I'm getting this strange feeling I'm witnessing history in the making.

[BlueEyedSon]

Listening to Randi Rhodes at the Media Bias hearings.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking.....

[ewagner]

1. I'd like to believe it too n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

2. The idea that the issue is being raised at the highest levels of govt

that our corporate news has degraded into proaganda... WOW!

[MuseRider]

3. I am not listening

got some other things going on but I have to comment. I listened to Randi only a few times and decided I did not like her. Then I got satellite radio, just a week or so ago. I have totally changed my mind about her. This looks to be a powerful commentary and something that might really bring about some change. Yes, is is wishful thinking but the game is being laid out and if we ever get some control we will be ready to go. When you think about it, these congresspeople are so sheltered with so many things to think about that they need these "outside" voices who represent us to tell them how things really are outside their committees. I am hoping this is a good start for change. We certainly have some informed speakers telling them what is happening.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Franken led off, he was good, but maybe a little flippant.

Then David Brock.

Just so you know that Randi is not the only witness testifying. Also, she is being more businesslike and less obviously partisan.

She has her rough edges.... on her show she can be belligerent and opinionated. I don't like her much when she is like that, but in general she is pretty great. Springer may be my fave AAR personality these days though.

[MuseRider]

5. You know

I love them all. Being stuck here in Kansas it is just so fascinating to turn on my truck and hear people who think like me. As a hard lefty I can still disagree with them but still love them. I love talk radio, love to hear what people are thinking but had not been able to tolerate the other side for so long and I was really missing it. Glen Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, Snow, Savage etc etc is all we have ever had.

I like them all so far, well I don't listen to Colmes. I am liking Springer. When my free "Roadie" comes I will hook it up in my barn and I will never, ever have to listen to anything else. I am so proud to have these people speaking out for us.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. I guess you are XM. I chose Sirius a while back

when it carried more and better AAR programming, now I'm sad.

[MuseRider]

11. Sirius was a better fit for me

but I chose XM because of AAR and the free "Roady" and I was getting pressure from my husband who has a system in his car set up for XM when he chooses to activate it.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. I love Springer too

My other favorite is Malloy. I never miss his show. Rhandi is cool too but I don't always get to listen. I also love "Majority Report" and off of AAR I love Guy James, Bernie Ward and Thom Hartmann.

[MuseRider]

12. I really thought

I would not like Springer. I hate what his TV show seemed to bring to the culture even though I think he was making a point that most did not seem to get. I love Malloy but am never around when he is on. I really like them all except Colmes but I have never given him a listen, anyone who would sit next to Hannity and give Hannity something to bash is not someone I am ever likely to give much of a chance.

[UnityDem]

6. Randi is an acquired taste

took me a couple of weeks to get used to her style...now I ADORE her!

[LightningFlash]

8. Finally media reform is becoming a real issue.....

Bring this one before the national conference, I am sure there's going to be alot ready to support it.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

10. As painful as it is - it's very interesting. We will be vindicated....

Although we may not be alive to see the day....

[MuseRider]

13. True.

Still it is important. I am really worried what will come with my old age but if I can help to make it better for my childrens old age then it is worth doing.

[Just Me]

14. Our country is at a fork,....

,...no matter which way our country veers, the media bias hearings can be looked back upon as a significant factor in the path taken by our country.

[BlueEyedSon]

16. "When you reach a fork in the road, take it!"

-- Yogi Berra

[Tactical Progressive]

15. There is no way to reform the media

Not in anything approaching the way people here are hoping it could be changed.

As I see it there are only a few, ephemeral or broad type things that can be done.

1) Continue to point out how right-wing, corporate and whoring institutional journalism is, and how you can't trust their slant on most things. From now until forever. This is the only real 'solution' to the problem.

2) Forget the 'Fairness Doctrine'. It's a red herring.

3) Keep ownership concentrations under antitrust control. That won't change things much, but maybe back off a little from where we are now. I think people believe this is some kind of solution to today's problems. It isn't by any stretch.

4) More public television. PBS and alot more C-SPANS. It's our country, and we can have publically financed television if we want. Nobody talks about this. We should be.


1) is really all that can be done now. 3 and 4 could only be effected should America ever return to honesty or sanity or decency and put Democrats strongly back in charge. I wouldn't count on the American people to suddenly become any of those things.

Leaving 1).