Well. you can see the cycle that we’re in. The liberal and “mainstream” media skewed even further left over the past twenty years and the “alternative” media flourished under oppression, especially with the advent of the (huh!) internet.
So what you have now is a situation where no media source, with the possible exception of Fox News, gives a fair marketplace for both sides. And since Fox News does so, they’re called a conservative propoganda mouthpiece by liberal politicians and media. Talk about the pot and the kettle.
The major newspapers (few read them) and stations (like NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS and others) might as well all be wearing an “Obama for president” T-shirt.
So people begin to watch and read only what already fits into their particular perspective. If they’re open minded enough to want to hear both sides, people have to watch, listen, and read everything with a grain of salt — which actually isn’t a horrible thing for those who do it, but mostly people get spoonfed according to views the already hold.
Or they watch Fox News. It can be a little on the conservative side, but mostly they do a good job of sharing both. (a quick plug: I actually like the show Hannity and Colmes. Hannity gets a little pushy for me, even though I more agree with his views, but Colmes does a good job thoughtully asking questions and challenging conservatives on the show to answer hard questions. Colmes is not so communist that he can’t be open to discussion or common sense. Most conservatives I know hate the guy, but I like him.)
What is ironic is the overwhelming desire by liberals to minimize, discredit, or even remove Fox News and conservative talk radio from the airwaves. If Obama becomes president with a Democratic Congress, there will be legislation to censor conservatives and call it “hate speech” or something like that.
This is the act of a facist regime.
Anyone else see a problem with a party who supports the right to produce and sell child porn and yet seeks to censor talk radio? Funny idea of “freedom of speech” to me.
The scary thing about the Obama campaign is how unashamedly pro-Democrat the media is and what they will do to support their candidate. In 1988, even with the liberal media at that time, if a candidate had the kind of corruption and associations that Obama has, even that media was honest enough to report it.
But not today.
For instance, Obama has funded educational programs led by domestic terrorists. He hasn’t produced a birth certificate. Obama has become one of the most corrupt politicians in the Senate in THREE YEARS. And recently, the LA Times admitted to having a video of Obama at a dinner with pro-terrorist (anti-Israel and US) factions in the US … but they refuse to release it.
If not a presidential candidate, Obama wouldn’t be able to get past the security at the Air Force base at Osan in Korea … but he’s trying to be the next commander in chief.
With this evidence, the modern media would have probably hailed Dukakis as a progressive hero for pardoning a murderer who went on to take more life.
By the way, can you imagine if the LA Times had a video of John McCain or Sarah Palin speaking at a dinner with self-ascribed white supremacists? What would happen with that video, ya think?
Big difference over twenty years.
Peace.