VIDEO: How the Media Have Worked to Distort, Dismantle and Destroy Ronald Reagan's Legacy
As the centennial celebration of President Ronald Reagan's birth approaches, the Media Research Center has released its special report on media bias against the late commander in chief, Rewriting Ronald Reagan: How the Media Have Worked to Distort, Dismantle and Destroy His Legacy. NewsBusters has complied a video montage displaying some of the worst media attacks over the years.
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The media can lie and distort
Submitted by Odin's Underling on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 5:59pm.
The media can lie and distort all they want. After all, it is what they do best. However, the truth about Reagan is out there and for those that are intersted in the truth will have no problems in finding it. President Reagan did more for this country than any other president in the last century and the world as well. That just pisses the left off to no end.
What lies?
Submitted by hayate1 on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 9:03pm.
That was a montage of opinions from media commentators and observations by citizens. No distortion one way or another unless one considers the rendering of opinion that is dissimilar to that of another is distortion. Distortion is when facts are misstated or used in truncated form to support an argument that is false.
For example, it would be a distortion of the Reagan legacy to say that he only cut taxes bc it is a partial truth. He only cut taxes in the first year of his presidency but he raised taxes 7 times, legislatively, during the course of his entire presidency. It would also be a distortion to say that he didnt cut the budgets of education and social programs when he did. Now, if someone has an opinion that those cuts led to more poverty then they are not distorting anything. they are simply rendering their viewpoint, true or not, that is at least coherent given the facts.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Um
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 8:25am.
Distortion would be saying presidents do anything "legislatively". Presidents are executives, not legislators.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Good point. my thinking is
Submitted by hayate1 on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 3:54pm.
Presidents sign bill's into law, or veto them and then they are either overridden and become law or they dont. That seems to be part of the legislation process.
What it also means, and what I mean, is that these tax increases were done with the congress sending a bill with the tax hikes to the president who then signed them into law. As opposed to delegated legislative actions based on other laws or presidential memorandum which is often used to make law without congressional involvement.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Do you not see, hayate1, the distortion inherent in a montage---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 9:47pm.
that is angled to reveal only directional trains of thought, but presented with no disclaimer or disclosure stating same?
That is commonly called propaganda.
MD
if it was passed off as news
Submitted by hayate1 on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:01pm.
but to me that montage was not news reporting but opinion pieces and commentary. By definition, it is biased. It is one person's opinion. That being said, the montage more than likely doesnt capture the sum total of the opinion pieces about reagan in the media, but just the one's that are supportive of the writers thesis. Hmmm, a partial, carefull edited and selected montage of slanted views used to support an argument. sounds like the montage is anti-liberal propaganda. At least by your definition.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Propaganda, hayate1---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 10:47pm.
is propaganda, period. No one particular political party owns the copyright to it. It is understood that those who consider themselves the good guys "enlighten" the masses, and believe their opponents to be "propagandizing" same.A nice site compiled to
Submitted by stratman on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 10:32pm.
A nice site compiled to help battle distortions on Reagan policies can be found at www.presidentreagan.info beginning with Budget Myths.
Interesting
Submitted by MOONSTRUCK on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 10:54pm.
The LSM is trying to say how barry is channeling his inner Reagan, and the LSM is trying their best to dismantle and destroy President Reagan's legacy. Priceless you dolts.
Trust me
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 3:58pm.
All the footage and comments of the black poor could be found today probably in the same places. No one can stop someone from allowing themselves to be poor other than themselves as though giving a person a $1000 a month suddenly makes them not poor. There was a time in this country when there was no excuse to not be employed. A person could go job hunting and find three jobs that that person could go into the next day. It was like that when this footage was shot. This sadly is no longer the case. Trust me because I was there.
Jimmy Carter had bumbled the economy to the point I had moved to Dallas, TX in an effort to find employment. I moved home 1 year after Reagan took office because times were better. I lived the Carter and Reagan years so please don't try to change my mind about the greatest president in my life time. I can only wish there is another Ronald Reagan out there but he sure will be a hard act to follow.
That is the exact point of the discussion
Submitted by hayate1 on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:08pm.
That the Reagan legacy dramatically altered the social, economic and political landscape of the country. Reagan type policies implemented back then have basically remained unchanged over the ensuing years. Sure, much more to the right, but basically at the core, unchanged. That is why the discussion of his legacy and his impact are so important bc they are an assessment of the successes and failures which are needed if we are going to improve . that way we can augment the good parts and jettison the bad. the bottom line is that the state of the governmentn and the country today, are in large part, due to the reagan revolution he began.
How has it worked out in your view?
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
How can we ever
Submitted by hayate1 on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 4:26pm.
Fix what's wrong with this country if we cannot discuss things from a cause/effect perspective instead of the ideological us vs. them perspective?
This board is conservative so any discussion about Reagan is a liberal smear unless it is only positive. Any discussion about Carter or Obama is wrong unless it is only negative. Come on, liberal all bad, conservative all good or visa versa.
Lets start with facts, actions, results first then we have a basic set of data that can be used to argue the values of the ideology behind it and whether or not it is working well.
How can any presidency be discussed without having a complete inclusion of all the consequences, good and bad, of it's policies?
Reagan's legacy is clearly replete with both good and bad. and sometimes actions create both simultaneously. Like as in Reagan cut taxes and increased spending which exploded the deficit (bad) and helped stimulate the economy (good).
It is an insult to his legacy to only discuss the good and attack anyone who points out the bad as some sort of anti-american legacy destroyer. His legacy is his mark and to only accept parts that you like is to propagandize him.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."