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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-30-08 02:47 PM
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The real enemy is the media, and they see themselves as the only superdelegates.
Edited on Sun Mar-30-08 02:49 PM by kpete
The Blogosphere's Big Mistake In Campaign '08
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 12:30:20 PM EST
By Big Tent Democrat

Via commenter white n az, a report from the Eschacon Media criticism forum
http://flprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/03/eschacon08-media-bias-refresh-for.html

Media Matters' Eric Boehlert. . . . There's a new phenomenon ... it goes back to Gore's press in 1999 which was "really unfair and really weird." What's happening online now is potentially dangerous: HRC has gotten dreadful press, not fair, "gotcha," and so on -- there's a portion of the blogosphere that has ignored that and there's a portion that has encouraged that. It's dangerous because the media criticism has to be consistent and relentless, and we can't very well say, "You can't go after our candidates ... except this one." I get nervous about pushback regarding disingenuous coverage - our response needs to be, "You can't treat Democrats this way." When people in the left blogosphere are quoting an anonymous Matt Drudge source, it makes me nervous.

Susie Madrak: the rule of thumb is that if you read or hear something that makes you hate another Democrat, you need to dig down further because there's more to the story. The real enemy is the media, and they see themselves as the only superdelegates.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/30/133020/406
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