MSNBC (at least) is calling the repubicans on their whining about media slams on Palin

[Stinky The Clown]

In the space of less than an hour I saw repubican after repubican being called out by the various MSNBC on-air personalities.

One of the better ones was Matthews calling out Opie Putnam. Opie made the pro forma 'liberal media bashing poor Sarah' whine. Matthews challenged him and became like a dog with a bone. Opie finally had to say it was tabloids. Matthews laughed and asked if any 'serious' media had done it. Asked for specifics and for names. Opie mumbled some crap about 'someone at ABC'. Matthews let it end there with a "you made my point" look at Opie.

Later, Gregory did this. Maddow did it. And Olbermann did it. Some direct to guests and some rhetorically in monologues.

Good.

[DarthDem]

1. Good Is Right

Fight back, MSM! They're smearing you! :D

[LostInAnomie]

2. Even Gregory had a good burn on Pawlenty.

Pawlenty brought up how savage the media had been in respect to Palin's daughter, and Gregory responded "No one had even mentioned it this hour until you brought it up."

[uppityperson]

3. Seattle Times bit on that...(says public office, you have no privacy)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2008154643_danny03m.html

...Call me jaded, but it's truly remarkable that the McCain camp thought it could sail along without having to address her background more deeply.

Public people can't expect private lives anymore. They get full-frontal scrutiny. Especially in an era where everyone's a publisher, so absolutely anything can be printed. It means, despicably, that even their kids are fair game.

I was taught early on in journalism to leave the kids out of it. They didn't ask for the political life — they were forced into it. Sometimes that's true of the spouses, too.

Now, families are pushed to the front of the stage by the candidates themselves. And decades of harping on "family values" in politics have made the values of individual families a public matter....

[Jack_Dawson]

4. Campbell Brown Jumpstarted Journalism

Believe me, I didn't think it would be Campbell Brown doing it...

CD

[Old and In the Way]

5. Too bad they didn't vet Bush like this in 2000.

I'm convinced that the maturing of the internet medium has made a huge difference in the dialogue. Sad that it wasn't this well established in 2000. We might not have lived through this hell for the past 8 years.

[pearl]

6. Indeed

If the internet had been even half of what it is today we might not have had this incredible nightmare. I remember being on the phone with my sister on Jan 20,2001 and telling her that the internet was the only thing that would save us and that we had thoroughly lost "the media"
The only site that these corrupt corporate media whores signed on to in 2001 was Drudge.
We still have some work to do. I want, my wish list is to focus serious boycotts on the most egregious of media crimes, ie ABC debate debacle.