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So, on May 18, 2004 Brock is going to follow that great book "Blinded by the Right" that the Times and Post feared so much that they gave the review writing to right wing liars, by a book on how fringe nut case right-wing media has taken over all US Media - not just Fox! About time someone noted that the line "the networks always follow a good story because they want to make money", and "Leno punches both sides", and other defenses of our current "we're not right wing GOP controlled, we just act that way" Media is all a bunch of crap.
Without US Media's right wing whoring the GOP would not have a chance of State political dominance, or of controlling the focus of public discourse within a State, much less their current National Control. The gang of 500 pundits/writers/media folks that the ABCNote says believes that they bias their output just because they like someone - they are not whoring for the money or to retain the position of media "power" - needs to read Brock's book.
But I do not know if I can stomach a discussion of the billionaires building the right wing GOP media machine--the newspapers/magazines, the pretend think tanks, the hate radio talk radio networks, the op-ed columnists that are paid to say they see socialism behind every attempt by government that might make our lives better and/or cost the rich a few dollars, the FOX News Channel, the Christian Right broadcasting, the specialized subsidized right wing book publishers and bulk sales to be given away to churches set up to give back a tax deduction for such book donations, all doing a 24/7/365 sale of "conservatism" laced with hate and slime and lies so as to discredit those that might tax the rich.
I think most at DU know about our multi-billion dollar US Media that today disregards journalistic ethics and classic standards of fairness and accuracy, and have no problem using story selection to bury any problems on the right while giving voice to "manufactured news" that is not as well sourced as the average supermarket tabloid story - and is based on bigotry, ignorance/anti-intellectualism, and emotional manipulation and fear of cultural differences and change, and which is indeed brought to the public as "a story that we found in lesser media that we think some folks somewhere may be talking about" - and which is usually provided as a handout by the corporate-backed foundations, the GOP/right wing, and by pundits employed by media controlled by old family fortunes.
Maybe only a story told by an ex-conservative can "have legs" while noting the propping up of Bush as the Democratic opposition is not heard because of a lack of an even playing field.
However, Brock claims to have a strategy for this election year to counter the above. I may have to buy his book.
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