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> Paula Drennan wrote:
>
>> asalamualaikum, Thank you for your defense of Islam.
>> Every day i go out I have to face the stares and
>> cruel words of people who don't understand that
>> muslims are not all like al-qaeda, we are not all
>> hell bent on misusing the word of Allah to
>> rationalize hatred.
Quoted message said:> I would observe that there is little condemnation and
> less action in the Islamic community against the
> fundamentalists and their acts.
Quoted message said:How could one know? The media in this country is
single minded and domestically focused.
This is simply a silly thing to say. Single-minded...?
As though there's some sort of conspiracy to only
present one unified vision across all media. I'm part of
the media and I've never been told what to say or not
say, what to write or not write.
I didn't say it was a conspiracy. It just happens that all
media covers
the
Quoted message said:same stories with about the same perspective. Limbaugh,
Fox News, CNN,
and
Quoted message said:so on all cover the same stories. There are subtle
difference, to be
sure.
Quoted message said:Mostly, news outlets report what the government tells
them. There doesn't seem to be much questioning going on.
I think that accounts for a lot of the similarities. Bush
says he is a compassionate conservative. That's
how
Quoted message said:he is known in the media. Bush goes to the ranch and cuts
brush. The
media
Quoted message said:reports that he is on "the ranch." It is never disclosed
that the "ranch" is a luxury home without any livestock
or crops. The administration is notorious for
threatening loss of "access" for anyone who reports
unflattering stories. So I believe that no one tells you
what to report.
I
Quoted message said:also know that few reporters have the power to decide what
to publish. While we were involved in two wars, one of
which was prosecuted based on false allegations, virtually
every media outlet spend endless hours on the Ben and
JayLo story. Now all we hear is the Laci Peterson story.
In my opinion there is something wrong with that picture.
I would rather think
it
Quoted message said:was a conspiracy because the alternative is more grim. It
means that the media is incompetent. Of course, conspiracy
theorist could point to what happened to the Dixie Chick
when they spoke out. One of the largest media outlets
(radio, TV stations, billboards, transit advertising,
concerts,
show
Quoted message said:prep service) yanked them from the play list. Then after
Howard Stern started to criticize Bush, the same thing
happed to him.
But on the conservative side there is sometimes a shrill
Doktor Laura Schlessinger who gets her just desserts. Her
show's rating are declining (she's not even heard in major
markets like NYC and Chicago), her teevee show was a flop,
and her books are a flash in the pan...oh and there was that
juicy contretemps a few years ago about those newdie lewdie
pix that a former paramour distributed to the press ;-)
And in Illinois the GOP candidate for US Senate had to drop
out of the race
such...in the vein of Newt and Henry Hyde The Humbug when
they were going after Clinton a few years back....
The praise - fest for Ronnie Reagan was pretty revolting,
but much of it was done by older news media figures who were
recalling their Glory Daze in the White House Press
Pool...it's probably the last chance for many of them to
parade around their inflated self - importance before they
slide into sheer oblivion...I mean who is going to remember
Sam Donaldson in ten years' time? Besides which the vulgar
spectacle had been choreographed down to the last tear and
wet hanky years ago. TV ratings for it were fairly low -
surprisingly so. Most people have enough sense to watch an
Esther Williams and Tom & Jerry musical or the most recent
episode of _Law & Order_ if they want to be entertained.
Heck, the hoopla about the last episode of _Friends_ dwarfed
the Reagan funeral media circus in real life. Nobody had
popcorn parties to watch Ronnie's funeral....
People are just not real happy with Bush - even my
Republican friends want him turned out of office. Most
intelligent folks don't parrot what the media is saying
about the "booming" economy and our "mission" in Iraq. They
*do* know that it's hard to find a decent job and that gas
and milk are expensive and that somebody they know (maybe
even a loved one) has been away in Iraq attending to our
little "police action" for far too long a time...or maybe
even one of their loved ones has been killed or injured.
Except for a zealous few, most folks don't consider Rush and
the rest of the right - wing media zombies anything but
entertainers....
I wonder if Kerry will turn the tables on the repugs and
utter that famous Reagan phrase, "Are you better off now
than you were four years ago?" this fall? He *has* to be
straining at the bit to say it....
--
Best Greg
