbonated sugar water and it doesn't matter which is on top, neither does you any good.

I love that JH calls Obama transparently cynical. That's just as worthless a statement as any of his usual arguements. Worthless as coke, or pepsi.
BIG

Of course ratings are not the same as votes in "Politics Land". Votes in your "Politics Land" are bought and paid for through groups like ACORN and political machines. What Obama has done is to bring Chicago politics onto the national level and quite frankly it stinks. I just can't wait for the fraud Obama is going to put into the 2010 census to increase the electoral votes in blues states and taking them away from red states. I expect Chicago's population to increase by at least a third. I am sure they will go through the cemetaries to find all these new Democrats.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by Jack Schite

2009-10-24 10:06:10

Bitter little fuck aren't you? It is a shame you contribute absolutely nothing in life or here. Perhaps you should blow your brains out and save the world your carbon footprint. And lay off that blow up dummy you call a spouse, rather degrading on yourself to call her your "wife".