Soul Brother of the New Catholic Media
July 20, 2009
Unfortunately we can’t embed non-YouTube videos here. So, go watch this video, particularly the first couple minutes. Then, watch the video I have embedded (after the jump for those viewing the tease.) Compare the styles, and note the similarities.
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MZ
I don’t know what your intent with this post is about — I hope it isn’t some sort of ad hominem, but rather, some interest in the fact that some styles of commentary are universal?
Both speakers claim they are bringing you knowledge that institutional sources are suppressing or hiding. In both cases, the information isn’t being suppressed or hidden. Other than finding the conspiratorial mindset destructive, I’m not claiming anything more nefarious.
Quite frankly, it typifies most of the conservative blogosphere. Evokations of the mainstream media hiding facts or the “truth” are common.
There is a reason this parody was so funny.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-18-2008/gov-at-first-sight
Well, the American religion is Gnosticism, and Peters is certainly a keen disciple of the American religion…
Quite frankly, it typifies most of the conservative blogosphere. Evokations of the mainstream media hiding facts or the “truth” are common.
Heh. It’s not just the conservative blogosphere. Most of the alternative media (i.e., far left-wing or “progressive”) makes the same claim. The San Francisco Bay Guardian, for example, routinely claims that the SF Chronicle is part of a neo-conservative agenda, and even attacks the other alt-weekly here (SF Weekly, owned by the Village Voice) on the same charge.
(it’s kind of funny that the previous post here starts with “Something you probably won’t see reported in the US media…”)
Certainly there are those afflicted on the left. I haven’t found the liberal equivalent of “Even the New York Times claims (or concedes)” though. I’m more familiar with liberals claiming major newspapers are pawns of a corporate agenda and aren’t really liberal. I tend to be somewhat sympathetic of the claim.
And yes, that is kind of funny.
I haven’t found the liberal equivalent of “Even the New York Times claims (or concedes)” though.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22even+fox+news+admits%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
I do have to say that conservatives keep telling us of the virtues of the private market and when corporations are left alone, a natural efficiency is the result, but somehow they insist that media corporations are the exception to this market principle and that they pursue an ideological agenda instead.