{"id":15275,"date":"2012-08-29T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15275"},"modified":"2012-08-29T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:59:54","slug":"using-news-coverage-to-promote-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15275","title":{"rendered":"Using News Coverage To Promote A Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/08\/28\/msnbc-abandons-gop-convention-during-every-speech-by-a-minority\/\">Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story last night that shows how the media can alter the appearance of an event by what they choose to show the viewers.<\/p>\n<p>During the the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican National Convention\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republican_National_Convention\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Republican National Convention<\/a> on Tuesday, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MSNBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a> was very selective in their coverage of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats have claimed for a long time that the\u00a0<a title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republican party<\/a> is &#8220;the party of old white people, devoid of diversity and probably racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>If you were watching MSNBC\u2019s coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday night, you might believe those assertions, since missing from the coverage was nearly every ethnic minority that spoke during Tuesday\u2019s festivities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were a number of speakers at the convention that were minorities&#8211;Democratic Rep. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Artur Davis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artur_Davis\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Artur Davis<\/a>, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Famous Black Activists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/groups\/activists\/african-american\/\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">black American<\/a>; <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mia Love\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mia_Love\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Love<\/a>, a black candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from <a id=\"itxthook0\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/08\/28\/msnbc-abandons-gop-convention-during-every-speech-by-a-minority\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\">Utah<\/a>; and Texas senatorial hopeful <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ted Cruz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tedcruz.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz<\/a>, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Notable Hispanic Women\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/groups\/notable-hispanic-women\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">Latino American<\/a>. When those people spoke, MSNBC stopped covering the convention and switched instead to their panel of commentators.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this election would even be close if we had an honest mainstream media.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=99f2ca5a-13b6-432c-9b1a-8b46b4451d0d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller posted a story last night that shows how the media can alter the appearance of an event by what they choose to show the viewers. During the the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, MSNBC was very selective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=15275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[968,3837,1016,3839,164,3820,3838],"class_list":["post-15275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artur-davis","tag-mia-love","tag-msnbc","tag-press-coverage-of-the-republican-convention","tag-republican","tag-republican-national-convention","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15283,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions\/15283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}