Days after the cessation of the Conservative Leadership Conference 2008, remembrances float up…
…Seton Motley’s talk on Media Bias and the unFairness Doctrine (sponsored by the Media Research Center)…clip after clip of such biased “reporting” (commentary and emoting) that one is heartily laughing and throughly appalled all at once…
…Chris Matthews (MSNBC), Keith Olbermann (ditto), Brian Williams (NBC), Ann Curry (ditto), John Roberts (CNN), Campbell Brown (ditto), Charlie Gibson (ABC), Terry Moran (ditto) and more…
…the observation that some so-called journalists and major media outlets are now eschewing ratings and “sacrificing the bottom line to ideology”…sacrificing viewers (do they say “good riddance”?) in order to push their increasingly obvious agenda…
…the concept of Bias by Omission (what is not reported that should be)…
…the three upcoming vacancies on the FCC (February) and who will seat them (McCain or Obama) and do the vetting…
…the new “code words” for the Fairness Doctrine that are springing up in activist organizations posing as non-partisan groups: “localism,” “media democracy,” “media reform,” “universal access”…which you can see in action here…
…the effect the Fairness Doctrine (and other limits on media) would likely have: the mass migration of conservative talk radio personalities to satellite radio, increased internet podcasting, vlogging (blogging via video clips), and other New Media forums/outlets…
…a comment by a young mother in attendance that Nickolodeon attempts political indoctrination of children via their “kid reporters” (who covered the DNC, but not the RNC)…
