Reply #33: Oh, I get it. [View All]

[smoogatz]

We're going to redefine "media"--the word that most of use to describe big-market print journalism and televsion news--to include art, the Democratic Underground, and all of America. Sorry, I'm not buying it. You claim that the media is America, but America's views on the war and the Bush administration are nowhere represented in the corporate media, which pretends to the detriment of our democracy not to have a right-wing bias. The depth of reporting I want IS available, in places like the New Yorker and Rolling Stone--but not much in the NYT, seldom in the WaPo, and pretty much never on TV, except for the BBC--and they don't do much reporting on American politics. Your theory is that the media are stupid, lazy, cowardly and corrupt because Americans are stupid, lazy, cowardly and corrupt. Bullshit. You want to know why newspaper subscriptions are down, why most Americans think journalists are a notch above Congress but several notches below bedbugs and spirochetes on the evolutionary scale? You want to know why more and more Americans now get their news online? Because you and your buddies have completely lost sight of what it is that you're supposed to be doing--and your post above is as clear an indication of that as I've ever seen.