Thanks for the comment, D-O.
The secret’s out. The media have just been “ripping and reading” for a long time. PR operations have added to their laziness. TV and paper media have become addicted to AP packaged news and press releases. They just repeat what they receive. If it’s a conservative source, they scoff; if it’s a liberal source, they drink the cool-aide and pass the cup on to their viewers/listeners.
Misty Montano confirms how lazy they are. She complains that she can’t work through all the spoon feeding she gets from press releases and now the social networks.
Every day they expose their laziness and bias by by not reporting or mis-reporting one of the biggest stories of the century. Who needs a dope like Misty to report from her favorite news sources when we can all have our own raw news sources. Technology has caught up with the lying media.
I don't deny that this is possibly what's going on. But the conservative source has a duty to establish its credibility in the eyes of the press. I think "blaming the MSM" is a crutch, just like the way ghetto-dwellers used to blame "The Man" for their own faults.
What's happening, I suspect, is that lazy conservative PR guys aren't making the necessary personal connections with the lazy journalists.
And the local media did cover the Tea Party on election day. I saw it myself on TV. If all we do is complain about how the local press doesn't like us, the local press will just keep on not liking us. Who is sending a "Thank you for the coverage" message to the helpful news stations? Who is saying "Hey, we met at X. If you're interested, I got another juicy story..."?