Media coverage affects war and economy
May 21st, 2008 by Republican By DefaultA couple of important posts on NewsBusters.Org.
First, a post about negative media coverage hurting the economy:
BMI’s Gainor: Media Negativity on Economy Hurts Consumer Confidence
Dan Gainor, Vice President for the Business & Media Institute, blamed part of people’s gloomy perception of the economy on the “constant drumbeat” of negativity coming from the news media.
Previously on 5views.com on this topic:
More evidence that the media influences economic trends
Media misreporting economic news to influence elections?
Next is the impact of media coverage on the war in Iraq (from The O’Reilly Factor via NewsBusters.Org):
Lt. General Sanchez Slams Media’s Iraq Coverage on FNC
During the interview, Sanchez conveyed his disapproval at the mainstream media’s coverage of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. When O’Reilly contended that the “New York Times and the liberal media” “went wild over Abu Ghraib” to “humiliate the Bush administration,” Sanchez agreed: “To a large extent, you’re absolutely right, because that is reflected in some of the questioning and some, obviously, in the press reports that occurred … I believe that, in fact, we create the strategic defeat for America to a large extent by the way that we cover it in the press.”
It’s been shown repeatedly that such coverage emboldens our enemies and discourages voters in our country leaving our troops caught in the middle. If it weren’t for Fox News and the blogosphere journalism would be dead in America. All we would have is the left’s propaganda machine that alters it’s coverage to drive a political agenda.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
The media does indeed paint a really gloomy picture of the economy. Steve Peasley at http://blog.investtalk.com has a similar sentiment.
Seen here http://investtalk.hitfastforward.com/?p=54
“This morning the only economic news that was released was the leading economic indicators for April. It was up .1% when expectations were for it to be flat or slightly down. That is the second month in a row that it rose .1%. That is a very small number but when the media is constantly telling us how bad things are, with housing prices falling like a stone and gas prices rising like a rocket ship, the average consumer would be shocked to know that our economy is actually still growing.”