Today's Media Matters

[Thaddeus]

Listen to Bob McChensey interview FAIR counder, Jeff Cohen on Media Matters at 2 PM EST. Listen here: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/
(click on "listen" in top left-hand corner)

Next week Janeane Garofalo willl be on the show

-THAD

[Robbien]

1. This is a great interview and explains how the media

tanked Kucinich on purpose. And how the media chose Dean and then tanked him, also on purpose.


Thanks for the heads up.

[Thaddeus]

2. My pleasure

I'm the producer, so of course I think it's a great show!

THAD

[Robbien]

3. You do a good job, because this is a great guest

and the last time I listened the show had a great guest.

This guest said the most surprising statement that the network news stations think the worst thing for their news stations would be to be labeled liberal. And they feared that label.

What a crock.

[Thaddeus]

4. Jeff Cohen

is one of the sharpest media analysts out there. Last week's guest, Bob Jensen, was really good too.

[buycitgo]

5. but of course! the fascists are masters of debasing the language, and

"liberal" has come to have almost the same pejorative value as ''communist'' did during the McCarthy years

Gingrich's list of dirty words to use against his enemies has become one of the most powerful tools extant over the last ten years or so.

the New Yorker had a most excellent article on this back in the late 90s....not that it isn't common knowledge, but, as twisted as these monsters are, they're very savvy in the PR/propaganda area.....the only one in which they're not massively incompetent


btw.....great to hear Janeane Garofalo is on next week!

[Thaddeus]

6. Other guests coming up:

Lawrence Lessig
Mark Crispin Miller
David Barsamian

[Robbien]

7. This discussion with Cohen could have easily been twice as long

And he gave the reason why news stations are constantly pushing Jackson/Peterson type stories. I always thought they did them for ratings.

[Thaddeus]

8. I know

there's only so much that can get covered in an hour's time. I'm sure I'll get him back on the show sometime.

Thanks for listening!

[Thaddeus]

9. For those who missed today's show...

It's archived on the MM website:

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters


I especiall yrecommend today's show with Jeff Cohen. His is always a voice of sanity when we receive so much noise and propaganda from mainstream media

[AP]

10. You should interview that Berkeley professor who does that

great critiicsm of the way Bush tries to appeal to blue collar voters. He's not a media person, but his (her?) analysis really helps you break down the way the media presents information about Bush.

[demgrrrll]

11. I have read him too, he is great. Can't think of his name. damn. n/t.

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[Thaddeus]

12. not sure who that is

but will look into it. thanks for the tip.

THAD

[AP]

15. Here's some info:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml

BERKELEY – With Republicans controlling the Senate, the House, and the White House and enjoying a large margin of victory for California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's clear that the Democratic Party is in crisis. George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley professor of linguistics and cognitive science, thinks he knows why. Conservatives have spent decades defining their ideas, carefully choosing the language with which to present them, and building an infrastructure to communicate them, says Lakoff.

The work has paid off: by dictating the terms of national debate, conservatives have put progressives firmly on the defensive.

In 2000 Lakoff and seven other faculty members from Berkeley and UC Davis joined together to found the Rockridge Institute, one of the few progressive think tanks in existence in the U.S. The institute offers its expertise and research on a nonpartisan basis to help progressives understand how best to get their messages across. The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the College of Letters & Science, Lakoff is the author of "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," first published in 1997 and reissued in 2002, as well as several other books on how language affects our lives. He is taking a sabbatical this year to write three books — none about politics — and to work on several Rockridge Institute research projects.

In a long conversation over coffee at the Free Speech Movement Café, he told the NewsCenter's Bonnie Azab Powell why the Democrats "just don't get it," why Schwarzenegger won the recall election, and why conservatives will continue to define the issues up for debate for the foreseeable future.

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[demgrrrll]

13. George Lakoff. Not sure but I think that is his name. Linguistics prof.

Great mind.

[AP]

14. I think that's the guy.

His analysis of this administration is one of the most brilliant I've heard since it started.

[Thaddeus]

16. Thanks!

Of course I'ma lso trying to get Michael Moore and Howard Zinn onto the show, but this will take time.