The Scream

[Cheswick2.0]

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/040201_TheScream.htm

This is a good piece about how the media has been covering Dean and why. I am not including the last paragraph but you should read it.
This is how many of us felt about the media for years now. However since the media smear of Dean has served other candidates so well.....oh well
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By David Podvin

On December 1, 2003, Howard Dean was ahead by twenty points in the polls when he appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and said, “We're going to break up the giant media enterprises.” This pronouncement went far beyond the governor’s previous public musings about possibly re-regulating the communications industry, and amounted to a declaration of war on the corporations that administer the flow of information in the United States.

It was an extraordinarily noble and dangerous thing to do: when he advocated a truly free press, Dr. Dean was provoking the corrupt media conglomerates that control what most Americans see and hear and read, and thereby control what most Americans think.

The media giants quickly responded by crushing his high-flying campaign with the greatest of ease. This time, they didn’t even have to invent a scandal in order to achieve the desired result; merely by chanting the word “unelectable” at maximum volume, the mainstream media maneuvered Democratic voters into switching their support to someone who poses no threat to the status quo.

John Kerry is a member in good standing of the feeble Daschle/Biden/Feinstein wing of the Democratic Party, a group of politicians whose disagreements with the mercantile elite tend to be merely rhetorical. Any doubts about Kerry’s level of commitment to his stated progressive beliefs were conclusively answered in 1994 when he proclaimed himself “delighted” with the Republican takeover of Congress. The media oligarchy knows that a general election race between Kerry and George W. Bush will insure a continuation of its monopoly, regardless of who wins.

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[Catholic Sensation]

1. That's crazy

because I was thinking the same thing when I heard Wolf Blitzer almost blame Dean for how the media portrayed it.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Howard Dean is an impulsive man.

He walked into a room full of screaming supporters and didn't have the depth and foresight to see beyond that room to the millions of supporters and POTENTIAL supporters out there in TV land.
He had an opportunity to shine with a gracious concession speech and he blew it.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. concession speech?

lol

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0212-07.htm

Here is another link about the way the media has treated the different candidates. Care to address the facts here?

Dean does not suggest that he has run an error-free campaign. He admits to plenty of mistakes. But his complaint that he has not gotten fair coverage is echoed in a report from the Center for Media and Public Affairs. The center's study of 187 CBS, NBC and ABC evening news reports found that only 49 percent of all on-air evaluations of Dean in 2003 were positive. The other Democratic contenders collectively received 78 percent favorable coverage during the period.

In the week after the Iowa caucuses, the center found that only 39 percent of the coverage of Dean on network evening news programs was positive; in contrast, 86 percent of the coverage of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was positive, as was 71 percent of the coverage of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the new front-runner.

Even CNN's general manager now admits that the cable networks overplayed the "scream" - which was aired 633 times on national networks in the four days after Iowa voted on Jan. 19.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

16. Media is a mirror

Dean was the source of any negativity.

[CWebster]

17. Mirror of what?

Who does their bidding?

http://media.guardian.co.uk/city/story/0,7497,1144464,00.html

Who does their damn bidding?

[Atlant]

7. Apparently, so is Kerry.

Kerry just acts on other impulses.

Atlant

[goobergunch]

11. LOL! (n/t)

[Ninga]

3. Oh, gee thanks for reminding me.

I am depressed. Dean and supporters have been successfully marginalized and neutered.

I have lost all hope that this country will ever again move toward an progressive agenda for the people who most need one.

[Cheswick2.0]

5. thank you for kicking my thread

and with such an enligtening comment.

[libview]

6. all I can say is........

YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Cheswick2.0]

10. thank you for kicking my thread

brilliant

[libview]

14. YYYYYYYEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR Welcome!!!!

[oasis]

15. It's. Yeeeeaarrrgg, Get it right okay? "The scream heard around the world"

[Armstead]

8. Yep, the media domonation gets worse every election

Every election the media does a really shitty job. They talk more about strategy than about issues. They marginalize candidates who are not plain vanilla.

Then they goe through a lot of navel gazing and admit that they screwed up. And then the next time around, they are even worse.

Until people wake up to the overwhelming dominance of the media in a process tat is supposedly driven by actual people, we will continue to live in a Neo-Totalitarian country.

[Cheswick2.0]

12. We are never going to have a candidate or party which can fight this

because we won't get behind the people who would. Beleive me, I have some friends who have screamed for years about the media manipulation. They are now just as sheeplike as anyone else falling in line with the media annointed candidate.

[BidMarx]

9. infidelity vs Yeaaaaargh

Whos unelectable now?

[Cheswick2.0]

13. welcome to DU BidMarx

It's good to see new people are still showing up here.

[Cheswick2.0]

18. kick