Bush and the Media (didn't want to waste this on a Yahoo board)

[Atman]

Some uber-pubbie told me to "get real" when I suggested that the media has somehow been giving Bush a pass. It ain't Tom Paine but I didn't want it lost on...on...them!

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I am real, Ron. And you seem to be in denial that money plays a powerful role in public policy in any administration. In this adminstration, money IS the policy. Give it to them, you get the policy you want.

Please don't insult our intelligence (well, mine anyway...there are a few here with scant evidence of any at all) by over simplifying this. No one thinks George Bush is sitting at a desk with a legal pad making notes about how his control of the media is going today. I am so tired of the republicans doing this to EVERY issue...make the most inane literal interpretation out of a broader picture and then ridicule your own results. You are not being honest, with me or you or anyone else.

The facts are facts. Bush isn't doing anything new. Controlling the media to help advance an agenda is a part of every national history, and our rising above it as a nation is much of what set us apart from the likes of The Soviet Union. Remember those pictures we grew up with, of the unemployed Russian people lining up before a bulletin board, outside in the freezing cold and rain, just to read a copy of the state-owned Pravda telling them how wonderful their lives were?

You owe your country better than this constant chest thumping for Bush. Use some critical thinking skills, for christs sake. It is NOT COINCIDENCE that Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner and blah blah blah blah contribute billions to George Bush, and there so happen to be some very, very lucrative markets on the line if Bush grants them certain favors, and a cooperative media would certainly help the administration to....

What is the point? I'm wasting my breath, right? You really want us to believe this all just serendipity, and happening with no forethought or plan? Everything just happens to be falling into line behind the money trail?

Get real, indeed.

[papau]

1. Everything just happens to be falling into line behind the money trail ???

I like the idea that smart media folks pretend they have ethics and are not following the money.

But then the right wing bias in the media is truth - and while truth is not excluded from our "not controlled by the right wing GOP" media - the media does act that way most of the time.