> Death of Dean
> The awesome destructive power of corporate media
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> Part I of II
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> >From The Black Commentator
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> Howard Dean has joined the list of victims of U.S. corporate media
> consolidation. Dean shares this distinction with Dennis Kucinich and the
> people of the formerly sovereign state of Iraq, among many others.
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> Dean was stripped of half his popular support in the space of two weeks in
> January while John Kerry - tied in the polls with Carol Moseley-Braun at
> seven percent just two months earlier - rose like a genie from a bottle to
> become the overnight presidential frontrunner.
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> Neither Dean nor Kerry had done anything on their own that could have so
> dramatically altered the race. Corporate America decided that Dean must be
> savaged, and its media sector made it happen.
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> This commentary, however, is not about the merits of Howard Dean. If a
> mildly progressive, Internet-driven, young white middle class-centered,
> movement-like campaign such as Dean's can be derailed in a matter of weeks
> at the whim of corporate media, then all of us are in deep trouble.
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> Full:
> www.blackcommentator.com
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