Text 4074, 130 rader
Skriven 2004-10-25 06:33:28 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 4049 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Liberal Media
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24 Oct 04 21:28, LEE LOFASO wrote to JOHN HULL:

 LL> Hello John,

 >>LL>Tired of listening to Rush Limbaugh and The O'Reilly Factor?
 >>LL>Here is an alternative to the conservative agenda -

 JH>>Only problem is, they're all pushing the same crap.  Nothing to
 JH>>distinguish from the other.  They all run together in a blur of
 JH>>sameness.

 LL> Oh?  And you have read all those publications?

I've seen most of them at one time or another.  The rest I know by reputation.

 >>LL>In print -

 >>LL>The Nation                  thenation.com
 >>LL>Mother Jones                motherjones.com
 >>LL>Utne Reader                 utne.com
 >>LL>Ms. Magazine                msmagazine.com
 >>LL>Left Turn                   leftturn.org
 >>LL>The American Prospect       prospect.org
 >>LL>The Guardian                guardian.co.uk
 >>LL>The Independent             independent.co.uk
 >>LL>The Sun                     thesunmagazine.org
 >>LL>The Onion                   theonion.com
 >>LL>The Progressive             progressive.org
 >>LL>Sierra                      sierraclub.org
 >>LL>Orion                       oriononline.org
 >>LL>The New Republic            tnr.com
 >>LL>Punk Planet                 punkplanet.com
 >>LL>In These Times              inthesetimes.com
 >>LL>This Magazine               thismagazine.ca

 >>LL>On-line only -

 >>LL>dissidentvoice.org
 >>LL>indymedia.org
 >>LL>grist.org
 >>LL>buzzflash.com
 >>LL>oneworld.net
 >>LL>mediachannel.org
 >>LL>envirolink.org
 >>LL>truthout.com
 >>LL>now.org
 >>LL>leanweb.org
 >>LL>moveon.org
 >>LL>hrc.org
 >>LL>projectcensored.org

 >>LL>As can plainly be seen, liberalism is far from dead.
 >>LL>And these are but a handful of print and on-line sources.
 >>LL>So just because conservatives may be loud and noisy does
 >>LL>not mean that conservatives are the only voice of the
 >>LL>land.  :)

 JH>>Most of those rags and online sites are one step ahead of closing 
 JH>>down.  All them together can't muster the readership numbers of a 
 JH>>fraction of those who listen to Rush, or O'Reilly, or Sean Hannity.  
 JH>>And there's a reason for that isn't there, Lee?  Are you honest 
 JH>>enough to say what it is?

 LL> Some of those publications have been around for decades.  Sure, 
 LL> some
 LL> are quite new.  And there is no question that a handful will close 
 LL> down
 LL> as some point.  There is also no question that others will be 
 LL> springing
 LL> up. Liberalism has been around for a long time.  And liberalism 
 LL> will
 LL> continue to be around for a lot longer.

None of which addresses the fact that they are liberal rags.

 LL> While Rush Limbaugh may have an audience of some 20 million 
 LL> listeners
 LL> in this country and around the world, there are other radio talk 
 LL> show
 LL> hosts who cater to a liberal audience.  Even though no single 
 LL> liberal
 LL> host may have the same number of listeners as Rush Limbaugh, that 
 LL> does
 LL> not mean there are fewer liberals than there are conservatives.

No liberal has such a show because the liberal agenda hasn't changed in 50
years.  No new ideas.  You can't even attack conservatives in new ways.  You
use the same old tactics you've always used.  Nobody wants to listen to that
kind of doom and gloom garbage for 3 hours every day.  Aside from his
conservativism, Rush's show is entertaining because you never know what he's
going to talk about on any given day.

 LL> Right now, the country is divided 50/50 between Democrats and
 LL> Republicans, pro-Bush and pro-Kerry.  The split among 
 LL> conservatives
 LL> and liberals is probably close to the same, with moderates getting
 LL> an equal amount.

I submit that it is a hell of a lot more conservative than the mainstream media
is telling you.  It does not serve their agenda to tell people that.

 LL> Fox News has taken an activist approach, catering to a particular
 LL> market.  CNN could choose to do the same, and so could MSNBC or 
 LL> any
 LL> other cable news station.  Even ABC, NBC, or CBS could do that.

Why is CNN known as the "Clinton News Network?"

 LL> What is lacking in today's market is good, solid reporting.
 LL> What journalists and reporters are doing today is being lazy
 LL> and sensationalist.  And the American people are left dumber
 LL> as a result.  And that dumbing down of America has left us
 LL> with a George W. Bush as president.

Fox has the highest rating for fair and balanced reporting of all the major
media outlets.  That is from the outfits that specialize in watching that sort
of thing.  They are impartial in their ratings.  Fox has consistently been
higher than any of the rest for quite some time.

Liberalism is what panders to the lowest common denominator, whether it be in
the schools, every day life, or in the media.  Not everybody has fallen into
that trap, however.  You'll see that on election day.

John 

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