[lbo-talk] GOP views on stimulus given twice as much airtime as supporters'

[Alan Rudy]

This was exactly my experience listening to NPR this afternoon...
interrupted the mainstream liberal academic and let the ex-White House
"advisor" interrupt and rant w/o challenge w/r/t Obama's interview and then
pretty much only quoted Repub and had more anti-bill soundbites than actual
specifics about the bill...

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:


> http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/cable-news-stimulus/
>
> REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus
> Debate On Cable News»
>
> As Media Matters has documented, during the Bush administration, the media
> consistently allowed conservatives to dominate their shows, booking them as
> guests far more often than progressives. The rationale was that Republicans
> were "in power."
>
> It appears that old habits die hard. Even though President Obama and his
> team are in control of the executive branch and Democrats are in the
> majority in Congress, the cable networks are still turning more often to
> Republicans and allowing them to set the agenda on major issues, most
> recently on the debate over the economic recovery package.
>
> [...]
>
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