Brass tacks - WHY do YOU think corpmedia is lying to voters about HRC's chance to win?

[blm]

Corporate media has known since shortly after Super Tuesday that Clinton was UNABLE to win, as McClatchy surveyed the superdelegates and, even though many were not ready to go public, the numbers were certainly OVERWHELMINGLY in Obama's column.

Media has known this since early March, so why do they manipulate voters to believe that Clinton has this chance they know she doesn't have?

I think it's the way they in the media get to tear down Obama and cloak it under cover of a Democrat doing the actual dirty work.

They fear having to be SEEN doing the attacking themselves, but sure have no problem REPEATING the attacks of others, especially other Democrats.

They're in it to win it....for McCain, at this point.

Why do you think they are doing it?

[anonymous171]

1. Longer primary hurts democrats' chances in November.

[WillyT]

2. Cable News Ratings...

:shrug:

[blm]

6. and the MONEY that comes from the ads? Hmm....They get more of our Obama money

filtered down to them.

[barack the house]

3. Advertising and the race is hindering candidates. $$$

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. this is the same media that covered up the lies about Iraq war

and that never shows the devastation in Iraq.

or the wounded soldiers.

[crankychatter]

39. bingo - War Profiteers OWN Media AND Clinton

who'd a thunk it

[speedoo]

5. $$$$$$$$

It's the big political story. Gotta keep it going, to hell with the truth.

[WeDidIt]

7. IT has nothing to do with partisan bias

It has everything to do with the bottom line.

The never ending Democratic Primary has been a ratings bonanza for the news organizations. It is in their best financial interest to insure it keeps going.

[Bensthename]

8. Definitely ratings and money.. These TV millionaires dont want the Bush Tax cuts rolled back.

I have always admired rich democrats.. They have more money in their pocket under a republican pres. usually.. Why would they want to be part of the working class dem system? Oh that's right because they are good decent people... Bravo to the rich dems for sticking with us worker bees.

[judasdisney]

22. Paul Volcker.

"What good are ratings if Obama's Paul Volcker is the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve?"

That's what the oligarchy says.

Ratings my ass. Everyone is missing the point. Ask a broker what they think of Obama's Paul Volcker. He saved the U.S. dollar in the 1970s -- with ANTI-REAGANOMICS.

[Bensthename]

25. Really? Looking him up now.

[judasdisney]

28. Pro-Obama Volcker vs. Wall Street

(1) Volcker recently stated that Bernanke's bailout of Bear Stearns was "borderline illegal":

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/04/former-us-feder.html

(2) Volcker is alarmed. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/february16/summit-021605.html

(3) VOLCKER BACKS OBAMA. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/31/volcker-joins-list-of-obama-backers/

“It is only Barack Obama, in his person, in his ideas, in his ability to understand and to articulate both our needs and our hopes that provide the potential for strong and fresh leadership. That leadership must begin here in America but it can also restore needed confidence in our vision, our strength, and our purposes right around the world.”


Volcker says the dollar collapse is here:

http://www.pfxglobal.com/pfx-blog/former-fed-chairman-paul-volcker-is-usd-bear.html

[Guaranteed]

9. I think they're just lazy and jaded.

They see the numbers, know the reality, but don't quite "believe" it. They're too used to reality being skewed with spin- even a flat-out clear win by the numbers.

Who knows, maybe come November reality will be so skewed that our "President" won't even have to win 270 delegates. I can just see it: "Yeah, Obama may have gotten 325 delegates, but the question remains why can't he close the deal???" as McCain drones on and on about the race not being over.

[writes3000]

10. Easy: They consciously or subconsciously suspect the country is too racist to elect Obama so...

They're waiting for some big implosion. It won't happen, of course.

But they secretly and not so secretly think this way.

And the Clinton campaign is whispering in their ears daily to fuel those doubts.

AND the elongated race makes them lots of money.

[DJ13]

11. Corporations are scared of a President Obama

They've done very well with the last two pro-business administrations (Clinton, Bush), and they want to keep it that way.

Obama's large grassroots following scares the crap out of them, as they are afraid he might actually feel he owes more to the average citizen than he owes to them.

[rainbow4321]

12. Cuz as soon as the truth comes out, their ratings tank

That loud CLICK that you will hear right as she is exposed (or she ends her concession speech) will be everyone turning off the cable news shows til October.
The panic that the anchors showed this past Tuesday night was nothing compared how they will be as the "breaking news" banner is put up with "Sen Clinton's concession speech to begin momentarily"

[flpoljunkie]

13. Case in point: The NC GOP ad trashing Obama and Dem Gov candidates in NC received had major play

The NC GOP has not need to run the ad, as their mission has been accomplished by the cable news show--MSNBC, in particular. Have not been watching CNN, but MSNBC has flogged the crap out of this POS!

[sandnsea]

14. Clinton/DLC Media Power

They have it. She got on all five Sunday Shows at one time. She got on when she wanted to trash John Kerry. People are so afraid to cross the Clintons, and the media is afraid to cross the women's groups. It's money in the bank for them, so why should they risk public backlash by telling the truth.

[cascadiance]

15. In addition to hurting the Democrats, it also helps continue to distract us longer...

... from other many critical issues that are facing us now, that are being "put aside" while we continue to argue about all of these tabloid crap issues around this nomination!

And they continue to pocket the political ad money and ratings for this other crap to the bank!

And that is also why they HAD to have John Edwards out of the race by now, even as just a power broker, since he's be bring up issues that wouldn't serve this purpose of "distraction". Obama and Hillary along with the media stay away from those issues and serve their purposes perfectly.

[anigbrowl]

16. Same reason they send camera crews to train wrecks - if it bleeds, it leads.

The drama is easy to repackage and sell back to consumers hungry for infotainment. Actual discussions about policy tend to be extremely shallow - in months of watching CNN this spring, not once have I seen stop to discuss how the economy works or what effects this or that policy might have. 'wonkish' has become a code for 'intellectual stuff we don't know much about and are too lazy to learn about in depth'.

Look at the coverage of Bear Sterns' collapse - you'd be hard pressed to get a good understanding of that from most media outlets. Now, you might think that they were covering the GOP as, but back in the 90s they were equally uninformative about the coming dot-com bust. To large extent, the media blows with the wind.

I don't actually agree with your conspiracy theory notion that they're out to crown McCain, at all. The main problem for me is that the media is in the business of providing infotainment. This is not to say that agendas don't exist within the corporate media, but if they were as agenda-driven as you say they would actually do a better job of pushing those ideas.

[Leftist Agitator]

17. That's an easy one.

Hillary is more transparently friendly to big business of every sort than is Obama.

[murray hill farm]

18. They need ahaaaa news......what else is there??????????

If folks start bringing the zillion or so Hillary "hot ahaaa news items" to the public eye...they will jump on it. And there are soooooooooooooo many to choose from....inquiring news minds are just waiting to know...but it must be started not by Obama campaign, but by some other source.....some group, some source that does not abide by the "shhhhhhhhhh, don't talk about Hillary" source. Geez if they can make this huge yadayada about such unconnected things as rev wright or bitter, etc..such really silly news storms then just think what could be done to totally discredit Hillary. The rupugs want here because they know that they can distroy her sooooooo easily...that is why they feed the silly so called Obama mispeaks or whatever.....they are saving the multitude of Hillary gotchas until they can (they hope) have the chance to really slam her....if they can only make her the nominee, they know they can win in Nov.

[Liberal Gramma]

19. Money, ratings, and laying the groundwork for stealing the election

The more split the Democratic party looks, the easier it will be for the Republicans to steal this one too, and say, "Well, the Clinton voters didn't turn out," or "The Obama voters didn't turn out."

[bowens43]

20. ratings....pure and simple

the longer it goes, the dirtier it is the more dollars for the corporate media.

[judasdisney]

21. The FIX is IN

Republican-owned mega-media does NOT want Obama's Paul Volcker back as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

That simple.

Volcker wants to save the dollar like he did in the 1970s. Which means 18% interest rates instead of cutting them.

[Raine]

23. Ratings and advertising bucks

the longer this goes on the higher viwer numbers and more ad revenue. M$M cares about money and only money.

Edit: spelling

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Because the silly melodrama sells beer and toothpaste.

[Andy823]

26. Corporate media

Is run by "corporate" America, which the vast majority of them are republicans! They don't want a democrat in office, and they are doing everything they can to keep this fight going in order to hurt the democrats chance of winning the GE! Some of the republicans have even come out and admitted that they couldn't have done more to tear the party apart. This is their dream, and Hillary knows what is going on, but she wants to destroy Obama's chances to win in the GE so she can run in 2012!

[Vinca]

27. Air Force One.

That's what it boils down to. A seat on the plane. If, by some quirk of fate, Hillary managed to become president, she would be in charge of seats on the plane. If you want said seat, you do not want to piss off the Clintons because they hold grudges. (Obama, on the other hand, isn't likely to blame you until the end of time and will most likely offer a seat and a bag of chips, too.) This also holds true for seats in the press room and how many rows back you can stand to be.

[Zhade]

29. Horse-race advertising dollars combined with a desire for clinton to run against McLame?

That's my off-the-cuff.

[BlueIdaho]

30. Two Words... Pay Check. nt.

[annie1]

31. b/c they are bored of the primary and the GE would give them higher ratings.

[AZBlue]

32. A "tight race" boosts ratings and gives them something to talk about.

God forbid they might have to actually come up with an original thought or do some actual work and research.

[featherman]

33. Duh... to help the GOP... is there ANY doubt after 2000 and 2004 that the

MSM knows its principal presidential election job is to demean and diminish the Democrats

[blm]

41. right...if they can't have a Clinton in the WH protecting BushInc they know McCain HAS to win.

.

[FrenchieCat]

34. To protect Corporate interest, make money, and screw us so more!

[Jack Rabbit]

35. Because it sells soap

If they told the truth about Mrs. Clinton's chances, only dedicated news junkies would watch until Labor Day.

[chill_wind]

36. K & R. Wish I could kick and rec TEN times! n/t

[SeattleGirl]

37. One word: Money

[Eurobabe]

38. Ratings and Ad $$$$, and because they can. n/t

[krkaufman]

40. Primarily, money. Secondarily, money. etc.

Just think about poor little David Gregory with his new "Race to the White House" show. You think he's not going to try to spin whatever he can to extend the race and insure higher ratings for his show, which is explicitly linked to the Presidential campaign? If the Dem race were to end (please, God), the ratings for Gregory's show would tank, and probably not recover until August or September, as the conventions approach.

[blm]

42. Gregory is auditioning to replace Matthews as chief fascist cheerleader at MSNBC.

Matthews has been going off the range too much lately and his contract is up in 2009.

Gregory wants HIS spot at the network and he'll bend over as far as the fascists need him to over the next year to be first in line.

[krkaufman]

44. Yeah, can't argue with that angle. Though it wouldn't be much of a step backwards. n/t

[wowimthere]

43. You assessment seems spot on. I still say... Not this Time!

[MagickMuffin]

45. Well, Billbo DID work to HELP them back in '96 with the Telecommunications Act

perhaps this is some form of payback.

[anonymous171]

46. We might not be in this mess if he had vetoed it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5719907&mesg_id=5719907

[blm]

48. Hillary's future could've been the bargaining chip all along.

.

[cottonseed]

47. Fun and Profits!

Weeeeeeee! We're not journalists! We're cable news!

[myrna minx]

49. SInce the net roots are overwhelmingly supporting Obama, the corporate media

is trying to thumb their nose at us and trying to gasp for relevancy.

[Writer]

50. Because she can still win.

What Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are doing now is nothing more than trying to put together the best argument for the superdelegates. Neither Obama nor Clinton can reach 2025.

Hillary Clinton can still win by making as strong a case as she can to the superdelegates of the Democratic Party. She's losing now, but only by a hair.

[blm]

54. But that is not true - that's what media is saying. They all know McClatchy surveyed the supers

and they all know that they break overwhelmingly for Obama. They have known this since shortly after Super Tuesday.

The only way Hillary could get in is for something to PHYSICALLY stop Obama. And I am cynical enough to believe they see it happening and want to be around to lay claim to the nomination.

Bobby Kennedy.

Barring that type of horrific event, they need McCain to win - it is all about 2012.

[Indenturedebtor]

55. Sorry but she's losing by more than she can possibly make up

Unless you think it's remotely possible for her to win every single contest about 70-30? Not going to happen. Especially since she's already thrown all the poop she had in her basket.

Anyways...

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Ad Money
Telecoms laws
Corporate pay laws
Environmental laws
Free trade
Fed policy
Supreme Court
Etc

The media is no longer free. They're owned by companies like Coca Cola and Exon. McDeath would be good for the corporate overlords.

[Writer]

56. But Obama can't win either.

He can't reach 50% of total delegates by June. That's why the superdelegates will decide this race... which is, in my opinion, the General Election, because I don't think McCain can win.

[Skidmore]

51. Do you know how many years some of those craven blowhards

spent sucking up to the entrenched to get "media access" and their fat paychecks and invites to cocktail parties? They'd have to go back to their real job--social climbing--if there was radical turnover in government.

[Swamp Rat]

52. Because she will keep the war machine going.

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs of the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings
All right now!

:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[newmajority]

53. Cable News needs ratings

The ones that don't benefit directly from the "defense" industry (such as the NBC/GE networks) still benefit from the ratings, and both war, and the inter-party soap opera are big wins for them. Tweety Matthews admitted this much on camera the night of the PA primary. The longer Hillary stays in this thing, the more they benefit. And if she steals the nomination, and World War III breaks out (under Grandpa McLoon who would win the General Election) they make even more money.

If things were actually going right in this country, what would Hannity and O'Reilly have to bitch about?