Posted on 01/03/2003 1:36:30 PM PST by SteveH
I say this is perfect. I want the establishment media chasing their tails for the next millenium. While they complain about which course the boat is on, the water is rising past their knees. Their myopic view of the political landscape will be their undoing after all.
The liberal media bias goes back to the 1950's... Alan Drury's "Advice and Consent" (the liberal spin-meister in that novel was a guy named "Frankly Unctuous" and he was a dead-ringer for the liberal nightly news guy: maybe David Brinkley before he turned somewhat conservative at the very end of his career) was a good example back then. The way the media ganged up on Barry Goldwater and the other "influentials" followed: remember the National Association of Psychologists (or whatever it was called) who declared Barry "unfit" to be President? And after Vietnam and Watergate, the floodgates opened.
Conservatives started getting their act together in the late 70's and early 80's with the early think-tanks (Heritage, Cato) that started stepping up and challenging the conventional "wisdom" -- and Reagan crushed the liberal media despite their best efforts.
Guys like Parry can harrangue all they want, they can't dodge the facts and reality... But there are too many alternatives now and the liberal media will never have the kind of influence it enjoyed in the past, especially allowing the crimes of the Clinton era to pass with hardly a wimper (despite the alleged "tough coverage" Bubba received). A Republican in that situation would have been hanged.
"If this writer considers the abuses leading to Clinton's impeachment "trivial," that's all I need to know to discount everything else he says."
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That's about as far as I needed to read too.......I guess rape, murder, kick-backs, espionage, bribes, threats, lip-biting, money-for-votes, and votes-for-money are all trivial....
FRegards,
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What actions might they take if they believe this? Well, the model for what they are talking about is Salon. Here we have a number of wealthy liberals who think The Web needs a strong liberal voice. So, following (actually, anticipating) the advice in this article, they create out of thin air a strong left-leaning news-and-commentary web site. What are the results? Well, so far they have poured tens of millions of dollars down a rathole. These are funds that might have been donated to Democratic candidates, or used to run television ads that depict President Bush setting fire to black churches. The site has failed to attract anything like the following that would be expected after such expenditures, and it's now down to subsisting month-to-month on $200,000 "loans" from liberal fat cats who keep it as a pet. The same could be said of Salon's liberal cousin, Slate... another money sink that probably does not have the influence of the one-man endeavor andrewsullivan.com. If there's a "myth" here, it's the one in the liberal mind that says that conservatives got together and planned some big media empire. That theory is more an artifact of how their minds work -- centralized economic planning and control -- than how it actually happened. It does not seem to occur to them that the disparate fates of Salon and Fox News are due not to the fatness of their backer's wallets, but to the market's reception of the products. They deny a ubiquitous liberal slant in the country's media, but then cannot explain why new liberal entrants consistently fail to attract an audience. The reason Salon has a hard time is that one can read the same liberal tirades in the New York Times and the Washington Post, not to mention CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS. The reason no liberal enjoys the commercial success of Rush Limbaugh is that the liberal audience has access to commercial-free, taxpayer-supported Democratic Party Radio. By contrast, Fox came out of the gate like a rocket, because it was the only non-liberal offering on television. I don't expect liberals to ever believe that. They will continue to think that what they need to do is replicate the Salon experience over and over again, perhaps on radio, perhaps on television, perhaps to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. I hope they do. Better that than they donate it to the Democratic candidate in 2004. |
Yes I do remember the treatment of Goldwater. The "Daisy" commercial. Lyndon Johnson and Bill Moyers would do ANYTHING to win an election. It is the realization that the press will enable the worst kind of people, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Gore to ascend to the presidency, that I only believe the vital statistics page in a newspaper.
With the recent releases of LBJ's tapes admitting that he had trouble being a "Commander-in-Chief", the Nat. Assn. of Shrinks should have examined Johnson.
The other thing the might try to find a way to knock some loopholes in the first amendment. I don't know how they would be successful at that. But I did hear John Kerry say something in September that gave me a vague uneasy feeling that he had thought about it after some questioner mentioned how "unfairly" Rush Limbaugh had been calling Daschle an obstructionist after all his efforts over the summer.
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Either way, he's wrong.
There is no "Liberal Media Myth"...it's a fact and anyone who denies it is peeing on their own leg and saying they didn't.
Where have I heard this before? Oh, yeah, when racist blacks claim that "nothing has changed" for blacks in American in the past fifty years. "In the days of Rupert Murdoch, Jack Welch and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon"? Jesus, Mary, and Joseph -- this guy has to embarrass a lot of socialists! (I'm a Jew, but he's got me swearing like an Irishman.)
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Let's assume for a minute that large numbers of liberals actually believe this tripe. I think we can also assume that by uttering it, they are not convincing anyone of anything. They are simply preaching to their own choir.