To: MJ who wrote (413 ) 4/8/2012 2:28:57 AM From: joseffy Read Replies (1) | Respond to The Left is Losing the Media Wars americanthinker.com The leftist media overstructure -- the network of committed individuals and institutions that keep the media narrative congruent with the goals of the left -- is starting to self-destruct, devouring itself with headstrong recklessness, ego, and inability to understand the strength of conservatives and their ideas. At NBC, a producer has been fired . And now Media Matters senior analyst M.J. Rosenberg , having humiliated the organization, is leaving the Soros-funded media bully outfit.Foxnews.com reports:MJ Rosenberg, who also got into hot water for mistakenly accusing the Drudge Report website of racism in coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, announced Friday on the Media Matters website that he was "striking out on my own with a brand new website and blog."Both announcements were timed to be buried during a big holiday weekend, in a futile attempt to limit the damage to NBC and MMFA. NBC's bungled attempt to evade responsible for a deliberate political hit here . They have a lot at stake, including a potential lawsuit for defamation, in an indefensible edit being accidental, despite layers of checking and counter-checking built into their editorial structure. one of the worst weeks ever for the leftist media establishment. the left launched a campaign to get talk radio king Rush Limbaugh off the air, and intimidate advertisers into dropping him . Leftists generally think of themselves as smarter than all the rest of us, übermenschen, supermen, if you will. Well, unfortunately for them, Rush is made of kryptonite. The advertisers who deserted him have suffered grievous harm at the hands of angry former customers who patronized them because of their connection to Rush. When they sided with Media Matters, they became enemies. Big Journalism :The New York Times credits NewsBusters.org for being the first to catch NBC's edit. He provides a link to this NewsBusters post dated March 30. However, the NewsBusters story is actually based on, and links back to, a story published here at Breitbart.com two days earlier . In that story, author Dan Riehl highlighted the edit to the Zimmerman 911 tape as it appeared in print at MSNBC. The MSNBC story was originally published March 21st, six days before the same edit was used in the Today show broadcast.Reuters story credited both Breitbart.com and NewsBusters for bringing the problem to the attention of NBC executives.It is likely that, if not for conservative new media, the misleading edit, which inflamed racial tensions in the Martin case, and which was repeated by Stetler's own New York Times , would have gone unnoticed and uncorrected. As it is, the producer responsible for the edit at Today has been fired, but the individual who made the same edit to the earlier MSNBC story (since corrected) has not been identified or disciplined. Nor has anyone at any other outlet or network -- many of which made similar selective editing choices -- been punished.old strategies that reliably worked for the left no longer are effective, and often blow up in their faces. americanthinker.com
