I'll meet you at the teardown, my friend.

[bleever]

Teardown: The Mainstream Media Turns on Bush

By Michael Collins



http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00155.htm

For the very many long months since George W. Bush became the Republican nominee for the office of the President of the United States, so many of us have been shocked at how the national media was at every turn leveraged with the fulcrum of Fairness, as defined by the volume of objecting voices, into splitting the difference to always seek a "middle" between whatever was posited by the two parties. On the one hand, on the other hand; anything else was subject to accusations of "media bias".

Asking W if he's been drug-free for X many years? A game of Gotcha! And he caught you playing it!

Asking W if he actually showed the hell up for his princely National Guard "duties"? Gotcha! Documents that purport to give final proof of that are fake, so the story's an embarrassment to the damn Liberal Media!

What the hell was happening? How were our protectors, our free press, failing us so badly in their capacity to monitor not only what our "rulers" said, but the truth of what they said?

In retrospect, the marginalization and "outplacing" of non-believers of the neo-con agenda has been constant and effective, like termites, or rust. Access was denied to critical members of the media whose professions depended on having important stories; access was opened to those who not only believed but could serve (if you will) as force multipliers, embedded in the editorial decisions of papers of record. The same thing happened in the United States military, in the State Department, in the CIA, in the Justice Department. Everywhere they could insert a tentacle of political interest, and squeeze.

But all good things come to an end. Bad things, too.

All this by way of introducing the piece by Michael Collins on where the tide has turned with regards to the Fourth Estate. When he says:

However, anyone who is awake and paying attention can see that we’re headed for the cliff in a car driven by a juvenile leader who is cheered on by what appears to be the greatest collection of enablers in the history of governance.

...he isn't just repeating what many of us have long believed; he's describing what the so-called "Mainstream Media" has awakened to. Of course, there's no such thing as the "Mainstream Media"; just the mass media, controlled primarily by corporate interests. And those corporate interests are no longer being a firewall between W and his failures.

There's been a change, and we need to continue to be that change. Read this, and leave defeatism behind.

[EFerrari]

1. Is the teardown the same thing as the load out?

I'm in.

:kick:

[bleever]

3. Nah. With the load out,

you're carefully taking the stuff to the next place, where you can set it up and make it work again.

With the teardown, you're clearing the crap out, making room for something good.

Thanks for being on the crew.

[JeffR]

2. Thanks, bleever

As we used to say in south Georgia, you damn right.:patriot:

[babylonsister]

4. bleever, another teardown! Who knew? nt

[understandinglife]

5. It's a privilege to be recommend # 5!

BE THE BU$H OPPOSITION - 24/7/365

[DemReadingDU]

6. Teardown. WooHoo!

:woohoo:

[autorank]

7. Is it "bad form" to vote for yourself?

Well, I did it anyway. Bleever, great commentary. I was reading it and thinking, "Damn, did I write that, pretty good;)"

The corporate media is doing what they want but this time it coincides with what we want. It's a temporary coincidence not a change in attitude.

I was just blown away by the Media Matters story on ABC blacklisting advertisements from Air America. In an odd way, well it's not odd at all actually, this demonstrates that ABC unleashing the journalists on Foley is not about helping citizens get the truth out. Their agenda is clear - no coverage, no media other than what they designate as acceptable. I hope that there is a basis for Air America to sue ABC. Wouldn't that be rich.

You picked my favorite line from the article to quote...frustrated minds think alike!

Here's a bit more:

Sex is just the vehicle. It’s about something much bigger.

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in the Obvious to conclude that there are powerful forces that simply can’t tolerate any more Bush disasters. How else do you explain the Republican controlled corporate media’s abrupt change from denial to a total focus on this story so utterly devastating for the administration and Congressional Republicans? How do you explain the timing just before the 2006 mid term elections? And, how do you explain the fact that this and other stories showing up (Iraq malfeasance, 911 neglect, etc.) are all old?

A month ago ABC was flouting a misleading documentary blaming Bill Clinton for 911 and Time magazine was announcing its new executive editor, formerly of the very right wing DeVos Foundation. All of a sudden, as if by magic, they and other corporate media are leading the charge against the ruling party.

[bleever]

8. Actually, you're voting for a functioning democracy,

so it's okay.

[mom cat]

9. I will pat you on the back too! Very nice job!

It is amazing how the talking pints that are coming out in the corporate media are shifting. I think that they want to make nice with the forgone winners of the midterms. I hope those winners don't do the DLC two timing two step on us, but I am afraid they will.