----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:11 AM Subject: RE: Bush's Aggressive Accounting
> Gautam again: > Would you care to guess what proportion of the US media votes Democratic? > The odds that the Washington Post, New York Times, and so on will endorse > the Democratic candidate in any given election? Fairly low, let me assure > you. These are not neutral observers. Most of my _Democratic_ friends > agree with me on that. What fraction of the owners vote Democratic? Who is in charge, the workers or the owners? You can indeed find papers, like the Post, privately owned by wealthy Democrats. But, on the whole, the interest of the papers are the interests of its owners, who tend to be Republican. If you would do a weighed average by circulation, of the ownership of the media, I cannot imagine that it would be leftist. Dan M. To assert otherwise is to pretty much define > yourself as a member of the very far left. > articles condemned all military spending, reflexively or otherwise. > > For "fairly low" obviously read "fairly high" which I somehow managed to > switch. God, I need to not write posts when I just got back from a bar. >
