The White House whine: 'It's all the media's fault'

[Say_What]

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WASHINGTON – After several months of bad news, the Bush administration has discovered the source of its problems. It turns out that it's not the Democrats, not really anyway. It's not Saddam or Osama. It's not even Bill Clinton. No, the problem, it turns out, is the media.

The press, particularly the Washington press, has created a "filter" that's blocking the good news from getting out, the president says. He insists that positive stories abound in Iraq and in the US economy. Things are looking up all over. But you in the public aren't being allowed to hear about it. And if you could hear about it, you'd feel a lot better about the direction of the country.

This is the new line from the White House as it's taken its good-news message around the country, in speeches and in interviews with local television stations and smaller newspapers.

The motives here aren't hard to discern.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1028/p09s01-codc.html

[number six]

1. aaah...The War on News!

Finally, let's get the real enemy!

[wtmusic]

2. This tack always has mixed results

Not a good idea to alienate the media.

[ixion]

3. yeah, especially when the media has been

kissing your a** for three years.

Why is it that repugs whine like there's no tomorrow, and yet somehow the dems/greens are the 'wimps'? :eyes:

[LoneStarLiberal]

4. There's Simply More Bad To Report

Hmmm...let's see...

Day 1: Build school
Day 2: Suicide bomb
Day 3: Convoy ambushed
Day 4: RPG attack on police barracks
Day 5: More electricity
Day 6: Suicide bomb
Day 7: Soldiers shot

I am rapidly learning that NO ONE can whine like a chickenhawk can whine.

These cowards simply can't handle the fact that THERE IS MORE BAD TO REPORT THAN GOOD.

[jonoboy]

5. wow if they talk like this

when the media has been like puppets in their hands imagine how it will be if the press do pull their fingers out and start doing their job.

[Say_What]

7. It's practical to remember just WHO owns the media

it's the corps and SmirkBoy or whoever else sits in the Oval Office is bought-and-paid for by them. Here's a few links ;-)

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Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in the news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of viewpoints that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers, independent journalism is compromised.

Ultimately, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit alternative sources of information.

http://www.fair.org/media-woes/media-woes.html

http://www.liberalslant.com/mediaownership.htm

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

[zbdent]

6. Hmm, I remember something . . .

Late 1994, early 1995.

Newt Gingrich was just re-elected, and was well on his way to being installed as Speaker of the House.

Then, he started bad-mouthing the media, for, of all things, playing the tape of his mother speaking her mind.

For those who don't remember it, Newtie-Kazootie's mom, the paragon of family values virtue, said (in reference to Hillary Clinton): "I think she's a bitch."

My advice back then (which I decided not to send on to NG, like he would have followed it) - "Don't bite the hand that feeds you - the media put you there, now you're attacking it!"