Bush supporters' aftermath thread

Lash wrote:

keltic--
I don't read blogs.

Then why do you claim that "everyone" uses a term which our discussion here has shown is used only on blogs and articles about blogs?

And there are not enough articles about blogs to create the impression that "everyone" uses the term.

So that leaves blogs as your only possible source of the erroneoous impression that "everyone" uses the acronym MSM for Mainstream Media.

Sorry, Lash, but you tipped your hand. About the only good thing for you about this matter is that the internet is electronic, so you don't have to have the blogs shipped to you in a plain brown wrapper.

Go for it, though I will say that my contention isn't that you couldn't find 10 right-wing blogs that have comments enabled, just that you/others couldn't name them off of the top of your head.

Now, if you don't frequent blogs, then that would automatically mean that you probably cannot name 10 of them. My mission isn't to send you on a scavenger hunt in order to find websites, but to point out the fact that there is a large disparity in the Blog world when it comes to comments and soliciting information and viewpoints from others.

Cycloptichorn

Have we established anything with this exercise?

It's in Wikipedia. That would be..."widely known".

The three letter acronym MSM can refer to:

Mechanically separated meat.
Men who have sex with men.
Methylsulfonylmethane, a dietary supplement.
Mainstream media.
Manhattan School of Music, a conservatory in New York City.

For that matter, I'm not sure a lot of younger Americans know what ICBM is an acronym for; however, I probably wouldn't spell it out if I used it in an article.

I immediately recognized MSM when it was used and I certainly did not learn the term from Blogs.

I think MSM as Lash and JW used it is probably not frequently used purely because MSM is an acronym for so many different things...

Yes, [MSM as Mainstream Media] it's in there - but not at all mentioned in your quoted article :wink:

Yes, but here is the point-the things that are more popular uses of MSM are not widely known either. The arthritis treatment is not known to the Man In The Street the way IBM, FBI or ICBM is. Morehouse School of Medicine? Metal Separated Meat? These are obscure references. Yet they are still ahead of MSM=Mainstream Media on the list. So clearly, MSM=Mainstream Media is even more obscure than the previously noted obscure references.

It's bad enough that Just Wonders tries to claim that a reference is widely used when it is obscure. But when it is not only obscure, but even more obscure than another reference, which itself is even more obscure than still another reference, which is itself more obscure than.....well, it's clear that claiming MSM=Mainstream Media is well-known is entirely hopeless.

National Press Club[/size]

Professor Ashley Goldsworthy, chair of the Information Industries Taskforce & Dr Terry Cutler, chair of the Information Policy Advisory Council

25 November 1996

... Dr Cutler: I agree with that all of us at some stage have to have one of those ah ha experiences where we suddenly realise that everything is changed. The contrast I think we need to draw with respect to the media is, if we look at the media here versus, say, the US or even in Asia, where these issues are in the front section of the papers. In all the Asian papers I read this is main stream stuff. If you read the Wall Street Journal, this is right at the front of every issue. Perhaps one of the reasons for declining circulation of Australian print media in some areas at the moment is the fact that this is not happening because you se people reading specialist US publications, particularly younger kids. They're reading some of these things either online or the hard copy versions of things like Wired and so forth which are main stream and appealing to a group of people who are getting nothing out of main stream media, if I might be so courageous to say so.

Bring down the main stream media
Polio Guy | 20.03.2003 21:56

Tomorrow we ask some of the anti war protesters to take over the mainstream media (TV, Radio and newspapers) stop them from spreading there hateful propaganda. They have been virtually ignoring our protests and they need to be taken down. Better still take ver the BBC radio station and spread our revelation.

Down with the BBC, CNN, Murdoch and Gang

Better still tomorrow will be the day when the voices of our rulers will be shut down

Best of Luck

Obviously I was mislead, since of course I know the term 'mainstream media' since years but thought, the acronym MSM was questioned.

Never mind.

It's bad enough that Just Wonders tries to claim that a reference is widely used when it is obscure. But when it is not only obscure, but even more obscure than another reference, which itself is even more obscure than still another reference, which is itself more obscure than.....well, it's clear that claiming MSM=Mainstream Media is well-known is entirely hopeless.