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Fri 26 Mar, 2004 04:58 pm
The last paragraph is very important!---BBB
Tom Paine - Common Sense
Second Draft
By Norman Solomon, the author of The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media and co-author, with Reese Erlich, of Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You. He writes Media Beat, a nationally syndicated column. People in positions of enormous power are never more dangerous than when they see their power seriously threatened. The counterattacks on Clarke have only just begun. And during the next several months, the Bush-Cheney-Rove administration is sure to reach into its very large bag of media tricks. Whether the trickery is successful will largely depend on whether journalists do their civic duty or kowtow to the White House.
They haven't been doing much by way of civic duty lately. bush was born under a lucky star, I think. He gets away with everything. Then people forget.
The Media
The Media has been soft on the Bush Admin. ever since 911. Some say it was because the couldn't be seen as not supporting the Govt.in time of war. I feel that may be part of it but it is more than that. The mood of America has been a swing to the right and the Media jumped on that mood. There are more right wing pundits and shows than ever. The Media also did not want to buck a popular Pres.
Also, war is good for Media ratings and sell newspapers, zines etc. The Media jumped on that in a big way.
Now that the Pres. and the Admin. are starting to garner many negatives the Media feels more free to start nibbling at the Admin. heels. If the blood flow from the Admin. streams heavier the Media will start biting big chunks out of the Admin.
Excellent article -- thanks for posting it.
Personally, the 'media' has a long way to go to redeem themselves in my book.
They've given Poppy and Barr's widdle precious a free pass for years and look at the carnage he's left in his wake.
For this, I will never forgive the 'media.'
Even now, after nearly 600 Americans and 15,000 Iraqis have died in Bush's war for oil and legacy, they laughed and gaffawed at Bush's tasteless jokes about failing to find the WMD's this conflict was allegedly started over.
Which is why it's just too bad a few jackasses own most of the media and control what we're allowed to hear.
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