[quote]orion wrote:
hedo wrote:
orion wrote:
hedo wrote:
orion wrote:
bigflamer wrote:
MSM = Main Stream Media
Thank you!
Well thats a wishy-washy kind of label, isn?t it?
You could stick that on anything you don?t like, just like the term “liberal” is used in the US…
It defines the large media outlets that provide most of the information to the consumer such as ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN.
It’s rather descriptive and accurate, why do you think it is wishy washy?
Mmmmmh,
if you strictly define MSM by their target audience, the mainstream, it probably isn?t.
However, the more conservative posters here often use MSM in the same slightly derogatory way they would use the word “liberal” which makes me think the term MSM describes a certain way of reporting things and not just target audiences or market shares.
They define themselves as mainstream media. Market share being the most determining factor. A blog for example would not be considered mainstream.
Why do you think it is derogatory to refer to someone as a liberal? If I called you a liberal European would you be insulted?
I would not be insulted but I would have no idea what you mean…
I always thought of myself as a liberal, meaning I never wanted anyone to tell me how to live my private live or how to run a business.
In the US that would probably make me a moderate republican, though I would decribe myself as a libertarian to an American.
In Europe however, a neo-liberal is allmost a demonic entity, a conservative entrepreneur-type person that somehow does not understand that he should open and run a business to create jobs and to finace the welfare state and not to make some money… He should also follow all the rules and regulations while doing that, the entrepreneurial risk however is entirely his…
So, if I call myself a liberal European in Europe I would probably get attacked by people most American conservatives would call “liberals”.
From now on I shall be a “jeffersonian-minarchist” who believes in public schooling and basic public health services to level the playingfield.
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It does show how twisted some of our labels have become, doesn’t it?