Old Media Tricks

Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker has a great post regarding old media "tricks" and their distortion of facts in order to spin a story according to their world view (HT: RealClearPolitics)

Lifson starts his article:

"It seemed so long ago that the old media and their liberal cohorts were able to mount successful campaigns manipulating the public into support for dubious propositions: Bill Clinton’s veto of a GOP budget as a “Republican shutdown” of the government; the public “demanding” Campaign Finance Reform, or Linda Tripp as demon.

The formula was simple: provide a carefully selected mix of data, hammer away on themes making the conservatives look mean, extreme, stupid, corrupt or narrow-minded; take polls with questions designed to elicit majorities favoring the liberal solution, and then wield the polls as irrefutable evidence of the need to let the people have their way. Intimidate wobbly conservative office-holders. Snatch victory and pound-home the manufactured memes of conservative depravity with casual press references well into the future.

The rise of the new media was supposed to change it all. Bloggers would expose inconvenient facts. Fox News Channel and talk radio would place the facts before enough people that water cooler talk, family get-togethers, back fence conversations, and other casual encounters would enable the conservative view to get exposed to a critical mass of Americans.

But in the case of Terri Schiavo, the old media game has worked...."

Read the entire article...it makes some great points which you never hear in the MSM.

I am not so sure the MSM has fully succeeded.  Too many events are happening this week yielding little time for people (and some bloggers) to reflect.

However, La Shawn Barber and Michelle Malkin and a host of others continue to expose facts in this case and make excellent points in their posts (see the ABC memo scandal).

I am still shocked at the whole tragedy and cannot believe this is happening in our country.  Judicial/Media tyranny must be checked and people need to be held accountable.

I believe a full account of events will be exposed as long as able bloggers continue to report the story.

Thankfully, many are doing just that!

UPDATE: See latest posts from Michelle Malkin (I sent Kurtz my "ditto") and La Shawn Barber...let the blogswarms begin!

UPDATE II.5: Captain Ed and company will be talking about the fake talking points memo on Northern Alliance Radio delayed replay Monday-Friday at noon, 6pm, midnight, and 6am CST.