Reply #7: However...

[tomreedtoon]

...since the media are controlled by right-wing megacorporate types, who are in bed with Bush's clique, there are real consequences to their coverage of the primaries.

In finding "weaknesses" in the candidates, and ramming them home 24/7 in their solely-owned TV and press outlets, they are helping to prove that Democratic candidates are no match for the current White House resident. And since they don't bother finding such "weaknesses" in Bush - and in the local candidates who follow the same policies - they are not equalizing the damage.

I will accept the idea that people here, and on Media Whores Online, are being very sensitive to the media. The same way that an abused spouse is very wary when her husband is in an angry mood, and watches when he starts fondling a baseball bat with more than usual relish.

(Especially because, like the Democratic candidates until recently, the bloody and bruised spouse doesn't fight back.)