Bury Me Broken

What's Wrong with the Press

Armando at DailyKos has an excellent post on the problem with the press:

"It appears to me that what Bob Somerby is discussing, and what Kevin's strawman (with Shafer) avoids is the uptick in media incompetence through the 1990s. "What a coincidence?" you might say. The Media started to suck when Clinton was President. Well, yes and no. Let me state an apostasy sure to ban me from liberal paradise: There was, in the partisan conventional political sense -- a liberal bias in the Media against Republicans and conservatives in the 1970s through the late 1980s. (My explanation of why I think so is Note 1 in extended) Not in the progressive radical sense of course.

But when Clinton started his rise to prominence in 1992, this all changed, and in the strangest way at first. Most of it was personal, not policy. Indeed, on policy, Clinton was one of the least COVERED Presidents in history. There are alot of reasons for that but I think David Brock has his finger on it better than anyone else.

Because from Clinton's time, the Right Wing Smearers, the Swifties of their time, went from just bitching at the Media, to actually creating stories for the Media. Much of the Mighty Wurlitzer we see today was transformed into the story churners we now know - then it was The Spectator, The Moonie Times, Limbaugh and finally, the piece de resistance - Roger Ailes' Fox News Channel"

Jeff Gannon is an example of how far we have fallen. A fake news outlet has a fake reporter sitting with the likes of Helen Hunt asking the press secretary 'feel good' questions. That Bob Novak continued on CNN threatening anyone that asked about his treasonous revelation is beyond absurd. If not for a few good soldiers, I would not read or watch any outlet that claims to report the news. We have fallen mightily.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/6/225910/4951

posted by niteskolar @ 12:17 PM