Reply #37: That must be a rhetorical question, because that's not quite how it works.... [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

It is like the Howard Dean "scream".

It is like the swiftboating of John Kerry during election 2004 and "the Joke" 2006.

It's like a daily fox memo of talking points from the producers to the staff......(do you really think that they are the only one with a memo?)

It's like an avalanche that starts out small and ends up big. Newsweek writes about the "contenders", which in turn is discussed on Hardball (since Newsweek and NBC are partners), the NBC nightly News, and next thing you know, such and such is a guest on Tim Russert and Jay Leno. Time Magazine moves in with another article from a Pundit, which is then discussed by CNN (owned by the same folks), which is followed by an ABC segment on the news (CNN and Disney's ABC are also loose partners) and a Sunday sting on Stenephapolous(sp?) and Oprah. It is an notion which pretty soon becomes conventional wisdom after repeated exposure.

It is like the March to War that was "performed" by the networks and the cable triplets. Done in a clean seamless and Simultaneous loosely coordinated fashion. It is done as part of the daily operation of most of the nationwide media.

And don't forget about the news wire system which will run a story dissiminated everywhere in the U.S. with a rivalring/complimentary story that shows up in the NTY and WAPO!

It is like a fire that starts out insignificantly small but soon ignites and roars past and burns everything in its path in an out of control way. That is our media in 2006.

When they did away with the Fairness Doctrine, there was a reason. When the telecomunications act was signed in 1996, that had an effect.