John R. MacArthur on the Media Heathers

[kaitykaity]

MacArthur's disdain for the mega media whores is
palpable. :thumbsup:

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views04/0127-10.htm

After all, I'd fled to southwestern New Hampshire precisely to escape the lava flow of clichés spewing forth from Gotham's information Gulag, and to sort out for myself why the national media -- not just rival Democrats -- seem so determined to bury a candidate whose most radical policy proposal is the exhumation of a 56-year-old, Harry Truman-vintage plan for guaranteed national health care.

Indeed, the New York newspaper and network television coverage of Dean had recently turned so viciously unfair that I thought I'd better go see the "former frontrunner" in person before he got run over by a Fox camera crew riding on a flat-bed truck driven by Dick Gephardt.

Not that some locals, like the charming Karen Bowen, of Monadnock Developmental Services, weren't put off by the Dean "scream." But it turned out I wasn't alone in thinking that the politico/press overreaction to the concession rally in West Des Moines had more to do with a sullen hostility to anything honestly emotional than with the mental state of the former Vermont governor.

[Robbien]

1. It will be interesting to see if NH is fooled by the media hype

I am ABB, but I hope Dean does well there just to make a statement that the media is not the one who chooses the candidate.

[hatrack]

2. Damn good article!

And no, I don't think healthy Yankee skepticism is going to be washed away by MoDo's sweater fixation, or any of the other ploys the tired and bedraggled Beltway Hos are busily crafting as we speak.