> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of The Fool > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:43 PM > To: Brin-L > Subject: one for Nick: networks, funding, agenda, Scaife > > > Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors? > > http://hnn.us/articles/1244.html > > Medium-ish with links. These are the guys propagating the false 'liberal > media bias' that you hear unendingly from right wing ideologues.
Good heavens, it's a vast right-wing conspiracy... I'm more than a little startled by the reach of Scaife, etc., and I have to admit that I believe in the power of manipulating opinion leaders. There's some personal irony in this, too. I grew up around Scaife, Mellon, etc., geographically speaking; my mother taught Scaife children and my father taught at a college largely funded by robber-baron steel industry money. But they are quite liberal. And Pittsburgh is a union town, or at least it was when I was growing up. I'm not sure about its political mixture now that the steel business is mostly gone. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that the far right money nexus is at the heart of the labor movement -- that's who the unions were fighting, after all. As I let this article percolate, what seems to bother me the most is their ability to cause certain language to become commonplace without it being easily identified as coming from a single source, or even a single political party, giving it the appearance of a groundswell. On the other hand, maybe the only reason that they're successful is that the nation is ripe for the message. Cause and effect are rarely clear. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
