Hey if advertising did not work do you think they would use it. Remarkable confluence between Fox's Iraq = Bin and their viewer's belief it was so. Mind you not all, but enough to get the JOB done.
Travis
> What I particularly like is the assumption that people
> are total idiots incapaple of making up their minds
> for themselves and utter pwns od the media. jks
>
>
> --- 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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