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To: StopThePress
The "media is owned by corporations" slant is a pathetic dodge they've trotted out for years. This is the chant of the Radio Pacifica/Crystic Institute/Nation/FAIR/ultra-leftist whacko wing of the left which thinks that corporate ownership in itself is proof of a conservative conspiracy.

This is the side that thinks the media isn't slanted left enough. Why is it, they would argue, that they aren't reporting that Bush sabotaged Wellstone's plane? Why is it, they would argue, that they aren't reporting Bush's desire for Iraq's vast oil fields and how it will all be handed over to Cheney's Halliburton buddies if they overthrow Saddam? Why is it, they would argue, that they don't report Bush's welcome of 9-11 attacks as a way to gin up support for a war in the Middle East?

In other words, if the news isn't farther left than even NPR will go, then it's part of the corporate conservative conspiracy and the proof is that NBC, the New York Times, CNN, ABC et al are owed by *corporations*. What more proof do they need!!!

These are the same idiots who would claim that the media is slanted to the right because there's no liberal Rush Limbaugh. That's why he wants Limbaugh muted - it's because they can't compete with him.

29 posted on 02/12/2003 8:46:50 AM PST by Tall_Texan (Where liberals lead, misery follows.)
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To: Tall_Texan
The "media is owned by corporations" slant is a pathetic dodge they've trotted out for years.

Actually, it's true; unfortunately, leftists manage to conceal their dirty little secret: the party of big business and the super-rich is the DEMOCRATS. Both of those groups recognize that entepreneurs represent competition and therefore must be crushed.

55 posted on 02/15/2003 5:48:42 PM PST by supercat (TAG--you're it!)
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