AP: Novelist Anne Rice says she's leaving Christianity

[Marge_Innavera]

I can't think of any reason not to call the MSM the "Dinosaur Media" - their declining audience base and readership alone point towards their continued shrinkage if not extinction. And then the snarky condescending attitudes that they have towards the America that they don't much care for, the so called "flyover country" - alienating potential audiences is not the "smartest" marketing strategy. I believe I saw a stat yesterday that FoxNews audience share is now 4 times that of CNN. Furthermore, the term "MSM" implies that they are "mainstream" when they are anything but mainstream, so I and others have searched for a term with which to label them. I think that it was either Laura Ingraham or Anne Coulter who first used the term, and it stuck because it fits. 

Much of this would fit the "new" media too, as anyone with more than a week of Internet access can attest.

[serious crayons]

And then the snarky condescending attitudes that they have towards the America that they don't much care for, the so called "flyover country" -

Examples, please. Just because Sarah or Rush or Glenn say the media do something or other, doesn't mean they actually do it. Shocking, I know.  

As a person who lives in so-called "flyover country" and tends to get prickly about any sort of stereotyping of or condescension toward Middle America, I would have to say I don't see that sort of thing pop up all that often in the mainstream media. Not to shock you twice in one post, but location on a coast or in a big city doesn't automatically confer snobbery.

[louisev]

, but location on a coast or in a big city doesn't automatically confer snobbery.

applying this rubric equally, residency in a non-coastal state doesn't automatically confer humility

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applying this rubric equally, residency in a non-coastal state doesn't automatically confer humility

True! Nor authenticity as an American. 

[brokeplex]

True! Nor authenticity as an American. 

authentic Americans? do you mean residents of the Americas, or citizens of the United States who are properly called USonians.

well, don't authentic Americans usually have their birth certs handy, esp when they run for public office?

just wondering --

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authentic Americans? do you mean residents of the Americas, or citizens of the United States who are properly called USonians.

well, don't authentic Americans usually have their birth certs handy, esp when they run for public office?

just wondering --

You mean like this one?

[brokeplex]

You mean like this one?

were you posting an image, it may not have posted.

[delalluvia]

Wow, those are some pretty powerful comments.

I found this comment most apt - and it wasn't from Anne, it was from one of the readers.

I could have told her any of these things about the Catholic church before she joined. Does no one do any fact checking before joining massive organizations and giving them lots of money?

[serious crayons]

were you posting an image, it may not have posted.

Do you not see that? That's strange -- I see it in your post as well as my own.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg

[Monika]

I found this comment most apt - and it wasn't from Anne, it was from one of the readers.

I could have told her any of these things about the Catholic church before she joined. Does no one do any fact checking before joining massive organizations and giving them lots of money?

church isn´t just any organization in that respect. Often people are more or less raised into a religion.
It´s about culture, traditions and habits. Things that often are hard things to break away from.

I think it takes a lot of strength to reconsider and be able to change one´s mind on something.