It's an interesting question.
Does the Onion (and for that matter all entertainment and "news" media) want to criticize Marxist Obama, and are they simply too cowardly and terrorized?
Or could be they fellow travelers who want to see uber change from our free and open government and to separate us from our traditions and American culture?
Or both?
I hold out hope that some from among the media will recognize Obama's falsehoods, shortcomings, and abuses, then realize that they miss that First Amendment thingie, and break ranks.
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I have a feeling that unless they do this right away, very soon they won't even have a chance to do it.
I hold out hope that some from among the media will recognize Obama's falsehoods, shortcomings, and abuses, then realize that they miss that First Amendment thingie, and break ranks.
You can't understand journalism without reference to the Associated Press. In the founding era, newspapers were not so much about news as we know it as about the opinion of the printer of the newspaper. For example, Hamilton and Jefferson each sponsored a newspaper to promote his own opinions and trash those of the other. Two generations later, with the advent of the telegraph and the monopolistic Associated Press, newspapers had the motive and opportunity to call all journalism "objective" in order to justify printing stuff that their own reporters didn't write.IOW, Associated Press journalism homogenizes political opinion among newspapers. It is true that the editorial pages don't always go along the way the New York Time's editorial page does, but . . .
Associated Press journalism doesn't care about "that First Amendment thingie" or else they wouldn't have been 100% behind McCain-Feingold. Obama would really have to jump the shark to get bad press from the MSM.