To: thesummerwind
"Yes, freepers and some others know, but I'd estimate at least 90% of American voters don't know the details that you know.
You see, you're well aware of what we all know about the Clintons. But those really ugly details that can sway votes are lost on most Americans because of the mainstream media cover."
You are absolutely correct- the media, both press & entertainment divisions, shamelessly promoted the Clintons rise to power, and studiously "spun" the public's attention away from the scandals time and again.
Mona Charen once noted that "TV announces the importance of things"-- if the public doesn't hear about a given story, repeatedly, on TV and in the headlines, for days & days, they do not think it is worthy of attention.
Most people are too busy with the chores of everyday living to care unless they are repeatedly whacked over the head by a subject again and again.
Reed Irvine at Accuracy in Media observed years ago the "if the mainstream press does not like a story, they simply do not talk about it." Think back over events of the nineteen-nineties, which I have dubbed "The Decade of Fraud(s)" and think about all the stories that were ignored, spun, or dismissed with "we already covered that and nobody is interested..."
694 posted on
12/07/2003 2:52:55 PM PST by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
Amen!......just move on...........
699 posted on
12/07/2003 3:12:59 PM PST by
thesummerwind
(like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by)
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