Reply #91: Wrong, the media is right-wing, corporate, and corrupt as needed. [View All]

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Your straw-man of it being wholly owned overreaches.
The media are not wholly owned.
However, they are curbed and controlled, when and where they can be.

Oh, the missing white girls do get attention.
But, so would stories the media OMITS.

Scoops are fun,
but, we've had scoops go un-scooped for a long time.
(I don't know why they care about scoops, I don't want a paper based on who gets the incomplete story first. Even on DU I like better the post that took a few more seconds to put together.)

Scoops mattered before the Internet. If it still matters to some, BULLY!

Let's recall some STORIES:
. S&L versus Dem "bank scandal"
. Clinton Pardons
. WH trashing

. S&L cost each of us hundreds of dollars, hundreds of billions in total. Yet, what got press? The Dems were controlling the House bank that paid Congressional salaries and Dems weren't collecting overdraft fees. Gee, we could have netted a couple hundred bucks after hiring someone to watch it and collect the fees. That would be about a millionth of a cent each. Let's see: Not even a penny versus hundreds of dollars. Our media? The less-than-a-penny story against Dems and ... helping guess who... Rs.

. Clinton pardoned Marc Rich. How awful, said the media, over and over again and again. Yet, there was no reason he shouldn't have pardon after he helped with dangerous Middle East assignments. And, he was only pardoned of jail -- which would cost us money -- he had to pay back his unpaid taxes.
MORE: Past presidential pardons were reviewed by our media. Democratic presidential pardons that is. NOT Bush I's! Gee, why is that? Did GHW Bush pardon a plane-bomber or something? Oh, yeah, he did. Oops! An unpaid intern wrote about it, and she was fired. AN UNPAID VOLUNTEER WAS FIRED.
Why media? TOO interesting? Might sell TOO MANY papers?

. White House was trashed by Clinton people after he had left office. Surely pictures were run, well, not really. Just some somewhat neatly stacked folders. Our media kept damaging Dems on page one for days. Oh, and when the Dems asked for an apology, WHAT PAGE DID THAT RUN ON? Hmmm? One day, page .. whatever. A lying scheming WH, well that's not a story worth running. Might sell papers. Yikes!

OR, HOW ABOUT SOME WARNINGS:
Like a president asking just how many agents were put into the inner workings of our nation's media outlets? And, just how many agents did Senator Church miss when he tried to clean our intelligence services?

Simple?
Simply Right Wing.
Not right wing to simpletons maybe.

Be sure to check out Will Pitt's post.