How Conservatives Can Combat Lib Media: Talent and Optics

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:19 AM EST

Article Source: newsbusters.org

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The two stars of the recent election were Barack Obama and "mainstream media" bias. In this media climate, the terms "Republican" and "conservative" have been relegated to epithet status.

My Democratic-leaning friends argue, fairly, I think, that if the media are so biased, why have Republican presidents sat in the Oval Office for nearly 20 of the last 28 years? The answer is that while the media always play a huge role in presidential elections and their aftermaths, they don't play the only role.

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energynet

Even Gingrich has dropped the tactic.

Wake up. The media is the powerbase and plays to emergent forces, or else your prescious Bush wouldn't have gotten his war in Iraq.

The media is not liberal, its corporate.

Until you figure out that they butter the bread and both sides, its just the same old dualistiic propaganda here.

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#1 - Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:19 PM EST

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ShaunV

Actually, I think that is accurate.

If you have followed my comments you would have noticed that I am predicting the the Media will soon turn on Obama, when profitable.

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#1.1 - Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:56 PM EST

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energynet

I suggest that you use the word corporate media, which takes the partisan zing down a notch or two.

When I saw the recent story that claimed that the media covered the political race at 7th grade reading level this more than explained one of the major problems in this country of how people are being manipulated by the corporate media.

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