Why Oh Why Does the Press Help Them?
John Cole, one of our best left-wing bloggers:
"I seriously do not get this country. The subservience to the Republicans by the media at least made sense when they were in the majority and held the Presidency in 2001. But this is 2009, the Republicans have been routed electorally for the past few years, everything the Republican party believed in failed miserably the last eight years and they have been exposed as total frauds....It is nothing but fail, fail, fail, from the GOP, they just lost two more seats in the house, they are going through a horrible (yet delicious) civil war, yet according to the media, everything is bad news for Democrats."
I do not mean to pick on Mr. Cole, who I really like. I have heard this sort of thing consistently for a couple of decades from the left.
Well, here's your answer. It's so simple, it explains everything, and to me it is totally obvious. I have never understood the left wing resistance to accepting it.
During the administration of (who else?) Ronald Reagan, "deregulation" was king. One of the many catastrophes brought on by this right wing cant was that, over a short period of time, most of the "mainstream media" ended up being owned by large corporations. These corporations exist to make their owners rich, as fast as possible. They do not give a damn about truth, journalistic obligation or anything else except short term profit. They see (quite correctly) that their best opportunity to sate their rapaciousness for another quarter or two is with Republicans, who they have already bought in their entirety, in control of the country. And they are doing everything they can to see that Republicans are in control, regardless of the fact that we all know what long term disasters await us when we let Republicans run things.
It's a simple corporate decision. That's it. There you go. Question answered.
"I seriously do not get this country. The subservience to the Republicans by the media at least made sense when they were in the majority and held the Presidency in 2001. But this is 2009, the Republicans have been routed electorally for the past few years, everything the Republican party believed in failed miserably the last eight years and they have been exposed as total frauds....It is nothing but fail, fail, fail, from the GOP, they just lost two more seats in the house, they are going through a horrible (yet delicious) civil war, yet according to the media, everything is bad news for Democrats."
I do not mean to pick on Mr. Cole, who I really like. I have heard this sort of thing consistently for a couple of decades from the left.
Well, here's your answer. It's so simple, it explains everything, and to me it is totally obvious. I have never understood the left wing resistance to accepting it.
During the administration of (who else?) Ronald Reagan, "deregulation" was king. One of the many catastrophes brought on by this right wing cant was that, over a short period of time, most of the "mainstream media" ended up being owned by large corporations. These corporations exist to make their owners rich, as fast as possible. They do not give a damn about truth, journalistic obligation or anything else except short term profit. They see (quite correctly) that their best opportunity to sate their rapaciousness for another quarter or two is with Republicans, who they have already bought in their entirety, in control of the country. And they are doing everything they can to see that Republicans are in control, regardless of the fact that we all know what long term disasters await us when we let Republicans run things.
It's a simple corporate decision. That's it. There you go. Question answered.
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