 merrie says: While few people, relatively speaking, actually watch the debates on the cable channels, the exchanges which are manufactured by the nature of the questions that are addressed to certain candidates get picked up by many other media outlets, leading to a public perception that the "frontrunners" being quoted are the only "serious" ones left in the race When Fox excluded him [Ron Paul] from its debate, a website was created to protest the exclusion and one Paul supporter responded, "Bye, Bye Fox. WE are the media now." I can testify to some truth in that statement, having been a guest on an Internet radio show hosted by a Ron Paul supporter named Indy, who lives in Japan, and which took calls from around the world. I was invited on to talk about media bias against the candidate. There are several other Internet radio shows exclusively devoted to his candidacy. Paul is the only one whose proposals amount to an overall federal spending cut (of $150 billion). This position is not popular with the liberal mediaLiberal Media? If you think the media is owned by liberals, you're too far behind the curve. Ron Paul tells the truth about the money supply and how big corporations run the nation, not the constitution. That's not a liberal problem... it's a big money problem, and big money doesn't want people to know the truth. And big money (Rupert Murdoch, etc.) are as far from liberal as you can get! There ain't no liberal media (not even PBS anymore. They were bought out)! So if by liberal media you mean Air America or Howard Stern, the... PS: Do you really think Fox News is liberal? PS: Do you really think Fox News is liberal?No, I don't think Fox News is liberal! @AcesLucky Thanks for your interest Your comments suggest to me that you think the clip was written by me. It might be better if you link to the article to give you a more complete and accurate understanding of the message. The article was written by Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy In Media. aim.com I recommend reading the entire article. — Comment removed by clipper — How the Media Pick the Candidates AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 1, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/how-the-media-pick-the-candidates/ The article was written by I recommend reading the entire article.Will do. I only read the clip and perhaps made sum hasty assumptions. The result of this media malpractice will be growing public awareness that our democratic form of government is increasingly at risk because the people are being denied important information about the candidates and the issues.Thank god for the Internet. They haven't monopolized that yet! |
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