Progressive Media Bolstering Republican & FOX News Agenda

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Looks like Gibbs is not alone. Good.


Randy Shaw:


No wonder Americans are unaware of President Obama’s many accomplishments, or think that he, rather than President Bush, signed the unpopular bank bailout bill. With progressive media primarily focused on rebutting conservative “news,” little time is left to promote stories that build support for progressive policies.

President Obama’s daily actions are covered, as are Congressional hearings and the enactment of progressive laws. But these stories do not echo through the media, unlike the phony “news” invented and recirculated endlessly by FOX.

And, unlike progressive media, FOX and right-wing radio feel no obligation to cover stories that boost their opponents. The right-wing media avoids news that does not serve their cause, which limits stories from echoing through the broader public.

That’s why so few Americans know about the Ensign, Vitter and other Republican political scandals, but everyone knows about Charles Rangel’s problems. And why many are unaware of the jobs created and preserved by the Obama stimulus, or about the many positive actions Obama officials at the EPA have taken to improve the environment.

Many noted how the media never connected former President Bush to the Exxon Valdez spill, but directly associated Obama with BP’s reckless conduct. That’s because FOX News and others made Obama the issue from the start, and traditional media either parroted this line or joined progressives in noting that the Bush Administration imposed lax oil drilling regulations; either way, FOX’s framing of Obama as a central figure in the spill prevailed.



More truth:

http://www.laprogressive.com/the-media/progressive-media/

[Chulanowa]

1. Well duh?

Water-boys for the right wing, is all.

[Jim Sagle]

2. U rah rah, sis boom bah.

:boring:

[Phx_Dem]

3. No shit. The progressives will really have something to bitch about

when/if Republicans take control. Especially in the Senate where they control the Supreme Court nominee process.

All they've done for two years is piss and moan and make the President look weak even though he has accomplished so many good and big things.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. SPOT ON!!! n/t

[Ramulux]

5. It depends on the outlet

I think some people in the progressive community take it a little too far but there are also so many DLC mouthpieces preaching a type of liberalism many of us are uncomfortable with that I feel it is necessary to offer up some real progressive ideas in the media.

However, at this time the entire progressive community needs to unite and go on the offense big time. We need to lay off the Obama bashing for the next 2 months and focus on the republicans. If all of us put all our efforts on taking them down and making sure media outlets are aware of how insane they are, the dems will benefit from it.

[Pirate Smile]

6. If people think it is ugly around here now, it is nothing like how bad it will be if Republicans

win back control. The Democrats & Progressive Media who spend all their time bitching and moaning about Obama & the Democrats in Congress are going to see a lot of the anger aimed squarely back at them.

[EFerrari]

8. But why would anyone be so angry with the insignificant fringe?

Seriously, you seem to want it all ways.

[Pirate Smile]

10. It is just as easy for me to see you as wanting to have it all ways.

[EFerrari]

7. Wait -- is he saying the progressive media isn't an echo chamber like Fox?

LOL

[brentspeak]

9. Incorrect. More and more of the American public is becoming aware of Obama's selling-out

to the insurance companies, Wall Street thieves, and the defense contracting business.

The average American citizen, who's been waiting and waiting for change FROM corporate/DC bondage, ARE becoming aware of Obama's "accomplishments" -- accomplishments on behalf of the ruling elite.

[scheming daemons]

11. He's right... the media on the left is killing this country