A major reason the press does that is that they have been so intimidated by years of right wing attacks that journalists are desperate to prove they are not biased against conservative.
I donтАЩt thing the public realizes just how effective attacks by the right wing media and leaders really are. I was struck by just how powerful they are when I recently heard Andrew Weissmann say that the investigators on the Mueller investigation team were intimidated by those kinds of attacks. If that can influence men who have spent their lives going after mobsters and terrorists, imagine how easy it is to intimidate journalists.
I recently read in the book Reaganland by Rick Perlstein that Reed Irvine, the founder of the right wing Accuracy in Media organization, bought shares in the NYTimes so he could show up at their board meetings and harass them. This affected the publisher Arthur Sulzberger so much that he started having one-on-one meetings with the odious Irvine and even made some concessions to him. The TimesтАЩs executive editor Max Frankel was so angry he said would be ashamed to pass muster with those nitwits тАФ to SulzbergerтАЩs face.
He gets big $$$ to do what his backers want him to do. Those backers also have their fingers in a lot of other places including lowdown media.. A good deal of media people, especially new people who haven't planted their feet yet, are told what they can and cannot cover. I am pretty sure, R. Maddow has made it clear in her contracts, she doesn't play that game. She reports what she wants to report and no crap from the bosses. The same for the folks over on FSTV. They want the truth, not the corporate nonsense equivalent
I noticed the finger pointing heading the wrong way.. Do think there is any chance that Garland could get a shot at SCOTUS, again, or has his day come and gone :(
Press gave McConnell a pass on Garland, actually often framed it as Obama picking fight w/ Senate!
Why does he continue to get this pass. Why is the pliant press lapping up the republican talking points?
A major reason the press does that is that they have been so intimidated by years of right wing attacks that journalists are desperate to prove they are not biased against conservative.
I donтАЩt thing the public realizes just how effective attacks by the right wing media and leaders really are. I was struck by just how powerful they are when I recently heard Andrew Weissmann say that the investigators on the Mueller investigation team were intimidated by those kinds of attacks. If that can influence men who have spent their lives going after mobsters and terrorists, imagine how easy it is to intimidate journalists.
I recently read in the book Reaganland by Rick Perlstein that Reed Irvine, the founder of the right wing Accuracy in Media organization, bought shares in the NYTimes so he could show up at their board meetings and harass them. This affected the publisher Arthur Sulzberger so much that he started having one-on-one meetings with the odious Irvine and even made some concessions to him. The TimesтАЩs executive editor Max Frankel was so angry he said would be ashamed to pass muster with those nitwits тАФ to SulzbergerтАЩs face.
He gets big $$$ to do what his backers want him to do. Those backers also have their fingers in a lot of other places including lowdown media.. A good deal of media people, especially new people who haven't planted their feet yet, are told what they can and cannot cover. I am pretty sure, R. Maddow has made it clear in her contracts, she doesn't play that game. She reports what she wants to report and no crap from the bosses. The same for the folks over on FSTV. They want the truth, not the corporate nonsense equivalent
I noticed the finger pointing heading the wrong way.. Do think there is any chance that Garland could get a shot at SCOTUS, again, or has his day come and gone :(