A lot of contradictory statements come out of the right about the vast media conspiracy. In one breath they say the left wing media is dying, in the next they claim the liberal media has control.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. Both are true.
All these years of blaming the media for every problem have made them an easy cop out of a target.
Except it happens to be true. Well, maybe not every problem, but a whole lot of very significant problems are rightly laid at the "media's" feet.
Not everyone on the left is receptive of the right's message and there are a lot of really crappy salesmen on the right.
Both of those statements are also true, but they convey only a tiny part of the big picture. There are a lot of people on the left who would be persuaded if all news and entertainment was not under the control of people with strictly leftist world views.
As regards the salesman, the left has a trillion dollar broadcasting infrastructure. We have blogs and pod casts. It's a lot easier selling from Television than it is by print ads.
At the end of the day the media is powerless and the fault lands at the feet of the people.
That is about the most incorrect thing i've read all day. Examples of where the media steered the nation's destiny are too numerous to mention. The most recent examples of media power are Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who owe their elections to the fact that the media did not honestly report on them, but allied with them to win the elections.
Had the media attacked them in the manner they do Republicans, neither man would have won, and the destiny of the world would have been improved.
