"Mainstream Media" Must Go!
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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.
Short URL: http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/?p=520
The current race bait scam known as Journolist is another Vast Nifong Media Scam. Its an obvious example of how the Nifong Media attacks non-democrats with fake racism accusations.as a way to aid and abet democrats.
NAZI media or NAZI News Media reflects how the media is controlled by the state – the socialist democrats. Long ago prominent communists said they would take control of the US media and now they have. The democtat run media publishes propaganda instead of truth. Socialists, Marxists, Communists have always resorted to propaganda and lies. When the ends justify the means as Marxists claim, then truth, ethics, murder, morality, don’t matter. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others demonstrated it repeatedly. Has the USA forgot WW2, Hitler, the NAZI party, Stalin? The world should not have to learn this lesson yet again.
Socialist Media or Democrat Socialist Media is an appropriate name because the left wing media promote the same things as Obama and the democrats. Obama surrounds himself with socialists like Van Jones. The socialist media and democrats are roots of the same socialist hemlock plant. The media in the USA has become like that of communist nations – controlled by the state, the democrat arm of the state.
Just finished reading a lot of these new name ideas for the left wing media. I vote for nifong news media NNM. The way big media is always trying to play race cards for the dems is just like what Nifong did to get elected by using the Duke lacrosse players as race bait. The NNM and career race baiter Al Sharpton even helped provide a national platform for Nifong to launch his initial accusations against the lacrosse players..
i personally just call them the lamestream media and let it go at that.
Nifong media describes it best. The nifong media hushes up even the biggest story if it doesn’t support democrat politics.
Yeah, thats it – nifong media. The nifong media helps democrats with all the race bait games. Without the nifong media helping them, the democrats couldn’t play the race card effectively.
In view of the fact that the national lamestream media have gone from mere bias to outright intellectual corruption (as you have noted on O’Reilly), I suggest that we change their name to “shamestream media.”
BN
Sorry to get off-topic, but Mr. Goldberg, I saw your appearance on O’Reilly tonight. You were commenting about ABC – the Disney-owned broadcast network – paying that horrible baby-killing Casey Anthony $200,000 for exclusive rights to videos and so on, and you made the ironic comparison between ABC and Disneyland. All I can say is, the irony is all too appropriate, because it’s clear that Disney isn’t Walt’s company anymore. It is utterly bereft of his spirit, moral fiber, and class. You think the Anthony incident was outrageous, well get this: Disney has hired Jason Segal to write and direct a movie. In Segal’s last movie he exposed himself on-screen. And what movie did Disney hire him to write and direct? A Muppet movie. Seriously, should a guy who exposes his “junk” for laughs be writing, directing and starring in a children’s film? What’s wrong with this picture?
Bernie,
I was glad to hear you say that the political correctness is out of control, with regard to the use of the word, “retarded.” As much as I am pained to ever defend a Democrat, and if it were a Republican they would have been lambasted, the word “retarded” is not a slur. Everybody is looking for a reason to be offended.
Also, tell Las Vegas and its mayor to quit being so sensitive when Obama says, “Don’t blow your money in Vegas.”
So many crybabies.
Keep up the good work.
Frank
Atascadero, CA
I agree with you 100% But it’s funny that political correctness, long espoused by the far left, comes back to bite them on the butt!! On the other hand, the right has to be careful not to protest too much as they did in the Harry Ried “negro” statement, as we start to sound like a bunch of shreiking harpies. As usual, Bernie is “right on” again!
Franco57
Lake Tahoe CA
The mainstream media should be referred to as :”Fox News. Conservative propaganda for weak minds.”
…in reference to “mainstream media”…except for Fox that tells about everything, the rest are ridiculous if it`s a negative story about Obama or any appointees, who tend to be corrupt…the Messiah syndrome…in reality, it`s a minority with a checkered past who may not be who he says he is…they attack only Conservatives…ridiculous ! …their job is to report news, honestly…that`s it…end of story ! i call it the BBC…the Baby `Bama Chronicles
…wanted to make sure i commented on last nite on O`Reilly-1/4/10, Mon. …Bill asked you what do you think when referring to Eric Holder and New Gingrich…Newt just smiled after Bill closed…you said the same thing as Newt did on Holder…you and Newt hit it right on the head…i liked your explanation better when pointing to Bill`s family…i liked your answer so well, i re-played a couple of times…Bill says often he was schooled at Harvard…maybe he was…he sure sounds stupid sometimes…you always make sense, Bernie…just keep pounding Bill with the facts on this corrupt administration ! …you`re doing a fantastic job !
Bernie:
I appreciate your use of the term “lame-stream media”, a term I coined more than three years ago in letters to Bill O’Reilly and other news sites.
That phrase, along with the description of our legislators as “obscene congress-critters” explains how we may have gotten into this mess we now face.
The lame-stream media wouldn’t report the shortcomings of the annointed one, such as his complete lack of experience in running anything-not even a lemonade stand, total lack of foreign affairs experience-except living and schooling in muslim countries, getting a “foreign student grant” to attend Occidental College as “Barry Soetoro”, his ties to unsavory characters, many of whom he has now taken into the White House as “advisors” and appointees to run this country into the ground.
No, No! they were too busy feeling that “tingle up my leg”.
Our obscene congress-critters have determined that the “Constitution” is an optional instrument and that “we the people” are too stupid to know what we want and need. Somewhere is lost the meaning of the Constitution that government shall be “of the people, by the people and for the people”. Those rascals fail to see that they work for us and doggone it, the voters aren’t able to see or willing to realize where they are leading us and put a stop to it.
Go Green, recycle congress! Throw the bums out. Veto them, vote ‘em totally out.
The media machine will always exist because their business model is not based on expected business principles. They serve a purpose; being the espousing of political beliefs to further one’s cause ( meaning, the owner’s cause ). No matter how unfathomable the approach, the goal is to brainwash the masses.
A brief reflection of history readily reveals other times when the “media” served a purpose besides informing the public. It’s daily propaganda folks. I watch Fox News and yes, they do the same thing from time to time. ” Believe none of what you read…”
hey man, i just watch ur commentary about the guy who holds the most guniess book of world records for stuff like pogo stick jumping etc… I just want to say that you came across as very condecending toward that man. Why were you constantly implying he was crazy? Did he make you feel insecure? And why did you tell him during the fireman carry, “if you drop me, you’re a dead man.” ??? You just came across as a very affraid, insecure old man…..sorry, but you did end it nicely. I suggest you read a book call by G.K. Chesterson called Man Alive, the main character is Mr. Innocent Smith. Read it. Trust me, you need to. I love you….joel;)
Bernie,…you are brilliant,…I feel refreshed after listening to your comentary. Thank you for all that you do. I also love listening to Bill Oreilly, Juan Williams and Charles Crautmayer.
How in the world can Obama admin ignore Fox News? They treat foxnews like the obsene phone caller,..by just hanging up.
close-minded one sided media;
Mouthpiece Media
Soledad O’Brien is such a phony. In April 2008, Reverend Jeremiah Wright gave a speech in Detroit to the NAACP. One of the things that he said in this speech was that black and white children learn with different parts of their brain, and then gave an “unflattering imitation of the way white pastors speak.” Peoples comments were that he gave a racial speech. Soledad O’Brien, on CNN, was quoted as saying, in a gushing manner, that the speech was a “home run” and “really funny.” When questioned about the things he said in the speech, she would say things like, what he really meant was …..or what he wanted to say was… Once again she’s covering the truth and being racist. Just as with the Henry Gates incident. In an appearance on Anderson Cooper, the night or so before CNN’s “The Moment of Truth” she appeared enraged that it was a racial profile against Gates. She said that she got calls from her FRIENDS saying it was all about Gates being black. She went on that show with the purpose, at all costs, to destroy the credibility of the white police officer and throw him under the bus. When Cooper was talking she wanted to make the point that Gates said “Thank You” to the police officers. By mentioning that, she was purposely misrepresenting the truth by playing down Gates’ belligerence and racial remarks, which she didn’t even mention. Even Gates’ attorney and friend, said to the media that he used very strong language. Colon Powell and President Obama both said he should take blame in the incident. I have seen this in many occasions with her, where she doesn’t speak the truth and hides the true facts. Another time on Anderson Cooper, Cooper said to O’Brien that Senator John McCain hasn’t brought race into the campaign, like he said he wouldn’t. You would think her response would have been something like, that’s great because he shouldn’t. Instead she strongly insinuated that he would, even in the last week of the campaign. Also, her questioning style, in interviews is completely different with a white person than it is with a black person. Like in her interview with Henry Gates in “The Moment of Truth” She just went along with his lies. I have seen several comments on various websites about her racism. There are many other examples I could give of her racial bias, dishonesty and hypocrisy. She seems to consider herself to be black. She mentioned in an interview that her parents made it clear to her “you’re black” and that’s all there is to it.
She’s all about being #1, she wants the world to revolve around her. She comes first, before her family. She wants to be a celebrity figure and a star. In interviews she says she works 6 days a week, mostly out of town, and on some holidays. She goes to gala events, concerts, lots of entertainment events, as a single woman, leaving her husband and kids behind.
I think Soledad O’Brien is a very poor journalist. What ever happened to the days of CNN with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff? They were honorable journalists. You could believe what they said.
I think, since they have so little to do with “news” anymore (at least, the kind of “news” I was taught to gather and report), we just call them the “entertainment” media.
In fact, the so-called “mainstream” has had very little to do with the way “mainstream” life really is since the demise of “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Mayberry R. F. D.” I mean, really – Federal or Military investigators behave exactly nothing like those in “NCIS” or “CSI: Miami.” And Eric Kripke is going straight to Hell for “Supernatural.” How is any of that “mainstream?”
Until such time as one of these so-called news organizations reports on the facts of a story on a regular basis, they’ll simply be the “entertainment” media to me.
How about alphabet media (ie: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC). I was thinking that lately they act almost like a arm of our government just like the alphabet Federal law enforcement agencies do.
Regarding your Sept. 29 O’Reilly appearance.
I was disappointed in your “superior journalist”, above it all, criticism of the likes of Glen Beck and Sean Hannity, and bewildered at your taking issue with the “grass roots, cross section of America” description of the Tea Party participants. I have been to 6 or 7 rallies against government controlled health care and can assure you that “grass roots” is a very appropriate term for them. They are wonderful, sensible, logical, good humored, average Americans united by their refusal to give up their freedom to exercise control over decisions about their own health and that of their loved ones. These are people who are not accustomed to public demonstrations, and who for the most part would rather be anywhere else than to be on the street holding up signs. These are trying times and no one is more frustrated than the average American who is losing freedom and watching America’s greatness so carelessly and deliberately disgarded.
We are being insulted and dismissed by Congress, disparaged by the Left Wing media, and now YOU? I thought you were a champion of truth, and logic. My mistake.
If this downward spiral into Socialism is thwarted at all, (and at this point, it doesn’t look good) we can thank the likes of Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Ingraham, and in fact, the entire Fox Network. A little “cheerleading” is certainly in order right now, and a lot of prayers.
What were you thinking? While I’m no big fan of O’Reilly, I have been one of yours. I don’t understand your acrimony. You must be carrying a big grudge. What can you be thinking?
Disappointed in you,
Rosalie M
Ditto to ypu Rosalie!
When do you think Fox will start hocking “We’re #1″ foam fingers on their website? I would like to buy one for a Vandy proctologist.
Take 2: How about magalomania media?With best regards
Hey Mr. G.
How about:
* junk journalists or junk journalism
* relic reporters
* medieval media
*museum media
*moldy media or
* musty media
The (not) Main Stream Media…call it what it is…the Lap Dog Media.
Mr. Goldberg
I have been suggesting to leading conservative bloggers that they use the acronym LSM (i.e. Left Stream Media) for some time, but I have not been very successful. I am glad that you and Glenn Beck have hit upon this. The more I hear Glenn Beck refer to those biased media outlets as the Fringe Media or FM, the more I like it. They are definitely on the fringe. So I choose LSM or FM. FM can also mean the F*****g Media on those days when they tell the big whopping lies.
Regards,
Zaz
To expand on my earlier suggestion (that the “mainstream media” should be called the urine stream media), I proposed that because:
* Urine is not significantly representative of our overall existence.
*In fact, urine is one of the most unappealing aspects of our existence.
*Urine contains formulations that will harm you if retained.
*If you think about urine very much, you are or will become (if you’re not somebody like a medical researcher), as nutty as Jimmy Carter or one of his peanut fields.
I call it the Pravda Media
Other, less earthy suggestions: side-show media, cotton-candy media, or polluted stream media.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany time you wwwwwwwwwatch these stupid networks are read the
NYT you fill like you will choke and puke,,,,
How about the—–
Choke and Puke Media…
I simply refer to them as the Mythoholic Media. Like deluded drug addicts they keep denying reality and screaming for more of the same government poison that is causing the illness.
New names for old “mainstream” media: Unfair-to-middling media
Liberty hating Liberal Media ; Socialized Media
Freedom hating control-freak media
Obsolete, Mediocre Media
Old fashioned Obsolete Media
Out dated obsolete Media
Past its prime time media
shallow sophomoric media
irrelevant media
senile media
I would call the formerly, and far from it, mainstream media, the PANTS ON FIRE media, because it acknowledges the lies, refers to pants as in heavy breathing, and could explain the tingles up Chris Matthews leg.
How about “Minion Media”?
Bernie,
Sorry to be late on this subject.
I call the “mainstream media” DMOP, for “Democrat Ministry of Propaganda.”
I think that’s accurate, and is easy to remember.
On a separate subject: If you know someone who produces bumper stickers, how about one with BO’s stylized “O” logo, followed by “ceania” – spelling “Oceania. The Socialist police state of “1984.”
I’d buy a bumper sticker like that in a New York second!
Thanks.
Richard M. Wright
The mainstream media should now be ‘The White House Water Boys’ or ‘Water Boys’, for short.
The mainstream media should now be referred to as: “The White House Water Boys”
Along with the Steam Media
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.
“No news for me, if it comes from the big three”
The Legacy Media (legacy in information tech refers to outmoded but still usable technology like mainframes that are slowly fading away as new technologies take their place). I think that describes the “MSM” – fading, useful at times but destined to be replaced by newer more agile models.
Let’s cut right to the chase and call them what they are “The Liberal Media.”
“Mainstream Mentalists” in honor of Maureen Dowd who “heard” Joe Wilson say, “You lie, boy.”
Or, instead of the regular use of “network news” as opposed to cable news, how about “nitwork news?” It has a kind of ring to it.
I have been going with Blew Dress Media, after Clinton paid tribute on his #1 fan’s blue dress, likewise, the media are all Obama’s #1 fans and would love to be so tributed.
Mouthpiece for Social Media
MSM
I’m calling them the “Downstream” Media…the bear having pooped in the stream, which is obvious to anyone paying attention.
Any cub scout or brownie can tell you, go upstream; downstream, the water’s polluted.
I like “managed media.” It has an alliterative quality about it.
Can you say “Chapter 11″ or “Chapter 13 Media?”
BwaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
It could happen!
The Pompous Press! They are arrogant and self-important.
We have a winner……hahahahahahahahah LOL ROFL
the irrelevants
Past Tense Media
Legacy Media. Seen this one floating around the ‘sphere.
Sergeant Schultz Media: “I knows nothing!”
chicken meatiaheads (sorry peta – but chickens are supposed to be the dumbest animals!)
“Left Stream Media” (LSM)
Dead Media
Won’t Report, We’ll Decide Media
It will infuriate the other guys. It is the antonym of Fox’s “We Report, You Decide”. It will remind them of who is cleaning their clock every time it is spoken.
converter box news
As one who has been called a “teabagger”. I would suggest:
felchers
This is the best suggestion here, y’all. Look it up on Urban Dictionary if you doubt it.
LEFTstream media.
The other names are funny, BUT they don’t convey that the “media” are almost wholly Leftist. And that’s their fundamental flaw. And why they’re such a distorting, destructive force in our nation.
MAKE-ME-SCREAM MEDIA
BLAME SCHEME MEDIA
LAME SCHEME MEDIA
MALADJUSTED MEDIA
Missing Stories Media
Buggy-whip Media.
Refers to the buggy whip manufacturing companies that went out of business with the advent of the automobile. Also alludes to attempts by some in the buggy-whip media to have the government prop up their industry in the face of falling demand for their services.
Along these lines, “Model T Media” would apply too!
STATE-RUN MEDIA takes the prize. Short, succinct, and precise. Rush is always right!
MALA FIDE MEDIA
(mala fide is Latin: “with or in bad faith”; “pretended, not genuine, sham”)
“The Fishwrap of Record” By Michelle Malkin
Lamestream media – 100% fact and information free.
“If we don’t like the real news, we make it up!”
I propose “Ditto media” because they just say the same things and all seem to come from a single source: Obama & his hucksters & puppetmasters.
Obamamites: Termites eating away at our country’s freedom
For the replacement of mainstream media: dam-the-stream media
Ace at Ace of Spades HQ coined “past-tense media” for their uncanny ability to pick up a hot story only after the consequences have played out.
Passe Press?
Ex-Media?
Megalo-Media?
Bygone Byliners?
Posterity Posters?
Poltergeist Press?
Pushing-Up-Daisies-Yet-Still-Propping-Up-Dems Press?
Network Narcissists?
Disreputable Derelicts?
Bankrupt Broadcasters?
Insignificant Ink?
Trivial Tripesters?
“rigor mediatis”
Isvestia? (Nah, it’s old.)
What about “Gonzo Media?” At least Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (the original “Gonzo Journalist”) was honest; “Don’t let the facts obscure the ‘truth’.”
We shouldnt name them anything. Ignore them. It is obvious that the “new” media can move stories. The “new” media can organize and make things happen. The “new” media get better ratings. So yes, dont worry whether or not they will cover stories America wants to see and hear about, quite giving them space. IGNORE them, we dont need them. They dont have the ratings to stand on anyways so its not like they can hold power or sway over any other median. Its their fault. We fell for it in the last election and we lost because of it when the “mainstream” kept telling us that the conservative movement was over, we start to believe it. They said Palin was only pulling a couple of hundred people at her rallies, come to find out it was ten to twenty thousand per rally. We fell for it. NO MORE. They are irrelevant now.
The statist media.
How about “Obsolete Media”?
The name that I would use to replace the Mainstream Media is the Antique Media. There’s fresh, new or even objective about them. Everything they a spout is old news. Use it!
I forgot the word nothing. I’m up to late
Here’s another good one:
“EFFETE MEDIA” Margaret Mitchell knew what words to use!
Left Wing Media
My name for ‘elite’ journaljizm is The Fellatio Media. After all, they’d know about teabaggers.
I propose we start using the name, Legacy Media. This is borrowed from the information technology (IT) field. In IT, a legacy system refers to a program using obsolete code running on an old and obsolete technology. In my practice, legacy systems were always first in priority for replacement with something newer and better. Extending this analogy to journalism, Legacy Media would thus refer to organizations using obsolete paradigms for news gathering and reporting and utilizing old and obsolete methods for filtering and packaging the news product. I’ll leave it to the readers of your blog to figure out what the “newer and better” replacement is. It should be obvious by now.
After listening to your discussion with O’Reilly on the subject, we came up with the perfect term – “The Irrelevant Media”. The word “mainstream” denotes representative of the majority of the population, and these individuals certainly no longer perform that duty. Few of us read their words with anything but distrust, fewer of us listen to their evening news propaganda. All we have to do is see a byline of these individuals or source of the wire story and we know the slant and the synopsis. We get our real information from a wide variety of sources, none of them associated with CBS, NBC, NYT, etc. In our world, those sources have simply become irrelevant.
The Irrelevant Media. That’s what they are in our lives.
Hello fellow Alaskans (Interior Alaska here). It’s interesting our comments were one after the other. I do like Irrelevant, and I agree with your sentiments.
I sent this to O’Reilly after seeing you, Mr. Goldberg, on his show on 9/15. I think the name should be “zombie” media. After all, they’re dead; they just don’t know it.
The Mainstream Media (MSM) is no more. Their new title should be, Media Czars (or MC’s for short).
A lot of good ideas here. We have decided for the purposes of our blog to use the term “Old School Media” to refer to progressively-biased, far-left media organizations such as MSNBC and the New York Times.
NO NO NO! “Old School” refers to the GOOD old days, when tradition and the tried and true rules of society ruled. Old is the new new! Google it, dude!
The ObamaGate Media
Bernie, have admired you since way back when in your CBS days. Best of the pack! Loved ALL your books too. Keep up the great work, Sir.
How about, ‘Lame Brain Media’
How about a take on the “Mainstream Media” propaganda arm…..Media Matters and
call it “Doesn’t Matter Media”
Won’t Report, We’ll Decide Media
It will infuriate the other guys. It is the antonym of Fox’s “We Report, You Decide”. I t will remind them of who is cleaning their clock every time it is spoken.
Radical Chic Media.
name.. ” Old Media”
How about………
“8-TRACK MEDIA” – –used to be a “must have” but so outdated and useless today.
Thanks,
Patti in PA
Great name for Mainstream media:
How about LEFTstream Agend-i-a!
Mr. Goldberg , just a couple more names,this makes me fill like i may be getting even for all the crap they have forced down our throat…
1..’A dime a dance media”
2..’Song and dance media”
3..’No bells,No books,No candle media”
I catch most of your guest shots on Mr. O’s shows, you are greatly appreciated for your straight foward commentary…..
In Orwell’s “1984,” the protagonist works at the department for Newspeak–The Ministry of Truth–abbreviated by George Orwell as “Minitruth.” If we call today’s corruptocrats the “Minitruth Media” it will describe precisely what they represent.
How about the “mudstream media”?
AXIS Media – All Xtreme Ideologies Serviced Media
I forgot one: instead of CYA — we all know what this means — how about CDA Media:
“Cover Dems A**” Media
Beck just named your suggestion perfectly! “The Fringe Media!”
Oh, from someone retired from northern New Jersey to the mountains of WNC five years ago, I believe I am correct in saying to you Bernie, “Welcome to the area.” Be sure to visit the Corner Kitchen.
Webmaster
freedomisknowledge.com/
http://www.freedomisknowledge.com/
NYNW- Not Your News Media
and multicultural variants:
Not Yo News
Not Youse News
Nacho News
Not Yall’s News
I like that Nacho News thing.
NOTE (and an aside) Matt Damon’s movie, The Informant, came out today. Remember how he savaged Sarah Palin in an interview during the campaign last year? Turns out “Everyman” is an elitist after all.
I’ll pass on the film. Free Speech cuts both ways.
WOMS -Wimp Out Media Service
Down here in the South a small, insignificant stream is called a branch. Since the bias and one sided reporting of the mainstream media has made their audiences smaller and their value insignifiant to a great many Americans and not worthy of being called “mainstream”, I suggest “The Liberal Branch Media”.
MIAM – Missing In Action Media
How about Lame Stream media
Down The DrainStream Media
Won’t Report, Will Decide Media
Won’t Report, We’ll Decide Media
We won’t report, We will decide Media
State run media
Perhaps you’d get more descriptive responses if you ask the question differently.
What name should we give shows like Springer and Maury?
Now you’ll find your answer to the MSM question. (Giggle)
My votes: Amateur Hour (replaces 60 Minutes)
I think a very appropriate name would be “The Ostrich Media.” They like to ignore things no matter how dangerous they might be.
The Daydream Media
A2/D2 – Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Media
What Happened? Media
Huh? Media
We won’t report – We will decide Media Media
Useful Idiots Media
Dems our our Pals Media
Protect the Liberals Media.
They are the…
HATE Media.
They HATE us for being conservative — that’s why they sneer at us.
They HATE America for being racist — or they should, because they certainly think America is animated by racism.
They HATE people in flyover country.
They HATE the south.
They HATE freedom — they must, they constantly support government taking our freedoms away.
Big Media.
The left uses “big” to contrast them against the powerful forces they want to fight: “Big Oil”, “Big Business”, “Big Pharm”, etc. So use it against them and it fits. The left wing media is huge compared to those on the right. And it’s simple and direct, gets the message across. Use “Big Media” as in “Bad Media”.
“Big Media”. I’ve long advocated “Big Media” rather than MSM, which sounds too, well, mainstream.
Simple, call them what they are:
LSM Left Stream Media.
Most of the country has known it for years. Liberal, progressive thinking is “Left.”
The Classic Liberals have long gone but even so “left” of center would fit them also.
The Biased Media
The Hidden Agenda Media
THe Narrow Minded Media
The Lost Media
The Alice In Wonderland Media
The Novice Media
The State Run Media
Mr. Goldberg,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to weigh in on one of the most important issues of our time – the dissemination by the press of critical information which we, the citizen, use to make informed decisions about representative democracy and the people we elect to safeguard it.
The media is dead – long live the media………………………..
My recommendation is strait-forward, descript and apropos………………………………
The old media is now the D-O-W-N-S-T-R-E-A-M Media. Why?
First – they take their philosophical and ideological orders from upstream. So editors and owners are not reporting the news, they are making it. Facts fall prey to censorship of left wing ideology.
Second – just like a real river in a 3rd world country, the water (or information) you get downstream can be filled with who knows what by the time you get it. You will not be ‘drinking’ fresh water from the source. I have been in a third world country and seen the devastating results of this.
Adulterated, Adulterous, contaminated, corrupt and approaching irrelevancy – - D-O-W-N-S-T-R-E-A-M is the word for what the old media has become.
The covert, cognative dissonance, cult, ad hominen, ad nauseum, Goebbels, bandwagon, glittering generalities, intentional vagueness, labeling, guilt-by-association, groupthink, oversimplification, out-of-context, rationalization, red-hearring, scapegoating, stereotyping, transference, unstated assumption, manufactured consent, indoctrination, evolving theory, theory and practice, marxist praxis, dialectic process, conditioning, brain fog, communist psychological warfare media.
Axis of Media
Willfully Blind Media
The Downstream Media
Err America
How about calling MSM… 1) “Comedy Central” That’s already taken? How about 2) “Liars and the lying lies they tell” No?? How about 3) “Weasels R Us”
Ok, that’s all I got…
Special Interest Media
ObamMedia
Bernie,
Refer to MSM as, are you ready?, the “LEGACY MEDIA”.
Legacy is a term used to describe products & technologies which are DEAD, but haven’t yet gone away. I promise you they will hate this term!!!
Steve
PS: I submitted this suggestion to foxnews.com/oreilly and billoreilly.com yesterday.
How about The Soon To Be Extinct Media, The Former Mainstream Media, The Totally Irrelevant Media, The Head In The Sand Media, The How Can You Not Totally Idolize Barack Obama Media, or The I Never Heard Of ACORN Before Media.
The see-no-hear-no-speak-no media
Newspeak Media is maybe best one so far. Misinformation and leftist bias is implicit in this name.
Political correctness is kind of newspeak. It attempts to expunge certain concepts that are contrary to the materialist ideaology of liberalism/socialism/progressivism.
An example would be the concept of RIGHT and WRONG or MORALITY, TRUTH or SPIRITUALITY.
They eradicate the concept from human conscience by extirpating the FORBIDDEN words and FORBIDDEN facts.
May I suggest this appropriate name for the former mainstream media:
DEADWOOD Media
Deadwood (paper)
Deadwood (useless)
Deadwood (an overweight drag or hindrance on the issues of the day)
Politically Correct Media (isn’t this obvious?)
This one’s easy:
“The Old Government Media”
1) Government controlled media
2) Dinosaur media
3) Horse buggy media
4) Bought and paid-for news
“The Invisible Press”
“Vein Stream Media”
“American Pravda”
“Lapdogs With Laptops”
Even have a motto:
“All The News To Print That Fits”
May I suggest “LameStream Media?”
You are so correct in pointing out that “main stream” does not define the major media, with only a few exceptions. How about Far Left Media…initials FLM.
(If pronounced sounds like “phlegm”…Yuck, sure does fit!)
“agenda driven media” or how about just “former mainstream media”
Since the mainstream media (oops) is foregoing its responsibility as the fourth estate should we reconsider the protections that it has. What’s hapened to “who, what, where, and why” journalism. My paper here – the St. Petersburg Times has become a complete rag. The friggin’ headlines are even spun!
“Last Resort Media”
“tingly leg” media
Laughed out loud. Wheres Chris Mathews when you need him!?
Dinosaur Media. (True, it’s not original. But it fits so well.)
Dinosaurs are long extinct, despite “ruling” earth for ages; in a decade or two, the Media Formerly Known As Mainstream will be extinct too, though some media remnants will of course carry on some dinosaur DNA.
They are the ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA.
Got that, all of you with the Question Authority bumper-stickers?
How about Triple L: Left-Leaning Loonies?
UMN Useless Media News
or
UNM Useless News Media
SLIPSTREAM Media
slipstream (definition): 1) a stream of fluid or air driven aft by a propeller, 2) an area of reduced air pressure and forward suction immediately behind a rapidly moving vehicle.
The (formerly) MAINSTREAM Media no longer seeks the truth, but rather propagates “the truth”. It is driven by Liberal initiatives, or, if you will, sucked along by them.
Furthermore, SLIPstream is a minor, yet significant, modification to the term MAINstream, thus providing a link to the past.
SLIPSTREAM Media
. . . and, oh yes, they’re slippery.
Mr. Goldberg,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to weigh in on one of the most important issues of our time – the press’ obligation to disseminate critical information the public can use to make informed decisions about their country and representative government.
There is a changing of the guard to those who will report facts regardless of philosophical or ideological slant.
My recommendation is strait-forwad, descript and appropos………………………………
The old media is now the D-O-W-N-S-T-R-E-A-M Media. Why?
First – they take their orders from philosophical and ideological orders from upstream.
2nd – just like a real river in a 3rd world country, the water (or information) you get downstream can be very putrid by the time you get it.
I’ve been on a mission trip to Haiti and it is horrible to see people bathing and drinking the adulterated filth that come from upstream.
Adulterated, corrupt, ideological and DOWNSTREAM is the word for it.
“Kool Aide” media.
One more:
The Last Century Media
Could be modified to:
The SO Last Century Media
How about “TASS” – it worked for the “Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union”, back when they were the official outlet of all news approved for consumption by the proleteriat.
In this case, it would stand for “True Advocates (for a) Socialist State”
“Second String Media” or “Second Strand Media” because they are the opposite terms of what they claim to be.
The opposite or counter to “Main” is a “Secondary” or “Second”…
The opposite of a “Stream” of anything is a mere “String” or “Strand”
Just like the second string scrubs on a losing “over 40″ softball team… dressing up in a brand new uniform, $250 shiney new spikes, a $ 125 bat, flip down sun glasses, a bag full of sports bars and energy drinks etc… LOL… and they never get in the game. They huddle in a corner of the dugout and compare their latest new batting gloves and various other accesories…. never to be used in real play.
Go sit in the stands losers.. watch as others with skill and talent play the game. Or, try something usefull, like coming down early and raking the infield, putting out the bases, wiping down the bleachers so the jocks girlfriends can sit in comfort…. but stop pretending.
Journalist Free Media
I submit: Secular-Progressive Sycophants
to replace the antiquated moniker of ‘mainstream media’.
Here’s my two sense about a new name for the mainstream media:
The Dinosaur Media
Old, Out of Touch, and Soon-to-Be Extinct
I am going to stick with “Ostrich”.
Thanks for all you do in informing the people.
I call them the lickspittle press.
I suggest:
Old Line Legacy Media
Left Behind Leftist Media
I had a wiaerd experiance with Time Warner Cable in Raleigh NC. I was watching Megan Kelly as she was anounsing what is going to be in her Kelly’s court segment and the Emergency Signal drill went off on TV . Then when she started the real segment they stopped the whole cable. She was supposed to talk about the bus beating – I believe somebody at Time Warner made sure we don’t see Kelly’s court – bus beating edition – must be investigated.
propganda pundits, progressive pundits, insane stream media.
Not having seen all the 1,100 comments preceding this one (THAT must be some kind of record!) I submit the following in case it hasn’t been submitted previously:
Mainly Seditious Media
One advantage to this term is that we don’t have to change the initials (MSM).
I believe Rich Lowery termed it “Legacy Media” yesterday on NRO.
HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA.
THAT SAYS IT ALL….
PROPAGANDA PAPPARAZZI
Propaganda press
I suggest “Elitist media.” It ain’t catchy, but it’s accurate: A media of, by and for the two-coast “elite” crowd, effectively ignoring the vastness of Middle America, just as did that famous New Yorker cover depicting America as comprised of: Manhattan, San Francisco, and nothing but empty wilderness between.
In 1971 I took a communications course at the University of Alabama. The professor, who I thought at the time was insane, told us that the news media would cover only the news they wanted us to hear, and would report the news in a way to make us believe what they wanted us to believe. Now I realize how insightful that professor was.
Because the mainstream media has such a hold over news outlets, maybe they are the “main stream” of what we are allowed to hear, but I would prefer we label them for what they are, “the liberal approach news”.
Bernie, Still think Lame Stream Media is the best!
Legacy Media seems to work best.
MSM is the mendacious strongarm media.
Careful, Bernie. You evidently can’t oppose liberal tenets (such as irresponsible government spending) anymore without being a racist bigot.
“Archaic media”
“Predigital media”
I think we should just refer to the media as “Moe, Larry, and Curly”.
DMC – Democrat Media Complex
LMC – Liberal Media Complex
PMC – Progressive Media Complex
yellow belly journalism
State-run Media is pretty accurate.
They call you the “Right Wing Media” and pretend they are mainstream, which then can be misleading to the casual listener. They want the pretense that THEY are mainstream, and YOU are extreme to the Right.
I think you have to tag them with “Left Wing Media” very directly.
I believe “Old Media” says it best…short,sweet and to the point.
“Honesty is Not Going to get you the (White) House” Media
Loc News Media
Loc = Left of Center
sort of sounds like “Loch Ness Monster”, and like their obective journalism, very few people have seen it except for a few nut jobs.
BLIND EYE MEDIA
“Mega Media”
There’s something classless about the term, yet it exemplifies how they feel about themselves. It’s also born out of the only reason left for their existence, that they are part of and funded by each network’s regular and sports programming, the only thing that is really watched by the “mainstream public” anymore.
NTSHM-Nothing-to-see-here-media!
My new name for the mainstream media is the — ” NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME NEWS ” players and papers .
Mr. Goldberg:
THANK YOU for your unwavering support against the forces of the LEFT. The country faces
a terrible evil now, and we need patriots and clear-minded people like yourself.
With respect to your question about a new term to call the “mainstream media”, please
consider the following:
” Irrelevant Media ”
As a person who attended the Washington, D.C. Tea Party protest last Saturday, many
folks believe the media (other than FOX) to be completely complicit with those on the left.
Therefore, they are irrelevant to clear-thinking and conservative folks.
Thank you Mr. Goldberg for your ideas. We need you !
John Magg
jmaggs27@hotmail.com
Mainstream News Suppressors
I agree that mainstream media no longer applies and two references that come to mind are:
“Meathead Media” and “Minimal Media”. It’s interesting to note that some of my neighbors HAVE SWITCHED TO FOXNEWS AFTER I had told them of some of the news being reported on FOX and not the “Meathead Media”. They told me that they switched because FOX was the only outlet that told it like it is!!!!! And those folks were diehard NBC and ABC watchers!!!!
At IUSB Vision we call them the “Elite Media Culture”.
My name for the old MSM – the Irrelevant Media.
I believe in the KISS principle, Keep It Simple Stupid, therefore, I humbly submit the following: Lame Stream Media.
I have not read all of the posts so please excuse me if someone beat me to it with this name.
Tom
I completely agree that “Mainstream Media” no longer applies.
I propose that the new name be “Charlie Gibson Media.” Clueless, Elitist, and Arrogant.
All the best,
Elaine Donnelly
President, Center for Military Readiness
PS: CMR specializes in military/social issues, including the issue of gays in the military. Sorry to say it, but even the conservative media is ignoring this issue, which is important to our military. Our website is http://www.cmrlink.org.
Elaine,
I’d like to ask Charlie Gibson, “How’s that Bush Doctrine thing workin out for you?”
How about ‘Legacy Media’? Working in IT, that’s the term used when referring to OLD hardware/software which nobody really uses anymore save one or two die-hards who refuse to give it up. It really serves no purpose, there’s usually much newer/better stuff out there to do the same thing but it is still around for some unfathomable reason…
I haven’t read all 1,000+ entries, so perhaps this one has been mentioned: YSM, or Yellow Stream Media, an ironic paean to what cowards these “journalists” are, kowtowing to the Obama administration and refusing to cover major news stories because they are bad news for Barry O.
I like the term Vickie McKenna, brilliant conservative talk show host in Wisconsin, uses for the mainstream press…Sock Puppet Press.
State Media is the most accurate description of what used to be the main stream media in this country. RIP.
the PROTECTION RACKET media
covert media
ad hominem media
ad nauseum media
loaded media
Goebbels media
dysphemistic media
discredited media
transference media
trotsky media
indoctrination media
half truth media
cult media
brainwashing media
Orwellian media
dialectic media
double speak media
dogmatic media
praxis media
deceptive media
morally bankrupt media
psychological warfare media
brainfog media
re-education media
euphemistic media
communist psychological warfare media
moribund media
Well! Now that we have that out of the way……..Feel better?
Upfront – apologies/regrets for the more “enthusiastic” of the replying crowd. They do not, generally, share my view (although several do).
I am a father of three, who has been personally experiencing two solid weeks of hacking and coughing, care of the “gift of parenting” — the same “gift of parenting” that these kids seem to demand at their age. Mind you, it also happened to be a “gift” that wasn’t explained to me by my parents or their ENTIRE generation BEFORE I became a parent — but that’s a gripe for another post…
Having said this, I expect to survive — coughed-up wads of multi-colored goop notwithstanding…
Still, I can’t believe this post. Bernie… really?! I’ve read “Bias”, “100 People…” and “Arrogance.”
After all that writing, and the cases that you (rather persuasively) made, you’re asking me for labels? Labels?!
I dunno. Maybe “Label-possible?”
I wouldn’t “term” them with anything, because I still think of them as Americans (is that an appropriate label?)… and we all have our histories/blindspots/faults. I don’t doubt their heart-felt intentions – only their conclusions (and rather strongly).
Does that make them worthy of any negative labels? A case might be made for such, if they choose to ignore obvious realities that were staring them in the face. After all, historically, such an ignorance of reality has been something that Americans do not tolerate well.
Still, that doesn’t mean that they’re deserving of a “label” – it simply means that they’re deserving of our wisdom and experience.
Then again, once someone openly and knowingly chooses the Dark Side of Statism, they’re on their own… and then I’d feel free of labeling them “Sith”…
How about…?
the Elitist Media
the Managed Media
the Legacy Media
the Filtered Media
MSM — the Managed Socialists’ Media
MSM — the Mediocre Slanted Media
MSM — the Manipulative Slimy Media
MSM — the Mostly Stupid Media
MSM — the Missed Stories Media
Mark
I suggest simply “Left Wing Media” – It’s not cute, but it’s accurate and succinct.
Dumpster Fire Media
America’s Fifth Column
Pravda Lite
conventinal media
reactionary media
legacy media (the least creative, but the most accurate)
Bernie – Instead of Mainstream, maybe a more appropriate name would be “TommyStream” media. Tommy being a take off from The Who’s song entitled, Amazing Journey.
The lyrics that are so appropriate for this discussion go something like this:
Now he is deaf.
Now he is dumb.
Now he is blind.
The guilty are safe,
But always accused by his empty eyes.
Nothing to say,
Nothing to hear,
And nothing to see.
Each sensation makes a note in his symphony.
Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can’t usually go.
Come on the amazing journey,
And learn all you should know.
The name should reflect old (beyond its time), arrogant, and biased. Unfortunately there is no single word in the English language describes all three. Perhaps there is a word in Swahili or Urdu that fits. In the meantime here are some.
Legacy media
The stale media.
Old media
I think OLD MEDIA fits best, especially in comparison tO the new media. It also has a negative connotation to it, which its practioners will hate. It’s simple and not cutesy, and it gets the point across.
i like the OLD MEDIA
The Fox Trot Media
SCM = State Controlled Media
ITTM = In The Tank Media
But seriously folks, I think serfer62′s suggestion of BIG MEDIA is simple enough to have some sticking power.
Izvestia-USA-OB! The word “izvestiya” in Russian means “delivered messages” (Wikipedia). Since the “Diverted Stream Media” no longer reports the news, and now works at under the command and direction of the far left, it would be a fitting title as they simply deliver the messages of the Statist.
Obama’s Fourth Estate
The Van Jones Media
The Monkey Never See Never Do Media
The Marxist Media
Yes We Can!! Media
brown nose media
How about the, Goosestepping Media…
or, Lockstep Media…
How about “The Lame Duck Media”
The “Let’s call everyone on the right a racist media”
How about ‘Typewriter Media’, because it is getting left behind with the new age of the internet.
The Kabuki Tribune?
Deception de jour Chronicle
How about the “State Media”
Media.gov
Try the “Ancient Media”. . . it is a term that I have used to Describe the Mainstream Media for the past 2-3 years on my commentary site Big B Files ( http://bigbfiles.net ).
Bryan Hewing,
Chesterfield (formally Florissant), MO
MSM – Methane Supreme Media
A lame attempt at a logo may be found here…
http://www.comradebarack.info/a12.html#r252
The media should take a look at these. Not only are some of the names hilarious, it might actually strike a chord with one of them. Hope springs eternal.
Hi Bernie,
This is my first time on your site although I’ve seen you (in fact, look forward to) on O’Reilly many times. I can’t tell you how often I’ve thought you’d be so much better at hosting the show. If O’Reilly interrupts you or anyone else one more time I think my head will explode. I only watch to see the other people. But it’d be “appointment tv” if you were the host.
Anyway, to the matter at hand: How about Astromedia or the Conspiratorial News Network?
Left-Wing MONKEY BRAIN MEDIA.
They’ve been intellectually by-passed by evolution and are stuck with monkey brains.
Acording to the Websters New World, Effete means 1 no longer capable of producing; spent and sterile, 2 lacking vigor, force of character, moral stamina, etc. decadent, soft, overrefined.
Thus, I suggest “the Effete Media”
“The Party” Media
Bernie, how about “Sympathetic Media”?
Methane Media!
lame stream media
bull stream media
no clue media
oldstream media
take what we feed ya media
I’ve been calling them The MAN-CRUSH MEDIA thanks to Chris Matthews and the tingle he feels going down his leg.
I have two, first: Ministry of Propaganda
second: Mega-lo Media
(that’s a play on Mega-lo Mart from King of the Hill – the impersonal “super” store in Arlen, TX)
I propose the “Know Nothing” media
In honor of the “Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil” liberal press, how about…
*Dumb Monkey Media*
The Outmoded Media;
The Obsolete Media.
I was advocating for another name earlier in the week as well. Here’s some choices: Oldstream Media. Mediasaurus (as in extinct). Retired media. Absentee Media. They’ve lost whatever shred of journalistic integrity they ever possessed and they have sown the seeds of their own demise.
Andrew Klavan, in his “Take the Limbaugh Challenge” LA Times opinion column, coined the definitive term: “The mainstream media (a.k.a. the Matrix)…”
News Media Menace – I coined that phrase back in the ’80s when there was still a Red Menace.
Slobbering Media
BIG MEDIA
,
its my spinoff from Big Tabacco & Big Oil
My suggestion is the “downstream media.” The connotation is that they are down and out of touch with America.
Old School Media. Left Wing Media. Government Sponsored Media. Obama Sychophantic Media. Bubble Media.
THEY’RE SO OVER MEDIA OR WHO CARES?
My suggestion to rename the “Main Stream Media”, is the “Down Stream Media” or the “Vanishing Media”.
Keep doing a great job.
A local radio personality, Chris Baker, (by the way, he used to have Larry the Cable Guy on before I had ever heard of him) used to call the Kansas City Star the Kansas City Pravda.
Tributary Media
Lemmings
Is this thing on?
We Heart Obamedia
dinosaur media or RIP media or used to be media or in denial media or yesterdays news media or Zomby Media
Large Print Media.
In continuation of Bernie’s “Slobbering Love Affair” observations, the best description is “Schoolgirl Media.” Total infatuation with Obama and instantaneous transformation to “mean girl” behavior whenever he is criticized.
Exactly, Pelosi wants to be head mean girl, however, she isn’t pretty inside or out.
OR better yet, ” Camelot Media”!
Featuring “change” we suggest you believe in.
How about, HAS BEEN MEDIA ?
I think we should call them the “state run media”………….
the “down stream media”
“Cut & Paste” Media (C & P Media)
Whats the Times say? Media
Because the media is no longer doing their job and they have slipped into RIP status (retired in place) I believe it is fair to discharge them from their duties and bestow upon them the title of “the media emeritus.”
e⋅mer⋅i⋅tus - an adjective meaning retired or honorably discharged from active professional duty
OK, so they don’t have much honor but we’ll be nice about it.
Unfortunately, they are still the mainstream media because they still control the many mainstream news disseminators (local television and radio stations and papers), which get their stories only from the Associated Press, the New York Times, and a few other sources. These outlets use traditional sources and most won’t report news if it comes from Drudge or Glenn Beck, so millions who don’t seek alternative sources will never hear it.
We need to break that strange hold.
Then the formerly mainstream media can be called the Benedict Arnold Media.
Sprockets
“And now we shall dance”
Pravda.
How about “Institutions of Deception”
ITD Media
Ignore Then Demean Media
The Muzzled Media
The Myopic Media
myopic – (adjective): unable or unwilling to act prudently; shortsighted. Lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.
The Free Criminal Press (FCP)
-Ignorant at Best, Complicit at Worst!
TCM for Twentieth Century Media or Yesterday’s Media.
There are a lot of cuter names, but “legacy media” really says it best. “Legacy” attached to anything means old, obsolete and dying – which describes the MSM best
stepford media
SECOND TIER MEDIA just about says it all ! ! !
Call them “The Chicken Little Media” since almost everything they say revolves around corralling individual’s into a collective mass of fearful and hateful idiot’s who can’t perceive reality or stand up for their right’s.
“Malignant Media”… best description of their behavior, personality, current and future condition.
The answer is simple:
OLD Media (OM)……… as opposed to the Modern Media (MM)which actually reports in an unbiased, non-partisan and honest manner and is up-to-date on topics………..such as Acorn corruption.
MM would include blogs, internet news sites, as well as Cable news (hmmm well maybe not ALL cable news) etc.
OLD Media is good meaning of course Obama Loving Drones!
Establishment media. Legacy media.
Some bug mouth on the radio had the best title for them I have heard yet:
“State run media”
The Mammoth Press; ponderous, herd-like, unable to adapt and heading for extinction.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it referred to as the Dinosaur Media which sounds right to me.
And I think you and Bill considered the Elite Media but that would only work for me if it were the Elitist Media.
The “Fringe Connection”
LEFTSTREAM MEDIA
Check out my latest blog on this issue:
SpiritOfTruth.me
The “Fringe Connection”
my wife votes for lowlife media
DOWNSTREAM MEDIA IS THE NEW NAME
I love it!
I’ve heard that and “drive by media” but they haven’t caught on. I like “dsm” though.
The Mushroom Media-they keep their viewers in the dark and feed them bulls***.
The Downstream Media … Like Gibson, they seem to see an awful lot after it’s passed everyone else on the shores.
I”ve called it Fraudcast News (or the Fraudcast News Networks) since Clinton’s term
Gatekeeper Media
“Mental Slut Media” They have all the moral anchoring of a five dollar whore.
OMS – Obsolete Media Service
“Miscreant Sham Media” sums them up pretty well.
Petchy in Santa Fe mentioned ‘Malignant Media’ which sounded fitting too.
SOGM – Same Old Garbage Media
SNS – Sellout News Service
The Corrupt Media
The Pack Mentality Media
The Slanted Media
The One-sided Media
The Judgemental Media
The Liberal Midset Media
The Tainted Media
PMS – People’s Media Service
Love the acronym and the motto!
GMS – Government Media Service
LOL. Or… since “they” like to call the health care thingie the “Public Option”, maybe it should be “Public Media Service” (another PMS).
AL?M – Anybody Listening? Media
MSM – Mindlessly Stupid Media
MSM – Mostly Secondary Media
I suggest a name for todays media would be, ( Incompetent Boob Antique Progressive Meida Numbskulls )
That has a certain ring to it.
HBM – Has Been Media
ENE-media
“The Muddy Stream Media” or just plain “dried up creek”.
Newspeak Media
The term Newspeak was coined by George Orwell and used in 1984 as propogandistic language designed to limit the range of thought.
Great one! And so fitting.
POM- Public Option Media
er…..MSM – Mid-STREAM Media
Call them The lame street media
MSM – Mid-Steam Media
sorry – left out another one, the American BBC (Blind Bafoonery Communications)
LAME: Liberal Activist MEdia, also Liberal Activist Media goes Extinct (economic extinction, that is)
How about “Hear no, Speak no, See no Acorn”, or the American
THE LAME SCREAM MEDIA…………….
We could just call them “The Marxist State Choir” or “The Messiah’s Special Mouthpiece”
I would like to see some honest reporting from the right for once. Because I have heard better commentary on a playground. You all sound like fools. I am a proud libertarian and you all need a good punch in the f**kn mouth. Idiots
If you are a libertarian then you are one of the most immature, emotionally stunted, and humorless ones that I have ever seen… not to mention inarticulate or just plain crude.
Paul- you sure are intolerant, and have a mouth on you.
Do you think you might be assisting in “coarsening debate”? There has been much more honest reporting from the right than from the left- do they need to do a better job? Yes- but you do not help the situation any here.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
As a libertarian, you should be happy that “the right” revealed that ACORN employees on the east and west coasts are more than willing to engage in criminal activity. Now that Congress may refuse to fund ACORN, there may be more money for health care reform.
But, as the Wash. Post reports, it is simply impossible to believe President Obama when he said that cutting Medicare and Medicaid costs won’t affect the coverage they provide and will basically pay for insurance for the uninsured.
Since the government is unable to efficiently run services like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the VA efficiently, only idiots would believe the official line concerning health care reform although reform IS needed.
Social Security, for example, is STILL sending out checks to some people who died 20 years ago. Somebody is cashing those checks. Would it be asking too much for Social Security to occasionally inquire about someone in his or her late 90′s or over 100 to find out if he or she still alive?
Goodness. The foul language and name calling sounds more like a leftie than a libertarian. And not unlike poop-disturbing trolls that like to frequent decent blogs. Lighten up! Everyone needs a playground once in a while.
You sound like a racist to me.
How about referring to them as hyenas? When you google “hyenas” and read a little about their behavior, you immediately think of the slanted news-as-entertainment business.
Der Meinstream Media The foulstream Media
Mr. Goldberg,
In light of the soon-to-be posterchild, Mr. Gibbs, for the bought and paid for erroneously called ‘Mainstream Meadia (or MSM for short), I think it appropriate that we call these so-called ‘news’ sources of the Obama Administration the Obama News Media (ONM for short).
Obaaaaaaaama News Media is surely in their ivory towers when major televison news personalities are CLUELESSLY as to the real news happening all around them.
MSM=RIP!
Thanks for listening,
777denny
Media-Lite (at least 50% less substance)
The Main Stopped-up Media
The Mass Suicide Media
Keep up the good work Bernie!
Beta Media
(beta software is still being tested and usually quite ‘buggy’)
Hey RED,
Close, but more like;
“Beta-Max Media”
or similarly;
“8-Track Media
Completely obsolete.
Negligent Media. (And it isn’t benign neglect!)
How about ‘Malignant Media’… a cancer on our intelligence?
I like it! They are indeed like a cancer, and Bernie is part of the cure!
Oooh, I love alliteration, so thought of another one:
Myopic Media
Shillmedia
I suggest the “Flintstones” Media
Substitution for Main stream news
All the news we decide to print
Great one! Or maybe, ‘All the News we Choose to Print’?
Minimalist Media
Mindless Media
how about the “dinosaur” media? They are truly still in the stone age!
BTW, love it when you are on FOX with Bill O.
Depending on context I call ‘em the
Lapdog Media. When they run a suckup to the Dems piece.
Rollover Media. When the ignore a story like Charles Rangel.
Bulldog Media. When I’m being sarcastic.
How about ‘Asleep at the Wheel Media’?
LAP DOG MEDIA……..OBAMA’S LAP DOG MEDIA………LAP DOGS OF LIBERALISM…….WHITE HOUSE LAP DOG MEDIA………
Did we already list:
Drive by Media
MONOTONE MEDIA!
Veiled and Failed media
Monkey Media – hear no truth, see no truth, speak no truth
Here in San Jose, CA, I stopped reading the San Jose Mercury News years ago. Recently, for some reason they started delivering it to my house without even telling me. I have been putting it in the recycle bin for about a week until I get the time let them know I don’t read their paper anymore. However, on the 13th I couldn’t resist looking at the front page to see their coverage of the Historic Tax Rally in DC and across the nation. Knowing how historic this event was, I was shocked that the only mention of the event on the front page was a bottom of the page, one inch high, column wide reference to a quarter page article on page seven – so much for the big news of Sept. 12th. I did read the article – nothing much. The item of real interest was a page wide article at the top of the front page with the following header, “You can help us meet the challenge, “We need to talk”, by, Mike Cassidy. The thrust of the article was, the City Of San Jose still needs The Mercury, even though the readership and advertising is no longer enough to make a viable business. It seems they need more subscribers and he wants suggestions from the community. Being a community minded citizen, I called Mike’s office first thing Monday to explain how they could increase readership. Mike’s voice mailbox was full, so I dialed O for his secretary who explained that he couldn’t call me back because of the volume of calls – so much for, “We need to talk”. I wonder whose calls he takes? I really wanted to talk to him, I wanted to tell him why I don’t read his beloved paper anymore, I wanted to say that I need a paper that prints all the news fairly. A newspaper that leaves the most historic Conservative happening of the last two centuries off it’s front page forces it’s conservative readers to go elsewhere for the news. People like me, that unfold their hometown paper knowing that the front page will be covered with something that happened in their world, something so big that it can’t be ignored, that for once they will be the center of the news, are crestfallen when they, to their astonishment, have to search in the back pages to find THEIR story. Of course, I have known for long that this paper like almost all papers don’t treat fairly, the taxpayer, the wealthy, the fiscal conservative, the soldier, those that abhor socialism, the Christian, and those that believe in parental rights and rights of the unborn, as well as the traditional value holder and patriot. But how can anyone, even a modern progressive, be proud of their city’s paper when it’s editors and reporters won’t print BIG news stories for whatever reason. I know that printed media of all types is under pressure from television and the internet but not printing about conservative victories is not a path to more readership. After all, there are more than a few of us traditionalists out here. I personally would be very proud to believe San Jose has a really good newspaper and I like to read. I know the article on page seven tried to downplay the size of the event at the Capitol on the 12th of September but you can go to the internet and get the truth. It’s too bad that Mike didn’t take my call, I’m sure I could help him out, and he did say, “We need to talk”, he put that right on the front page.
Bill, lots of us here like you. Take heart. One day it will be our turn.
The liberal media should be called the ELITIST media. It is an unofficial arm of the elitist radical wing that owns the democrat party.
Suggestions to replace “mainstream media”:
disgrace to our profession media
sans reality media
under the thumb media
Back Seat Media. They’re not in the driver’s seat anymore!
Nyet Media
The mainstream media has morphed into the “meanstreak media”.
slipstream media
Marxist Media! (It’s alliterative!)
How about Bi”czar” media (Bizarre)
“Lockstep Media” ~ b/c they seem to be in lock step with the DNC agenda
They’re never there when you need them–
the phantom media!
They are the “Porch Dog Media”
- They lay around snoozing most of the day
- They only consume what their owners feed them
- They sniff each others’ butts as a greeting
- They’ll yelp occasionally at small animals in the yard, but never pursue anything of size or substance
Bernie,
You, sir, have credibility and savoir faire!
Continuing, after my MSN Premium “blitzed” me;
Mainstream Media is passe’. I suggest:
“Obtuse Media” – get your O&M here!
Luther
POP Media (Past One’s Prime)
How about Der Sturmer?
How about FlatLine Media
DEAD! Lights out! Kaapoot! RIP!
The Delusion Ministry
Cool Aid Delivery System
Utopian Dream Machine
Hippie Sustenance Project
Big Government Media
Establishment media
(Please don’t identify me in any way.)
3N Media (nary, nada, none)
Weak or Slow Stream…………..media. They have enlarged prostates.
I think that LAMESTREAM media just about covers it…
Flat Lined Media
Department of Information
HMM= Hive Mind Media or Borg= Barack org
Tunnel Vision News. First thought of ” Politically colored myopic tunell vision news “. But that is too long.
I vote for DNW, which stands for Democratic News Whores.
How about “Dinomedia”?
Just cannot evolve. All we are left with is the fossils.
I like gary’s “Media Cartel.”
As long as BHO is in office it should be called the “Obama Media” since they take their cues from the DNC and the WH. Once he is gone it should be casually called the “Mainly Left Wing Media”, as in “the Mainly Left Wing ABC News reported today…” or “the Mainly Obama Media reported today…”
Main Scam Media
First, they *do* fit the second part of the definition of “mainstream”: “ideas, actions, and values that are most widely accepted by a group.” Unfortunately, it’s a very small group of out-of-touch elitists. Second, to paraphrase Fred Allen, it’s “called a medium because anything well done is rare.” But since this group of elitists doesn’t even qualify as being “medium”, my suggestion is:
“The Mainstream Mediocre”
Either that or
“The Jurassic Media”
Bernie – I think it was O’Reilly that said ‘Elite Media’ would be a proper name for them.
‘Elitist Media’ is more like it.
‘Elite’ would indicate there was something between their ears other than cobwebs.
– PZ
(that’s Ministry of Truth, as in 1984)
MoT, of course.
Voice of the Gentry
Old Gentry Media
(from Baron’s column…i saw a pix of Tom Brokaw years and years ago in his finest tux with a martini in his hand, coming down a broad fancy staircase….Gentry sums it up)
also, the Bubble Media
didn’t read other 900 comments, so maybe already mentioned
How about “Myopic Media”? Webster’s definition calls “myopic”: a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something. Seems like that pretty much sums up what the networks and the miasma of corruption (NBS and MSNBC) spew daily.
LOL awesome!
The LDM: Left Dream Media
The “unMedia”
Antique Media
Flea Market Media! Antiques are “fine” but you don’t find much of value at a flea market!
How about the “Moribund Media?” The word is a “big” one but it’s perfect because it means “in a dying state.” (Scrabble, anyone?) Or maybe the “Mildewed Media.” Nice mental image there!
How about the “Keyhole Media” since all they care to see or know about the real America is what they can see through the keyhole of the doors of the immagined ivory towers.
I think the MEDIA CARTEL is most descriptive….
Bernie, I heard a person refer to the main stream media as the Lame Stream Media. Gibson and his ilk are Lame in word and deed. You are right they do resemble the ostrich media. It sounds good to me.
upstream media
The Other Media
Brown-nose Media
instead of Main Stream Media is should be Second Stream Media or the Blame Stream Media
LAMESTREAM MEDIA
The Jackass Media
The Gibson Media
The Snooze Media.
inthedark media
I’ve been toying with calling the so called mainstream media the mediaocrity, but I think that’s still giving them too much credit.
Left Stream Media or O-Stream Media
09/15/09
You might consider wearing your glasses all day long. It may help your eyes.
I have not changed my presctiption for glases for over 20 years. I will be 91 on November 11, 2009
Cod Liver oil capsules are good for eyes and bran.
Hans Christian Andersen wrote a story entitled, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” which I think perfectly describes the relationship amongst Big Media, the president, and the upstart media.
How ’bout “New Clothes Media”
How about, ad nauseum media
because: they truly do make me sick!!
I don’t think it’s a matter of whether it’s ‘mainstream’ or not, i think the question is really is it ‘news’.. ? Not from my perspective. Any organization, any ‘reporter’ that says he hasn’t heard of, what, the BIGGEST story in at least a week, isnt’ a reporter at all. He’s not a news person at all. He’s a lobbyist.
I read this one yesterday; “Paleo Media”!
Mausoleum Stream Media (MSM)
Mausoleum –noun, plural
1. a stately and magnificent tomb.
2. a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
3. a large, gloomy, depressing building, room, or the like.
White House POM POM Squad
Old media. Short, simple. However, effete media says it all (synonyms: corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, decrepit, degenerate, dissipated, enervated, enfeebled, feeble, ineffectual, overrefined). I am a physician, have read all your books and all I can say is thank god for you and Fox news.
The Fifth Columnists
Sergeant Schultz Media
Chomsky’s Chumskies
2 TIM 3:6
How about ” State Run Media ” or ” Obama’s Propaganda Ministry “
My suggestion: The Untelligentsia
SelectStream Media.
Uniview Media.
Demaview Media.
L.O.L. News = LOOK! OBAMA! LOOK!
A.Y.T.Y. = “Are We There Yet” news. Repeat 78 times shouting it in our ears.
sorry andrea…great minds think alike.
HOPE BERNIE MAKES A TOP TEN LIST WE CAN VOTE ON
My favorite so far is LEFT STREAM MEDIA
how about lame stream media
LameStream Media!!!!
or….
Communist News Media
State Run Propaganda Media
try the Subversive Media
Bernie, here’s my suggestion already posted on Michelle Malkin’s site:
Also to pick up on what Klaatu said lots earlier here;
I think Legacy media is quite descriptive of what these news organizations are.
‘Legacy media’ is old, with entrenched and soon becoming obsolete journalistic rules, unable to be ‘retooled’ into something lean and truthful.
‘Legacy’ media’, in order to become mainstream once again must be shut down and a totally new organization with new rules built in it’s place.
Sorry for the second post – just thought of another one.
May I Please Give Obama a B.J. Media
How ’bout “Lying Liars Media” in honor of…dare I say it…Sen. Al Frankin.
Mike Rosen, the conservative radio host here in Denver has refused to call them the mainstream media for a couple of years now. He refers to them as the dominant liberal mass media.
.
Ostrich Media
.
Social Reform Media
2+2=5 Media
2/2/5 Media
How about The Biased Nutjob Media? Or The cover up for the President Media? The Media that really isn’t?
Cronkite We Ain’t
Lamestream Media
Liberal Narrative Media
Progressive Media
Hi Bernie,
I have an observation in regards to your appearance on the O’Reilly Factor last night:
Bill was concerned that with the overwhelming majority of Tea Party people being white, there might be a perception of racism. But there seemed to be no concern by anyone when 90% of African American voters voted for Obama. What’s the difference?
“The Sclerotic Media” or “The Sclerotten Media”
There is a word has somehow fallen out of vogue but that fits perfectly – Propagandists.
Since they have shown for some time that they are interested only in printing or otherwise propagating information that will reflect positively on their preferred agendas and elected officials. How many times have we all played ‘Name That Party’? How many times have we noted the vast disparity in how politicians are treated depending on their party affiliation? How often must we note the information carefully omitted from the pages of the so-called news media? And all of these benefit the Democratic Party and their allies on the left side of the political spectrum.
Let us cease this habit of diplomatic speech and call a spade a spade. The established media are in fact precisely the same as Pravda under the USSR. There are a few lonely voices still attempting to do real journalism (ie. Jake Tapper, John Stossel) but the media as a group has long since given up that effort in favor of performing as the Democratic Party’s personal propaganda corps.
Mangy Socialist Media
The Antique Media.
After all, they BELONG IN A MUSEUM…
…OOPS!
They ARE already in a museum:
The NEWSEUM! (on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.)
Sgt. Schultz Media (“I see nothing…that incriminates democrats”)
Pravda v.2.0
Pravda, USA division
T-Rex tabloids
ARM – Apathy River Media
Left winged Ostrich media. They seem to have their heads in the sand.
(1)”The Communitst Media” (CBS=Comunist Bull Shit, NBC= Nothing But Communists, ABC=Another Bunch of Communists, CNN= Communist News Netork, etc.)
(2) “Lying Leftist Media”
(3) Or just “Pravda” would suffice.
dinosaur media
I just saw this on the biggovernment.com website.
Or, there is Rush’s new term for it.
State-run media or State media.
After last Saturday’s events the proper nomenclature is certainly not “main stream” anymore.
Call them “ENE-media”
Aren’t they all just “Tabloids”? Can’t trust the details or the sources, and omission of newsworthy info directly porportional to the political party it affects.
Haven’t the daily’s become not much more than “tabloid” type newspapers? Only the believers will believe, and sources are always in question.
The Less Than Medium
This Failed Medium
One Way Street Medium
Rush has been calling them the “Drive-by Media” for years, so that’s a label a LOT of people would recognize immediately.
Closed Eyewitness News @ 6
Iago Media
Spin the tale on the Donkey Media
Cover-ur-asset Media
See No Evil Media
Fairytale Media
Sightless Media
Got-ur-back Media
How about MIA Media (missing in action)
It is the ‘Old Media’, ‘Last Century’s Media’.
Thank you, Bernie, for taking a stand against calling them ‘mainstream’.
Or a simpler acronym
JNM
Journalism No More
What about KUP (kiss up politics) MEDIA…seems appropriate to me
How about “Astroturf Media?”
Media that doesn’t represent America.
Call ‘em what they are:
the Democrat media
The No News Media.
I like it. TNNM
Journalists In Hastened Advanced Decline (JIHAD)
or
Journalism in Hastened Advanced Decline (JIHAD)
Take your pick.
I like…….
“Once Upon a Time” Media
Patti
How about “slipstream media”
or “media schmedia”
A better name would be the “DEAD stream media”.
As for me they did themselves in when they thumbed their nose at the viewers.
How about the “Imperial Media” They certainly are above us rabble, only report what they decide thye want to, and are accountable to no one. I used to tell my children, that watching the 2,4,7 and CNN was like reading the fairy tale, The Emporer’s New Clothes. It would be funny if was not so infuriating. Thanks for listening. Regards, Tom.
Indecent Exposure
Call it what it is: the establishment media.
My suggestion is “Antimedia”
As in physics, the opposite of matter is antimatter(media).
Example: the antimatter counterpart of an electron has a positive charge, and has an opposite “spin”.
dinosaur pages
Plain and simple: Barrack Obama Fan Club (TV Edition)
How about a tip of the hat to our friends who live along America’s Main Stream, the mighty Mississippi:
Oxbow Media
Encyclopedia Brittanica defines oxbow thusly:
“small lake located in an abandoned meander loop of a river channel. It is generally formed as a river cuts through a meander neck to shorten its course, causes the old channel to be rapidly blocked off, and then migrates away from the lake.”
I like that “abandoned meander loop” part.
Even better: since the Australian term for oxbow lake is billabong, maybe this would work:
Billabong Media
That’s sounds cool. So cool, that knucklehead MSMers would probably think we were complimenting them.
Old Gray Media
We’re working on our own “unflattering” piece re: the Media. We were just having this discussion last night.. so at least tentatively, we’re using Old Gray Media
Joe Dan
JoeDanMedia
Or maybe call them “The Wonderland Media” since most everything they say is 180 degrees out of sync with reality.
Here’s a riff off a previous commenter’s suggestion of Dinosaur Media:
Tar Pit Media
The dinosaurs are in the tar pit. They’re not dead yet, and it’s going to take while unti they breathe their last. But they vaguely understand that there is something wrong in the world.
AGITPROP
look it up
This term has been used before, but it is so appropriate.
LEGACY MEDIA
It’s the remanents of a bygone era. A relic.
It is so-o-o-o true.
Simply call it “The Party Media.” This is clear, concise, and easy to understand.
“behind the times” media because, right now if you are reading the NY Times
as your source of news, you are sadly behind the times, and possibly behind the Times,
I agree with C.L.Palombi. I’ve been calling then Legacy Media for a while
The Main Stopped-Up Media sounds pretty good too.
“behind the times” media because, right now if you are reading the NY Times as your source of news, you are sadly behind the times, and possibly behind the Times,
“Downstream Media”
as in “do not camp downstream from the latrine”
PRAVDA
“Division III Media” – - – Maybe we should rank the media in a manner similar to college athletics. In this case, the News groups we are all talking about might be considered as “Division III Media” or even “Division IV Media”. Whatever the lowest would be.
At Attack Machine, we call them Big Baloney for their propensity to use Big as a pejorative. Big Oil, Big Tobacco, etc.
But they’re not looking so big anymore.
“The Messiah Media”
Or
“The Voice of the King”
***** Big Liberal Media *****
I am now calling “mainstream” media the “Media In Absentia” or “MIA” for short.
Hi, Bernie!
How about “The Blue Pill Media”?
The Children’s Crayon Media would suit them.
The Convenient Relative Truth Media
State-run media
Left wing coastal media as opposed to “flyover country” media [Fox, Drudge, Bernie, Blogs].
NYNYLACA [New York, New York & Los Angeles,California], or NYLA for short Media. Coastal Media, FlyTo Media, Two Coast Media, Looney Left Media, Slobbering Sychophant Media. Or just Irrevelant Former Media.
Just call them the “Late-stream Media” since they haven’t been doing real journalism for years and couldn’t do it now if there lives depended on it.
Agenda Driven Media
Mission Media
The Alternate Reality Media
state run media (e.g. Pravda, Isvestia, etc.)
DINOSAUR MEDIA—without a doubt!. The meteor has hit ‘their’ planet. They are dying and DEAD (NYT) for the most part already and in the fossil FUEL stage. Their “fuel” has E-N-E-R-G-I-Z-E-D and created the new media of youtube,twitter,facebook, blogs,Drudgereport , FOXNEWS, talk radio……!!!! YEA!!
Establishment Media…
There was a time when many of today’s media executives protested the “Establishment.” Now, they are the Establishment.
I was thinking BM for Barack Media, but I see that has already been suggested.
My suggestion is “Old Media”.
The Irrelevant Media
No question what it should be:
The Alinsky Allies
The weak stream media or weakening stream media
Monkey Media – Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil…
Haven’t seen this one yet.
IM Media= Irrelevent Media Defined as not relevent, not pertinent and in law, having no probative value upon any issue in the case.
Irrelevent Media, I like it!
My vote goes for Socialist Media (first choice) and Statist Media (second choice).
SUPRESS CORPS
Call them exactly what they are… Soulless smiley little overdressed and overpaid ACORN workers… who see nothing wrong or newsworthy about their cohorts advising others on how to setup and run child prostitution rings.
Yeller Dawg Repotus [Sorry - I'm from the South
]
Lame Brain Media
Has-Been Hacks or Half-Baked Hacks
Liberal News Corpse [this is not a typo!]
Blind Pig Media (because even a BLIND pig stumbles across an ACORN once in a while)
How about we call them Little brother as compared to the cable news.
PS: Charlie Gibson on a Chicago AM talk show ( WLS, Don Wade and Roma) said he DID NOT HEAR about the ACORN videos!!!! He stunned the hosts and AMERICA!!
I’ve been referring to them since early spring as the “Administration’s Stenography Service” , or ASS Media for short.
How about “Inane Stream Media”?
I adore your courage and honesty Bernie. I say call them the PPS…Puppet Press Stenographers. Of course, they may become all wee weeed up if you did not pronounce it correctly. HEHE
Let’s be honest, and accurate. As Jay Severin (WTKK-FM, Boston) has noted, those of whom we speak are, by sins of commission and sins of omission, practicing advocacy journalism. Hence thy are to known as DAM – Democrat Advocacy Media. (Couldn’t get a final “n” in the acronym, damn it.)
We need to call it “The Lamestream Media” from henceforth.
Paleomedia
or
Archaic Media
or
Endangered Media
Bernie,
Since the Main Stream Media has lost whatever spark of life it once had, we should call it the
Zombie Media.
Thanks,
Dan
MOST-SERIOUS NAME CHANGE SUBMISSION: “LEGACY MEDIA”
It will resonsate – most common, accurate descriptor across IT Industry and large corporate users since they refer to their “OLD” (established, incumbent) computer systems as “LEGACY SYSTEMS” for 20+ years.
Long form definition:
LEGACY systems are basically obsolete and of marginal value but since they’re already part of the infrastructure, providing ever declining functional value for years since being overtaken by “smarter, faster, cheaper” technology, they MUST be maintained because there’s no approvable business case to justify the cost of totally replacing them. Eventually they are turned off (coverted from) by some exoginous trigger event, e.g. vendor cutting off maintenance services or a new integrated system subsuming their limited functions.
In the case of the “LEGACY MEDIA” the same natural decline to organic death has been taking place for many years. Eventually no one will buy or read them. Their advertising revenue sources are being overtaken by Google, and their Classifieds by Craigslist, Monster, and EBay. It’s just a matter of time.
Then again a fish out of water, knowing it’s dying, can trash and hurt you if you’re not careful!
Down stream media!! (We had a 9/12 rally with 1,000 people & local newspaper had nothing about it).
I still like “Government Controlled Media”.
I’ve been calling the media:
Big Media (BM, in other words), for short.
The full name is:
Big Media & Entertainment Complex,
(aka: The Propaganda Wing of the Democrat Party. “News” in conjunction with the production of images in the entertainment media, produce a classic propaganda mechanism).
Lots of good suggestion at this site!!!
The term you and Bill O’Reilly are searching for to replace “mainstream” media is “legacy.”
Nothing could be more insulting or appropriate in this digital age. Well, you might add “lefty legacy media.”
Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_system):
“A legacy system . . . may include procedures or terminology which are no longer relevant in the current context, and may hinder or confuse understanding. . .”
Wish I could claim credit for originality. Truth is, I Googled a reference to the term from 2004: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/09/14/legacy_time.html
Warm regards,
Dave Leake
Winter Park, FL
Milk Maid Media
“Obomadoggies” Now roll over and play dead. Good doggie, good doggie! MSM will always respond when I use this in e-mails.
Silly answer: The Wee-Wee’d Media, The Tingle Leg Media
Serious Answer: The Regressive Media (as opposed to their beloved moniker, Progressive)
I vote “Lame Stream Media” has that been posted yet?
Exactly what Obama called Kanye West.
I prefer: “The YellowStream Media” ’cause they piss away their credibility every hour of every day.
The failed media
The formerly relevant media
The Progressive Propaganda Networks
The Self Serving Media alt. The Self Stroking Media
The Backpocket Media
the New Messiah’s Media
I think the reality is they are the “formerly mainstream media”!
formerly
–adverb
1. in time past; in an earlier period or age; previously: a custom formerly observed.
2. Obsolete. in time just past; just now.
In our house we call CNN the communist news network,
ABC the All Barak channel
NBC-No broadcast channel-they don’t broadcast anything important or factual
How about instead of main stream we call it the” short line media”.
The Counterfeit Express, The Trojan Times, The Benedict Arnold Journal… the names are endless and they are all fitting for these intellectual traitor’s.
Pravda is simple and well known and it pretty much says it all.
yellow media
Missed Story Media
Blind eye media
Sgt. Shutltz media…”I see nothing”
Play stupid media
dishonest media
community organizer media
OutragousBlatentAssailedMisalignedAss media (Obama media)
I agree Elitist Media works well, and also the Establishment Media works well. I think think that Small Stream media and Minor Stream media would possibly stick, though. None of us watch it, so Nonexistent Media is more like it.
I heard someone on TV call it the ‘Lame Stream Media’ – I agree!
It’s gonna be hard to beat “Presstitutes”. Besides that way they will know where to get good tax advice.
Activist Media
LEFT STREAM MEDIA
How about The Three Monkey Media? You know…see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. We could just call them 3MM for short.
Three Monkey Media gets my vote!
Also, the Blind Pig Media – very clever!
Gutter Stream Media -
Bravo for bringing up this subject! For the past several weeks, I’ve been saying this same thing to anyone who will listen. I don’t have any real clever suggestions other than these:
Out of Touch Media
Liars Club
Forget the Facts Media
Corrupted Coverage
Call them what they are: socialist media
Sansrkit News
“Presstitutes”
how about the ‘Old School Media’? that pretty much encapsulates them.
keep up the heat, mr. goldberg!
Marxist Stream Media
The “Rather” lame media
Suggest name for main street media. Elite Liberal Media (Elm)
Do like the UK does and name all the mainstream state run channels like they do. BBC1, BBC2, ect. Only it would be called (Barack Hussein Obama) BHO1, BHO2 and so on… and get Chris Mathews a Baghdad Bob outfit, he would definitely look more appropriate in it.
How about ‘The Democratic Party’
It’s gotta be SRM State Run Media or SCM State Controlled Media. I think the former is less of an exaggeration, but given our current direction, state control is not necessarily far off.
or.. Puppet formerly known as Media
How about;
“Jurassic Media”.
Or similarly;
The “Wolly Mammoth Media”. Much as the wooly mammoth was thousands of years ago, they are large, lumbering, on their way to extinction yet too stupid to realize it.
Mr. Goldberg,
I would like to suggest the following and the new handle for the media:
The Establishment Media
The Man’s Media
I am a Libertarian and want to say it is a pleasure to see a real journalist; unfortunately that honorable and important profession is now on the endangered species list.
Thank you,
Charles Leffel
Wichita Falls, Texas
sockpuppet media
The establishment media.
“Old Media” says it all.
Michelle Malkin suggests “Ostrich Media.”
FCC controlled media.
Hate America Media
Mentally Stunted Media would work too. After all, ignorance is a leftist’s best friend.
state-run media
elitist media
cocoon-media
old media
paleo-media
pravda-media
durantists
pravdaddies
Has anyone suggested “Doublespeak News Coverage” DNC
Since they are now in the “minor league” of media due to their own lack of professionalism, how about we just refer to them as the Minor-Stream Media?
My suggestion for replacing “mainstream media”….. “Old News”
the misconduct media
the brain-dead media
the daydream media
LEU
lemmings entertain you
How about this: Traitors
“Obomadoggies” Now roll over and play dead. Good doggie, good doggie.
Keep it simple:
Just call it “The Former Mainstream Media.”
In my opinion it tells the whole story.
hi horse media
The DNM- The Democrat National Media.
We could name them the “Mass Suicidal Miscreants” since that is exactly where the policies they support would lead America.
radical chicanery media
My recommendation: The 50% Off Channel (Sub-Title: We’ll give you the left-half of the story).
Hi Bernie:
How about “Barely Media”?
How about the BBW?…
Baghdad Bob Wannabes
Ministry Of Truth
Formerly Known As Media – FKAM
Yellow-Stream Media, “No Clue For You” Media, In My Own Private Idaho Media, Clueless in Seattle Media, Crayons Are Us Media, “No Way Can You See” Media, Left Talk Express Media, Obama Butt Bongo Media, Gargle After Every Use Media, Count The Lumps Going Down Media, Carl Marx School Of Propaganda Media, Peoples Republic of Socialism Media, “We Tell More Lies Before 9 AM Than Most People Do All Day” Media…….
What about the SIM- “The Self Interest Media”. They do not serve the public or the Nation interests except their own.
Maybe they should call themselves the RJI…
for Remember Journalistic Integrity?
They are The Establishment Media.
And instead of the Media Elite ( which is far too complimentary) I prefer to think of them as The Media Clique.
I like what Rush calls them…….State-run Media
Ass Hat Media
How about…
“The Faded Media”
The verb fade has 4 senses?
(become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly)
2. (4) fade, wither
(lose freshness, vigor, or vitality)
3. (4) evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass
(disappear gradually)
4. languish, fade
(become feeble)
How about just an easy one:
Former Media
The Royal Media
I nominate “Mindless State Mouthpieces”, after all, regurgitating and praising the pro-statist line is all they are good for anymore. When something doesn’t fit their agenda driven template they either smear it or just complete ignore it and continue drooling like the dolts they are expecting the masses to just soak up whatever they say.
… or perhaps just “Mindless Sold-out Misfits” since their stance is totally thuggish and Un-American and very reminiscent of how Benedict Arnold betrayed his country for a king.
Paleo-media probably has the best ring. (…and might be a worthy payback for years of Neo-everything)
Other options might be Antique or Archaic.
Suck-up media
Elitist media
Dinosaur media (they hate being called dinosaurs!)
Mediocre Media
Milktoast Media
Pay-no-mind media
Mindless Media
Old School Media
non news media
Bernie:
How about Dead Stream Media or Love Canal Media ?
I like “THE MINDLESS MEDIA” because they’ve all been brainwashed and their minds filled with pure unadulterated hate.
Prog-Duh. Prog for progressive. Duh for its jounalistic quality.
And it sounds like a well-know state-run media “Pravda”.
New name for the useless Mainstream Media is “Ostrich Media” (Their heads are in the sand on all relevent and pertinent issues).
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Mark F. Votipka
Move On Media: Move on, there’s nothing to see here.
Bernie,
Why don’t we just ignore the SRM (StateRunMedia) as they ignore us. Instead of coming up with silly monikers for them, perhaps we as an outraged group, should publicly and vociferously pull our dollars from their advertisers….much like they did to a certain guy on Fox News. I think that this would hurt them a helluva lot more than calling them silly names. Hit them in the advertising pocketbook where it will ACTUALLY hurt. That’s how the left operates, it’s time we started returning a similiar volley of fire!
I dunno….I’m just sayin’!
We love ya Bernie
RE; other name for”mainstream media”
Some ideas for you:
Downstream Media, State Media, Obamas Media, Tainted Media, Untruthful Media, Illegimate Media, End of the line Media, Opposition Media,
Left Media, Elitist Media, Government Media, Big Government Media, Progressive Media, Progressivist Media, Left Partisan Media.
I simply call them the Knee Pads. They truly have no right to use the word Media ever again.
Propaganda Press
Not too cute, highly descriptive and alliterative.
How about MSM~Mainly Silent Media or Mostly Slow Media. Mostly Slow Morons, Mainly Stuptid Media. Most Snubbed Media.
Bernie is right. They haven’t been in the mainstream for a long time.
Here’s a baker’s dozen, with my favorite at the top:
Marginalized media
Marooned media
Aborted media
Archaic media
Forsaken media
Fringe media
Erstwhile media
Meddling media
Activist media
Fetid media
Decaying media
Evaporating media
Jilted media
OSM – Old Stream Media
FSM – Former Stream Media
” Dana says:
September 15, 2009 at 11:40 am
How about :
LAME STREAM MEDIA”
This is PERFECT!
I agree with you 100%. I have been thinking the same thing! I came up with “CON” The Community Organizers Network”
The Paleo-Media. Marxist Media. Obamedia. State-control Media. Demoncat Media. Partisan Media. Obsolete Media. Has-been Media.
I vote we call the former MSM the “irrelevant media” No one listens to them anymore, no one quotes them anymore, they are bankrupt. The newest is that Charlie Gibson said he’s just now hearing about the ACORN scandal…….right!
MSM now IM
I just sent Gibson an e-mail and told him should retire today – since he missed a week’s worth of news!
Since we wouldn’t want to confuse these poor “journalists” with a new acronym, what about “Moronically Stupid Media” or “Massively Slow Media?”
Simply…the “obsolete media”…..this will drive them crazy to think viewers are calling them obsolete!!
Fifth Column Media
fifth column: a secret or subversive group that seeks to undermine the efforts of others and promote its own ends.
Encarta ® World English Dictionary
Paleoflatal Press. ‘Paleoflatal’ is couth for ‘old fart’.
The Obama infomercial media
Barney Fife Media
Hubris Media
Cloister Media
Mastodon Media
Teen Club Media
Bernie:
The Mouthpiece Media. I even made a picture this morning, just for you:
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/whos-reporting-the-acorn-scandal/
How about TMM – Tri-Monkey Media. As in “See nothing conservative, hear nothing conservative, speak nothing conservative.”
Second Class Media -or- Lower Class Media -or- Low Stream Media -or- Liberal Streem Media
Bernie, keep us informed as to where you will be on what programs other than Fox. We like to listenen to your views.
The BEST … Ed
the faux media
Members Only Media
“Partial Media” in all its connotations. Partial to liberals, Democrats, gays, etc. and only gives you a portion of the news.
Old Media
It’s simple, clear, and fits in several ways:
They have an outmoded way of viewing the world, and their place in it.
They use old technology
They’re typically slower to report news.
They often have audiences that are older, demographically speaking.
BERNIE, APPRECIATE YOUR VIEWS . INSTEAD OF THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA HOW ABOUT
” THE FAR LEFT MEDIA “
Oldstream media
How about “The Warped Estate”?
“Sold Us Down the River Media” “Mainstream NO MORE Media”
State Run Media. (I call ‘em like I see ‘em.)
State Run Media – Where Ignorance is Bliss
I wish I’d some up with this, but I’ve heard them called the Past-Tense Media.
I jumped for joy when I heard Bernie comment on the “Main Stream Media.” I have been suggesting to my friends for some time that they should be referred to as “Reality News” or Paparazzi. They lost the right to be referred to as news organizations or journalists a long time ago.
Simple, descriptive, and relegates them to appropriate status: “Old Media.” Second choice: “Dying Media.”
I read somewhere today someone call the State Run Stenographers. Very accurate,I think.
Oh – I like the “Yellow Stream” suggestion listed prior to mine – kinda combines the historical perspective of Yellow Media/Journalism with urine, which seems rather appropriate. Then I remembered I do like what Rush refers to them as – “The Drive-By Media” – in this case, they Drive-By any good story that would tarnish the Democratic/Progressive Party in addition to the typical “Drive By” style of spraying us with nonsense stories they think will instead tarnish any Conservative.
How about :
LAME STREAM MEDIA
Dear Mr. Goldberg….
My suggestion for the new media name is …”Hip Pocket Media”….
For they are in Obama’s hip pocket, puckering their lips and kissing backside….
Thank you, Respectfully, Carolyn Swope, Interlachen, Florida
DoDo Media
Carrier Pigeon Media
Dinosaur Media
Condomedia- You get screwed with nothing to show for it.
I vote for Lamestream Media
The Also Ran Media
I’ve referred to NPR as “National Proletariat Radio” for years–but that takes too much time for people to figure out that it conveys a disturbing ring of truth about it. Everybody already knows what the term conveys–even though it’s Russian for “truth.” It would take very little effort to get this brand associated with ABC, (MS)NBC, C BS, and CNN. The first reference to one of the alleged news sources could be referred to as “Pravda” with its corporate name in parentheses. Subsequent references simply to “Pravda” would link in every reader’s mind corruption, state sponsored media and dishonesty with the media source.
Well, I rather like Limbaugh’s State-Run Media, but clearly he’s already using it, plus it is a bit too much of an exaggeration. I think simply Legacy Media such do just fine.
And, please people, don’t insult <bPravda by linking the AP to it: Pravda isn’t what it used to be.
“Mindless Media” because it is quite obvious that there isn’t one intelligent mind at work there.
Oops, my mistake.. Sergeant Schultz media. “I know nothing! NOTHING!” Think about it, Schultz, when confronted by evidence of the prisoners’ covert activities, will simply look the other way, repeating “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!” Also he was a Nazi and how leftist is the media these day?
Irrelevant Media
Yellow Media – as in Yellow Journalism = Inflammatory, irresponsible reporting by newspapers. The phrase arose during the 1890s, when some American newspapers, particularly those run by William Randolph Hearst, worked to incite hatred of Spain, thereby contributing to the start of the Spanish-American War. Newspapers that practice yellow journalism are called yellow press.
Propagandos.
propaganda media
Call it what it is.
Yellow Media
PRAVDA
I just thought of another DO LITTLE MEDIA
Colonel Klink media. “I know nussink! NUSSINK!”
Yellow stream just seems to fit ,as it is waste water. One only has to look at the drivel they do run with.
I think we should call it NO STREAM MEDIA or perhaps DRY STREAM MEDIA
Just saw a great one from B.J. Cole:
“Agendatainment News”
Or we coud use:
“Agendatainment Media”
Good one B.J.
The Do-Do Media.
‘Cuz at this rate they’re going to be Extinct!
Moribund Media
MediObama
Jour-NO-lism
Propaganda Delivery System
WMDs – Weapons of Mass Deception
And my favorite name for the MSM:
Irrelevant
“AP” – American Pravda
How about:
The Nutroots Media
or:
The Abridged Media
or:
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Media (ARRM)
or:
The Pseudo-Media
or:
The Quasi-Media
or:
The “Misleading Media”
or:
Media Lite
or:
The Delusory Media
or:
The Fabricated Media
or:
The Anti-Liberty Media
or:
The Statis Media
or:
The “oh, I didn’t know that happened” Media
or:
The “This is Different” Media
Legacy News Reporters
Margarine Media. Not the real thing.
I vote for Michell Malkin’s verbiage, the “ostrich media” really really fits.
My followers, Bernie, have adopted my suggestion for the media. Its delightfully referred to as the…..
ObaMedia
MEDIOCRE MEDIA
The most appropriate name I can think of for what used to be called the main-stream media is the “Tinkle Media”. They are barely a dribble now and certainly not a main-stream. Keep up the good work, Bernie.
This is my favorite so far:
JeninCt says:
September 15, 2009 at 10:58 am
CheezeWhiz Media – thoroughly processed, dumbed-down, and what Americans with low strandards have come to expect.
Considering the pervasiveness and selling of the news, My suggestion is “Agendatainment News”
Missed Story Media, Cultural Revolution Media, We are Right, You are stupid Media, Moron Staffed Media, God, I Widh It Were the Sixties Media…
Thanks for what you do, Mr. Goldberg.
Marginalized Media
PAVLOVIAN MEDIA
HUBA News – (Heads Up Barack’s A$$) News – Our crack talking heads bring you all the hope-n-change that we’re told to tell you.
I have to agree with this one. I am an Independent, my wife is Republican. I did not like Bush, but with Obama ignoring the American voice and the the white house calling American people names for disagreeing with Obama. They are even using the race card with people who disagree with Obama. My best friend is black and I do not tolerate racism. It is the 21 century, anyone in American that looks at color is immature and does not represent what USA stands for.
Jetstream Media
(flying high and fast with the facts…out of touch…all jetset, no journalism…)
Bernie, O’Reilly suggested “Media Elite”, BUT how about “Media Effete”? Always enjoy your commentary. -BJ
New name for MSM
ACORN Media
Always
Cover
Obama
Rear
Network
“Painstream Media: Urine for a rude awakening.”
CBS – Can’t Believe Squat (or some form of 4 letter word that start with S and ends with T)
NBC- No Body Cares
ABC- Always Bad Commentary
CNN – Communist News Network
These are just a start. Give me some time and more will follow
Thanks for your work Mr. Goldberg
Media Passé
Impotent Media
Disingenuous Media
Duped Media
Duplicitous Media
Media Façade
Myopic Media
Liberal Media (call it what it is)
How about the “Lame stream media” or “No news here”
Dinosaur Media
Drive By Media (Rush)
Abacus Media (obsolete)
Fringe Media
State Run Media (Rush)
Ostrich Media (Michelle Malkin gets credit)
Agenda Media
Lemming Media
Goebbels Media U.S.A.
Miss’em
CheezeWhiz Media – thoroughly processed, dumbed-down, and what Americans with low strandards have come to expect.
…And as far as “racism” in the lamestream media goes:
Racism. n. A false charge, of devastating power, that can be brought against a person without cause, especially when no real charges are available, to gain advantage in a debate. (from my Politically Corrected Glossary, http://www.gunlaws.com/politicallycorrect.htm). Typically, the person charging racism is the racist, q.v. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc.
Left Stream Media
Democratic Party Weaponized Media: Object: Provide information that will make their opponents DO something (thinking it is not enough) to neutralize themselves and/or others. Dems “kill” ‘em later. Flip it: When (Conservatives) find themselves DOING something like “burning valuable air time” over e.g. Sarah Palin’s clothes: ask: Am I neutralizing myself based on a lie fed to me that will cost my opponent nothing and gain me nothing. George
How about Left Stream Media?
Lapdog Media
The Liberals’ Troupe of Bards and Minstrels
anushead media
1) Their members are “clinging” to their newspapers and television networks.
2) It’s a fact, less and less people go to them for their news and information.
I’d call them “Old School Media” OSM
American Pravda
“Pravda” is fitting, since our media has become an instrument of propaganda as Pravda did in Russia from 1912, until Yeltsin shut it down in 1991.
The name has connotations in the minds of many Americans of what a free press is NOT.
Pravda also has a certain referential quality in the minds of Americans as propaganda.
A play on words to temper it down might be best… America Pravda.
No spin would probably just require “Pravda” – I think it has a ring to it.
Pravda means truth in Russian, and we all know what kind of truth they promoted.
Each time Pravda is used to describe the media it would remind us of media that was nothing, but a propaganda instrument of the state.
American Corporations are doing the Pravda thing for this administration for money. They actually think they will be in a favored position. The radical activists that are “in charge” had no love for the multi-national companies during the Viet Nam era. They’ll turn on the America corporations running the media when the time is right.
By calling the media “the American Pravda” it gentles the verbiage, but still gets the message across.
Bernie, The former “mainstream” media has now become the Unilateral Media and in particular, the Unilateral News Networks. According to my dictionary, unilateral means “relating to one side only”, and “pertaining to only one of a number of sides or parties in a controversy” (Can you say MSNBC?) I appreciate all your appearances on Fox News and the credibility you bring to the discussion of bias in the media. Keep it up!
STATE RUN MEDIA
Sorry, but my previous comments were cut short.
The 3 names I suggest are:
a) PSEUDO MEDIA
b) Unethical Media
c) Irresponsible Media
Elitist Media
WeSaySo Media
I’m sure you’ve gotten this one but how about ‘Lamestream Media’?
I should have read the others first….
As a political wordsmith, I think the phrase that BEST describes the MEANING you are seeking
is: ” ‘HAS-BEEN’ MEDIA”!!!
It says it all in 3 simple words!!
The Media has acted like Pravda did in the USSR during the Cold War or Bagdad Bob during the Iraq War. As if most Americans can’t see what’s really happening in some cases before their own eyes and ears.
So they’re Liberal/Progressive Propaganda Media (LibProp)Media.
Great journalism Mr. Golbert. I do have 3 sugestions for the new names of the so called media stream
My vote: Lapdog Media
…lamestream media
All the names with “media” appended end up being too long for their purpose. What’s needed is a one word term that conveys the characteristics of corruption and incompetence: PRAVDA.
Brownheads (one word) ‘cuz they got their head up where the sun don’t shine. It’s gross, but I call ‘em like I see ‘em.
How about the Watch(R)/Lap(D)dog media?
The “No Stream Media”
Motto: “No News is Good News”
The Liberal Democrat Media (LDM)
After 10 ZILLION Avadart commercials, how about:
Weak Stream Media
I’d call it “Infrequent Media”
main stream media = mean streak media
The EMM: The Establishment Mouthpiece Media.
Statist Controlled Media – SCM
You are so correct there are no words for how the media has let us down I’m very appalled by them I no longer watch what I USED to call MSM I have no trust in any of them
Biased 24/7 coverage
I suggest: Mid-stream media.
I had to give a sample at the pathology lab recently.
Maybe “up-the-stream (without a paddle)” media.
I would like to submit POCKET MEDIA
They are in the pocket of the LW Liberals
I call them the Legacy Media.
Since this is what they keep trying to call Fox, just make it “Entertainment TV” or ETV.
Throw it back at them.
How about the CME – Corrupt Media Establishment? Bit catchy.
Western Provda Media
There’s only one real name although I’m not sure how catchy it is and that’s The Corrupt Media. because that’s what they are, corrupt to the core.
Glenn Beck calls them the Criminally Complisit Media
I submit:
Morally Bankrupt Media
Elite Media of the Godless
Lacking Integrity Media
How about “It’s all about me” media – because you know it is!
Mainstream media should be called “OSTRICH MEDIA” or how about “HEAD IN THE SAND MEDIA”
Whirlpool Media
They just keep spinning around, never realizing they’re slowly disappearing.
Ministry of Propaganda (MOP)
Agenda Media
Fringe media
Media for Dummies
Mofia Media (M&M)
Lying Media
Non Reporting Media
Opinion Media
No Facts Media
Government Media
Black Media
LEGACY MEDIA
PASSE’ MEDIA
DE’MODE’ MEDIA
VENAL MEDIA
“In His Pocket Media”
MFS (Media For Socialism)
We think your stupid and are not paying attention to what is really going on Media…
Smoke and Mirror Media…
Traditional Media
YOU might already have this label instead of “Mainstream Media”: Ostrich media.
BlindEye Media – due to their constant “public silence” says it all… or
Blindfish Media gives you that nice slimy feel, along with the total neglect thing we’re going for…
tough choice…personally, I would intersperse the two at will, just for fun.
State run media
PRM-Previously Relevant Media
Some more descriptions of the “mainstream media”
1. American Politboro
2. Co-conspirator media
3. Accomplice media
4. F.O.S. (full of sh*t) news
5. Non-objectice News (N.O.N)
“Mainstream Media” should be renamed:
Misleading Media
Marxist Media
Mad Media
Mean Media
Massive Media
Massively Misleading Media
Rabid Media
See No Liberal Evil Media
… Etc.
Tom Dillon
I think “sidestream media” would be more appropriate. They are a sideshow for the current administration and certainly make no apologies for it. (I do like the lamestream media label also.
In honor of Pres. O’s Chicago roots, how bout
THE MACHINE MEDIA???
(PS I predict Pres. O & Co. will soon RAM THROUGH the healthcare–and it will eventually MORPH into the system they want—despite any supposed compromises.)
It’s the Chicago Way!
I am like the “Left Behind” media
I agree with “LSM” — its only one letter off from “MSM”.
It can stand for “Liberal Stream Media”, “Left-Slanted Media”, “Liberal Sock-puppet Media”, or “Lying Sack of Manure” or a whole host of other things!
how ’bout the “Ball Lickers Club”.
Lot’s of great ideas here to rename the “mainstream media”.
How about “Pravda”?
Keep up the good work.
Here you go Bernie…
“The Lackey Media”
Definition of Lackey:
1 a : footman 2, servant b : someone who does menial tasks or runs errands for another
2 : a servile follower : toady
The media is clearly the servant of it’s self-ascribed messiah, Barack Obama.
Bernie, here’s an analogy. During the recent US auto industry crisis, a term that connoted burdensome costs and bad practices within the ‘big 3′ nearly draging them into oblivion vis a vis foreign competition, was ‘legacy costs’. I agree the ‘mainstream media’ is no longer mainstream. They are losing ground to new media. I think we should start referring to them as the ‘legacy media’ i.e. passe. They’re bleeding red ink and if they don’t change their practives/behavior, as enterprises, they’re dead. I think framing them as ‘legacy media’ let’s them know the sound of the ticking clock is getting louder. Thanks for what you do!
On the other hand, Gary Floyd’s submission suggests another name.
“Obama’s Chorus”
I second the “Liberal Media”.
I’ve been using it personally for some time, now.
I have another acronym – UASR – Union of American Socialist Reporters – tied to, of course, the USSR – which is where we’re heading!!!!!
Bernie,………..I respectfully suggest they be forever known as “The Fourth Estate Choir”!!!
Hideously Disfigured Media
The Un-Right Media
We’re talking about “The Iron Curtain Media” in America. It’s every bit as difficult for Americans to “find out the truth” in this contemporary age as it was for the people behind the “iron curtain.” In the days of the former “Soviet Union,” The State owned and operated all news outlets. Other than names on deeds and articles of incorporation, how is that different from what exists in the US today? The media is in the pocket of the left wing extremists in Washington and offer no investigative reporting. Why not call ‘em what they are: The Iron Curtain Media?
Brain Dead Media
In war, you must first identity your enemy and then determine their strengths and weaknesses. The current liberal media loves to “shroud themselves” in the idea that they are unbiased and a “servant” and not corruptable. That is all a lie. They are all corrupt and biased and serve only the left and their own interests. Expose the lie by calling them simply what they are, if it becomes common lexicon, will hurt them and finally open more eyes and ears in America to their lies.
How about “IMAGE NEWS”. Perhaps the word “media” should not be associated with these so-called “mainstream” groups. After all, Hollywood is a media abuser that considers itself “mainstream”. The truth is, for now, we’re talking about NEWS JOURNALISM and the principled ethics that certain News Groups have consciously elected to abandon. Maybe we could refer to these people as the “IMAGE NEWS”. Let’s face it. Their primary objective in using the one-way media as their weapon is to employ “Pavlovian Conditioning” to create the selected “images” they want American’s to have.
Lot’s of the above are “cute” but won’t be used because they are esoteric or denote anger or are in some other way inappropriate in many common settings. A moniker to stick, must be descriptive and something that anyone can understand with out explanation, and must be such as to be suitable for widespread use in all settings in America. From Fox with Friends to RedEye in the middle of the night. That all limits the choices. Something that middle, average, normal America can embrace. Something civil, extremely descriptive, revealing, and cutting to the bone when the folks at NBC, ABC, NYT, CBS, CNN, etc, hear it describe them. Something that can roll off the tongue and catch on with not only pundits and talk show hosts on Fox, but radio hosts and people in the street. Something that describes that the “Emperor has no clothes” and that America is on to them and is ignoring them. That calling them out and then ignoring them is the hurt they can not abide.
Left Stream Media or simply the Left Media
Take a page from the Sol Lewinsky book for radicals. Use your enemy’s tactics to defeat them. Identify your true enemy and put them on the defensive and keep them there.
Excellent… Most Excellent!
RBW — Simple and effective. I will refer to the Left stream media or Left media from now on.
Maim street media
How about “Maudlin Media”
The “OLD” Media
How about…….”THE LIBERAL MEDIA”
SLIPSTREAM MEDIA
The Effete Media or EM for short.
KPBAM – “Knee Pads and Bibs Adorned Media”- because (like porn stars) they slurp up and swallow whole-heartedly anything everything the DNC and Obama administration spews out.
Dinosaur Divas
i agree wholeheartedly that the media now presented is not “main stream.” perhaps, we should begin to refer to it as “a slobbering left” media.
doug
ohiosaltydog@gmail.com
How ’bout . . . . MEAN SCREAM MEDIA ??????????
where they serve the Truth . the HOLE Truth . A-HOLE Lotta UNTRUTHs
Loved most the above
I’ve been referring to them as the “Old Guard” media for several years- I refuse to refer to them as “mainstream”…
Bernie,
Let’s call them as they truly are, Lamestream Media: lacking meaningful or desirable substance: WEAK, INEFFECTUAL
Call them the “Left Behind Media” It applies in more ways then one.
Bernie, How about calling them the “Left Behind” media? It applies in more ways then one.
SEMA: Abbreviation for Sanctimonious Establishment Media Apparatchik. 1. Propaganda arm of a bigoted, intolerant political class with diminishing influence on current events; 2. an elitist organization totally incapable of original, independent thought; 3. unlike most whores, SEMA does not provide value for services rendered
JOKE MEDIA Just Outta Kilter Everytime
OK, Mr Goldberg, having now skimmed the 470 posts above, here are some ideas:
a) I still suggest “Libstream,” because it is accurate, descriptive and short.
b) “Lamestream” seems to be getting the most endorsements. I agree with the feeling, as I do with your head-exploding friends re the Times, to which I remain a subscriber despite its perfidy, but I think if you are to adopt a new name, it should be neutral to gain wide acceptance.
c) I further suggest “State media,” or “Statist media,” which I have not seen endorsed, instead of “State-owned” or “State-run,” which have, because the worldview of the Times, AP, CBS, etc. is unflinchingly statist. They are, however, not in fact state-owned or state-run, though federal bailout ideas and rumors persist and I suppose will continue indefinitely. For the time being “State” media is simple, short and a bit arch in its description. It also depicts the Bananastan-style breathless admiration the Times and co. proffer daily.
d) I am surprised no one suggests Rush’s “Drive-by” appellation, the derivation of which I have never understood, but which he uses whenever I happen to hear his program.
Thanks again and best regards.
Not sure if I’m putting this in the right place, BUT the main stream media should be changed to THE LEFT WING MEDIA
WHAT MEDIA? We Hate All Truths
Bernie, keep it simple, a lot of us gave up on them years ago, so I think of them as the “PERIPHERAL” media, since they only cover (with bias no less) for their selected peripheral of America.
Hey Bernie,
How about ‘Opinion Media’, ‘Factually Challenged Media’, ‘Public Option Media’, or ‘Michael Moore Media’?
Bernie, I know you can’t say this on t T V but the new youk time should change their motto to
” All the news that’s Sh_t to print”
I am partial to:
“Legacy Press.”
They developed a reputation only from the fact that they’ve been in place for so long.
2nd one……
White House Press Corps
Main Scream Media
Fact-free media
bernie how about “main extreme media”?
Dominant Media
Left Stream Media
Watched new Leno Last night- Television as Mainstream Media is Dead As Custer, my mainstream media at 73 years old is http://www.steverubel.com/
Have not read all 469 above, so apologies if this has been suggested: “Libstream media.”
Thanks and thanks for all of your contributions.
No news is good news
FREESTYLE MEDIA
Here’s the term I’ve been using for the NY Times & other likeminded media organizations:
THE AGENDA MEDIA.
Simply put, the NY Times & NBC aren’t invested in reporting important & verifiable facts. They’re invested in selling the Democrats’ agenda. PERIOD. If that means they’ll suffer a financial hit, they’re prepared to take that hit.
The Old Guard Media
Many ideas…many funny ones, too.
A serious idea, though?
I think “Elite Media” suites them perfectly.
Really.
ADDENDUM:
Instead of just “Elite Media”…
Why not “Elitist Media”?
I still propose using the term MOTS (Media Of The State) to describe the old national news platform of delivering the news.
HOWEVER, regardless of what new or descriptive term should be regarding the national media, the time has come for a more reliable, efficient and contemporary method for an individual to obtain timely and pertinent news and information.
SUGGESTION: Establish an open-source, flexible platform to automatically notify individual users via e-mail OR send a compilation to the individual of new/updated news stories of specific interest by subject matter (previously selected by the individual).
QUESTION: Who will devise such a comprehensive platform? You Tube? Google? FOX?
And, what will be the name/term designated for such a news delivery system in such a new era? The News U Customize (TNUC) ?
Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Goldberg,
May I suggest “Imperious Media” in lieu of “main stream” or “elite media”? The latter inferring an obtained accomplishment, i.e.. an elite athlete.
Imperious: marked by arrogant assurance : domineering (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imperious)
cc: Mr. Bill O’Reilly
Sgt. Schultz Media – SSM
“I see nothing, nnooothing!”
Minor Ditch Media
Minor-League Media
Time-Delay Media
Day Old Media
This could and would roll off all each radio talk show host lips if they would just start saying “Special Interest Media” as they are not looking out for Main Street America but just for the special interest groups.
Another one Bernie.
Instead of MSM, Main Stream Media — call it:
MRM – Myth River Media
You can even have a tag line. The M’s are of course equal however R comes one letter before S, so tag line for MRM could be:
“Always trying to be one-up on ya!”
I love the previously mentioned “Fraudcast News.”
And, of course, we need a name for its print companion, so how about “Pap-papers.”
I like what Rush calls them, the “State-Run Media”. I think that says it all.
Mr. Goldberg:
How do you like this one: MENDACIOUS MEDIA!
I’ll see if any other ideas come to mind.
P.S. – I still like Lamestream Media.
Status Media
How about:
Groucho Marx Media —– I believe it has several applicable meanings 1) they are grouchy so Groucho works, 2) they are … well Marx seems to fit rather well, 3) the saying below pretty well spells out their current situation every time they open their mouths – HA!
He is one of the individuals attributed with saying “Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”?
So is Abe Lincoln, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, and a few others. More than likely a simple maxim.
All the confusion and disagreement surrounding both the author and the wording of this saying leads one to suspect that it may be a simple maxim, not attributable to any single person — which is not to question its wisdom.
The Beltway Bubble Media
Beltway Bubblehead Media
Call them “Old Media” you and Fox are “New Media”. or call them “Old School Media” you’re right they are no longer mainstream.
Fraudcast News
New name for Main Stream Media.
Rejected Media.
The Lamestream Media – but of course I didn’t come up with it, I hear somebody that is fairly well-known use it quite often…
How about Blind Stream Reporting because no matter what the left does it turns a blind eye and their reporting really is just a bunch of BS.
Bernie,
I’ve been a fan since your CBS days and DEFINITELY since “Bias”… my wife and I would like to submit as a replacement for “mainstream media”:
The Dinosaur Media (big, dumb, dying – soon to be extinct)
The Kool-Aid Media (meaning is all too obvious)
Let’s call a spade a spade!
How about the LibDream Media?
Bernie,
How about Urine Stream Media because they are alway P…ing on us. I would say Midstream but that’s supposed to be the pure part of the urine sample.
Ron
Washington
Kudos to you, Bernie! Here are a few I thought of:
Mean Street Media
Losing Streak Media
Forget the Main Media
Whitehouse Paid Media
Afraid of Racism Media (ARM)
MoveOn.Org Media
We Don’t Care Media
Paid Off Media
all good fishermen fish “upstream”.
they’re not catching any fish, so they should be called the “downstream” media.
and, to borrow from Beck, they are
The News That Makes The Blood Shoot Out Of My Eyes
Thanks to Fox News for saving my sanity.
Three Wing Circus
Mainstream Media ? No. How’s Lame Stream Media ? Fabrication communications? Hokum Hook-Ups ? The Media we Feedia ? Or
Perjury Performances LTD. I disapprove of Socialism, big government, Big Brother and aGovernment that couldn’t see or oversee the economy’s collapse. Unemployment levels are higher in ohio and Michigan with many of those jobs never to return. and trying to destroy a system that needs repair., not oblivion. Passing laws they don’t bother to read. Playing the race card on those who disagree with them. Pretending the dissenters are KKK or Neo -Nazi agitators. We should send Congress back to school for an American History lesson. I hope we can burst their bubble in 2010..
You can use this if you like.
Your right its no longer the main stream media,
I believe they should be refered to as
(The Lap Dog Media) at least thats how I think of them.
National Propaganda Media to match National Propaganda Radio. We then have NPM and NPR.
I am so turned off by the partisanship of the earstwhile mainstream media, that now I largely get my information on line. The old media is an accomplice in ushering in the repressive totalitarian regime to our country and eventually make it a third world country.
I have a question, if a prostitute is a perfomance artist, is a crack dealer a pharmaceutical rep? Just wonderin”
Outstanding.
How about
Nutcase news, Numskull News, Misled Media, Nonsense News, Radical Reporters, or just plain Journalistically Challenged Media
The Choir (as in preaching to)
I think Old Media kind of does it all. For the current times Obedia kind of sums it up, but he will be gone, and the term needs to live.
My preference is Legacy Media. Second choice: Liars
I agree that “Downstream Media” is a good, more accurate description of present day news offerings. However, I believe that the name does not give these print/broadcast companies due credit. (Benefit of the doubt).
I would like to submit that the truer reference might be “Bottom Stream Media”. (This is where the worthless sludge settles and awaits its stirring by the self important “news”).
Go FOX
Marginal media, there is nothing main stream about them.
I don’t listen to them and I don’t care what they have to say about anything. You wont hear the truth from them because they don’t speak the truth they have their own agenda.
Instead of “Main Stream” media they should be called “Last Century Media”
I do like Rush’s “state run” media as well.
“Lap Dog Media”
that way it applies to whoever’s butt they are kissing that week.
Bernie ,I also watched you on the Factor, I think Mr. O really doesn’t understand ,even though we do not live on the east or west coast, we are educated and surprise, surprise we can even read and we understand politics. We know when there is corruption, we know when someone is talking out of both sides of their mouth. And we also know when the Dems are desperate they resort to the racial slur.Most Americans do not care what Maureen Dowd or Eugene Washington have to say, they are irrelevant. And lastly please do not refer to these morons as “elite media”, there is nothing “elite ” about them. Thank you
Neal Boortz got it right here in Atlanta. “Lamestream Media”
How about we just call ‘em uneducated mindless automatons.
Is the current media establishment much different then an activist judge? or progressive judge? not sure if those are the same. “legislate from the bench.” “report from the left”
Progressive …
To make the transition we’ll have phase it in using these definitions:
Mainstream Progressive Media for 2-4 months.
Then goto Mainstream Progressive Reporting/Reporters 2-4 months.
Then finally get to what it Really is “Progressive Reporting” or PR
Thanks Bernie for giving people a chance to share – “the federal media”owned by Obama also I’d really like to say thanks for bringing up the racist problem – yes, people are getting very sick of it – it’s really old and it has nothing to do with the color of ones skin it’s all about your belief system – actually if Michael Steele were running for president I’d vote for him on the Republican ticket – I think he’s great – good morals and right on with everything – so it doesn’t matter about color – it’s what you believe about policies – Obama has no regard for the American people or what we stand for – he has no regard for the constitution or how we got to where we are today – talk about a racist -
Kool-aide drinking media
Governmental Media
Socialized Media
How about the OSM? (One-Sided Media, pronounced o-s-m…but, then again, they might take it as a homophone and start calling themselves awesome–they already think they are…hmmm…I’ll think of another name.) : )
White House Messengers
Propagandist
Stool Pigeons
King Obama’s Scribes
Robots
Obamabots
Demedia sounds kind of like dementia, the dem part of it stands for democrats who control de media, and de media instead of the media reflects how dumb they are.
Obamedia
Taking a page from big government, big business, big labor, the media could be called simply “big media.” The term left wing media has been around for a long time and it accurately describes big media.
Lying media
devious media
misleading media
disinformation media
cover up media
dishonest media
fascist media
crooked media
liberal media
socialist media
bs media
democrat controlled media
corrupt media
deceitful media
propaganda media
communist media
treacherous media
Hey Bernie! Love ya! How about:
P2/D2 Media = Print Propaganda/Digital Deception Media
“Help us Bernie Goldberg, your our only hope!”
or an acronym:
PaNATT MaBeTeC Media = Pay No Attention To The Man Behind the Curtain Media
D.A.M.–Dumb-Ass-Media.
“That’s Dumas.” [/prospective reader/viewer]
Wrong Wing Media
I agree that “mainstream” gives the liberal media too much credit. Another pet peeve: Let’s drop use of the word “reform” when speaking about legislation. It means absolutely nothing.
Most Washington “reforms” make life worse for most Americans. Medicare was reform. How can diluting it be reform. Graham-Steadman was a reform of finance laws that led to the Depression. Congress and President Clinton repealed it with another reform that again permitted banks to securitize mortgages. That led to a near-depression. Please, let’s eliminate all “reforms.”
I just emailed Newsweek to ask Jon Meacham to cover a story about the recent ACORN issue re: prostitution. I did mention that Newsweek is mainstream media (as I hoped his staff would listen)-knowing, of course that NEWSWEEK is anything but mainstream in U.S. at this point. NEWSWEEK is so liberal left that it is a joke!!
Mainstream is not Newsweek and is not NBC, CBS, ABC or any of their little stepchildren.
There is no MAINSTREAM MEDIA now, except that more and more people are listening to FOX NEWS and some – like me – continue to try to listen to CNN and the crazy nutcase MSN and find that they only support Obama’s Socialist/ Facist agenda that most U.S. citizens do NOT AGREE with.
Mainstream media should be called “elite media” – or “I kiss Obama’s ass” media. This will clearly differentiate American’s who bow down to the NY Times and Washington Post, Newsweek etc. from those who truely agree that Obama’s agenda will hurt/destroy America. Thank you.
State Run Media
Rush Limbaugh has it nailed:
“State Run Media”
Since they are given their day’s talking points every morning at 8:15AM by the Rahm.
Big Media, or BM
Leftist Media.
I think it should be referred to as the “Social Media”. I don’t think I really need to explain, as it seems clear, is short, accurate, and says it all. Many subtexts can be inferred…
I couldn’t believe when you told Bill O’Reilly, tonight, to stop saying Mainstream Media. This weekend I told my husband and daughter the same thing. Since then, I’ve been thinking of what to call them. Here are a few possibilities, and thank you for asking: The Once Media, The Medialess Media or just The Medialess – we’ll know who they are, The BlameStream Media, The Shadow Media, The Masked Media, The Look in the Other Direction Media, The Rose has Another Name and Mysteriously Looks Like a Weed Media, The Pictionary Media, The Group-think Media, The Cry Racist Media, The Kool-aide Media, The Just Don’t Get It Media, The Truthless Media, The Emoticon Media, The Ghost Media, The New SoVile Union Media, The Empty Media, The Media No More, The Follow-the-leader Media, The No News Media, The And Now You Still Don’t Know the Rest of the Story Media, and Ha Ha, you never will.
Thx for the fun, Bernie, As The Slobber Flows.
I would call them Pravda, but that would be an insult to PRAVDA; which has been telling more about what is really happening in our nation than the Propagandist Media we have here.
How about the Marxist Media. I don’t trust them and how they are trying slant the information to shed the best light on the Government and tell us what they want us to think, and believe. They have a role to play in our Republic that they have tossed away, and the American Citizenry is paying the price.
I won’t even watch, or read them any longer. I don’t think I think the truly informed in this country do either.
Bernie, in regards to a new name for Main Stream Media which it is not, WHY NOT CALL IT “UNRELIABLE MEDIA WHICH IT CERTAINLY IS. Chuck.
Love you, Bernie.
As a former radio producer and talk show host may I offer…
Painscream Bleedia: hemorrhaging America’s intellect, infecting its values, killing its moral virtue.
Who me?? Cynical??
Nahhh.
Clueless Media
Official media
Legacy media
Federal media
But lets face it. The are politically left and proud of it. The Liberial or Progressive press fits well.
I think the so called main stream media is more like the media of the former Soviet Union, there for it would be more accurate to call them the Polit Bureau. Thanks for the opportunity to contribute. Chuck
The Media Mafia.
“See B.S.” Evening News
NBC Nightly Blues
A Cray-Z News
Best 3 hours of media every weekday: Mark Levin … MarkLevinShow.com — the man has made me politically charged. Never got off my duff until listening to him last year. Celebrated 9/12 Tea Party with other concerned Americans. Vigilance is the price of liberty. Thank you, Mark.
Great abbrevs!
Isn’t that how they derived ACORN – the Rathke bros: A Couple Of Real Nuts?
I’d suggest “Moonstruck Media” — that way we can still use the “MSM” abbreviation in referring to them.
Alternatively, “Lockstep Media”.
Ministry of Propaganda, Official Organ of the Party, that’s what we called them in Cuba before I escaped.
Pixie dust press, I believe about sums it up.
Pixie dust is too nice. How about Litter Box Media.
NY Chimes in(c).
Good point it is nice but at the same time hits on the fairytale mentality that the press has for this administration.
For the first few months of the Obama administration NBC looked like a nightly infomercial for the president. I write on Chuck Todd’s blog fairly regularly and have been calling NBC “American TASS” for some time. Chuck doesn’t like it but this is America and we are all entitled to our opinion. ABC and CBS also act as the voice of the party so the description would fit them as well.
Plain Mean Media
Once Upon A Time Media
Media B.C. (Before Computer)
Sasquatch Media
Vaudeville Media
Annoying Pest Media
Communist News Network = CNN
Alphabet Media Channels
I think of them as the state-run media.
Thank you so much for your comments on O’Reilly tonight! I stopped watching the alphabet media channels back during the democrat primaries because of the sexism desplayed toward Hillary Clinton (which was a slap in the face of all women) and then because of their blatant bias. I was researching the candidates on the internet and finding out background information about Barack Obama that I never once heard on the alphabet media. All the complaints in the world didn’t seem to do any good. I now get my news from the Internet, bloggers, and a few FOX shows. It was an accident I heard you on O’Reilly tonight.
Far-Left Media
Useful Idiots?
I watched you on the Oreilly show, which I enjoy you both. I do believe we should change the words mainstream, I watch a little msnbc friday night just to see what they were saying and oh my gosh, all the protestors were right wing white government hatters, unbelievable! I also saw juan Williams on the show after you, saying about senator Wilson from S.C., he (Juan) ran him down because he was a member of the sons of the confederate. Would you explain why everyone can be proud of their history except the white male or if you are a chirstian! Williams was running down the confederate flag, which had nothing to do with salvery, hell the war didnt at first either, the south was trying to succed from the north, just like we should now, the government is trying to take over our everyday lives that they shouldnt have anything to say about!
After reading a few others’ suggestions, I vote for Downstream Media. I think it captures the idea that they are both past and polluted.
I would like to be as silly and dramatic as others….but know that you need to ‘get serious.’
How about……..”Print Media”?
Mr. Goldberg,
Words matter, so I commend your campaign to change our lexicon. If you listen to Rush Limbaugh, you know he has already changed this term to:
STATE RUN MEDIA
Though this is fun; I suggest we Keep It Sweet & Simple and follow our leader on this one.
Bernie,
How about YESTER YEARS MEDIA, THE BLIND MEDIA, THE DEFUNCT MEDIA, DISENGAGED MEDIA, THE DOWNSTREAM MEDIA. WILL ANY OF THESE WORK FOR YOU? I DO SO LIKE ALL THESE.
I hope that one of these works for you! Good going!
Marty Merc
PC Media.
For obvious reasons.
The last time I asked someone to watch “mainstream television”…September 11, 2001 when I woke up my husband (we were living in Central Calif. at the time) and told him this is something you need to see NOW. There’s way too much nancing around the truth from politicians and their media. Thank Goodness for FOX Network…at least THEY are making a dent in all this corruption in this country. We are only 2 people and I’m so glad FOX is staying on top of all of this and thanks for pulling the covers on Acorn!! KEEP UP THE WORK FOR THE COUNTRY.
Bernie,
Great job on your honest journalism. I agree, Main Stream Media should no longer be used to identify the older media establishment. I feel they should be referred to “The Malignant Media”. This phrase best describes their behavior, personality, current and future condition.
Keep up the great work!!
Tom Scholler
trspa@att.net
Wee-wee’d up Media
How about the “mendacious media” or the “delusional democratic media” or… how about the “what are you smokin’ media” or let’s just call them looney tunes and be done with them once and for all. What we know for sure is that they are the freaking fringe so who cares. Anyone still watching them is drinking the kool-aid.
INFOMERCIAL MEDIA
Because:
•they constantly repeat themselves
•they try to sell you something you really don’t need
•they sucker in the gullible ones
•they replay the same infomercial spots over and over
•they have nothing to do with the real world
•they’re all scripted
•the same message gets played on 20 different channels
•they have terrible actors/news correspondents
•they’re shameless in their sales pitch
•they sell their wares for one purpose – make themselves and their product look better than they really are
What? Me Media?
It’s probably already been mentioned, but I now refer to them as the State Media, always capitalized.
Bernie,
Heard you tonight; great job on “name change”.
They are EFFETE, thus call them what they are: The “EFFETE”MEDIA”.
Sounds similar to “elite” per Bill O’ this pm, but accurately describes them as essentially non-fertile and impotent!
They are neither main stream nor elite.
Thanks. Spread it around!!
Unreality TV … WE report, WE decide
Defunct Media
Perfidious Media
Mendacious Media
Prevaricating Media
I have had pretty strong feelings about the media for some time.
It all started with my local Snooze, both print and Television.
MSM became PMSM in my mythology long ago.
I honestly think we should call them the ‘Old Media’
This gives a sense they are out of date, irrelevant, and about to be history. I think this would get under their skin better than anything else. Not only that, it’s accurate. Which is even better.
By the way, I saw you on Fox tonight, it was a great segment. keep up the good work.
You can quote me on that
Anti-American Media
Bernie, We need to stop calling the National Socialists (Democrats) Liberals. The application of Liberal got applied because of their liberal spending. Liberal is a person for Freedom which is a Conservative. Furthermore all the Socialist programs are called, even by the conservatives, progressive programs when they are regressive.
Conservatives must stop falling into the Leftist trap of the Leftist language.
Anne Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Laura Ingram, Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, and other have to stop using the word LIBERAL when speaking of the Leftist Democrats.
Down Stream Media (way down stream!)
Miserable Media
Moron Media
People who use race have no solid principles on important issues to justify their positions.
Keep up the good work Bernie. Love your segments on Fox and especially your sports stories on HBO.
How about The Unjournalistic Media…
SHAME stream media! they live up to it with their biased coverage….
and the way they inject racism into everything is absurd.
You are right on target…I wonder why they are called MSM everytime I hear.
How about the new name DECEPTIVE STREAM MEDIA – DSM or PANSIE STREAM MEDIA…since they seem to be acting like pansies for someone! I am waiting to see an exodus of their employees.
NBC is Nothing But Crap! I own 20,000 shares and can’t wait to dump them. Jeff Immelt is a fraud and needs to be replaced.
As far as I’m concerned they are the: Go take a “piss in the stream” media–The PITS for short!
Dried Up Stream Media
Polluted Stream Media
Dear Bernie:
Thanx so much! FINALLY someone with media clout is talking about this obvious disparity!
They are not ‘main stream’… they’re ‘MEAN STREAK MEDIA’. THEY are the ones full of racism, condescension and hatred… not us. We all need to pray for them! Best 2 U in Christ, Tom
LEGACY media…The correct term is “LEGACY media”.
One of the definitions of legacy is:
“of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated system”
Nothing mainstream about them…just their legacy…
The Lamestream Needya
Out of Touch Media
Bernie, I saw you on O’Reilly tonight and came right to my computer to post this when I heard you talking with Bill about this subject.
They think they are the “Mainstream Media”. Well, I have NEWS for you! They are the “Downstream Media”.
Legacy Media or Left-Stream Media?
The truth is as a culture we care more about the ROCKSTAR information of every part of our lives. It needs to be called the
ROCKSTAR MEDIA IN DENIAL
We need to stand up and put a stop to this type of interest, who cares how someone is living…especially when all eyes were on the rockstar emphasis of the last election. Now we have a ROCKSTAR instead of a president. At least everyone is waking up.
Watercooler Media
INFOMERCIAL MEDIA
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. finally! Someone is asking the question I have been asking for years – why does everyone call them the mainstream media? there is nothing mainstream about most of the media today.
So I call them the ‘alphabet media’.
PS: The last time I watched any evening network newscast – probably CBS – was about 1987. I want to know what is going on, so why would I watch the evening news?
Seagull media
Because:
- They look pretty much alike
- They all sound alike
- They tend to ignore anything too far from a coast
- They gather in great crowds around the smallest tidbit
and they crap on everything
Right. Especially SUVs.
How about: Say What Media or U don’t say media?
GULP (Great Ultra Liberal Press)
MYOPIC MEDIA… DOWN-STREAM MEDIA… HOW LOW CAN YOU GO MEDIA… MIS-STEP MEDIA
gov- run news mdia
It’s all already been said, so I have a few ideas:
Mean Stream Media
Downstream Media
Polluted Stream Media
Team Obama Media
Malcontented Media
Turncoat Media
Alright, done…
Pelosi’s Puppies
suggest
SOUNDBITE MEDIA
How about: say what media, or u don’t say media.
I like the term Peestream Media or for short Pstream Media
Legacy Media is the name you are looking for. In the same sense as a community refers to an obnoxious old waste dump as a “legacy waste problem” , meaning an obnoxious problem from the past that you can’t avoid, the so called “mainstream media” is nothing more than an obnoxious problem from the past that we wish were not there.
Liberal Lapdog Media
Hey Bernie… Its not Mainstream media….. It’s LAMESTREAM MEDIA
The MSM should be named the Lame Stream Media. Your opinion poll regarding the popularity of presidents supports the bumper sticker I came up with in January which is
Obama Makes Carter Look Smarter
NewBusters.org coined the phrase “LameStreamMedia” and I think that’s pretty accurate.
Ok, forget the media label I just posted. ‘Lamestream’ is better.
My suggestion for mainstreet media
SOUNDBITE MEDIA
As for the so-called media,
I would call them the gunsel media.
Them.
very cool. Them are ‘they’ as in ‘they say…’.
Brevity is the soul of wit!!
Pravda
nyet comrade!!
Bernie, you are soooo right (as in, correct)! The TRADITIONAL news sources are no more mainstream than Hollyweird.
So, let’s call them the TRADITIONAL NEWS SOURCES or THE POLITICALLY CORRECT MEDIA
Great Idea Bernie and you are bang on for it. For me it’s always been ” Yesterdays media sources, the New York Times, WasPos, La Times etc” Always framed as the same “Yesterdays media”.
Cheers
The Marginal Media (MM)
They are Legacy Media.
Hi Berine:
How about the MainScream Media?
the LibScream media?
Loved Slobbering Love Affair
Thanks for being you.
Bernie – I believe we should trash the term “mainstream media” as well and replace it with – “CRT MEDIA”. Because, they are the media we all watched when we were stuck with “cathode ray tubes” for televisions.
I’ve been calling it the lamestream media since 2006,
and my Uninvited Ombudsman reports have been
reaching huge and growing crowds:
http://www.gunlaws.com/PageNineIndex.htm
The only name that comes to mind regarding the MSM is :
Regressive,Progressive Media
or
Were They Talkin’ to Us? Media
Talking with their mouths Full Media
2 cents Media
How about the ” Babbling Brook Media”
Main Scream Media
Extreme Media
The Dead Media
I have been calling newspapers this for several years….. “Yesterdays News Tomorrow”
Great peice Bernie…you hit the nail on the head!
I refer to THEM as the “StatistMedia” and their “reporters & audience’s are Obmatrons!
How about just LIARS. It seems to be the most accurate.
How about the Kool-Aid Media?
Mainstream Media no longer fits. Sh*t Creek Media is more appropriate.
SOM……”State-Owned Media”
Without a doubt “The Mickey Mouse Media”
Bernie, I agree, it’s just the Media – and when is someone at Fox going to startup a 60 minutes style program to investigate corruption? we need it now! And like u, am tired of Racism card always shown by left/media – It’s not about the race, Obama is the President and we don’t like where he’s taking our domestic policy. So when anyone asks if I’m a racist, i say yes, i do like to go fast!
Great idea. Build a staff of reporters around Bernie.
I think the so called mainstream media should be called the over the hill hippie media they are so biased towards the left and Obama seems to be their Love Child. We need more reporting like we see on Fox News and the Conservative Bloggers on the internet. We need the truth not the filtered liberal biased fluff we get from the New York Times, the LA Times, The Washington Post and the Boston Golbe and others liberal media outlets. The best thing we can do is not watch there Newscasts on TV or buy their Newspapers or Magazines and they will go out of business. Because if we do not watch them or buy the print media advertisers will not advertise thus seriously damaging their income and they will fold.
This one is easy Bernie.
Of you’re not of the mainstream, you are an outlier. The Outlier Media woudl therefore be appropriate.
I enjoy your work, and look forward to more of it.
lamestream media
IMOs–Irrelevant Media Outlets. “Irrelevant Media Outhouses” works too.
It’s no longer the main stream media it’s now “old news” or “yesterday’s media.”
The mainstream media is now “Old News” or “yesterday’s media”.
How about “Jurassic Media”? They’re extinct, old, and don’t matter anymore. Simply a part of ancient history. Not to mention brains the size of a walnut!
Dear Bernie,
I have long felt the same way. Why “honor” them with a false title of “mainstream”…they are not!!! Few suggestions: “agendamedia,” “complicitmedia,” “organmedia,” “scriptedmedia,” or “slobermedia!”
Chiao
Call ‘em what they are…..the “Obama-nation Media’.
Here is my suggestion: government influenced media?
It’s most certainly true and it describes what many think about today’s media but don’t bother to say.
Thanks for the opportunity to provide a suggestion.
Richard Moore
I was so glad to hear Bernie say the he was SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING THE “R” WORD !!!
Bill O asked, What can we do about it?
What we can do about it is in every instance possible talk about it like Bernie did. SICK AND TIERED OF HERING IT. Whether in papers on speaking to an individual, it all adds up against them.
The Media ? LAME STREAM MEDIA
dying media
former media
poluted stream media
weak stream media
“The DLM” (Dear Leader Media)
keep it simple…old media. ‘old’ implies irrelevance.
Call them “Sideline news.”
mind bending media
why does the media refer to obama as africian american and anyone that disagrees with anything that he does is a racist, I thought he is just as much white as black I think it is time to stop refering to him as the first black pres. and just refer to him as the president of the united states
Then the left-wing nut media should call us half-racist.
Mainstream Media? ……….Vainstream Media!
How about Obama’s Stenographers?
“Left-wing Fan Club Media”
“Left-wing Fan Club Newsletter Media”
“Left-wing Advertising Media”
“Left-wing Sales Brochure Media”
“Left-wing Infomercial Media”
LAME STREAM MEDIA is my choice!! They no longer have the slightest clue what the true patriots of this great nation want !!! Thanks, Mr. Goldberg for all you do in speaking out against the ridiculous and corrupt actions in DC. God Bless the USA!!!
And sometimes I call them the main-sleeze-media….but as one commenter just noted, we can’t really define them as media any more, can we?
LOL
Mindless media!
I think the “new” media should be called Three Monkeys Media – deaf, dumb, blind (ABC, CBS, NBC).
They are no longer media, but Progresso information telemaketers!
Dale,
How about The Mind Numb Media?
As to the alternate name for Mainstream Media, I would like to suggest:”Side-show Media”. Mainstream reminds me that when I was a child, I would rush to carnivals and stand in awe of the sideshow barkers who would shout and entice us rubes and townies to see the “awesome and ferocious tiger locked in a cage for your protection “. Whereby, I would pay my dime and enter a tent only to discover a tiger pelt played over a sawhorse within a barred wooden crate. I would then stand in awe at the trick of words and realized that it was a cheap lesson.
An alternative name would be Sleight of Hand Media. It speaks for itself.
“OLD Media” not Mainstream Media!
Obsolete Media
Dinosaur Media
Irrelevant Media
Mind scream media?
One more:
The GSM (Gramsci State Media or Gramsci Stealth Media)
Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist who advocated methodical long-term infiltration by leftists into positions of influence in academia, media and local politics by stealth to indoctrinate the public.
We agree, Mainstream Media is out.
My husband came up with: “Stagnant Media”; “Irrelevant Media”; and “Last-Gasp Media” (pretty good huh?).
I think Rush’s “State Run Media” is frighteningly accurate, just as his “Drive-By Media” was.
Or…how about: “Unfair and Unbalanced Media”…..(i.e. NOT FOX).
Thanks for all you do and for letting us weigh in.
My suggestion:
The “Weak Stream Media”; journalistic integrity down the toilet.
Bill Henderson
Blamestream media…
How about cencured, brainwashing media for the mainstream media name. You may want to throw in biased too. They aren’t giving both sides.
It is outrageous that our media is censured except for Fox and conservative radio. Even Google is censured. Why? We spoke with my husband’s mom in Rhode Island this weekend. She doesn’t get cable TV so she knew NOTHING about the recent ACORN videos and findings, or anything about the HUGE rally at the Capital this weekend.
How can this happen and how can this change? It is as if people who don’t have cable or listen to the radio are only getting one sided censured news on CBS, ABC, NBC and MSNBC. It is a form of brainwashing people to think things are a certain way, so they can’t discern for themselves and make correct judgments and decisions. This is America and is not right! Many people are concerned. Otherwise the people of the United States of America are only getting censured one sided news which is UNBELIEVABLE in this day and age. They aren’t hearing some of the very concerning things that are happening. Also they can’t stand up against what is wrong if they don’t know about it. Thank you for all you do to bring the truth out about the slobbering love affair!
The “Bullshit Brigade” would be more appropriate.
I’ve been calling them the “Old Media” for weeks now. As one said, ” It’s simple”. “Old” in this case, is irrelevant, narrow-minded and inflexible. Yea, I’ll keep using “old media”. Also, when I tire of something, when writing or typing, I emphasize my point by making it lower case. Kinda like I use the reference, “this president”.
Thanx for your righteous indignation re the NOT-SO-MAINSTREAM Media. How about The “Up-the Creek” Media, The Clueless Media, The Absentee Media or The Muddied Water Media?
Out-of-Step MEDIA
Elitest Media
OffCenter Media
Clueless Media
They are not mainstream now, and maybe they never were. We were all spoon fed their slop and we ate it up.but no more. Just call them OLD………OBAMA LAP DOGS
Instead of Mainstream Media, how about Elitist Media?
Love watching you on the O’Reilly Factor, and listening to you when Bill will let you get a word or two in!
New name”NON-MAINSTREAM MEDIA” or how about “JUST 4 SHYTES N GIGGLES MEDIA” or “UP A STREAM WITH NO PADDLE MEDIA”. What a joke! Catch up to the real Americans and their real concerns. Forget bi-partisan, lots talk people and what is best for America as a whole–no race, no name calling, no acting like middle schoolers. Adults with real problems who want what is best for the greatest Nation in the world and it’s children. God Bless America and get with the program “NON-MAINSTREAM MEDIA”!
How about “The 3 Ring Media”
As in a 3 Ring Circus with President Obama (the Main Act) trying to walk the high wire above the Clowns (CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS…etc.) heads as they follow underneath the trampoline. Because when President Obama lands flat on his face the Clowns know their careers are over!!
Traditional media reminds me more and more of Josef Goebbels in a free market, a voluntary censorship of free speech and political propaganda arm of the left. so I suggest…
Extra-Governmental Ministry of Propaganda (& Kool-Aid dispensers)
or
EGMoP KADs for short
It is quite evident the once respected Main-stream media is now The Puppet Press of The Prez
DNC jr
The Defunct Red Media. The Defunct Media , The Defeatist Media, Hold Back the Truth Media
Had them fooled Media, weave and bob Media, we peek Media, Fools Media, Backdoor Media,
The Memestream Media
The MIA MSM
DNCNN
The nightly:
Leftist
Indoctrination
Edict
Thanks for bringing this to the front. They are NOT mainstream. Call them the “fringe” media or the “dinosaur” media.
Based on the historical and nearly-forgotten Yellow Journalism: Yellowstream Media!
LOL, yeah and they are yellowstreaming on us.
How about minor stream media or no stream media.
Ridicule is a powerful tool.
The new name should be: MIN STREAM MEDIA
People will ask – don’t you mean MAIN STREAM MEDIA?
Answer: No, they have been minimized to MIN STREAM MEDIA.
How about BM for biased media?
The Pravda Group
I also saw you on O’Reilly tonite. Thank you for sharing most of our opinions on the media. I was at the DC Tea Party also. You have definitely got it. We are tired of being labeled racist. We are not. There maybe a small fringe element, but that is because we are a sampling of Americans!! We have been brought up with traditional American values. If you work hard, are honest, have integrity, are caring, conscious of not being racist, believe in traditional marriage, are Christian, you are somehow in 2009 considered a narrow minded racist. When the truth is we are educated, from many different economic levels, from all over this country, most important we pay attention to what is happening in this country. We feel it is the responsibility as citizens of these United States to participate and give back to our communities. We care and understand how important the constitution is to liberty. We are eternally grateful for our founding fathers and all the sacrifice that has occurred for our FREEDOM and we feel a responsibility to protect our freedoms. These used to be the norm in this country. We don’t feel we have changed. What has changed is the craziness that has occurred in this country. We have heard for 40 years the same old rhetoric out of each party. We have watched our traditions be trashed because of multi culturalism and political correctness. Being Christians is now as taboo as being a racist. We pay our bills on time, worked hard to get mortgages, Will work 2 jobs to make it through to the next month if necessary. We believe in personal responsibility not handouts. We have watched our country fall apart because the government is so fiscally irresponsible with our money and always want more. The mainstream media is in the pocket with liberals. We are just fed up and are not going to take it anymore. We will not go away. We are going to play fire with fire.
Don’t know why “media” has to be the new title so how about…
Jesters of Journalism
I vote lame-stream media. Or swirling media..like when you flush the toilet bowl. Or this, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Hear_speak_see_no_evil_Toshogu.jpg
Since CNN seems to have spawned this outrage,(Communist News Network and Company)
Hows about “Katie Incorrect” or “MendaciousMain Media”, or simply “Mendacious Media”.
“MuckrackerMedia”, “Chris Madeupnews”, “Rachel Madateveryone”. Keep up the good work. It’s very scary. Joanna
I think it would be very accurate to simply refer to them as the “Blue Media”.
mainstream media=Mediasarus
Mediasarus came from Micheal Chriton of Andromeda Strain fame and he coined this term as he predicted the media’s demise as far back in ’93 in speech before the National Press club and later an essay for Wired Magazine which u can find in a Google search.
I just call them Pravda – that goes for my local newspaper, the Raleigh News & Observer, as well.
How about Boot Lickin’ Media?
Hey Bernie – love your appearances on O’Reilly – tonight was especially good.
Hope you’re enjoying NC – I used to live in the mountains too. That brings up a whole other problem – we need fair & impartial journalism locally. There’s so much corruption in Democrat-controlled NC politics. We have Fox nationwide but we DESPERATELY need fair news coverage for each state!
I first noticed the left wing agenda of the media in 1970 when I came back from a 27 month long US Marine tour of duty in Viet Nam. The news did not depict the reality. It’s gotten progressively worse since then. My wife, who grew up in the USSR in the 60′s, sees our society and media deteriorating to that state.
I suggest: mediacrity, left wing media & Hollywood media, but Lamestream media is apt.
Lapdog Media
LapDog Media (MSNBC, etc) versus BullDog Media (FOX)
Shame on You Media
How about “The Diverse Media”?
I think it would now be appropriate to refer to the previously named “mainstream media” as the “former mainstream media”inasmuch as it is no longer “mainstream”.
Mr. Goldberg,
I suggest that you keep it simple: “Old Media.”
thought of a few more
the shame stream media
toxic stream media
mean scream media
the cool =ade media
the partisan papers
the pre-wipe media
….just hit the bottom
YellowStream Media; MainScream Media; OneTheme Media; BrainDead Media; DownTheDrain Media;
I am a member of several Email discussion groups, and we have been calling them the Lying Liberal Media, LLM for short, for years now.
OLD-STREAM MEDIA. We don’t have to get it from them anymore ( thank GOD ) and relating them to the “old” way of doing things just thrills me.
BIG MEDIA it would drive them nuts
I propose the “mainstream media” be renamed the Oprichnina. They were Russian Czar (Tsar in Russian) Ivan the Terrible’s goon squad that went around 16th century Russia disbanding ALL things opposed to the Czar and HIS policies. They used mass repressions and terror. They wore black clothes, rode black horses, and carried brooms with dogs heads posted on top. Their slogan was to sniff out, track down, and sweep out all opposition to the Czar!
Interestingly, the root word “Oprich” in Russian means “APART FROM.” Sound familiar??? It was Ivan himself that came up with this name and the agenda for this group that suppressed all of the citizens rights, which of course were already limited for 16th century Tsarist Russia, but I think you see the similarities.
It’s a well fitting name. Although, unless you know or teach history, you may not get it without explanation. Just another reminder that “HISTORY DOES indeed REPEAT ITSELF!”
~Wendy in SC (a former history teacher)
Lamestream Media; Anachronous (or Superannuated) Media; Detached Media; Intractable Ideological Media
Why don’t we call them the Insane Stream Media.
I have always disliked the word MAINSTREAM as it has referred to Fads///
The Faddish Uneducated Media
Is it overstaing to call it the Wicked Media?
Here is a few suggestions:
Unfair, unbalance media
Status quo media
Brainwashed media
Misconstrued media
Small minded media
News for the uninformed and easily persuaded
Pinhead media
Fluff media
Sheep media
How about Post Main Stream or P.M.S. Media
I like (MHM) ‘Meat Head Media’ ………..
LOL !
state run media
Twaddle Press & Fawning News
RIP Media
O News (For Obsequious)
Has Been Media
Fawning Fraternity Media
While the left continues to practice the bigotry – against us – that they accuse us of, we still walk around on ice, apologizing all the time, and playing nice guys. Has anyone noticed that it isn’t working? We need to start taking the offensive approach. Jim had it right. They are the SOCIALIST MEDIA …. no ifs, ands, or buts. It’s time to call them what they are … SOCIALISTS. Their tactics have worked for a long time. We can learn from them. Keep saying it over and over again … SOCIALIST MEDIA, SOCIALIST MEDIA, SOCIALIST MEDIA, SOCIALIST MEDIA!
What you sense here is the Stalinist approach to discourse; i.e. accuse your opposition of the morally unsupportable tactic that you, yourself intend to employ. It may be bigotry, or it may just be a tactic that has proven effective in the past. Either way, the correct reaction is our outrage at the unprincipled manipulation of facts and viewpoints to advance a repugnant agenda. Seize the mission of radical opposition to the establishment (National Socialist regime under Obama and Democrat Party), and do not shy from coopting the tactics, symbolism, artistic expression, and folkways of 60s-style radicalism. The greatest unwitting losers in the regime’s consolidation of power are the young. The left-wing educational establishment now in place (for the most part) is ripe to be rebelled against.
It’s not as amusing as some here, but I think the pithiest and most accurate is:
“Legacy Media”
That’s what product managers call product once it has been discontinued and the only debate is how long to keep servicing what’s out there. “Legacy.” I think that describes them pretty accurately.
Ed
How about TSM – the Stepford Media
I thought of this a few days ago and emailed others. Don’t call it Main Stream Media;call it Mute Stream Media. That says it all!
How about “What’s left in the media”
Hello Bernir! I enjoy watching you and Bill O. I will keep this short. The new name for the ‘main-stream medis’ should be changed to the “LAME-STREAM MEDIA” Enough said.
Thank you M.E. Farr Phenix City Alabama
Artificial Media….
Laughing Gas Media …
Backwards Media …
Slanted Media
Lots of blogs refer to it as the LameStream media. Let’s go with that.
1. The “Bagdad Bob Bloggers” For all who remember that king of mis-information spewing
his lies as our troops were marching into Iraq
2. MIM – (Maggot Infested Media)
3. MIM – (Mis-Information Media)
My recommended new name for our “mainstream media” follows:
“Historical Media”; it fits ‘what they are”.
Respectfully,
Mike McNeely
Picayune, MS
PS
Love your presentations, on O’reilly!
I’ve been puzzled over this oxymoron to label a news establishment that is largely morphing into a propaganda sector. My label for these bozos is “Entrenched Establishment Media”.
(On a totally unrelated matter, while watching Sunday Night Football on NBC, I have marvelled at that network’s relentless push to cram Keith Olberman down our throats. That little putz comes across as natural as a high school senior at prom with his sister as his date, as he reads the one liners the writers prepare for him. Such is the mentality of the higher-ups at that network.)
lame duck media
old media
legacy media
Call it what it is, Leftist Indoctrinator Media Posse or L.I.M.P. !
“Old stream media”
Simple. Clear. Factual.
Accurate without spin.
Draws a distinction without being disrespectful.
Same number of syllables.
How about “POTUS Propaganda Central”
Here’s a few ideas:
downstream media
no-stream media
weak stream media
yellow stream media
(see the direction?)
My favorite is: The important issues are rarely found in the “weak-stream media”.
Thank God for a place to comment on current issue without my net security returning it !! I just saw you on O´Reilly, ” The Old Liberal Media ” goes to the point. I am taking this opportunity to suggest that you, Mr. Beck, Mr O´Reilly, and Mr Cavuto and anyone else you want to please EXPLAIN THE HEALTH CARE BILL in full in a program to be seen in Central America, where I am, Managua, Nicaragua. Also, prove Obama deceitful one more time, by explaining that it was CONGRESS´relaxing of the regulations that caused the financial crisis we are in at the time, not the banks , or wall street, like he said in today´s speech . From listening to Obama, one could think that Congress is full of Angels!!!!Also, please, remind everyone it was Carter who recalled CIA agents from the field during his W. H. tenure, causing the 9-11-01 attacks easy to happen for lack of info; weapons of mas destruc. too.
I have never commented before here. I saw your segment on the Factor. Bravo! My husband and I agree, they are not the Mainstream media. They are not even the elite media. Elite still gives the feeling of the best which they are not. I was at the DC march with 5 children on Saturday. I never saw a more peaceful, polite, respectful, helpful, group of regular conservative minded Americans. I felt safe, energized, and relieved to know that soooo many people share my grave concern for this great country. I would like to mention that we should look at the nationwide statistics of race in this country, and then compare that to the crowd. Of course there are going to be more white people. There were Asian, Spanish, African-American and so on. There were also from the very young to the very old. And 75,000 is a ridiculous figure. The National Park Service said 1.5 million. Thank you.
The first thing that came to my mind was RED MEDIA.
In my mind they are a bunch of God Hating bastards that think they will be the Elite in the next order.
Lame Stream is pretty good.
Weak Stream might apply.
I Hate Conservatives Media
The Truth is What We Make it Media
How about “Trickle Stream Media”
PAP SMEAR JOURNALISM
Pap (an idea, talk, book, or the like, lacking substance or real value); Smear (to sully, vilify, or soil [a reputation, good name, etc.].
“Has Been Media”
or
“Media Formerly Known as Main Stream”
Yellow stream Media
They sure represent Yellow Journalism Appropriate for them That is what they practice.
Bernie: The name for “the media”, is so simply I’m surprised you and O’Reilly missed it… The Effete Media. As in (pick one:)
1. lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent: an effete, overrefined society.
2. exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out: an effete political force.
3. unable to produce; sterile
That should settle the discussion.
Lame Blame Media.
Absolute Bull Communications
None Believable Crazies
Communist Bloviating System .
Lapdog Media
Oops! I forgot in my last post.
Das Boot in Der Tuchus Media (the ch in “Tuchus” pronounced like you’re winding up to spit from the back of your throat).
Another name could be MAIM – STREAM since that is what they do – cripple , distort the facts.
The Principle Legacy Media
The Diminishing Legacy Media
The Leading Obsolescent Media
Formerly-mainstream Media
Bernie, here are a few of choices:
The Legacy Media
Old Media
One-Sided Media
or these gems:
Stale Pieholes
Uttered Flatulence
The Munchkin Media
Glad to be of help. Please forward royalties.
Doug
Lollipop Guild Media
Well, first they should be known as the Vintage Media.
Soon to be followed by the EX-media, since they are dooming themselves.
Bernie – Instead of Main Stream Media how about VANISHING MEDIA – cause that is what is happening – vanishing!!
In our home we call them “The Three Stooges (ABC,CBS,NBC) and their stupid little brother, MSNBC.”
Dear Bernie, For approximately five years I have been telling my small circle that they should abandon the term “mainstream media.” I strongly second your suggestion in this regard on the O’Reilly show today, 9/14. My proposed term for them is “Big Media.” This puts them in the same category they smear as big pharma, big tobacco, big business. It has the added bonus of the abreviation for them: BM. Mention this on O’Reilly and I’ll be grateful and honored. Keep up your noble work!
How about One Way Street Media
How about Third World Media
Bernie,
My wife & I very much enjoy your appearances on Fox news
I have been using the BEST name for the formerly big 3 & CNN for a year or 2.
They are absolutely HAS-BEENs.
They make a mockery of NEWS.
They make a mockery of Elite. I’ve seen much more respectable street people; drunks & all.
They make a mockery of the term Intellectuals; my 4 kids had vastly greater understanding of human nature & morality, & more common sense & intelligence at age 3.
They make a mockery of Honesty
They make a mockery of Virtue
They make a mockery of PATRIOTISM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
Ed Yung
retired Registered Professional Engineer
Very high time pilot
Lutheran Christian
Reagan Conservative
Tea party fan; first such activity
230 Jefferson
La Porte TX 77571
Legacy media
How about ” the Has Been Media” ?
farout media
misleading media
hell with you media
messiah media
red party media
obnoxius fruitcake media
the socialist media or the state run media.
Calling the dominant media liberal draws yawns in most liberal quarters nowdays and “Mainstream Media” sorta rolls off the tongue – easy to remember and everyone knows what it means. I’ve long objected to the reference MLM because it’s not “mainstream” in any way. Mike Rosen of KOA in Denver helped me realize the error of referencing to them in this manner. He has a name for them so I’m submitting my own entry – actually taken from the first sentence of this comment: They are the “Dominant Liberal Media”. DLM. Simple.
Jack Barr
Aurora CO 80014
We should call them the the “legacy” media outlets. When IT comes in and updates your network, we call the old outdated one the legacy system. That’s what were seeing now with Fox, Drudge, and so many more. Let the legacy networks fade away.
FOX IS ABSOLUTELY GREAT
Rather than the elite media we should call them the “obsolete media” which is more accurate.
Media-Lite
Since they do NO investigave pieces, only regurgitations of what they are handed….They are….
The SPOON FED MEDIA!!
Please let us stop being naive the other news channels are so afraid of being called Racist and losing their phony, guilt ridden and truly “racist” audiences they should be all be called the “OPPRESSED” media outlets
Bernie, just call them the Democratic Party……that is what they really are,aren’t they?
The “LAMEstream” Media.
IM-the Irrelevant Media. Imbecile Media. Idiotic Media. Insignificant Media…..that’s it!!!!
They are truly insignificant.
MBM
Make Believe Media
Flat Earth Media
Down Stream Media
Down Wind Media
Swiss Cheese Media
Liars Club Media
Liars Den Media
I can’t believe it’s media Media
Where’s the beef Media
Der Stürmer Media
Jaundiced Journalism
Das Kapital Media
Pravda Media
TASS Media
Wrap Fish Media
Liberal are us or Liberal R US.
Conservative views are leathal to us media.
we need obama to bail us soon media.
World view by blind media.
NeoMarx Media – BUT, LameStream is pretty catchy.
LOVE IT!!! Lame Stream Media….it works!! LOL
How about “Old School Media”
I call them the Liberal Elite Media. Calling anyone racist that disagrees with you is so passe’. It now only aggravates most Americans because it is so untrue.
Hi Bernie, how about “The Pansy Media”. I love your books. Thanks.
Obamapologist Media
How about “Old-School media”
Massgas media
far left media.
down stream media – that’s where all sewage ends up
The Leftist Complex Media Arm
Can’t name the irrelevant “old press” as “elite” press.
Considering: . elite or elites = A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual…………………… Clearly inconsistent concepts
Even worse than mainstream press
FTM acronym for “FORMER Top MEDIA” – easy to say, in line with MSM, respectful of historical position and descriptive of current status. RuBegonia
Disdain-stream Media
“Disdain: a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior”
Trickle media
Left Bank media
Beached media
Airbrushed media
Replace the old mainstream media name with Propaganda Bureau. I still like to see Fox News go nationally with a nightly news thru its Fox affliates to reach people like my parents that have no interest in cable or satellite TV. They are hard to convince that they are being lied to by the news Propaganda Bureau. (ABC, NBC, CBS).
I like it, Dave
Mr. Goldberg,
Here is another acronym to replace the old MSM
MSM=Slain Dream Media
The Leftist Complex Media Arm & The Leftist Complex Entertainment Arm & the one to pay most attention to —The Leftist Complex Judicial Arm
NewSpeak Media
How about “establishment” media?
I like this one! Very descriptive and accurate description.
Pravda USA
or
Upper West Side Media
Obama Disinformation Corps
DoublePlus GoodFact Media
DNC Public Relations Department
Downstream News (always reporting on water under the bridge)
How about calling those leftie media guys the “Status Quo Media,” since Status Quo seems to be the term O’Bama likes to use for everything that is standard and unchallenged?
The so called Main Stream Media should be referred to as
The KNOW NOTHING MEDIA
the elite lame stream media
Sycophants Society (SS)
Newstards
Stinky Media
I got beat out on “LAMEstream Media”..great minds SJ…
How about “downstream media”.
Bernie!! I just made a great comic based on this subject… you need to see it!
I call them the “PeeStream Media”…. hahahaha!! You should see the picture!
It is clean and lighthearted in it’s humor, nothing vulgar or obscene… you will love it!
See it on my Facebook page… http://www.facebook.com/jerseyj
Dummy Media
2nd Rate Media
Last Place Media
Media for Dummies
Silent Media
Mute Media
The Red Media
Progressive Media
Hollywood Media
New Stage
Let’s refer to the NY Times and the like as the “Lame-Stream Media”
Subversive Media
MediaCrats !!!!
Obamedia!
This is it…..short and simple: LAMESTREAM media!
“Venal Media” …. definition is corruptible, dishonest, fact or state of being for sale,
purchasable
Instead of the term “mainstream media”, why not this?
Propaganda Press!
new name for old “mainstream” media:
Jollywood Media
“U. S. Pravda” Media
Kool-Aid Media…
Trivial Media – Perfect word for them. They are trivial. I won’t watch anything on the 3 networks and Lou Dobbs is about the only one on CNN who ever seems to tell the REAL news.
The LAME-STREAM MEDIA
Barack Omedia
Media Of The State ( M O T S )
Misinformation Society
The Shame-Stream media
The Unwatched Media (or Unread, Unheard, etc.)
The Goebels Media
The Entertainment Media
The Incurious Media
The Democrat Party Communications Department
The Ministry of Truth (a la Orwell)
Instead of mainstream media:
Model T media
Horse and buggy media
Donkey media
Luddite media
Blind leading the blind media
Trainwreck media
Matrix media
Eutyches media
Grasshopper media
Neo-Whig media
Cockroach media
Dissembling media
Garbage out media
Bubble media
Fractured media
OT&B Media (Old, Tired & Bias Media)
B&C Media (Bias & Clueless Media)
UUU Media (Unfair, Unbalanced & Useless Media)
“The alarm light is not working because the light bulb is made by GE” Media
hows the Babble media.
I think the following are good descriptions:
1. Paleomedia
2. Grandpa Media
3. Hippy-Dippy Media
4. Lemming Media
5. Nugatory Press
6. Adulatory Media
7. Accolyte Press
8. Minion Media
Cheerleader or Cheer the Leader Media!
Give me an O! Give me the dough!
Action Left News
Sorry if already posted but I heard this one on net somewhere months ago:
Mid-Stream Media
Perfect in a number of ways.
$Go$ $Green$ $Media$
We recycle tax money!
ALATT (All Lies, All The Time)
“Chavez goes nuclear – We go Green” Media
Info’Ho’s R Us
Inconsequential Media
Side Step Media
Side Show Media
The problem with State-Sponsored Media, Ruling-Party Media, etc., is that if a Republican administration is in place, they WON’T support it.
Left Wing Media
Dinosaur Media
MSM = “Misinformed State Media” or Misinformation Spreading Machine”
Misdirecting Sychophantic Media
Goebbels News Network – “Inciteful” Propaganda
How about Legacy Media or Establishment Media.
“Legacy Media” and “Establishment Media” both seem apt to me (and more serious, if admittedly less entertaining, than many of the alternatives on offer). “Legacy Media” has the added implication that these media organizations are, or are becoming, relics of the past, which seems to be the case. It’s also one syllable shorter.
Keep the initials — MSM — it now stands for Mainly Socialist Media.
I suggest we change the name to “NASCAR MEDIA” because its one perpetual left turn…very boring!
Keep the initials — MSM — it now stands for Mainly Socialist Media.
Hey Scott, Sorry, I put my suggestion in the wrong spot. But I do want to compliment you on yours — I love your NASCAR Media and the “perpetual left turn.” I think it’s the best of all I’ve seen.
Irrelivent Media
These are all so funny – I have to add 2 more:
1) It’s cool to be a marxist media
2) Obama-worship media
Sidekick for the Star in Power Media
Progressively Pro-Power Grab Media
I prefer “State-Supported Media.”
The Ruling Party Enabling Media
Play Along Media
Dancing with the Czars Media
In bed with the Boss Media
Obama and Friends Media
Corrupt Media.
Media Promoting Trust – as in Government run Monopoly with taxpayer money
“You Lie” Media
The Lemmings Media! We do all the thinking so you don’t have to!!
Obama PR Media
Corporation Obama Megaphone Media
Constellation Obama Media
Join My Circle and We’ll give you piece of the American Pie Media
Ruling Corporations Megaphone Media.
The MOP. Ministry of Propaganda because that’s what it is.
I like weak stream media – try Flomax! Also, when CNN is run into the ground, which should be pretty soon, I’d like to change it from Cable News Network to Citizen’s News Network. I like the idea of a media outlet run by the people, for the people. I’ll send them my resume.
How about
Downstream or just “Fishy”
It used to be the job of the media to report the news, now they take it upon themselves to print their views. I don’t care for their opinion, I just want the facts, I can make up my own mind.
How about LSM for “Left Stream Media” or WSM “Weak Stream Media, (might need meds)
or “Founding Media Sources” in reference to their age in the Media business
Now that we have Spin offs such as MSM and the original spin off CNN and Head Line News, they are still spinning their skewed views of the America they want… Not the truth of what really is… Bill Clinton can give you the definition of “is”
I really fear for our future, special interest along with the Liberal Media are sailing us down the proverbial river
how about PRAVDA… translates to TRUTH so it won’t offend the left… but
WE know better.
The Shadow Puppet Media
How about the “No Mas Media” as in I just wish they’d go away.
This is for Jerry our estimator at Strouss Bros. Construction, who came up with one in less than ten seconds.
KAM Kool Aid Media
ITTM, In The Tank Media
How about just calling it “Liberal Media”, thats what it is and who their target audience is.
Dino-Media
Old School Media
Mediasaurus
“Drive-by Media” has already entered the public lexicon after Rush used it for several years.
Don’t mention that one to BO’R though. BO’R is just a “tad” jealous of “Limbaugh”. Just “a tad”!
Lots of good ones here. Wish I could come up with something more clever and / or catchy, but the only ones I can think of that I haven’t seen listed here are:
1) Dinosaur Media
2) Obsolete Media
Progressive’s Press
Sycophant Service
How about: P.P.M. = Progressive Propaganda Machine
No humor in that one… but so perfectly appropriate!
L.P.M. = Liberal Propaganda Machine
How about, “We the People” “WTP”
I kind of like:
BIG MEDIA
An example for your next book:
To the Professional Journalists of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How does a leading Sunday newspaper cover Saturday’s Washington protest?
1. Place the weekend’s biggest story on page 4.
2. Lay out page 4 so that the reader’s eye moves naturally past the story to the inside column on Thursday’s “news” – two college professors’ opinions on Joe Wilson.
3. Limit front page coverage to a tight photo of one person, rather than a wide angle of 100,000 or more.
4. Pick a photo with no protest signs so that the nature and significance of the event is not inadvertently communicated on page 1.
5. Pick a photo with an American flag to limit curiosity about the photo or its significance and therefore lessen the chance of turning to page 4.
6. Obscure the significance of the event by using AP’s estimate of “tens of thousands” – misleading by an order of magnitude – without making your own easily-more-accurate estimate, or doing 5 minutes of Web search to get a realistic one.
7. Spike the story for Monday’s edition, rather than clarify the event’s size, follow-up with those who attended, or include a more revealing photo.
A news staff with liberal bias – one seeking to filter its readers’ worldview –would do all of these things. But because you are objective, you did not. I thank you for your professionalism and fine journalistic effort. You are the reasons why my children – from a family with journalists – will not subscribe; and why your future is so bright.
Respectfully,
Lee Hales
23-year subscriber
I must say that I’ve grown quite fond of how the liberal media classifies anyone that opposes its policies as a racist. If opposing irresponsible government spending makes me a racist, then I guess I’m doomed to be a racist until I die.
TB Treason Broadcasting a true disease
ObamaPress
AAM = Anti American Media
Dead Media
Tyrant Media
Communist Media Reports
State Run Media seems to reflect the times.
For the TV networks, I always liked the Alphabet Media.
To use their own terms ‘Progressive Media’.
I always liked the term legacy media. It also indicates that if they didn’t already exist, they probably wouldn’t be created anew. At least not in their present form.
Urine stream media
I used to call them Big Media, but they’re not so large anymore. I suggest Old Media. Like Dick Cheney’s Old Europe.
East Coast Media
vs
Main Street Media
The only other thing to call them is the “Establishment Media.” They aren’t a “media establishment” anymore, as that implies that they wield power in comparison to the likes of Fox or internet news. Rather, they are the pre-existing relics that act as a voice for the liberal Washington establishment. Ergo: “Establishment Media.”
Fading Media
Dying Media
Biased Media
i think it is time for everyone to move on from the MSM, rather that discuss, questions, and get frustrated by it. Everyone should focus on New Media as the MSM, and ignore Old Media is irrelevant, not necessary, the minority. Treat the New Media as The Media.
Now is the Time for CHANGE, AMERICANS WILL GIVE OBAMAMEDIA CHANGE THEY CAN BELIEVE IN, WE BELIEVE IN FOX STREAM MEDIA, TRUE MEDIA COVERAGE FOR AMERICA, NO MORE MID EAST MEDIA, NO MORE COMMUNIST MEDIA, NO MORE
No More Media
Tanker Down Media
Tingle Up My Leg Media
Don’t GAD Media
New MSN: FOX STREAM MEDIA
The Old Media. Not cute or fancy, but it gets the point across and distinguishes it from the New Media. Old, hasbeen, not useful anymore, low tech.
I agree
Pro-Obama media
Obamamedia
Hi Bernie…… Because they act like the mob…… treat us with disrespect ……and the msm do the same I have been calling them …THE MADE MEDIA…… Its what they are !
love you linda!
Ostrich Media
OPM = Obama’s Propaganda Machine
My choice would be “The Marginal Media”
LSA – Liberal Service Announcers
What about OLM — Old Liberal Media
or
SLM — Sinking Liberal Media
Another good one … thanks Tanya!
Complicit Media
Left Bank Media
Myopic Media
I think the terms “Irrelevant Media” or “Yesterday’s Media” are replacement names you could use and have fun with….
The Obama Pep Squad.
“mainstream media” = “The Politburo”
Downstream Media as in toward the septic tank.
“The Politburo”
Selective Media
Self-serving media
Discriminatory media
I think Rush has the most accurate one; State-run media.
Left stream media or myopic media
Very nice, Nancy …
Conveniently Responsible American Papyrus
The No News Nimphos
Sticky Lickies
The Brown Noses
Media Doesn’t Matter
Trained Seal & Lap Dog Association.
absent-media
staterun-media
weed-media
standstill-media
windblown-media
No Stream News we all want FOX STREAM MEDIA
Varsity Pom Pom Squad
Good one!!!