Good article, veronica!
The media is a real problem. Reagan was also faced with a hostile media (who seem now to have forgotten how much they hated and ridiculed him and even his wife).
But he may have had better people helping him confront the media, his acting experience and background with the entertainment industry probably helped him, and things were nowhere near as vicious. There was no Michael Moore out there passing off blatant lies and calumny as truth - and winning awards for doing so.
On the positive side, there is the Internet, where at least some of the truth can get out.
But you're both right, it still doesn't seem as if Bush has found away around the media blockades to really get out to the American people. He needs better advisers, I think.
He just needs to stay on task. Take the war into Syria and Iran before the election and he'll have plenty of opportunity to get the message to the American people.....
Yes, the media is back to their regular tactics this week after the Reagan funeral. CBS radio news spent the 1st 2 minutes of their 8am broadcast talking about all the bad things going on in Iraq and the prison scandal. The MSM has been bad, but this year is the worst. Witness recent example article about how the bombing at the beginning of the Iraq war didn't get many of the intended high value targets. Of course the fact that now we DO have about 90% of them makes no difference. I can understand that maybe this article is worthy of publication. But on the front page or many new papers? It is going to be an up hill battle against the MSM.