Blue truth, Red truth (Democratic Underground mentioned)

[seemslikeadream]

By NANCY GIBBS

Which world did you watch last week?


As for that little girl with the sign, the

Democratic Underground

posted a story claiming that her father is a Bush campaign operative who used his child to create a partisan photo op, having done the same with a different kid four years ago against Al Gore. No incident is too small to produce its own parallel truths. And the party e-mail lists make sure that these truths make their way into every Red or Blue mailbox.
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http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001&part=1

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/red.blue.tm/

[proud patriot]

1. Time CNN ,, Who's next ?

:D

[TA]

2. Damn does Nancy get paid my the number of words???

Thats one friggin long article.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. As usual, another twisted and biased bit of reporting

from our 'friends' in the media.

All repugs are smart, all dems are stupid. That's what that article seems to be all about.

[IndianaGreen]

4. The blue and red thinking that the author writes about, manifests itself

How about reading the piece without using a partisan prism? She makes an excellent point right here:

In a sense, the candidates and their parties have only themselves to blame for the challenges they face and the power they have lost as they try to navigate this new landscape... Both parties redrew districts to be more politically homogeneous, marginalized their centrists, elevated their flamethrowers, viewed with suspicion anyone who sounded temperate or reached across the aisle. At the same time, the 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which ended mandatory balanced coverage of politics, gave birth to talk radio, and the television universe splintered between the old networks and the new culture of cable gladiators in which opinion was more entertaining than information and cheaper to produce as well.

Just as deregulation has pretty much destroyed the smaller airlines, and has institutionalized bad service to the flying public, the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine has done tremendous harm to the political discourse in this country. Perhaps nothing illustrates this better than all of the cheer leading the mainstream media did for the war in Iraq, up until the time it became obvious that the Iraqi resistance was not a last ditch effort by Saddam loyalists, but a bona fide nationalist insurgency against a foreign oppressor.

We must reinstate the Fairness Doctrine!