What happens to the news media once dems take power?

[graywarrior]

Will they jump like rats from a sinking ship, will they remain suckass loyalists, will they act like the past 6 years never happened and pretend they were with us all along, or will they all get fired for failing and get thrown into Gitmo?

Personally, I'd like to see some heavy pimp slapping...maybe even do some of that myself.

[bryant69]

1. I don't think there will be much change

It's not like we are going to be electing hardcore liberals or people who are going to shake up the status quo.

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[devilgrrl]

2. They'll suddenly wake up and cover corruption like during Clinton's term...

you'll hear a lot about land deals that lost money and affairs with adult members of the opposite sex.

[LeftCoast]

4. Bingo! We have a winner!

I have no doubt you are correct. I give the media maybe a week before they start to try and tear down the Dems.

[Red Zelda]

5. Exactly!

Suddenly, the jaundiced fools in the MSM will become Monica-hunting carnivores, yearning for the good ol' days.

[zbdent]

13. And it will all be Dem corruption ...

Until 2001, there was a local car dealer who would spend half his radio ad time ranting about the lousy job the politicians were doing (unsurprisingly, it was always something a "dem" did ...) ...

once the Repukes controlled the big three, he realized that he needed to focus more on selling cars ...

Come February, I'm sure that his rants will return ...

[LiberalEsto]

3. They will help the rethugs snipe at us

like they did during the Clinton era.

[seabeyond]

6. they will attack attack attack dems, ridicule, dismiss and everything

to make them insignificant, why?

[depakid]

9. That's EXACTLY what they'll do

and it's what they'll continue to do until their consolidated empires are divested and responsible regulation is reinstated.

[Cleita]

7. I would like to see a Democratic congress break up the news

monopolies to begin with, so that instead of all news being owned by six corporations that we go back to multi-ownership and competition among the MSM entities. Also, I would like to bring back the anti-trust laws that prevented corporate hybridization. In other words, Corporations like GE shouldn't be allowed to own media companies, nor should media companies own electric companies, not to mention many other conflict of interest hybridizations that have been allowed to happen since the breakdown of the anti-trust laws.

[KansDem]

15. I thought the same thing--sorta like what happened to the phone companies

...during the 1980s

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[Gato Moteado]

8. hopefully the military will carpet bomb fox news....

...they are nothing but nazi propogandists. and limbaugh and coulter should be taken into custody and waterboarded daily.

[bling bling]

10. Same thing that will happen if dems don't take power.

1. They go back to jerking off while the scandelous administration continues breaking laws and further damages the country.

2. They continue reading the GOP generated talking points/press releases as the news.

3. They continue allowing FOX news to set the bar for journalistic integrity.

4. As usual, they do what they can to impact the 2008 election by first shoving the names of potential Democratic candidates down everyone's throats. Then interview GOP members about those candidates. Quote verbatim whatever character smears the GOP spew about the candidate and don't bother checking the facts to see if the smears are in fact accurate.

And that's just the political portion of the news. As a rule, their bread and butter will continue to be hand-picking one story (white girl kidnapped, sharks, etc.) and reporting on it non-stop in 2 week increments.

[endarkenment]

11. They will aid and abbet the counterattack.

The problem is systemic and will not be cured by one election.

[SoCalDem]

12. They will switch to reporting about the obstruction in congress

look for old words to resurface..

like...

gridlock
obstructionist
partisan
stubborn
etc.

They will do what they have done for 30+ years.

They will report on nonsensical stuff that their corporate bosses want them to report on..

Watch for an abundance of "shark" stories this summer..

And we all know there is no shortage of wacko guys who like to abduct cute blonde girls..

Once the investigations start rolling out, we'll see some coverage, but I predict that the republicans being called upon to answer for their "sins" will start to gain sympathy from the press..

It will be business as usual, because the ones at the top of the heap cannot allow real stories to be aired. Their continued control of the medium depends on republican largesse.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Well, eight years ago the MSM was all Monica, all the time

So I'm not very hopeful of any of them being much more fair and balanced than FoxNews.

They'll find Democratic scandals to keep them busy. There may even be a few now that the Democrats will take power. One nice thing about Norquist's K Street project is that it kept Democrats honest -- by not giving them any opportunities to be otherwise.

Meanwhile, if the Democrats investigate the scandals of the Bush regime, as they should, we have a right to expect the MSM to cover it and provide facts to the public at large, no matter who they embarrass.

As for the White House, if Rove cuts off the access of any White House correspondent because he or his publisher actually reports news, so be it. White House access has been overrated for the six years. A Bush regime official will only tell a reporter lies. What we needed to know in the late winter of 2003 is that Iraq was not a threat and Bush regime was saying otherwise, not giving uncritical, Pravda-like credibility to every lie they uttered.

[meldroc]

16. The MSM will likely continue to attack the Dems, but...

Congress, now having control over the chairs, and having subpoena power, will have enough power to start arm-twisting behind the scenes - threatening to introduce legislation, or threatening to issue subpoenas and begin investigations into media misconduct. The media, if they want to avoid being raked over the coals, had better tone down the propaganda.

[graywarrior]

17. I wonder if they'll keep up with their terra diatribe

There's always bird flu, which has been hovering in the background and I expect there will be more white powder mailed to democrats.