Today's Doonesbury (Feb 3) re: Dean & the media

[Wonk]

[creativelcro]

1. LOL: good one...

[Carl21014]

4. It's sad!

CNN just had a piece about candidates who "Blame the Messenger" for their problems. Then they ridiculed Dean for blaming the media.

They just have no shame. Even after the story broke that his mike was isolated and his yelling was appropriate considering the noise of the crowd, they still play that tape as if it's accurate.

Fairness is the farthest thing from their mind.

What's really sad is we'll never get this country back. Not from these guys. Not without a war.

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Fuck CNN

They're even worse than FAUX. Because everybody expects FAUX to be right wing assholes. CNN still fools a lot of people into thinking they're unbiases or (God forbid) "liberal".

[joshcryer]

2. Tee hee.

Doonesbury knows how to make politics funny. :)

[Straight Shooter]

3. And from a Dean supporter to the media: Bleeeacchhh!

You have poisoned the well.

[mojowork_n]

6. Which just goes to show Dean really is...

...The Outsider. But I wonder if the Democratic National Committee leadership really wants to permit just anyone to come in and take over the party? Especially somebody who's trying to shake things up and bring an honest, unbrokered point of view to the public discussion?

I have half a hunch that some of the unanimity in the media chorus could be traced to Democratic flacks and PR spin-meisters kicking in their two bits, on top of the Republicans. I don't want to name names, because I {AH-CHOOO00TerriMcAuliffe-et-al-SNEEZE-COUGH} don't really know.

But of course, that's the trouble with the media in the first place. There's no transparency, you don't see nearly enough of the little disclaimers ("this message/news bulletin/editorial opinion brought to you by the makers of Duff Beer") that you should see. Would that politicians were like NASCAR drivers (in Jim Hightower's famous line) and you could read all of their endorsements at a glance.

And since there are actually *more* PR people in the country than there are working journalists, and probably more money and effort directed toward manipulating specific messages, as opposed to the ordinary "business of news", it's not a situation that would tend to reinforce one's confidence in the Status Quo...

...So I'm voting for Dean in the Wisconsin primary (after being positively impressed by Edwards in the debates, and except for Lieberman and Clark, not disliking any of the rest.)