Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem

One night in 1969 Mike Wallace called a meeting of his staff.
He began the meeting by saying "I have some good news and some bad news"..I just came from the producers office and he informed me that 60 Minutes is the now the most watched news show in Television history, and that it is also is the first news show that has made any broadcast network a profit.

After the applause from his staff, he said "And now for the bad news - 60 Minutes is the first news show in the history of television to make a profit".

He then left the room.

In 1969, Mike Wallace may have been the first person in the world to realize that from that day forward television news had forever changed...now it makes money.
He knew now that the stations owners will now EXPECT it to make money.

You can figure out the rest.

Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem

One night in 1969 Mike Wallace called a meeting of his staff.
He began the meeting by saying "I have some good news and some bad news"..I just came from the producers office and he informed me that 60 Minutes is the now the most watched news show in Television history, and that it is also is the first news show that has made any broadcast network a profit.

After the applause from his staff, he said "And now for the bad news - 60 Minutes is the first news show in the history of television to make a profit".

He then left the room.

In 1969, Mike Wallace may have been the first person in the world to realize that from that day forward television news had forever changed...now it makes money.
He knew now that the stations owners will now EXPECT it to make money.

You can figure out the rest.

Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois

Did you know Mike Wallace made a suicide attempt?


http://movies.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=223577

Originally Posted by reino

Sorry, but the president is a tard and his intelligence will be a joke for the rest of his presidency and a good number of years after.

Originally Posted by Thane

Interesting how the liberal media presents sometimes :-)


....................Apparently, the New Yorker sees a grand conspiracy in the use of "Democrat” which the magazine describes as a "slur.”


If that has you scratching your head, Hertzberg claims "Democrat” is a slur because it gives greater prominence to the syllable "rat” as in Democrat. As he puts it, Democrat is just "handy way to express contempt . . . ‘Democrat Party’ is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams ‘rat.’”

We never thought of that. Perhaps there is a deep-seated complex at work at the scions of the old media who see a conspiracy behind every corner as their viewerships, readerships and audiences disappear to new media like NewsMax. We are, after all, "influential.”



http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...703.shtml?s=ic

Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem

One night in 1969 Mike Wallace called a meeting of his staff.
He began the meeting by saying "I have some good news and some bad news"..I just came from the producers office and he informed me that 60 Minutes is the now the most watched news show in Television history, and that it is also is the first news show that has made any broadcast network a profit.

After the applause from his staff, he said "And now for the bad news - 60 Minutes is the first news show in the history of television to make a profit".

He then left the room.

In 1969, Mike Wallace may have been the first person in the world to realize that from that day forward television news had forever changed...now it makes money.
He knew now that the stations owners will now EXPECT it to make money.

You can figure out the rest.

Originally Posted by reino

Sorry, but the president is a tard and his intelligence will be a joke for the rest of his presidency and a good number of years after.

Originally Posted by chassisman

Only tards use the word tard..........uh.....whoops.....

Originally Posted by Mad_Michael

Now, if the US media is as 'liberal' as all the rightwingers have been carrying on about, how come the 'liberal' mass media is not trumpeting these consistent poll results that fly in the face of the rightwing Republican hegemony in Washington?

Seriously... the US mass media is 'surface' biased towards the Republicans (and have been for about 20 years now). For the mass media, it is all about media consolidation - Democrats oppose it, Republicans generally favour it. Ergo, the mass media favours the Republicans until they get their precious changes to the media ownership rules. The mass media position on the Iraq war shows their obvious bias and favourtism to the Republicans.

Bottom line is, calling the mass media "liberal" is pure rightwing propaganda that has no substantive basis in fact.