Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise Finds Mainstream Media is Becoming Irrelevant
Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise announces today that the major media outlets are becoming heavily “liberally-biased” and not covering all of the important issues and news. You can read the rest of this press release below:
Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise Finds Mainstream Media is Becoming Irrelevant
By not covering the recent Chick-Fil-A groundswell, most Americans now openly resent “Obama-agenda bias” in major media outlets
Rockville, MD – August 9, 2012 – Major media outlets such as ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN want to pretend that the Conservative groundswell doesn’t exist by ignoring it. Conservatives have a message for them — YOU are becoming irrelevant by not covering issues important to us. We will take our considerable buying power and ignore you back.
As a result of this history of heavily ‘liberally-biased’ coverage in major media outlets, Conservatives tend to now get their news from online channels, including social media networks like Twitter. FOX News is their #1 network to watch after these, due to its commitment to more ‘fair and balanced’ coverage.
“America tends to be a slightly right of center country,” says Robyn Sachs, EFFE Steering Committee member. “So major media outlets only showing one view is dangerous to their ratings. Over 50% of the country is ‘ignoring’ them back. FOX News has 3, 4, or even 6 times the viewership of any other cable news network, depending on the daypart.”
For example, major media outlets have barely covered the White House and leaks that compromise our National Security, the ‘war’ going on between the White House and Border Patrol and ICE around the issue of enforcing the law in border states like Arizona and Texas, and didn’t cover Fast and Furious until President Obama invoked Executive Privilege.
In a recent interview for The Daily Caller’s Leaders with Ginni Thomas series, President and Founder of the Media Research Center Brent Bozell weighed in on his views and observations of recent omissions and censorship in major media outlets in favor of a liberal agenda. Describing coverage – or lack thereof around other recent news issues like the Healthcare-Contraception debate between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration that represented the largest lawsuit in the history of the Republican Party, as well as prompted simultaneous demonstrations in 163 cities – and received ZERO coverage in any of the major networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Another example he gives is the Trayvon Martin case where NBC in particular, according to Bozell, “cooked the books” to edit footage to make George Zimmerman appear to be a racially-motivated killer. Bozell says, there is “willful, deliberate, politically-motivated sensationalism designed to advance a Left Wing world view, while destroying a Conservative world view.”
Now, as a result of this bias, online publications, like Newsmax, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart are much more popular than traditional publications and media outlets with Conservatives. Publishers should take note and adjust accordingly to provide more balanced coverage, says EFFE. Otherwise, they will find their ratings continuing to slide, just like the economy as a whole. Calling Leftism a “social experiment gone awry,” Bozell mentions also that “Leftism doesn’t work – anywhere in the world. Every country that is collapsing economically right now is collapsing under [this] burden That is where we’re headed right now.”
Further, Bozell adds, “more people [in America] watch re-runs of The Simpsons than CBS News.”EFFE urges major media outlets to re-examine their agendas and priorities and to return to balanced coverage of news issues affecting all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, social class, or any other factor.
About Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise
Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise is an organization founded in 2012 to educate the general public on the major issues surrounding the Presidential Election. Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise organization takes it upon themselves to make sure that citizens are told the entire story to allow them to make an educated vote in November’s election with all the facts in front of them. For additional information on Entrepreneurs for Free Enterprise, please contact info@entrepreneursforfreeenterprise.org. General information can be obtained by accessing the organization’s web site at www.effe4usa.org, the organization’s Twitter page at @EFFE4USA or the organization’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/EFFE4USA.
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The Mainstream media in this country are inciting a culture war. That is their aim. Fox is the one that is set up to inflame people with a “conservative” bent. MSNBC is setup to inflame people with a “liberal” bent. You cannot have a culture war if there are not media channels throwing out red meat every day and stirring the pot. Chick-Fil-A was only the latest example of distraction, disinformation, and misdirection waged by this privately owned media carefully selecting which audiences they are going to incite.
The point is the MSM is silent about the real issues that are taking this country down. Like a privatized money supply. Like regressive taxation. Like capital flight since the late 90s. Like unequal protection of property rights. Like the nullification of “one man one vote” by PACs laws in 1974. We will hear nothing about any of this on ANY privately-owned news channel, or any PBS channel that depends on money from wealthy individuals or corporate foundations.