their audience gets smaller, trust in what they say continues its long slide into oblivion.
One of the founding fathers remarked "Freedom of the Press lies strictly with those who own one" and we don't own the MSM. The idea that the media is ever going to "do its job" is naive. Its job is to manage our expectations (lower them) and sell us the next war, and the looting of Social Security. And it is doing that job pretty well. We aren't the customer for the MSM -- we are what is being sold (audiences for advertising). US asking the media to "do its job" is a bit like chickens asking KFC to do its job.
There have been attempts to create a better media network for the Left. One that rejects the frames and false dichotomies of the mainstream but those attempts have thus far failed. Part of that failure is because people on the Left are not dissatisfied enough with the current media. Statistically, Democrats are TWICE as satisfied with the media we have as Repubs are.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/176042/trust-mass-media-returns-time-low.aspx
With lower costs and easier access to audiences it should, in theory, be easy to create a media network that starts to take audience away from the MSM and gives a voice to the issues we want addressed. But it seems the majority of the Left is too easily pacified and perhaps too addicted to being angry about what Fox News just said or what Morning Joe said today. TDS, when Stewart was host, was obsessed with Fox News. Better than nothing but it was all defense and no offense. After Beck had his rally urging idiots to become ever more politically active, Colbert and Stewart had a rally where they didn't ask the crowd to do anything but laugh and go home.
Yes the media won this round but we must continue to chip away. We must not be satisfied to just curse the media while accepting its yoke.
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