The MSM is a joke. Why do you think anything will change for the better even if Obama wins?

[devilgrrl]

Come on, you all know that they'll suddenly wake up and go after him for everything they can dig up or outright make up. They'll be all over him like flies to shit - you watch.

[PATRICK]

Have a huge slate

of media reforms, the speed of which escalates depending on their cooperation or lack thereof with mainly doing the normal job of journalism.

[anonymous171]

1. Obama will sign media reform bills into law. McCain won't.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Which is One Reason Why They Will Pull Out ALL the Stops to Keep Him From Being Elected

[magellan]

2. The corporate media won't be fixed until someone fixes it

Personally, I'd threaten to yank all their licenses or force them to plaster PAID PROGRAMMING on their banners until an independent group determines that what they broadcast qualifies as NEWS.

[liberal N proud]

3. Oh sure it will...

They will ask tough questions on everything the Obama Administration does. They will keep a very watchful eye on the Democrats and report anything that appears to be out of ordinary and turn it into a scandal.
And if that isn't enough to turn the sheep against the Obama Admin and the Democrats, they will surely make shit up.

It will be night and day from the complacency we see now.

[Ilsa]

4. Why?

Why do you think anything will change for the better even if Obama wins?

Because a president gets to decide who leads various departments in our govt, like the FDA. The FDA recently said "NO!" to a company that wanted to start clinical trials of a new treatment derived from privately funded embryonic stem cell research. The people Bush* et al serve don't want there to be successes.

It will make a difference to women around the world who are the beneficiaries of US govt funded medical care, because right now they cannot get contraception through those clinics.

These are just two issues that Bush* and the fundies have been controlling for the last eight years.

I am hoping Obama and a Democratic Congress will revisit the Fairness Doctrine.

[DJ13]

5. Obama could reform the FCC to stop the MSM consolidation

Just threatening to do that (after the election) would put them on notice that he wont take their pro-conservative crap any longer.

[EFerrari]

6. I don't see Obama as some kind of cure all.

It'll be harder for the presstitutes to make their deals -- they'll have to re-organize. But, they'll still be ours to take on.

And between now and then, they'll do everything to tank him themselves.

[texastoast]

7. We have to fix the media back the way it was before shrubya

Get it all uncorporate-y again.

[FrenchieCat]

8. He's already announced that media change is a comin'!

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/85608/#more

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=6015088

[Dogmudgeon]

9. The Left will come to hate Obama.

The first time he does something that "we" don't like, he'll become our Public Enemy #1; a stealth DLC member; a DINO; a traitor; a Corp-o-crat; and all those other names we have for people who don't deliver exactly what we demand.

It's happened to EVERY Democratic leader since FDR; it happened to FDR, too.

Truman was despised. Only Bush has achieved lower popularity ratings.

Stevenson was ridiculed.

Kennedy was hated for being a "war monger" and an anti-Communist. (Not to mention being a Catholic.)

LBJ was the butt of every southern-cracker gag written by hipsters in the early 1960s.

Bobby Kennedy was anti-drug and too pro-cop for most radical tastes.

Hubert Humphrey was the target of more hate than anyone from that era is willing to admit to.

McGovern was forgotten within weeks of the election in 1972. Weeks.

Carter was ridiculed worse than Stevenson.

Mondale and Dukakis were treated to Carter-like derision.

Bill Clinton has been called a rapist and a murderer for decades ... by Leftists.

For Hillary Clinton, see recent GD-P postings.

Barack Obama will get a longer honeymoon, because no white liberal wants to be the first to throw a political tantrum. But once the first stone is cast, the air will be thick with them.

President Obama had better be prepared to deliver an Iraq withdrawal, health care reform, gay marriage and full integration in the military, an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, detente with Iran, $1.50/gallon gasoline, legalized marijuana, and have George Bush, Dick Cheney, and half of the gang behind bars, all within six months, or he will feel our wrath.

Do you know what we'll say about him? "Barack Obama is the best Republican president we've ever had!" Because that's what we've always said about our Democratic presidents.

Of course, we could always decide to grow up, as a movement, and go for the long-haul approach, instead of trashing our leaders who don't deliver a pony under our Christmas tree.

Still, even crippled and hobbled by the press, the Republicans, and the Left, Barack Obama will still be far better than the best Republican.

And maybe we'll wise up this time.

--p!

[tnlurker]

10. Damn good post!

[Dean Martin]

12. Nah

The difference with Obama is that there isn't anything to dig up. He's already laid everything on the table in his books. They'll have to make up stuff. That's another story, because it's obvious the American public is quick to believe make believe stuff.

[blues90]

13. If the media is owned and controlled by the corporations

I think it is 4 or 5 corporations , then how will a president change this without taking on the corporations?

I don't see how the media will come back to what it was decades ago.

If the people would not watch the media shill news and stop buying their products then you might just break the media down to size.

I just don't think anything can change unless the people themselves are willing to force the change. This is capitalism or corporatism. This is where money talks and as long as the population is willing to spend their money to support this media and their sponsors nothing will change.