Daily Howler claims we're close to having a state-run media

[Karmadillo]

http://www.dailyhowler.com/

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Yes, the smell of fascism was in the air when Miller made his astonishing speech. His speech screamed for suppression of dissent—and it screamed even louder for “fact check” treatment. But the New York Times didn’t fact-check the speech, nor did the perfumed boys and girls who slumber each evening on cable. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews killed time for hours ON Thursday night, but he and his guests never fact-checked what Ol’ Zell had said. And how about CNN’s Thursday night effort? Did you see a “fact check” of what Miller said? We’ve gone through the transcripts, and no, we can’t find a “truth squad” segment. Some pundits did call Zell a “man of hate.” But why should any viewer believe them? Like Cohen, these pontificatin’ pundits were simply too lazy to explain what he said that was wrong.

But don’t miss the larger context to this. As we’ve said, Miller’s grossly disingenuous claims have been made on TV all year long! They formed the basis of 30-second ads which the Bush campaign began running in April. The claims in those ads were as phony and fake as they were when Miller made them. But very few voters have ever heard how fake and phony those claims really are. Through the year, Richard Cohen said nothing about them, and neither did the bulk of your press corps. Papers offered a few modest “Ad Watch” reports—and the phony claims just kept on running. Because your pundits kept quiet all year, voters heard these claims again Wednesday night.

No “fact check” of Zell in the great New York Times! Readers, you’re very close to a state-run media when you see the events that occurred this week. Wednesday night, a man on horseback made absurdly fake claims—and your biggest news orgs knew they mustn’t correct him. But then, those same news orgs have gazed into space as these phony claims were made all year. Yes, these claims are amazingly fake—Category Five, as Cohen said. But your press corps is afraid of George Bush, and their salaries are quite good as things are.

State-run media? Bush can deceive you as much as he likes. A conquering man sits atop a white horse, and as we saw in the wake of Zell’s speech, your “press ” lets him say what he pleases.

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[billbuckhead]

1. Presstitutes don't want to look for job in the economy they brag

about.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. So true. So *^%&$ true. eom

[Demeter]

3. This is SO 1979

We've had media press since Woodward and Bernstein blew the doors off Watergate and that fellow with the Pentagon Papers did for Vietnam. It was like a force of nature or animal instinct watching the Money eat up the newspapers, magazines, and now with the spawn of Powell's connivance, the radio and tv stations and networks. The Wall Street Journal succumbed when Ronnie came to town. It's all over, EXCEPT for the Internet, our zamisdat for the modern times.

[papau]

4. This is so true - if 68-71 blowing up things begins again I suspect media

locations and homes of media stars will be targets rather than police, Guard, bank, or military targets that were "in" back in 68-71

[tinanator]

5. Well it is a FACIST MEDIA, state run or not

and those in power in the 90's (Republicans? No, not entirely) did their level best to destroy the Pacifica Network. Choose your friends and sources carefully, they have been dug in for decades, and play both sides of the fence to keep people stupid and/or confused. It is a long and sordid history, one that needs to be recognized and learned by the victims.

[Ducks In A Row]

6. As he apologized to Joe Wilson yet?

No.

Then he just like them. When he wishes to have his head in the sand about something, he can suddenly bring himself whore for the bushes.