{"id":22274,"date":"2004-11-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:34","slug":"who_determines_what_is_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/16\/who_determines_what_is_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Determines What Is News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/who_determines_what_is_news.Par.0006.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"147\"\/><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&#8220;Westin and the other news presidents, Neil Shapiro of NBC news and Andrew Hayward of CBS met at a joint public appearance Monday at Stanford for a discussion about the challenges posed by technology, the rise of Fox News channel and their work in the lead-up to the Iraqi war. The three said that while they hope to resist a push into opinionated, edgy news that has been the hallmark of Fox News and other cable outlets, they realize that Fox\u2019s success reminded them that networks needed to adapt to the new media marketplace.&#8221; Well, but they said they\u2019re not going to do that. They need to adapt but they say they\u2019re not going to do it. All these people misunderstand why Fox is successful. Do you know how many complaints I\u2019m getting from people who watched Fox for the election coverage that thought that the Fox all stars have gone liberal on them all of a sudden? The idea that Fox is perceived by people as a total, hundred percent conservative news channel is absurd. It <emphasize>isn\u2019t. <\/emphasize>That\u2019s not why Fox is a success. I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell people why it is. If they can\u2019t figure this one out for themselves they don\u2019t deserve to know. It\u2019s right in front of their face. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/who_determines_what_is_news.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft\"\/> But here\u2019s the deal. Oh, and Westin yesterday, at this same conference, David Westin, the president of ABC yesterday said, or sometime recently said, that on these cable shows like Crossfire, where you have one opinion argued over there and another opinion argued over there, at the end of the show, somebody needs to come in and say which opinion was right. And of course that, in his view, would be the liberal opinion would always be right. But he said this unsettled, unsolved argument, this shouting back and forth, just doesn\u2019t solve anything. Now, two things. First, the comment here about this explosion in the number of news and &#8220;quasi-news outlets.&#8221; Can I ask a very simple question, folks? Who is it that gets to define &#8220;news&#8221;? Why is it, for example, that what we get on the three networks and the New York Times and the Washington Post is considered news and everything else is quasi? Talk radio is quasi-news. Fox News is quasi-news. The Internet is quasi-news, but what gives them the right to define it? Simply their legacy status? Their old media status? What they do is not news. They have agendas; they just don\u2019t announce them. They just won\u2019t admit it. It\u2019s obvious when you have forged documents, to make a story, when you will not criticize a Democratic presidential candidate <emphasize>once <\/emphasize>during a campaign for president when you will not do fair and equal treatment. I mean, this bunch won\u2019t even give Kofi Annan the media anal exam it gives George W. Bush. Who ceded the definition of what is news to them? I think what I do is news. I tell people what\u2019s going on out there, and as an added bonus, I tell them what I think about it and therefore what they should think. (Just kidding, for those of you in the blue states.)<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>But who\u2019s to determine what\u2019s news? I mean, there\u2019s no monopoly on that anymore either, and that\u2019s the big explosion that\u2019s taking place. It is all of a sudden with all these different sources. Maybe what ABC, CBS, NBC, and the newspapers are telling <emphasize>isn\u2019t <\/emphasize>news. It\u2019s what they think is news. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve always meant about the monopoly. They had a monopoly determine what was news and what wasn\u2019t, and what was going to be said about it and what wasn\u2019t going to be said, and what <emphasize>opinions <\/emphasize>were going to be offered about it and what opinions would not be. That\u2019s news? Who ever said that was news! It\u2019s become, you know, just a kitchen table word we throw around, &#8220;Oh, I\u2019m going to watch the news tonight.&#8221; Now these guys are in a little argument over (liberal old media-type impression), &#8220;Well, these competitors, these people that are kicking our butts. That\u2019s not <emphasize>really <\/emphasize>news that they do.&#8221; Oh, yes it is, because people are learning things in these quasi-outlets that they\u2019re not learning from ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times and Washington Post.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Sometimes what we get from those outlets is <emphasize>half <\/emphasize>the story, or in the case of this Marine soldier in Fallujah, we get nothing but condemnation of the country, of the U.S. Armed Forces and a single Marine. We don\u2019t get the same condemnation of our enemies. That\u2019s news or is that an agenda? As to this point that these argument shows, these debate shows need to have some resolution at the end? You know, that would be nice but now we\u2019re back to the same old question: <emphasize>Who\u2019s going to decide?<\/emphasize> Who\u2019s the arbiter? The idea that a news division president, David Westin, thinks that there should be an authority which is going to pronounce one side right and one side wrong at the end of an argument is the best illustration I can give you that they do not trust the American people to come up with these answers themselves. They don\u2019t trust the arena of ideas. There are countless arguments in this country with no arbiter and no referee and no source authority at the end &#8212; and I know, yeah, it\u2019s messy, but it\u2019s called freedom. It\u2019s called democracy, and the First Amendment exists so that all of this stuff can be said. The more absurd it is, the more absurd it will be perceived and not believed, and that\u2019s what happened to these people in this campaign. Michael Moore was not believed. A number of other of these dubious sources. Richard Clarke? Not believed. He was by a certain element but the side lost. The people that thought all that was really news, lost. <\/line><BR\/>Kinsley wanted to do a show where there was some sort of a compromise at the end. Michael Kinsley said the solution to this is (paraphrasing), &#8220;Okay, let\u2019s reach a compromise at the end, where somebody\u2019s half right and somebody\u2019s half right and the other is half <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/who_determines_what_is_news.Par.0007.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignright\"\/> wrong.&#8221; Can\u2019t do that. The whole point is viewers make up their mind or viewers simply be entertained or what have you. If you trust the process, if you trust the American people, the absurd, incorrect, lying, stinking, arguments stand out like sore thumbs and the people that are telling the truth and have the facts on their side will also stand out like sore thumbs. I\u2019m willing to trust the system. We\u2019re doing quite well to do that. I don\u2019t think the &#8220;outcome&#8221; of this stuff has to be managed. It\u2019s the left that thinks the outcome has to be established because they know that their ideas won\u2019t triumph in the arena of ideas. It\u2019s that simple. <\/line><BR\/>So we have to have an arbiter and we have a <emphasize>compromise <\/emphasize>and we have to have <emphasize>agreement <\/emphasize>and <emphasize>love <\/emphasize>at the end of these programs. Somebody tell me who tells us what part of This Week with George Stephanopoulos is true when it\u2019s over? Who tells us at the end of Meet the Press who was lying and who was not? Nobody tells us these things. Who tells us, after ABC\u2019s <emphasize>World! News! Tonight! <\/emphasize>what was left out? I do. What I do is tell you who was right and wrong on Meet the Press. I tell you who was right and wrong on George Stephanopoulos\u2019 show (when I deign to watch it). I tell you who is right and wrong. <emphasize>I do play-by-play of the news.<\/emphasize> But you are free to disagree with me, but you have more information in listening to me going in than you have those shows, because I tell you what my agenda is. You know what I want to happen. You know the things I want to win and triumph. You don\u2019t know that with the legacy media. Well, you do but they don\u2019t admit it. So I am ecstatic here with the way things have evolved. I am more than happy to continue with the system the way it is. These people think we need an arbiter. Why, what do they call me &#8220;the Truth Detector&#8221; for, folks?<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/who_determines_what_is_news.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Westin and the other news presidents, Neil Shapiro of NBC news and Andrew Hayward of CBS met at a joint public appearance Monday at Stanford for a discussion about the challenges posed by technology, the rise of Fox News channel and their work in the lead-up to the Iraqi war. 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