Is The Mainstream Media Telling You What Is Important and What Isn't?

Liberals have a big problem; they have no foot to stand on when it comes to facts and reason. All they have is emotion. Emotion is what they rely on to further their “cause”. When conservatives bring facts and reason into the picture it poses a big threat to the liberal agenda. This is why they need to shape the narrative. They do this by telling you, the voter, what is important and what isn’t.

Last week Breitbart.com released a video of President Barack Obama in his college days. This video showed the President saying “open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell” while introducing then hugging radical “Critical Race Theorist” Derrick Bell. This was a video that was hid by the mainstream media (MSM) during the 2008 presidential campaign, as Professor Charles Ogletree admits in the video released by Breitbart.com.

 After the release of this much anticipated video Breitbart.com’s editor-in-chief Joel Pollak appeared on Soledad O’Brien’s Starting Point on CNN (an interview was as typical as it gets) to explain the video and its importance. From the start of this interview we can hear quips like “over-advertising again” and “is that it, is that the “bombshell”?”-  alluding that the released video is nothing of importance. Soledad O’Brien spends almost the entire interview TRYING to discredit the importance of this video. Not to mention that when she isn’t doing that she’s getting her facts wrong about critical race theory, like the basic definition of it (watch interview).

As an example of liberals not liking what doesn’t fit their narrative, on twitter I pointed out a few of Ms. Obrien’s shortcomings in the interview with Joel Pollak about Professor Bell and critical race theory and I was blocked without hesitation. No response, no questions, I just got blocked. I guess Ms. Obrien didn’t like what I had to say. This is the perfect example to show how liberals think. While conservatives have no problem accepting and encouraging new voices to the debate liberals do. Liberals want to silence all opposing voices. Why you ask, because they have nothing to stand on. They rely on these tactics of silencing their opponents instead of debating the matter at hand. Just look at what Media Matters For America tried to do to Glenn Beck; going after his advertisers to try to get him kicked off the air, to silence his voice.

This is what the liberal MSM does. Any piece of news that might prove troubling to their liberal candidates or their liberal organizations is hidden or squashed and if or when it comes to the surface they downplay it. Look no further than the Monica Lewinsky story Drudge broke while Newsweek sat on it. The MSM is filtering the news they provide to their viewers. They are telling you what is important and what isn’t. Any news that doesn’t fit their narrative is squashed. Then when it comes up, just like this Derrick Bell video came up, they downplay it. “It’s not that important!” “You (the viewer) didn’t need to know about it.” Sound familiar?

The MSM is anything but objective. For a long time now they have been deciding for their viewers what news is important and what news isn’t. That isn’t the media’s job. The media’s job is to provide the news and provide it objectively. The media should be reporting their findings while letting their viewers decide whether it is important or not. This is why New Media like Breitbart.com, The Daily Caller, and Drudge Report have been so popular. People are waking up to the fact that their news was being filtered for them by the MSM.

It is important to understand what the liberal mainstream media does to silence the voices of their opponents and this is why it is important that they are vetted. If the mainstream media is allowed to continue filtering the news they provide their viewers they will continue to control the narrative. They must not be allowed to tell the people what news is important and what news is not. This is why it is important for citizen journalists and true objective journalists to vet the media!

--Trent Anson

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