September 07, 2005
The Self-Neutered American Media
I told someone privately a couple of days ago that the American media has lost the ability to sway public opinion in any appreciable way.
CNN/USA TODAY POLL: Only 13% blame Bush
They failed when they called a win for Gore, failed in their predictions of an "inflamed Arab street" the run-up to the Afghan and Iraq wars, failed in the "quagmire" reporting of the Iraq invasion, failed to pin blame for 9-11 on the Bush administration, failed to win an election for John Kerry, and today, they're failing to turn an act of nature into a White House plot to "let black folks drown".
There's no mystery as to why - the American public is onto them. You'd think the freefall in newspaper subscriptions and network ratings would be a clue. As usual, the last ones to see the "root cause" are the media themselves.
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COMMENT Larry Kudlow has it right: The doomsayers and pessimists are once again going to be proven wrong. This is not the 1970s.