I guess only time will tell if liberal access to stories are curtailed in Google or not.
However, it is clear that the news is now slanted towards conservatives even in the so called alphabet news. It started out with a concentrated effort on the part of conservatives to compete with the liberal news and now has gotten popular. The watchers and listeners must have liked it or it would not have gotten popular. Air America sure doesn't fare as well. Speaking as a liberal I have to admit that when I listen to the radio it is usually in the car and I listen to music. But also, maybe liberals other than Bill Maher aren't as shocking and funny. (Personally I find him extremely offensive but he is about the only really popular liberal to compete with Ann Coulter...)
Maybe past administrations have used the news to spread misinformation, but me being a liberal I guess I keep up with this administration and how it uses the media to spread misinformation.
Bush Admin Rebuked by GAO on Propaganda
Now Bush held a WH house meeting with conservatives to spread his talking points. Past WH administration have done the same, I imagine. However, it's very telling in how the conservatives are learning PC.
Quote:Ann Coulter's dinner speech to the Georgia Christian Coalition Saturday night was one of the year's hot tickets for conservatives - even before an after-dinner appeal to open up checkbooks to pay for this year's voter guide, the coalition had raised over $150,000 from the event, according to state chairman Sadie Fields.
No doubt the sharp-tongued conservative author was the star of the show, as evidenced by the long line that formed for a book-signing afterwards. But on a night with no hecklers to egg her on, she wasn't the newsiest item on the program.
First, Coulter found herself in the uncharacteristic position of being upstaged by her introducer, Mike Gallagher.
He told the audience he was fresh back from an hour-and-45-minute session which President Bush held in the Oval Office Friday afternoon with him and four other conservative talk show hosts: Atlanta's Neal Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Michael Medved. Rush Limbaugh couldn't make it, he said.
Though he said this session was supposed to be off the record, Gallagher described it at some length, including Bush's observation to the right-wing radio jocks that the War on Terror has to be about right versus wrong, "because if it's about Christianity versus Islam, we'll lose."
"Remind me never to invite you to an off-the-record session," Coulter said after his introduction.
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I just don't understand how Ann Coulter can raise money at a Christian coalition event with the way she talks and dresses. But maybe I am just an old fashioned Christian.
Anyway, if this derails the thread, never mind; however, my point was that if they have succeeded in turning a once admittedly liberal media into a conservative either by fair means or foul, they can start controlling the internet. It would simply be a shame is all.
With two new conservatives on Google, it's like the last resort for alternative news is being tackled by conservatives. Maybe that is over reacting, but nevertheless, given their successes, one can be forgiven for being scared by the prospect.
