Where the hell is the media??

[Nightwing]

I grew up watching the horrors of the Viet Nam war brought into our homes every single night on the evening news of every broadcast. It was the moving and horrific images of the incredible carnage taking place that turned this nation completely against the war.

Fast forward to 2004 and we have a sterilized, servitude media that either has been cowed or bought off by the * administration. This is unacceptable as well as un-American. Had the press been doing their job of bringing the war home for all of us to see, no way would we still have the chimp in charge.

This war and others to come cannot remain a nameless, faceless war. That is a recipe for disaster that will be exploited over and over again by our chicken hawk "leaders". It's time these people face accountability and the only way that happens is if the media exposes the lie by bringing the war into our living rooms; Not just when it serves them but rather every single night.

[tsuki]

1. They are not allowed. Bush has even forbidden them to show the

coffins coming home.

[lala_rawraw]

15. raises hand

from corner...air america allows cnn news as their provider... have tried to provide news to air america... so, just will work in my own corner...cnn is christian national news...it spent all day discussing Bush's victory today... now you tell me.

[deutsey]

2. Just look in Bush's hip pocket.

I think that's where he keeps the media.

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[newyawker99]

13. Hi fugrepugs84!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TomClash]

4. It's true - the Iraqi election coverage is a joke

It looks like the US Ministry of Propaganda feeds the networks their story lines.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. What do you mean? They covered every damn nook and cranny

of the Scott Peterson Trial. Much to everyone's chagrin, Jacko is on hold and Kobe's deal turned out to be a no-show fizzler... Paris Hilton stubbornly refuses to get arrested on drug charges... come on, what do you want out of them?

[acmavm]

6. What media? Except for a very few honorable journalists, most of these

clowns are hacks.

[illflem]

7. American media only shows the missiles taking off

while the foreign media shows them hitting

[muchacho]

8. hungry

They are at the open bar of power and eating the hors o'deurves of priveldge...or something

[OneTwentyoNine]

9. They were only around for the "shock and awe" phase....

They have contributed NOTHING to real reporting of Chimps invasion,in fact made it worse. They pimped up WMD,Aluminim tubes,Shock and Awe and then took a hike when things started to go south.

The real media has been long gone for years now,scared to DEATH to even question a motive of the Republican party. Its nothing but a free ride for Bush and his Nazi's

[Vinca]

10. Since we know about the payola,

we have to assume the whole lot of 'em are being paid off. Expect warm and fuzzy Iraqi election stories all day long.

[OneBlueSky]

11. where are the media? . . . in BushCo's back pocket, that's where . . . n/t

.

[DebJ]

12. ask the five corporations that own all of them....you don't even

have to ask five, actually, since members on one board also serve on others. two or three would likely cover the whole ball of wax.

[JoshK]

14. This is an inevitable consequence of monopoly capitalism.

Many liberals think it's simply a consequence of unregulated capitalism, but this isn't quite so, because even regulated capitalism leads naturally to unregulated (and thus monopoly)capitalism. That is: even under very substantial regulation, such as we had after the New Deal, there is still a finanicial oligarchy that is livid that it's privileges have been encroached upon. They lie in wait, still immensely powerful -- and after a number of years, are still able to buy back control of government, to undo all the regulation.

The corruption of the media is a simple consequence of mergers, in which ever more powerful giants are created. These giants, in turn, become ever more able to buy control of government. A big-city newspaper in 1955 could not have purchased control of Congress. But today's media giants are more powerful than Congress, behind the scenes. The biggest corporations decide what Congress is and what it does. Zero percent of Republicans, and maybe 10% of Democrats offer opposition to this process.