Reply #14: That's because the rest of the RW media defends them by attacking the [View All]

[Nikki Stone 1]

journalists who reported the indiscretions. These attacks play into the world view that the media is left wing and "out to get" the RW hosts. The focus shifts to the bearer of bad news (the press, the specific journalist) and not the perpetrators of the bad acts.

This strategy creates enough feeling among the faithful to ignore what they heard, to figure it was a left wing attack, or to minimize it as something the average Joe might fall into and shouldn't be punished for.

For the non-believers (like ourselves) it is a warning that no matter what the RW hosts do, it will be spun as something that the LW did wrong, and unless we are willing to raise our blood pressure (or risk our lives) on a daily basis, that we should keep quiet about it.

For the uninvolved, the RW media creates so much screaming and obfuscation that these folks don't even know what the fuss is all about. and really don't want to know. If they give it any thought at all, they blame both sides (a default position) but they really don't want to get involved.