anon asks…
So what media outlets DO you approve of? Which ones are doing a good job?
Let me preface this by saying I’m talking about mass media. There might be a tiny sliver of media doing actual reporting – but my remarks are confined to the newspapers with actual circulations and TV shows people actually watch.
That said, I can’t think of a single media outlet that performed adequately during the Bush years. If anyone can point to a media outlet that investigated, pushed, challenged or even questioned the outlandish bullshit Bush was throwing out for 8 years, I will be surprised. Our modern corporate media has turned the duty of the media inside out. They are in business to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. I’m exaggerating? Okay. Ask Tom Carper the past time he remembers getting a tough question from a reporter.
Now them, to preempt the wingnuts who will inevitably show up to say that the media is “in love” with Barrack Obama – I say…
1) So? Even if that were true, which it is not, all of a sudden you seem some merit in having a tenacious press? Spare me your belated renting of garments over the sudden loss of an “objective” media.
2) Do you know how I know the media still has a right wing bias in spite of what wingnuts perceive to be a love affaire with Barrack Obama? I believe my own ears and eyes:
Limbaugh: “The dirty little secret … is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so; I am willing to say it”
and…
3) If the interests of truth and accuracy in reporting got a crumb in these past few years, it did so in the form of two basic cable shows (Countdown and Rachel Maddow). That is two whole shows set against the vast sea of wingnut idiocy that gets reported on a daily basis.