News Of The Future
This is a bit cynical, even paranoid, but not necessarily wrong.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:18 AM
Pajama Guy
"You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances [at ‘60 Minutes’] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”
-Jonathan Klein, former CBS Executive
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6 Comments:
Oh, LAGuy -- I thought you found conspiracy theories ridiculous! Yes, the MSM has destroyed AIG, Lehman Bros, and hundred other banks here and worldwide, in order to get Obama elected! The whole "Bush will take over the country in a coup" theory is looking better all the time.
I do find deep dark conspiracies ridiculous, but I'm not talking about secret, concerted action here, merely the concept that it's possible that people will report things in light of what they understand. I was recently at a party with Obama supporters, and their interpretation of what is going on economically was pretty much the opposite of what my McCain-supporting friends said. That this dichotomy can't show up elsewhere isn't totally outrageous.
Here is my counterfact. Of all the presidential elections I have seen, (about 7 new presidents when I had significant awareness of the fact), Clinton is the only one who got no "honeymoon" from the press. Within hours, they were all over every conservative talking point about gays turning military showers into San Francisco bathhouses and Clinton firing people from the White House travel office. (The nerve!) Every other president in my recall got about 6 months of warm fuzzies while he tried to establish himself.
Maybe they will be happy about Obama being in office. I hope they give him the honeymoon they gave Reagan, Bush 41 or Bush 43. If relief also helps the economy recover, I hope you'll be cheering it on. (Country first!)
I'm not talking about a honeymoon. I'm talking about consistently reporting things differently based on the candidates' politics, not the facts. Has this happened before? The majority of the country thinks it has happened on a regular basis for at least the past two decades.
I will always root for the country, but I also believe in getting the facts straight.
The majority of the country believe the Earth is 6000 years old. You don't get truth from majority vote.
The majority of the country doesn't believe the Earth is 6000 years old. But imagine if a majority of the press did. Do you think it might come out in their science reporting?
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