--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> > Death of Dean
> > The awesome destructive power of corporate media
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, of course, I agree that the corporate media is
> awesome and destructive, but the Black Commentator
> statement implies that the media was in this case
> politically motivated to bring about the debacle of
> Dean. Up until a few weeks before Iowa he was all
> over the media and in a positive light; it seemed to
> be the Iowa Caucus that brought him down and THEN
> his "I have a scream" speech which provided the
> material for
> a media event. The media focused on that for a
> week,
> because it had nothing better to do.
> In other words, I agree that the media had something
> to do with the debacle of Howard Dean but it seems
> like it came about more because Dean gave them a
> spectacle than because they had a political axe to
> grind.
>
> Maybe you only extracted part of the article and
> there
> was better substantiation for this claim.
>
> -Thomas
>
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