history will judge the MEDIA harshly

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there's just NO WAY you can understand what's going on in shrub's presidency or in this campaign or in this election without understanding what's going on in the media.

there's just NO WAY you can explain even the POSSIBILITY of shrub winning without putting the media in a very unfavorable light. shrub has been the WORST PRESIDENT EVER. if there's ANY doubt at all, it's whether or not hoover was worse, or maybe one or two others.

but there's just NO WAY any president could stand a shot in hell at re(s)election given everything that's happened on his watch. remember how carter got torn to shreds over inflation and the hostage situation? NEITHER of which was his fault, and BOTH of which he took reasonable attempts to fix?

shrub had been president during that time, with the media as it is today, they would have turned the hostage situation into a huge advantage, we need republicans to stand up, democrats would have cut a deal by now, but we must remain strong. and the inflation? well, look at today's deficit and economy, the media acts like no one cares! if shrub were president back then, they would have said that democrats would spend and make inflation worse.


winning this election will be nice, but we MUST FIX THE MEDIA!!

[TimeToGo]

1. Amen

It is as important as anything.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Agreed. The media is broken and must be fixed. How?

[Wapsie B]

4. For one,

break up the media monopolies. Splinter them into a million pieces.

[unfrigginreal]

3. No doubt about it

The PIPA poll is a damning indictment of the media.

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

5. What's the PIPA poll? n/t

[unfrigginreal]

6. Here you go

Bush Supporters Still Believe Iraq Had WMD or Major Program,
Supported al Qaeda

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_10_21_04.html

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

9. Thanks.

That is quite damning. It's also very tragic too.

[prayin4rain]

7. I hope so...but it seems the media controls history too. Columbus

discovered America...please. And about a million other falsehoods we learn as fact as youngsters in school.

[wurzel]

8. Case making Corporate ownership of the media unconstitutional?

It could be argued that a Corporate owned press is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment. A Corporate owned press cannot be a free press. The ownership by Corporations of the press was permitted by government law. But the government is forbidden to make laws that abridge the freedom of the press. Does this make sense?

[leftofthedial]

10. some of the media need to be judged by military tribunals

harshly

[DeepModem Mom]

11. See my sig line -- our press has failed us...

and endangered the system the Founders put in place.

[calimary]

12. It could reasonably be described as a GROSS DERELICTION OF DUTY.

The GROSSEST OF ALL. Horrible. Disgraceful. Nearly unforgivable. They're nothing but enablers. It's just been a shame, and a sham. Hugely embarrassing! I truly am embarrassed, sometimes, to admit I used to be in the news business. The operative words in there: "USED to be." I'm glad I'm far removed from it now. I'd hate to have my name still attached, particularly since I used to work with Wendell Goler (now of the Pox "news" network - I think he just was desperate to get his face on camera while he was still young enough, and Pox came along with a good offer to lift him up out of radio) and Candy Crowley - who also probably wanted the higher profile and the better pay. The AP pays poorly. You do get some pretty solid job security if you survive the nine-month probation, but the pay is for shit, especially considering the workload they pile on you.

[tomfodw]

13. Jon Stewart will go down in history as a prophet

The Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite of his age. God help us.