In the first 6 months of his presidency Obama got as much positive press as Bush and Clinton combined
Spud puts that down to two factors.
First, general disatisfaction with government from people from all sides of the political spectrum is waaaaay up after Dumbya's reign of errors and it behooved the powers that be to focus on the positivism his campaign inspired in order to overcome that.
Second, the guy is a waaay more inspiring orator than Bush and Clinton combined.
If that was true, then Rochelle Riley, Leonard Pitts and Mitch Albom would have been shit-canned from the Gannett-owned Detroit News and Detroit Free Press long ago for their consistent, lefty views. Your 'corporate control' tack doesn't pass muster when it comes to specificity.
Not saying that there aren't actual lefties and righties in the MSM. They are needed, in fact, for the game to work. But while there may be individual lefties and righties here and there the overall agenda is a corporatist one. There is no unanimity amongst the corporate interests who seek to control legislature towards their own ends, rather there are competing groups of corporate interests. Their opposing viewpoints eventually become the national debate which is largely framed and decided by traditional media.
1. In every empircal study I have seen, Fox is closer to center than her competitors.
Citation needed.
Fox fakes centrality by allowing tame liberals like Alan Colmes on and calling it parity when the reality to anyone watching with an unbiased eye will tell you, is that it is an overwhelmingly one sided trumpeter of the GOP and demoniser of the Dems.
2. The MSM constantly rails against the 'owning class'. Trumped-up fuel explosions in Crown Vics...over-hyped rollovers of Ford Explorers...parroting the recent DNC demonization of insurance companies as well as ANY body who has the audacity to protest Obama's policies or those of the DNC - teabaggers, gun-toting redneck pieces of shit at townhalls, etc. During Bush, protestors were lionized and dissent WAS patriotism. Now, it's labelled as vile; and not just by the DNC, but the press.
Protesters then and now are demonised.
Marginalised, cast in dark tones, equated to anger, violence and, in extreme cases, terrorism.
The teabaggers *are* ridiculous in the main.
Inarticulate rage monkeys spewing half remembered reichwing radio talking points with a palpable undertone of racism and violence.
The press tends to seize on the most extreme members of both sides New Black Panthers, Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan on the left and the teabaggers and towen hall disrupters on the right.
Ignoring the more moderate and sane voices.
Sorry, the facts don't support your Chomsky-esque views that corporations are the root of all evil regarding the goings on of this nation. And corporatism CERTAINLY doesn't explain a brutally consistent bias in favor of almost all things left-of-center exhibited by our beloved MSM.
Actually the facts do support these views you'd just be hard pressed to find a lot of press on the subject, oddly enuff. Kinda the point, really.
Yer idear that because every other network is not like FOX makes them left biased is, quite frankly, insane.
Can you cite examples where our press failed to hold the right and/or Republicans to account?
The lead up to the war was a pretty instructive moment in that regard.
But when it comes to degree, the press is almost unmitigated in an absurd bias toward leftism and the DNC.
That's a common right wing fallacy that you have obviously bought into lock, stock and both smoking barrells.
Spud aint buying it.
Be Well.
