Let no-one refer to "the mainstream media" any longer....

[ChairOne]

They are NOT mainstream. They are, depending on the context, either the "corporate media", or the "conservative media".

Referring to them as "mainstream" suggests a least-common-denominator of fairness and intelligence. They do not possess either. They are thoroughly corporate, and thoroughly conservative. It is time we referred to them *correctly*, and with terms that describe what they actually are.

EDIT: Corrected abysmal writing...

[CrispyQ]

1. Corporate media, it is, then! eom

[Vincardog]

2. How about the Right Wing Propaganda Whores?

[ChairOne]

8. I like it - and a few other things along those lines.....

.... but I want something that can be used in all situations - like on tv and radio....

[Vincardog]

14. BPM

What is that?
Bought & Paid for Media

[bpilgrim]

3. M$MH = Main Stream Media WHORES

is how i will refer to them from now on.

peace

[whirlygigspin]

5. how about "Gannon media"

lol

[bpilgrim]

12. or... LOVE-YOU-LONG-TIME MEDIA

:evilgrin:



peace

[yourout]

4. I vote for Corporate Media.

Has a nice ring to it.

[ChairOne]

11. I see both, depending on context....

When they do stories talkin bout how good outsourcing is, they're the corporate media....

When they refuse to do stories about Gannon/Guckert, they're the conservative media (protecting its own)...

[Clark2008]

6. I always call them the cWHOREporate media.

With the exception of Keith Olbermann, of course.

[cthrumatrix]

7. corporate owned media OR GE News or Cap Cities News or Murdoch News

[seabeyond]

9. i dont like people telling me what to do, i like corporate media

was going to come on and say msm msm msm.........but i like your ....demand

[ChairOne]

13. lol - think of it as a framing suggestion...... lol /eom

[Cleita]

10. I call them story tellers because everything they say is fiction.

The whole Bush administration is a carefully worked piece of fiction. None of it is true. It's just too bad that what they do does affect us in the real world, unlike a book, whose story stays between the covers and out of our reality.

[CrispyQ]

21. LOL! Story tellers -- that's great!!

Main-Stream Story Tellers!!

[enigmatic]

15. I prefer "State-Run Media"

That's what they are..

[Career Prole]

16. State-run, yes! Prav-duhhh would do for most of 'em.

and FOX would be Prav-DOHHH!!

[ChairOne]

17. I like it, but it doesn't help with the *framing* issue.....

... that is, "state run" doesn't distinguish between Democrats and republicans - I think that distinction is kinda important...

Also, "conservative media" serves to recognize the history of the term - the beginnings were of course "liberal media".....

I like "state run", but I just don't sese it being used by politicians on tv and radio - that's more what I'm after...

[enigmatic]

20. How about "The Propaganda Media"? n/m

[Mel]

18. I've been calling them

'The Corporatista Media' for a long while they serve the dollar not the people screw them!
I have also been known to call them Pravda.

[Ilsa]

19. I'll start calling them corporate media. N/t