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Thread #128361   Message #3214547
Posted By: Stringsinger
29-Aug-11 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: what about Glen Beck?
Subject: RE: BS: what about Glen Beck?
There is a false equivalency given to those on the " Left" and "Right" which should be recognized as arbitrary and specious divisions defined by corporate media.

There have always been pundits who have dominated the media espousing reactionary hate speech ideas.

Few today remember, Walter Winchell, Father Coughlin, Gerald L.K. Smith, Francis Townsend, and William Dudley Palley. There is a tradition of hate speech punditry that has been with us for a long time.

There are truth tellers historically. Edward R. Murrow is one and Keith Olbermann follows in his tradition and is not the opposite of Beck, Hannity, Rush or O'Reilly but is his own voice.
This false equivalency is a propaganda mechanism used by certain members of the media to discredit any dissent from the current prevailing media cant.

Those who don't see the difference between these commentators are adding to the problem of dis and misinformation of news.

Critical thinking will dispel the idea of false equivalency and obliterate the so-called middle-of-the-road position, which in reality doesn't exist but has been manufactured by those in the media to suppress important information.