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Main-stream (mayn-streem)
Main or current thought or behavior: the ideas, actions, and values that are most widely accepted by a group or society, e.g. in politics, fashion or music
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Since there is very little mainstream about the so-called mainstream media, it’s time for all of us to stop using such a misleading term – and come up with something new.
Is the New York Times or NBC News really mainstream when they ignore the Van Jones story?
Isn’t there something wrong when Glenn Beck, who doesn’t even pretend to be a journalist, scoops the “mainstream media” on all sorts of stories – from Van Jones to Acorn, to name just two recent examples?
The fact is there are lots of stories that Americans care deeply about that simply hold no interest for so-called mainstream journalists. I get the impression that if FOX News decides to run with a story that may, for example, reflect badly on President Obama or one that puts a spotlight on some liberal judge who let’s child molesters off with (barely) a slap on the wrist, the mainstream media won’t go near it. That may be regrettable, but I fear it’s true.
So, here’s where all of you come in. What term should we come up with to replace “mainstream media”?
I await your brilliant suggestions. Keep ‘em short.
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How about “urine stream media”? It’s production is hidden, yet it’s old stuff when it’s newly produced; it’s highly predictable, useless, and a waste material. It’s offensive, so you don’t want to keep it around–and there’s only one place to put it.
Left Behind Lagacy Media
Lapdog Legacy Media
Lazy Left Legacy Media
Dying Braindead Media
How ’bout “waste stream media”? The media today is mired in a cesspool of elitism and arrogance and seems pitifully out of touch with reality.
Hey Bernie — How about a summary of the suggestions so far? I’d like to see the scorecard.
Meanwhile, how about:
BIG MEDIA
oooooh scary!
You know, like BIG tobacco and BIG pharma. In the leftie lexicon BIG = BAAAAAD (except government of course, everyone know’s THAT’S different) so let’s just stick it right up their (a’hem) nose.
Pravda Press – Gets the point across, describes their politics pretty wel.
At one time in the distant past they were referred to as the Watchdog Media, but as these so called journalists began shaping the news to fit their enlightened (re liberal) thought process they have morphed into the;
LAPDOG MEDIA!
Wagging their tails and licking the faces of those who they should be scrutinizing, they have become as worthless even as dangerous as a guard dog who instead of protecting the property from intruders just sits and gives the burglar his paw…
On my daily Bombastic Blogcast, I refer to the “mainstream media” as “The Propaganda Ministry”. And once in a while, to accentuate my point, I’ll print a photo of an oil painting of Dr. Joseph Goebbels with the logos of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN underneath.
Mickey mouse media they are cartoons
“Lame-stream media.”
They are limping to the ratings finish line with one leg tied behand their hacks. Not to mention their stories *are* pretty lame….
(Not my original idea, but a term one of my fellow office workers used while chatting up the O’Reilly Show lats week.)
How about the Tri-Liberal Media. Keep up the level headed reporting. I’m always happy to watch you on Fox News.
I think they should be called the deadbeat media because they are so far behind they’ll never catch up.
The Puke Patrol — “All the Filfth That’s Fit to Print”
Hired-Hands Nitworks
Elba Island Broadcasting News Nitworks
The Benedict Arnold Crier
How ’bout this?
NewsRUs Media — gives it that playful, childish touch.
The Ex-Media
Old Media
Glen beck just got it right: FRINGE MEDIA
loosely connect to the heart of the nation, flapping their jaws in the wind, an embellishment to the liberals.
Left Fringe Media
Lazy dog media.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog….
Chambermaid media.
Or “chamber pot” media.
Why does everybody get this sentence wrong?
It’s, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
NOT “jumped”.
This is a sentence that can test the keyboard on a typewriter because it uses every letter. There’s no “s” if you type “jumped”.
Ed, your right. My mistake. And I typed “your” on purpose, too…. Everybody needs an editor!
In the IT field, where an application is being replaced by a new, improved and more powerful version, during the implementation phase, the dexisting, soon-to-be-replaced application is referred to as the ‘legacy’ application. I think the term applies very well to the media outlets formerly known as ‘mainstream’,
When Fox News opens up their evening TV shows with the hot ACORN story, which has huge financial and political implications, then I flip over to MSNBC to see what they open up with for comparison, which is the usual irrelevant slams on Joe Wilson, Fox News, Hannity, Limbaugh, Bush, Bernie Goldberg . . .
. . . all I can think of is there is RELEVANT news and IRRELEVANT news
MSNBC (and the others) clearly is irrelevant and just plays to their head-nodding liberal crowd with long winded irrelevant news topics, because they don’t even cover the top stories of the day. Joe Wilson is just a minor story, no matter how anyone feels about it politically. Their consistent irrelevant coverage shows that that their agenda is carefully planned out.
When Fox News opens up their evening TV shows with the hot ACORN story, which has huge financial and political implications, then I flip over to MSNBC to see what they open up with, which is the usual irrelevant slams on Joe Wilson, Fox News, Hannity, Limbaugh, Bush, Bernie Goldberg . . .
. . . all I can think of is there is RELEVANT news and IRRELEVANT news
MSNBC (and the others) clearly is irrelevant and just plays to their head-nodding liberal crowd with long winded irrelevant news topics, because they don’t even cover the top stories of the day. Joe Wilson is just a minor story, no matter how anyone feels about it. Their consistent irrelevant coverage shows that that their agenda is carefully planned out.
how about the “Has-Been Media” for a name?
Shamestream Media
I heard someone on radio the other day call them the “Lamestream media”. Don’t know if that’s already posted here, but I sure like it!
Mainstream propagandists.
Latest evidence is the ACORN story. When someone from an organization that receives federal money is caught on tape assisting someone that wants to set up a brothel staffed with underage girls, that should be the lead.
When something like that is ignored, the media ignoring it becomes an extension of an agenda. That is also called propaganda.
“The Mindless Midget Media.”
(Our daddies stood tall above the rest, but we drank too much Kool-Aid and along with global warming our brains and testicles have been shrunk.)
I wish to offer Bernie an analogy to use — when Obama was in Africa, he commented that Africa, at one time, had a higher per capata income than South Korea and now look at the situation — offering a couple of lame-brained excuses.
Here is my analogy — Africa is exactly like the Democratic party — made up of tribes, all fighting for the same resources. Example: unions, academia, gays, environmentalists, far left, moderates, athetists, ect. That is why Barach Obama cannot govern.
Instead of ‘mainstream media’:
1) PRAVDA U.S.A.
2) NewsGate
3) NewsRags (where applicable: Hags)
Submitted most humbly & appreciate such an important opportunity,
DL.Whitney
LV,NV 89117
P.S. Apologize, is this is not correct place to post suggestions. Heard Mr. Goldberg give his Website on The Factor to ‘contribute’ and which has taken couple days for me to find ‘you’. Thanks, again.
As we say in New Orleans… The faux media.
I think “Lame Stream Media” fits best and am not sure they even rise to that level.
SOS Media for Same Ole S**T Media
I like the name Ace came up with: Past Tense Media.
I wold call them Half truth media
for the alphabets (ABC, NBC, CBS) + nyt – the Gang of 4
1. Weak Stream Media.
2. Left Out Media
3. Osterich Media
Marionette Media
Instead of “mainstream,” I suggest “Fringe.” (Heard it first on Glen Beck).
The MIA Media.
“Establishment Media”
How about the “Titanic” media as in ship that couldn’t be sunk but nonetheless did?
The VainStream Media, or the LameStream Media,
Leftmost media OR
Leftover media OR
Liberal agenda media OR
network media (vs cable media)
Proud graduates of the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism, all.
Bernie – I think we should call them “The Samestream Media.”
How about “Lobotomy media’? The more you watch it, the stupider you get.
Bernie,
Three of the names I’ve been calling Mainstream Media (which I agree isn’t even remotely close),
are “State Run Media”, “Drive-by Media” and lately I’ve been calling it “Lap Dog Media”.
“State Run Media” – Of the Government, By the Government, For the Government.
“Drive-by Media” – Just ride by, spout something out, have no facts to back it up, and have only “unnamed sources”.
“Lap Dog Media” – In the lap (in the tank) of Obama and his cronies.
Keep up the good work. Keep the liberals straight.
Help us save our Republic.
Floyd Elliott
South Boston, Va. 24592
The Medium.
This emphasizes the “singularity” of their voice (they not “media,” they’re a “medium”) as well as the fact that they seem to be able to divine, like a seance medium, the hidden truth.
So simply, The Medium.
A lot of people are starting to use this one:
Antique Media
Pretty says it all: old, outdated, smells a little musty, covered in mildew, not much good for anything save rummaging through at the flea market.
Hey Bernie, when are you going to pass judgement on these 1200+ suggestions you asked for?
Antiques are often valuable and described as “fine,” so with all due respect Texas Pete, I think “Flea Market Media” is a better fit. There’s lots of worthless crap at flea markets.
Media Classic
How about Legacy Media? Big, costly, cumbersome, outdated, and unsustainable.
State Controlled (or State Run) Media
Dinosaur Media – Ponderous, Reptilian, with pea-sized brains, and soon to be extinct. But still dangerous until they are completely gone.