THE LIES AND TWISTS OF THE MEDIA AND THE MADISON AVENUE REPUBLICANS

[HowHasItComeToThis]

THIS ARTICLE IS IMPORTANT.


http://www.motherjones.com/arts/feature/2008/05/the-myth-of-the-moral-majority.html

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[SpiralHawk]

1. Interesting article

Proving once again that republicon smoke & mirrors propaganda is a tool of their preoccupation with occultism to bamboozle and confuse America and Americans

[magellan]

2. Long suspected -- the religious right is just a noisy minority

The Repubs cynically fawned over them and gave them the mic, knowing there'd be little will to counter them for fear of being branded anti-Christian and un-American. The manipulation worked. Even the Democratic Party bought it. And now we have religion in our politics.

This is why a profit-driven 4th estate is so dangerous to democracy.

"Though she doesn't delve into those weaknesses, Wicker's findings speak volumes about the limitations of a Fourth Estate that accepted and uncritically deferred to the power of the religious right. Having been handed a ready-made story line by the thou-shalt-not brigades, the media became transfixed by a phenomenon they couldn't fully fathom but felt bound to report on. Those unexamined numbers and claims of followers in theological lockstep launched a thousand cover stories and columns—rarely prompting questions about what a term as broad as "evangelical" really meant on the ground. Whether they viewed it as a new political reality, a megatrend, or a bogeyman, the media embraced the idea of a reenergized, monolithic Christianity and faithfully chronicled something that didn't exist.

"Part of the problem is that the national-level journalists who control the discourse tend not to be, nor have they ever been, committed religionists as adults. Newsrooms are determinedly secular, and self-consciously so. Afraid of being tagged as godless liberals, most journalists would never dream of calling BS on believers. Which may explain why Wicker's book could only have been written by a born-and-bred Baptist."

[ThomWV]

3. Very good review.

Long suspected, nice to see confirmed. We've always known there were a lot of them out there, but there just couldn't have been as many as they said. Every 4th person I talked to wasn't a raving religious idiot, more like two or three out of 100.

[annabanana]

4. Mother Jones is a font of wisdom.

Well worth the subscription price.. (also good for leaving in waiting rooms)