It’s one of the oldest tricks in the Republican playbook: In times of political crisis, blame the liberal mainstream media. Whether justified or not — and it varies — attacks against the press have served as a conservative defense mechanism for decades: Full Story »
Posted by Pamela Hogle - via Jay Rosen, Google News (Media), The Politico (Politics)
Pretty worthy observations, but never gets so far as to address the extensive decades long campaign by Republicans to buy or cow the mainstream media, create in house propaganda networks like Fox, and exclude liberal talk shows from the airwaves. The media has become as right wing as it has been in recent history. But even a biased media has to try to retain some credibility, which would be destroyed if they failed to report obvious occasions of errors or gross stupidity. Read ... More »
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