Will The Media Change Its Tone When Democrats Come To Power?

[ThomWV]

Listen to the language of main stream media reporting when it comes to Democrats. The undertones are always there, the denigration of the Democratic Party is continuous. They feed on the weak.

After tuesday we will not be the weak.

How they gonna talk about us after tuesday? How receptive will or should we be to an unapologetic press?

I think Nancy Pelosi should begin her own version of the "K Street Project" in that unfriendly approaches by unfriendly people should be avoided. Shun republican leaning news sources and don't give them a god damned thing - don't even talk to them. Make everyone at FOX think they are Helen Thomas, ignored at the back of the room, uninvited to conferences, barley tolerated wherever they are seen. Fuck 'em.

They have been eating us alive, body and soul, since the late 90's. Its time for some payback.

[WinkyDink]

1. No. Not unless we win in 2008.

[madokie]

12. I'm not sure they will then, I keep looking back to the Clinton years

and the media sure wasn't on our side then. My suspicion is they will as long as re:pukes: own them continue to push the big money plan. Until the fairness doctrine is reinstated no luck on reeling in the hatemongers either.

[SharonAnn]

2. We have to be careful about that. We need to get the message out.

If we don't state our message to people who listen to Faux News, then they'll never hear it.

That said, we need to be really careful about the frequency of our participation and the conditions of it.

[Skidmore]

3. We need to demand respect of them, first by having them

state the name of the party correctly.

[rainy]

4. They will just be laughing at us again as we allow Diebold

to decide another election. All the fuss now about the machines and they fail to interview the experts who have written books on the subject: Robert Kennedy Jr., Crispen-Miller, and others. They are still not getting the story right. The exit polls discrepancy, the odds that most glitches favored Bush, the long lines etc.... The media will just keep laughing at us as they collect more money and own more outlets.

[Alacrat]

9. I think they would love for the repugs to win

the firestorm of vote rigging accusations would make their day. If the Democrats win as they are expected, then they have no story. They could care less about the death of our democracy, as long as they have a juicy story to tell. off subject, I'm always amazed when spell check wants to change repug?

[Alacrat]

5. I don't see anything changing

They have always blamed the Democratic leaders for everything,even when they had little say in policy or decisions, now that we will have some say or actually be able too influence policy, they will be worse, because we will be in a position, in their eyes, to be held responsible for what they already blame us for, if that makes sense. Anything from NK, to Iran will now be our fault, as well as Iraq, but in reality we will have very little, if any thing, to do with what happens with those countries, Iraq and Afghanistan being the possible exceptions. I do hope our leaders will be able to make a difference with Iran and NK, but :freak: has probably already set in motion things that can't be changed, I hope I'm wrong.

[rosesaylavee]

6. It will not change as long as the media monopolies remain. n/t

[Toots]

7. Win them over with kindness

Sounds silly I know but beats the heck out of FEAR....

[tinfoilinfor2005]

8. I'm sensing some subtle changes already.

They like to be on the side of the winner and there has been less dem pounding lately, or at least, an attempt at fairness. Even though they ran with the Kerry story, most emphasized the "joke" aspect. If the dems themselves hadn't been so quick to jump on him with both feet, and Kerry so slow to minimize the damage, it would have been a complete non story.

And huge media turn around on Iraq. Now they are all rolling their eyes at how badly bush has botched it, even though they spent the last six years singing his praises.

[spanone]

10. If we win the House, they will join the WH on blaming everything on the Obstructionist democrats.

[kentuck]

11. Not unless they are challenged more directly for their coverage...

and their inclination to spout the Republican propaganda, such as the Kerry story.

[KharmaTrain]

13. They Relish The Confrontation...

I expect a return to the 80's type rhetoric of how the Democrats in Congress are obsturctionists or too "out of the mainstream". It won't be that we don't have ideas, it'll be we have too many. Winning on Tuesday will be both a slap at the corporate media by many of us for being Repugnican water carriers, but it will also embolden some...especially on the right...into playing "victim" and attempting to shovel any and all of their problems on Pelosi and/or Reid.

The key for Democrats if they win the House on Tuesday is to make sure this was a win from strength and not by default. This means realizing the election was won as much by Repugnican malfesance than anything our party offered. Now we have a short time frame to show that Democrats are the party of reason and progress and to hope the Repugnicans bring out long knives and splinter their party in two or more.

Since there are so many spineless Democrats still out there, the corporate media will enjoy exploiting them as it makes for "hot" TV and will surely be astroturfed like crazy by the Repugnicans. While we may win elections on Tuesday, we still haven't beaten the "machine". The Mighty Wurlitzer is clogged right now, but it won't stay that way for long.

Election Night '92 was one of the greatest I ever experienced. Besides sending Poppy Bush into retirement, the Democrats won the House & Senate that night. It seemed like finally there was a chance to move ahead a more Progressive agenda...instead two years later, thanks to the corporate media, a long nightmare was unleashed. My greatest hope is Tuesday is to see the total implosion of the Repugnican party where the far right and the "party regulars" are so busy fighting each other and getting corporate media attention that Democrats can have some breathing room to consolidate our gains.

Cheers...