The Dean Blog.. attacking the media?! Wow!

[tedoll78]

Regardless of whom you support, this is of importance to ALL of us.

Check this out - one of the latest entries on the Dean Blog is called 'TV Editing' -->

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All day long we've seen the television news repeating a short edited segment of a single line taken from a Canadian television show. Here's the full transcript. The discussion centered around the pros and cons of caucuses and primaries:

Dean: On a Saturday, is it easy for me to go cast a ballot and spend 15 minutes doing it, or do I have to sit in a caucus for 8 hours?

Guest: This is a good thing, though.

Dean: I don't think so. I don't have the time to do it. It doesn't get people involved. It drives people out of the process, and leaves the people who are left in the process -- the professional people who get paid to be there.

Guest: Let the people in the neighborhoods convince you, say...

Dean: They can't convince me. I've got my kid's soccer game. I've got my second job. I've got all these other reasons that I can't do these things.

Guest: If that's the case, the 15 minutes you're going to devote to politics in your year is a pretty perfunctory involvement in politics.

Dean: Not necessarily. I read the papers, maybe I watch television. I form my opinions, I get to go exercise my opinion. But I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world.
Compare this to the way it is reported on television:

NBC Voice Over: Dean even suggested the caucuses were a waste of time for ordinary people.

Dean: “I can’t stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world.”

The power of editing to create a story. Swing the bat.

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First Kucinich masterfully denigrating the media for its horserace coverage, and now this. I love seeing our candidates slamming the media!

[stickdog]

1. The media is trying to take down Dean before it's too late.

If Dean gets to the general election, they'll have to cover his criticisms of Bush. And the people watching will ask why the media buried Bush's scandals as they were happening.

And 10% to 20% will get clued into what we all already know -- that what passes for the news on corporate media is bunch of propaganda.

Since this will affect their bottom line as well as their reputation, they have as even more of a vested interest in denying Dean's nomination than establishment Dems.

[Eloriel]

2. Not only that,

Dean has already promised to de-conglomerate-ize the media. That put a pretty good target on his back too.

Eloriel

[dd123]

3. Trippi didn't take it from Paula Zahn today either.

I like it.

[tedoll78]

4. Yup!

I thoroughly enjoyed that. And Klein afterward looked like he was reading a script off of cue cards..