McTosh

[realthog]

 
Anyone who thinks they know anything about US politics based on the coverage given by the US mainstream media should urgently read this article. Jamison Foser is always excellent in his media analysis, and nowhere more so than here.

One campaign is talking bilgewater (e.g., and from a long long list, Iran is accused of aiding Sunnis), and much of the mainstream media is basically stenographing this crap. The other campaign is trying to make this a proper debate about the future the US -- and the world -- should have. The first campaign is whingeing about unfair media treatment, despite the facts on the ground. The second is saying little on the subject.

See? I'm not biased. I'm not saying which campaign is which.
 

Comments

[louismaistros.livejournal.com]

I just love that McCain is bitching that he's not being covered as much as Obama. Why would he be?

Allow me to sum up the difference between the two, from an "entertainment-based news media" perspective.

Obama is a dazzling, young, engergetic anomaly in the political world, who sincerely wants to fix this mess we (and the world) are in, and who even seems miraculously able to do so, all the while mobilizing support from all walks of life, even those who have never agreed on anything before.

McCain is an old brown shoe dipped in blood.

Which story would you prefer to cover?

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

McCain went campaigning in Colombia ... the press covered it.

Why is it wrong for Obama to go to the Middle East and Europe ... and have the press cover it?

That's pretty even, if you ask me.

Besides, all those fundraisers Cindy McCain has held in London for the McCain campaign, what about those?

Whingers and whiners and big old babies these rethuggers.

Yeah, the NYTimes can't even remember there's a City Named New Orleans. Well, that's what the rest of Louisiana wants -- for the city of New Orleans to go away forever. Then their statecan be all rethugs and stuffs, and they won't ever have to consider those pesky poc and bohos and dems.

Love, C.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

BTW, Realthog, is McTosh a Scots relative of Peter Tosh?