Krugman: A mysterious Absence

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February 13, 2011, 4:31 PM
A Mysterious Absence

Steve Benen:

Looking over the guest lists for all of the Sunday shows, viewers will see two Republican senators (McCain, Graham), three Republican House members (Boehner, Ryan, Schilling), three likely Republican presidential candidates (Barbour, Gingrich, Pawlenty) … and zero Democrats from Congress or the Obama administration.


It can’t be about political relevance; last I heard, Democrats held the White House and the Senate. Is it about expertise? As Benen points out, just two weeks ago McCain was warning about the menace of the Egyptian virus. And let me give some props to President Obama: I think the administration, by playing it cool but being clearly pro-democracy, has done just fine in the Egyptian affair.

So why the blackout on Democrats?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/a-mysterious-absence/

[movonne]

1. Yes why...

[11 Bravo]

2. Damn that lib'rul media!

[Sonoman]

3. Wow.

I wonder if this has ever happened before.

If the lineup read the other way (all Dems), the Right would be howling.

Sonoman

[Dappleganger]

8. Exactly. We just wring our hands and sigh.

[RandomThoughts]

4. They think control of something like media.

Means they decide who is heard by some divine authority.

They take scorching the sky, and call it them blinding the people.


It is really interesting, but you have to see it in levels, the censors, would call it a 'black out' since they think that is what makes power.

If you are on the lowest rung, and sold out early, you see the material as power, or something like media control, if that did not break you, then many other forms of power are shown.

I still don't sell out, but have seen many further levels of power they have never seen, because they think something like what people see will make the difference.

All it takes is a few people that know about those higher levels, and those that think they are blacking out some group, that don't even realize they blacked themselves out when they sold out, and have no say in things, by trying to keep other people from having no say.

Although, personally, I am just due beer and travel money.

[Kolesar]

5. Comcast acquired NBC

maybe that's part of it.

[Skink]

6. I some much needed sleep this morning.

[tex-wyo-dem]

7. Indeed...

Here's my theory...the Rethugs have been overshadowed by the events in Egypt and Obama and the Dems have come out smelling like a rose. Nnormally the MSM would have been spending lots of air-time on CPAC, but it's made barely a blip on the radar. To make up for this, nothung but rethugs on sunday morning to try to recapture the PR advantage.

[ThomCat]

9. The media always falls back into the roll, reinforcing the myth

that only republicans have any credibility on foreign policy.

The wonder why people believe this.

Then they only ask republicans about foreign policy, or let republicans frame every discussion.

They create black-outs like this one.

Then when people ask why republicans are over-represented they say it is because republicans are the experts that people want to hear from.

When asked why republicans are the experts they say that's a myth, but they don't know how that myth gets around.

[sufrommich]

10. Good Question.And when they do have democrats on the

Sunday shows,it's always the mild mannered Dems.Has Anthony Weiner ever been invited on to any of the Sunday SHows?