Media Insiders Shaft Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich, and America

[Klukie]

Immediately after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto the front page story in the Washington Post about Pakistan and the presidential campaign did not even mention Joe Biden, the only candidate who seriously distinguished himself on the Pakistan crisis.
Upon reflection, the Washington Post editorial page, which has supported Bush on the Iraq war as Pravda supported Leonid Brezhnev, followed up with a lead editorial on candidates and Pakistan, which, incredibly, did not even acknowledge of Joe Biden.

Here is why the major media, including the daily newspapers, has lost such credibility with the American people and in the case of insider print media, so many subscribers who moved their business to internet sites, including this one.

It is not only Biden. The insider political media is now embedded with, and morphed into, the insider political classes to the point where they part of the same beast. The insider political reporters have moved beyond the courtiers that Stephen Colbert so brilliantly satired two White House correspondents dinners ago; and have fully joined the home team of the insider Washington establishment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/media-insiders-shaft-bide_b_78823.html

[gateley]

1. And this:

The internet will continue to mature; grow and flourish over time; some reporters and some television will rejoin the real America and prosper while major newspapers such as the Washington Post will careen towards obsolescence and ultimate extinction unless they dramatically get with the program of true democracy and serious standards of journalism.

In the meantime, the reason the so-called pundits and media elites are almost always wrong is they are so divorced from the real America and so embedded into their provincial elitism.

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And this blogger is more than a disgruntled supporter. Here's part of his bio:

Brent Budowsky served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit.

[nyc 4 Biden]

2. Excellent Article!

Thank you!

[liberalnurse]

3. The media only communicates so much....

mostly for the 49 other states. Each Candidate is responsible for reaching out to Iowans. Iowans don't depend on MSNBC for their information. Also, the Caucus style is a candidate catharsis in itself. No media there.

[jillan]

4. What is amazing to me is how C-Span gave the shaft to Biden and Dodd today.

unfuckingbelievable!

Didn't even play their ads that are running in Iowa.

[1corona4u]

5. Let them know you're pissed.

[Yuugal]

6. The only reason they covered Edwards

is because someone in Pakistan actually called him back. Usually the media ignores him too.

Biden had alot of relevant, insightful things to say. Richardson actually made news but they of course pretended they couldn't hear him. Thankfully we have the internets. Screw the M$M.