Liberal Media Myth

[SoCalDem]

This is not a new article, but contains some helpful links for people just realizing the real problem we have with media.. Now..if we could only get our legislatoirs to start taking this shit seriously :)

http://www.webpan.com/dsinclair/myths.html

a snippet:

Shades of Purple - the Myth of the Red and the Blue America

In a now-infamous opinion piece titled "America at War", Andrew Sullivan wrote on 09/16/01:

The terrorists have done the rest. The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount a fifth column.
The "great red zone"? "Enclaves on the coasts"? Such homeopathic dilutions of facts in a solvent of virtually pure bullshit could safely be ignored as not even worthy of refutation. That is, if the myth of the "great red heartland" had not become a fact among the dittoheads of the loony right, a "fact" that is being used to legitimize the illegitimate presidency of George W. Bush.

It is therefore necessary to replace that artificial red-blue map that was obtained by rounding 49% down to zero and 50% to one hundred by a more accurate map that reflects how the voters actually voted. I have created such a map by simply mixing red, blue and green for each state, with the ratios equal to the percentage that Bush, Gore and Nader received in the 2000 election.
To fully live up to the 'actual vote' standard, one would have to take into account that poor (and therefore democratic-leaning) counties usually use more error-prone voting methods that lead to a higher rate of invalidated ballots. But since the difference of one or two percent is nearly invisible to the eye when represented by color, I worked with the official results taken from CNN.

The results speak for themselves. Sullivan's "great red zone" is nowhere to be seen and turns out to be a figment of an absurd rounding procedure. Most of the blue and the red are actually shades of purple, with the exception of only a handful of states that went decisively one way or another.

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[stop the bleeding]

1. quite a map

"liberal media"

the term makes me laugh and angry at the same time.

[babylonsister]

2. OT, but this is one of the first real truths I learned from DU. I

was such a noob! I had no idea we were being played by the media the way we were. I will always be grateful that I had my eyes pried open. :)

[SoCalDem]

3. I was the same way. NOW, I cringe all the time at the code words

I never noticed before:

AGENda..
RADical
DANgerous
Ted KENNEDY
New York TIMES
Illeeeeeeegals
Border fence
CRIME

anytime you hear those words, I now get a mental picture of exactly "what" they are sayhing.:grr:


Here's a good artice from Old DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/06/06_dictionary.html

[babylonsister]

4. Thank you for that link! That list is

priceless and had me rolling! :rofl: You should really post that again, for old times' sake. It's so archaic, but so true!

[pretzel4gore]

5. Sullivan's still on tv lying and looking honest to god sincere

But nevermind the liars- it's the lies that must be fought! pop pow zowie! kazam bam! zapzap fooey! powpow pop!