Comments on: The Media Conscience of a Liberal http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/ Rory O'Connor's blog Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Jay Diamond http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66638 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:31:03 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66638 Any discussion of the "media", in the context of disseminating right-wing mythology (LYING) has to put Low-Brow, Right-Wing Talk Radio at the very top of the list. Sean Hannity, Curtis Sliwa, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, the goddamn bunch of 'em are a slimy snakepit of of miserable lying venom. I mean Hannity is on there every day lying his ass. Millions more morons listen to talk radio and think it is the news. Hannity TELLS them at the beginning of the slime fest every day that it IS news. And yet, media bigs like Krugman simply refuse even to listen to this toxic filth. If a person is serous about ending the venal lies that corrupt our politics then it is the lowbrow, rightwing radio that must be relentlessly exposed. Any discussion of the “media”, in the context of disseminating right-wing mythology (LYING) has to put Low-Brow, Right-Wing Talk Radio at the very top of the list.

Sean Hannity, Curtis Sliwa, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, the goddamn bunch of ‘em are a slimy snakepit of of miserable lying venom.

I mean Hannity is on there every day lying his ass.

Millions more morons listen to talk radio and think it is the news. Hannity TELLS them at the beginning of the slime fest every day that it IS news.

And yet, media bigs like Krugman simply refuse even to listen to this toxic filth.

If a person is serous about ending the venal lies that corrupt our politics then it is the lowbrow, rightwing radio that must be relentlessly exposed.

]]> by: Marcia http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66612 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:29:06 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66612 Oops- ambiguity alert. The questions at the end of my last post were directed, of course, to Paul Krugman, not Paul Harrington! Oops- ambiguity alert. The questions at the end of my last post were directed, of course, to Paul Krugman, not Paul Harrington!

]]> by: Marcia http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66611 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:27:32 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66611 I get a strange feeling of displacement every time I hear a Fox devotee like Paul Harrington characterize ABC and CBS as the left-wing equivalents of Fox, or worse. I'm a public radio supporter to the tune of a grand a year, because it seems to me the last bastion in the US of something approaching a free press, but every year I wrestle with my conscience because I hear NPR broadcasting so many articles that seem to me like Bush administration apologism. Do we still have a free press, Paul? Or are folks like you simply selected by the machine to provide the illusion that we do? I get a strange feeling of displacement every time I hear a Fox devotee like Paul Harrington characterize ABC and CBS as the left-wing equivalents of Fox, or worse. I’m a public radio supporter to the tune of a grand a year, because it seems to me the last bastion in the US of something approaching a free press, but every year I wrestle with my conscience because I hear NPR broadcasting so many articles that seem to me like Bush administration apologism. Do we still have a free press, Paul? Or are folks like you simply selected by the machine to provide the illusion that we do?

]]> by: Rodger http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66560 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:25:03 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66560 I teach at a university. I discussed the science behind the conclusion that global warming is occurring. To placate any possible extreme right-wingers in the crowd, I said that the remaining debate is over how much of it is caused by humans and how much of it can be slowed by changes in human behavior. 99 out 100 students were interested. One student happened to be the daughter of a rich CEO. Her parents complained. I may lose my job over it. The 1% filthy rich in this country control not just the media but the scientific classroom as well. I teach at a university. I discussed the science behind the conclusion that global warming is occurring. To placate any possible extreme right-wingers in the crowd, I said that the remaining debate is over how much of it is caused by humans and how much of it can be slowed by changes in human behavior. 99 out 100 students were interested. One student happened to be the daughter of a rich CEO. Her parents complained. I may lose my job over it. The 1% filthy rich in this country control not just the media but the scientific classroom as well.

]]> by: Stephen Kriz http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66557 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:32:03 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2007/10/17/the-media-conscience-of-a-liberal/#comment-66557 Robert Parry has written extensively how the right-wing invested heavily in so-called "think tanks" and media outlets after Watergate and now have a well-oiled media machine that far surpasses anything the left has. That is why we had a steady parade of "mock scandals" during Bill Clinton's two terms and will likely have again when Hillary is elected president in 2008. That is also why serious criminal wrong-doing by presidents (not lying about their sex life) has not been properly investigated, like Iran-Contra, Iraqgate (the illegal arming of Saddam Hussein), the "October Surprise" in 1980 and the multitude of impeachable offenses committed by George W. Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney. Robert Parry has written extensively how the right-wing invested heavily in so-called “think tanks” and media outlets after Watergate and now have a well-oiled media machine that far surpasses anything the left has. That is why we had a steady parade of “mock scandals” during Bill Clinton’s two terms and will likely have again when Hillary is elected president in 2008. That is also why serious criminal wrong-doing by presidents (not lying about their sex life) has not been properly investigated, like Iran-Contra, Iraqgate (the illegal arming of Saddam Hussein), the “October Surprise” in 1980 and the multitude of impeachable offenses committed by George W. Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney.

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