MSM: Turned off or turning off?

As Campaign’s Intensity Peaks, Interest in Big 3’s Evening News Continues to Wane | BizzyBlog
Evening News Ratings Decline | Media Bistro

There is a general feeling (here in the heartland) that the MSM cannot be trusted to just "do" the news; especially the Big 3 evening news machines.

The continuous decline in viewers forces us to ask: is the decline due to "turned off" viewers or to viewers turning them off?

In the past two weeks, Big 3 evening newscast viewership has actually declined by 360,000, or 1.6%. What's more, in percentage terms, viewership among "The Demo" of ages 25-54 has declined even further (220,000, down 3.1%).

My guess is the former; the human mind can only take so much dysfunction before it seeks to protect itself. Perhaps only history will know for sure.

In our home we expect at least the appearance of "fair and balanced."

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REALITY: I don't think the world will ever be real again!

This is NOT a test! Tell me what do you see in the ad below? [UPDATE: Someone hacked the site that held the graphic below and replaced the ad with an ugly-green smiley face ... let me know in comments if it happens again.]


If you saw six Blacks bowing down to a White massa', your shorts are knotted and you need to get real; you've lost touch like most of your neighbors.

If you're a black and saw that, I don't think there's any hope for your conflicted, hate-filled, self-obsessed soul!

If you're a White Homey and agree with the Black's; I'd suggest you send your degrees back because you're overeducated and didn't learn anything worth retaining, they're meaningless ... you over-educated, sophomoric slob ... you are so blind from your pompous self-righteousness you're wholly useless to your fellow man!

If you saw a confusing ad from a high-tech giant that makes no sense to you because you're tech-challenged ... besides what the h__l do six swimmers or runners have to do with Intel anyway ... for you, I assume the last thing on your mind was writing a letter because your sensibilities were offended.

Intel pulled the ad, giving in to political correctness ... gawrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!! [Even though it's a lousy ad the pressure was assinine!]

Stockholders have executives and Boards of Directors to make their decisions - right or wrong! How can the investors hope for fiducial responsibility from a rabble that drinks from the cesspool of popular opinion.

Here's why Intel caved!

According to Snopes' Urban Legends page:

The intent of the ad was to emphasize the ability of Intel's Core 2 Duo Processors to "boost productivity and efficiency by running multiple computing-intensive applications at once" through the visual imagery of presenting a team of (identical) sprinters down in set positions, ready to take off and blaze their way through the office environment while a pleased IT Manager stands amidst them bearing a look of confidence and satisfaction.

Unfortunately, more than a few viewers saw something quite different in that imagery: a group of dark-skinned men bowing down in subservience to a smug, light-skinned overseer. The ad created enough of a controversy that Intel pulled it from the publications in which it was scheduled to appear, and Intel's vice president of Sales and Marketing issued a public apology on behalf of the company ...

We're all living a surreal lala land! God please help us?

Now if you'd like to know how I really feel, stay tuned!

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TRENDS: Five Trends the Church Should Note!

The Christian Post brings us an article on Leonard Sweet's "top five trends ministers and religious leaders need to know for the next 10 years" ...

First, size does matter

It never has mattered to most churches!

Second ... the "well curve" replaces the "bell curve"

Whatever that means!

Third, EPIC rules

I can see it now, "30 Days to An EPIC Life" followed quickly by "30 Days to An EPIC Church"! Both NYT Bestsellers!

Fourth, everything in this culture ... is becoming decentralized and some, hyper-centralized

The computer is the cause of the current pattern; can't begin to guess the cause of the latter.

And fifth, Sweet points to "Crusade Nine," which he calls the growing conflict with Islam

Finally, one that I can agree with ... with one caveat - it won't be Christians, it'll be Western Civilization (if it wants to survive).

Besides, our battle is not against flesh and blood [Ephesians 6:12]; remember?

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