A Media Meltdown?

FR could be fighting for its survival?

Oh yes. And other conservative websites as well.

Kerry, HIllary, and the horrific cabal that supports them HATE alternative media.

It exposes their warts, and they miss the comfortable, easy time all democrats have enjoyed in the past wherein the major networks on TV and the NYT and LAT gave ONLY the positive regarding democrats and MASSIVE amounts of negative about republicans. And when a democrat was in trouble...they NEVER named the party he or she was in when doing the report, if they could help doing so.

We already hillary wants a gatekeeper for the internet....which means probably horrendous TAXATION.

Kerry would find a way to get this done.

I do not think that is the case here in Massachusetts. The media around here has been largely consistent over the years. I think that it seems so however to many because the liberalsm epidemic has certainly spread. As far as I am concerned we can thank the teachers unions and certain media types.

Once, and only if, Bush is re-elected, we need to carefully study the lessons of the Swiftboat Vets - and forcefully and consistently drive home the concept of values to the American people.

Paranthetically, if Kerry is elected - I'm getting the hell outta here until the idiocy is proved to the numbskulls that put him in. It could be fatal to America - but best to take the lead of people who got out of Germany before Hitler "solved" everything. Anybody But Bush....and Anybody But the Weimar Republic. History is recursive.

But...we can't keep looking forward to the next election, compromising our values and logic itself to convince dipsh@t sentimentalist soccer clods to vote for the only thing that will keep the wolves from decimating their stupid asses. I'm getting tired of bending over backwards to appease those too stupid to look after their own best interests, just so we can win the NEXT election. Sometimes you gotta lay down the facts.

Seems to me that we are likely to see major media in this country split into two groups; the first will be various sorts of ideologically homogeneous semi-official representatives of the major political parties aimed at more and less sophisticated audiences (rather like the situations in much of Europe), the other will be sources that attempt adhere to "objective" journalistic practices.

This reflects the continuing breakdown of the center-right consensus that prevailed during the Cold War, and a return to the sorts of more polarized politics that's the norm in most places with reasonably free elections.

Candy Crowley said that he was going to take on the SwiftBoaters directly, and was going to emphasize what he did for them (trying to get POWs released, and legislation on Agent Orange)

That isn't going to get Kerry very far. First, no Swifties were POWs as far as I know and regarding the whole MIA-POW issue, Kerry has to face this story (from a left-wing author and published by the Village Voice):

When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.

Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind — Senator Kerry may have been courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War, but, alleges Sydney H. Schanberg, he was not so brave more than two decades later, when he covered up evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed.

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