From Robert Parry: Mark,
Here's a good article about how the mainstream media is bending over for the GOP. A few years ago, when the Republicans were in charge, the TV networks (and the print media) shunned Democrats, supposedly because they weren't in power and it only made sense to get the views of the people in charge. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the same TV producers and journalists are booking and quoting Republicans in disproportionate numbers--because it's important to give "the other side." And if the Republicans get back in power, no doubt the media will go right back to quoting only them. So there's a constant here: lots of Republican guests (so that the media don't get attacked as "liberal"). What changes is the rationale, literally flipping 180 degrees each time the circumstances change. In big ways and small, this has been a dynamic that I have witnessed in my three decades in Washington. The only way it can be changed is to build an honest media infrastructure that isn't afraid of the Right and what its well-funded operatives can do to you. Here's the link to the ThinkProgress study: <>REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus Debate On Cable News <>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/cable-news-stimulus/ Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
