The "conservatives" have succeeded in totally controlling the media....

[kentuck]

Anytime they want. They can get the frenzy started. They have total control of the media. Even when they overreach, they seldom pay a price. And they know they have control but few will admit it in public.
It is indeed a dangerous time for America. The "liberal media" was never so dangerous.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/040105.html

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The coverage of the Schiavo tragedy is just the latest example of how conservatives have established a permanent media infrastructure that lets them push a button to start a public furor over virtually any issue of their choosing.

Powerful conservative media outlets – from Fox News and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page to Rush Limbaugh’s talk radio and well-organized Internet bloggers – get the frenzy started.

Then, the increasingly timid mainstream media falls into line, at least during the crucial early days when political judgments are set, as occurred during the run-up to war with Iraq in 2002-03 and with the Swift Boat veterans’ attacks on John Kerry’s war record in the summer of 2004.

For the most part, liberals have chosen to sit out the media wars, with a few exceptions including the emergence over the past year of progressive AM talk radio stations.

[swag]

1. Cancel your cable

and tell them fucking why.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. You mean kkkarl rove, conservatives legitimatize it ,by believing it

[krystine]

3. At what cost, though

The last couple of weeks however have shown that there is a price to be paid for control. As many have stated, the Shiavo story caused America to put a name and a face to Tom Delay. Now when the story of his lack of ethics comes to the surface, people will know who he is. It has been said that the true power-brokers are those who remain anonymous. Delay has just given up his anonymity.

[kentuck]

4. There is no price to pay in the long run....

When you have control of the media, as do the right-wingers, they can recover from disasters that would destroy liberals, in my opinion.

[msmcghee]

5. Good point Kentuck . .

. . it's like insurance. Even if they over-reach and screw up really bad - they can use the same machine to come back and clean up their mess.

Watch as DeLay becomes transformed into the defender of real American's values against a runaway judiciary over the next two weeks - instead of the dangerous crank who provokes wingnuts to kill judges.

Sad . . but true my friend. :eyes: