Conservatives: Masters of the Media
source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/23/obama.race.message/index.html?hpt=C1
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The Obama Administration did just what it promised, and what we voted for; It passed major health care reform that provides insurance to those who had none, prevents insurance companies from dropping people when they become sick or reach a predetermined limit, extends coverage for children and protects those with pre-existing conditions. Yet all last summer the buzz was over 'death panels' and 'government takeover,' both of which were proven to be lies. (Politifact even called the so-called 'death panels' the lie of the year.)
Just this past week, President Obama signed the biggest financial reform since the New Deal into law in an effort to prevent the kind of economic meltdown we saw at the end on the Bush Administration. But because the conservative Fox News passionately reported a very misleading story on Shirley Sherrod, the week was spent talking about her and not financial reform. Bill O'Reilly later apologized to Sherrod as his reporting specifically, and Fox's in general grossly misrepresented the facts. Unfortunately the damage had been done. Sherrod lost her job and financial reform got buried on the third page.
Fox has proven you don't need to be accurate to get ratings. Conservative politicians have demonstrated you don't need to be accurate to have an impact. Thanks to the Supreme Courts ruling last year that gives corporations the ability to poor unlimited amounts of money into campaigns and political advertisements, it appears you will need to be rich to have a voice. (But you won't need to be accurate to have one.) Despite what they would have you believe, conservatives have mastered the media. Unfortunately for America, they haven't mastered being accurate.
Just this past week, President Obama signed the biggest financial reform since the New Deal into law in an effort to prevent the kind of economic meltdown we saw at the end on the Bush Administration. But because the conservative Fox News passionately reported a very misleading story on Shirley Sherrod, the week was spent talking about her and not financial reform. Bill O'Reilly later apologized to Sherrod as his reporting specifically, and Fox's in general grossly misrepresented the facts. Unfortunately the damage had been done. Sherrod lost her job and financial reform got buried on the third page.
Fox has proven you don't need to be accurate to get ratings. Conservative politicians have demonstrated you don't need to be accurate to have an impact. Thanks to the Supreme Courts ruling last year that gives corporations the ability to poor unlimited amounts of money into campaigns and political advertisements, it appears you will need to be rich to have a voice. (But you won't need to be accurate to have one.) Despite what they would have you believe, conservatives have mastered the media. Unfortunately for America, they haven't mastered being accurate.
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