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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (98659)	4/28/2003 2:41:29 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

When I said Fox et al I meant most of them, not just Fox. I look for balance, and I think Fox is the most slanted. I think what CNN did is very dubious -- to withhold in order to obtain the story is like selling your soul to the devil (really was in that case). I'm skeptical of the "if you are right it resonates" idea because that changes with time. When a country has endured massive wealth destruction and a massive exodus of good jobs, then that populace will support policies which are more self serving. That's why on the K-wave economic cycles the wars for resources happen periodically and at predictable points. Germany did so in the 30s, and I believe that we are doing so now. The problem with "resonance" in my view is that we really have become TV nation, and so if it isn't on TV, how will it resonate? So much TV media is controlled by corporate interests (more specifically, interests of the top executives of those corporations) that it's difficult for contrary messages to get out. If there was sound Democratic leadership, maybe they would take it to the streets instead of trying to get airtime on unyielding networks. It's no surprise to me that the media would be biased -- those executives are most or all in that top 1% group and simply edit the content to suit themselves individually, a trend of looking out for #1 which I think has dominated American's thinking since the money decade of the 80s began. I don't see that trend ending until much TL & EV has transpired. But whatever the excuses and/or difficulties, the Dems will either go down without a fight (the status quo) or they can choose to swing for the fences, in which case they'll either strike out or hit a homer. I think they owe it to our Constitution to swing for the fences.