Posted on 04/14/2009 11:56:29 AM PDT by abb
It goes way back before that. They slaughtered Joe McCarthy and Barry Goldwater. They first tried to get Nixon in 1952.
Exactly.
I nominate the late President Richard Nixon for a retroactive award as Person of the Decade for the '70s. Who knew...his Legacy lives after him.
Take a look at this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/media/15brill.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-brill-crovitz-and-hindery-team-up-to-solve-news-cash-woes-with-journali/
Brill, Crovitz, Hindery Launch E-Commerce Venture For News Business
Agnew attacked a "small band of network commentators" who, he charged, were a "tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one."Half-wit neglects to mention Agnew's "nattering nabobs of negativism" money quote.
One of the great "successes" of the modern conservative movement has been the extent to which it has discredited and delegitimized mainstream journalism.That's right baby, you remind everyone that conservatism remains the 800 pound gorilla in the room despite koolaid drinking hallucinations about how "we're all socialist's now."
Take a look at this. Back when newspapers tried - and succeeded for a time - shutting up radio news.
The New Orleans Press-Radio War and Huey P. Long, 1922-1936
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0711102-133745/unrestricted/Collins_thesis.pdf
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