We hear and read a lot of whimper and whine from Republicans about media bias favoring Obama and the Democrats. I don’t find much good analysis of the subject, so here is mine. We can well expect divided orientation (1) among media organizations and (2) between organization’s management and working personnel. Everyone knows certain entertainment and news corporations favor corporate people and mega-wealth.
But, is it not equally obvious that their working reporters, copy-writers and journalists are not only employees subject to pressure and influence from employers’ interests but people who tend to identify more today with what’s being called “The 99%” than with the tiny minority of ultra-rich who amount to way less than 1%? That, in addition, these employees tend to be well-educated, adept with language and thought, able to discern facts behind screens of rhetoric such as twisted framing by phrase-manipulators like Rove and a host of other full-time fulminators, some of whom live in sold-out “dinky-hat tanks” staffed either with True Believers or those who can hang half their ability each day next to a time-clock and consort with similarly squint-minded, blind-sided folks like Thomas Sowell? Mona Charen? Michael Barone? And others who smash up the entire picture of the world and select scraps for building up Potemkin Villages?–word-shack facsimilies to house weak-minded readers?
We can be sure such writers are hauling their sails close to the wind of personal finance and that of well-off families and circles of investor friends. We can be equally sure that those writers Republicans hate most are ones who identify with the hopes, needs and wishes of the vast majority of American people, not only of the United States but of all the Americas, and who take a critical view of encroaching corporatism and the virtually fascist globalists and neoconservatives who have been working to subvert democracy by means of disempowering the public. If they can confuse enough people’s minds about important issues, they have a chance to win. Divide us, scare us, misinform us. Turn us against ourselves. Sow distrust and uncertainty. These are the GOP’s methods.
I have written many times that Republicans are intrinsically a minority party that cannot win an election honestly outside a gerrymandered and stacked district. I expect now to be flayed by opponents who know every statement made here is true, but who must have reality, including science, be other than it is. Oh, well.
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