Mainstream Media Discussed | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: In these two short posts, Brant Clifton takes continued look at the media stooges within North Carolina, which is always appropriate, in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

Gunga Din APPARENTLY moonlights at WRAL!

    Miss Laura and "The Bink" over at WRAL are helping their comrade John Frank bashSenate leader Phil Berger and carry that ObamaCare water. Their headline screams: "Docs bash Berger's ObamaCare petition." (It's amazing it takes TWO OF THEM to write this stuff.)

    Hmm. So, are Miss Laura and "The Bink" telling us that ACTUAL practicing physicians think the coming avalanche of red tape and taxes is a GOOD thing for American medicine? Well, if you get past that headline and read deep into their story, you find that their sources are actually COLLEGE PROFESSORS. Yep. That demographic that went 99.9 % for President Barry. Folks whose livelihood depends on the growth and prosperity of the governing bureaucracy. What makes it worse is that Miss Laura and "The Bink" picked two professors from Patchouli & Granola Central -- THE University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill.

    This is an important lesson. If you MUST get your news from McClatchy or WRAL, look past the headlines. Be skeptical about every word -- every syllable. Then go online to sites like THIS ONE so we can give you the real story ...

MSM: WAANH!! Pat won't talk to us!

    The remnants of the mainstream media in The Tar Heel State are throwing a bit of a tantrum. The state's new GOP governor and his staff are NOT dropping what they're doing and immediately answering their questions. *GASP*

    I first saw this from a TV station in Wilmington. Now, we have the esteemed Travis Fain from the failing Greensboro News & Record whining about Gov. Pat not talking to him. Here's a hint, Travis. It PROBABLY has something to do with THIS CHEAP SHOT.

    This ought to be a lesson. The media will not love you more if you move left. You are a Republican. THEY are in bed with the Democrats. They will get you to move left, tick off your conservative base, and still KILL you all the way through your next campaign.

    NCGOP has a terrible communications operation at all levels in Raleigh. You're not going to win by thumbing your nose at all media. Your story HAS to be told. There are SOME people out there to be cultivated. Hit the local papers. Make WRAL and McClatchy transcribe from those small-town papers. The best way to send big biased media a message is to hand-deliver scoops to their competition. There are plenty of fair-minded people out there in the small-time media. Team McClatchy™ doesn't have any real influence outside their respective county boundaries. (The influence inside those counties is dwindling by the week.) Stop catering to those usual lefty suspects. They'll take your goodies and still bite your hand.

    If you stick to your conservative guns, you've got one heck of a blogosphere -- HINT, HINT -- and grassroots movement out there ready to defend you.