Sunday, March 16, 2008
Media slant
Mass media is an uncontrollable force that will no doubt change the landscape and direction of the presidential election at any given time. Fox News is by far the most slanted of the mainstream media outlets. Last week Barack Obama came on the big three major news networks to dismiss controversial comments about his former pastor Jeremiah Wright and I watched clips of all three of them and Fox News, by far, was the most divisive and had more framing and leading questions then the other two. The only thing we can do to combat this is to use mass media ourselves. Anyway possible to voice the truth, as we see truth, we must. All three media outlets failed to give McCain the gauntlet for his endorsements from and ties to equally as controversial pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley, who have both made anti-catholic, anti-muslim, anti-gay sermons and a plethora of others in various forms and capacities. Let us not miss our opportunity for real authentic hope and change in the form of a person who genuinely loves people.
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This is great; whew.
I love people our age (you, specifically). Ah, Matt. I think you'll be one hell of a soccer dad (and that you are indeed a good friend)
You care so darn much.
*ahem*
(i) Mass media blows.
The sad news is that we (the educated and critical) are a small sliver.
People will expose themselves to what they want to expose themselves to, hear what they want to hear, and generally stay quite comfortable.
Let's you and me never be that way, Matt, if only for good form.
(ii) I've never been a poor black man in a rich white man's world. They sound pretty excited about it. What a crazy reverend. (It's amazing to me that the bulk of my personal theology came from John Hagee and 2 others who were on the radio when I was going to sleep in HS. He's crazy. I would hate to know him personally.)
The Donald Miller quote? To be fair (oh, honesty), I've never read any of his books. The quote came from a friend at camp.
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