Beating the Press - Literally

only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his "base" -- the media that made him its darling and hailed him for his supposed "straight talk" -- run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while "peace officers" were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul, in a manner unseen since the Sixties and the Chicago days of Daley and the subsequent Nixonian "nattering nabobs of negativity" era. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Rory O'Connor - Sep 5, 2008 - 10:57 AM PDT
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Sep. 5, 2008

From the Media is a Plural blog comes this no-holds barred, scathing article that shows up McCain’s and Palin’s black-is-white—white-is-black strategies for what they really are. For example: “Is there a problem in Washington? Forget the fact that the Republicans have been running everything there for years —and elect a Republican ‘change agent!”’ The article’s basic theme is equally caustic: “John McChange and his lipsticked pit bull Palin are counting on the fact we as a ... More »

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by Jim Lang - Sep. 5, 2008

The mainstream media certainly has its problems -- problems that include a downturn in revenue and its well publicized lack of skepticism during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Nevertheless, I still find a lot of accurate information in the plainly written newspapers that I read and believe that an institution so routinely attacked from both the left and the right must have value.

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by Rory O'Connor - Sep. 5, 2008
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by Randy Morrow - Sep. 6, 2008
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by Norman Rogers - Sep. 6, 2008

That's politics folks. He's forgetting the soap opera that was the Clinton administration.

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