Rate left-leaning media's ability to push a story into the mainstream from 1997-2007

[blm]

I would say the left-leaning media has been able to get an important story into the mainstream media and control the narrative about 10% of the time since 1997. So, what kind of grade would 10% success rate get - an F?

If you believe they have been successful, explain why you think so, and if you believe as I do that they have NOT been successful, then is it THEIR fault or the fault of the corporate media who shut out their voices and their reporting?



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[Warren Stupidity]

1. left media?

you mean like the various blogs and the few publications that survive like The Nation and Mother Jones? We get an F. Not for lack of trying though.

[blm]

2. Yes, they make an initial try and the rest of the media shuts them out to assure

their reporting drops like a lead anchor in an ocean of contrived news stories.

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3. It's an illuminating question once you think about the answer a bit.

It really puts the last ten years in proper perspective.

[OHdem10]

4. I am assuming that we agree at this time,

that the Media we watch and read on a daily basis
favors a rightward slant.

There are many reasons and they are the same for
"When have you seen a real liberal on MSM-TV.
Occasionally you will see Senator Kennedy.

Corporations (Is it only 6 or maybe 8 at the
most) control all aspects of Media. Their
interest is the Investor Class and making
money for Investors. Republicans and Conservatives
are the Pro Business, Corporate Party. It is
their very ideology. Liberty to them means
the ability to make and spend your own money
with no obligation to others,or the government.
This serves Corporations perfectly. It is
in their interest to have news slanted to
the Right. Those people on the left would
seriously interfere with this thinking. No
discussion of "common good" poverty or anything
that smacks of "populism". Any news organization
will keep these thoughts in mind as they schedule
guests or have ideas submitted from the left.0If
they wish to remain employed.)
Go back to the beginning of the war and consider
how Bush ADM endeavored to get all the businesses
involved in approving the war. Jack Welsh was
all over TV singing the praises of Bush and his
Adm and how we must fight the war. GE did get
an 8 billion dollar Christmas Gift from Congress
in one fell swoop.(Taxcuts, Subsidies you name it)
This shows, I hope, what a mountain an idea from
the left has to surmount.

In our own party , this is no way meant to flame--
It is part of the explanation--we have a wing that
is also very very pro-business. I believe in Capitalism
but I believe in giving Business serious consideration
and fairness. This is different from always voting
in such a way that Business Interests always win
over the average citizen. If you notice 90% of
the time, guests on TV (where America gets most of
it news) you will have a DLC Democrat. Sometimes
Democrats cut their noses off to spite their face.
I have heard it said if a Centrist DlCer is not
available, no one is sent. Sounds reasonable,
I am repeating a comment heard on TV. If our
own party is so "scared of something a Liberal might
say, how can anyone else hope to get on TV.

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5. We do. I think not enough want to put the BLAME for much of the last 10 years where it belongs

because they prefer to be as lazy as the media and blame Democrats and the left as if they are the ones saddled with deficiencies.

Journalists like Sy Hersh, Robert Parry and Greg Palast aren't DEFICIENT because the truth they tell doesn't cut through into the mainstream, the substance of their work is ignored and downplayed DELIBERATELY just as the voices and positions of some of our leading Democratic lawmakers are ignored and downplayed and in the case of our elections, they are heavily EDITTED to fit the corporate media's preferred storylines.