Low
No shame. No fucking shame.
1971
2004
'Nuff said.
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Note, this will be my last JOhn KErry post until the debates, where I sincerely hope some legitimate political discourse might transpire. Frankly, the recent antics, and the putrid, hypocritcal blather of the Kerry camp make me sick.
One final thought on the overwhelming lack of anything remotely resembling balanced news coverage by the mainstream media. There's been a lot of talk about how the major TV networks are apparently in bed with the DNC and desperately want Kerry to win this race. I honestly think, that just like the junior senator from Massachusetts, the networks are looking out for no one here but themselves.
Put it this way - you're watching a baseball game, and the score is 24-2 in the 3rd inning. Even if it's YOUR team that's winning, chances are you will decide there are better things you could be doing with your free time than sitting on your couch with your eyes glued to the set. The networks know all too well that if they were to present their viewers with all the facts regarding these recent shenanigans, expediting the collapse of the Kerry campaign in the process, the sound of millions of viewers all across America turning off their televisions would be deafening.
TV journalism is big business in this country, even more so during a presidential election year. It's in their best interest, financially, to have two dogs in this race right up to election night. Not that it will do them much good this time around. I can see it backfiring on them in a big way as their viewers turn to alternate sources of news and information and realize what a bunch of stooges the networks have been playing them for.
Anyway, that's my take on it. Agree. Disagree. At this point quite frankly, I really couldn't give a shit either way.
(original link above via Best of the Web)
1971
I called the media afterward and asked them why and the answer was, from one of the networks, it doesn't have to be identified, "because, is, new business is really partly entertainment business visually, you see, and a press conference like that is not visual."
Of course, we don't have the position of power to get our ideas out. I said, "If I take some crippled veterans doesn't [sic] to the White House and we chain ourselves to the gates, will we get coverage?" "Oh, yes, we will cover that."
- John Kerry, testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971
2004
'Nuff said.
____________
Note, this will be my last JOhn KErry post until the debates, where I sincerely hope some legitimate political discourse might transpire. Frankly, the recent antics, and the putrid, hypocritcal blather of the Kerry camp make me sick.
One final thought on the overwhelming lack of anything remotely resembling balanced news coverage by the mainstream media. There's been a lot of talk about how the major TV networks are apparently in bed with the DNC and desperately want Kerry to win this race. I honestly think, that just like the junior senator from Massachusetts, the networks are looking out for no one here but themselves.
Put it this way - you're watching a baseball game, and the score is 24-2 in the 3rd inning. Even if it's YOUR team that's winning, chances are you will decide there are better things you could be doing with your free time than sitting on your couch with your eyes glued to the set. The networks know all too well that if they were to present their viewers with all the facts regarding these recent shenanigans, expediting the collapse of the Kerry campaign in the process, the sound of millions of viewers all across America turning off their televisions would be deafening.
TV journalism is big business in this country, even more so during a presidential election year. It's in their best interest, financially, to have two dogs in this race right up to election night. Not that it will do them much good this time around. I can see it backfiring on them in a big way as their viewers turn to alternate sources of news and information and realize what a bunch of stooges the networks have been playing them for.
Anyway, that's my take on it. Agree. Disagree. At this point quite frankly, I really couldn't give a shit either way.
(original link above via Best of the Web)
