[Marxism] Palin has nothing to fear from the big bad "liberal" media

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_Glenn  Greenwald_ (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/) 

 
Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 19:17 EDT - salon.com -
The mighty, scary press corps 
 
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Of course Carney is right in theory that anyone running for Vice President  
ought to submit to questioning from the media. But the idea that her doing so  
will be some great blow against propaganda is wrong for numerous reasons. Who  
are these great, aggressive journalists who are going to question her in a  
meaningfully adversarial way in order to expose the falsehoods behind the image 
 that is being created around her?  
When they decide in a couple of weeks that Palin is ready to do so, she'll go 
 and sit down with Brit Hume or Larry King or Charlie Gibson or some other  
pleasant, accommodating person who plays a journalist on TV and have a nice,  
amiable, entertaining chat about topics that are easily anticipated. Having 
been  preceded by all sorts of campaign drama about her first interview and the 
 
excitement that she's not up to the task, her TV appearance will be widely  
touted, score big ratings, and will be nice entertainment for the network that  
presents it. It will achieve many things. Undermining propaganda isn't one of  
them.  
This idea that she's some sort of fragile, know-nothing amateur who is going  
to quiver and collapse when subjected to the rough and tumble world of 
American  journalism is painfully ludicrous, given that -- as the Canonization 
of 
the _endlessly malleable Tim Russert_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/20/abramowitz/)  demonstrated 
-- that  imagery is a fantasy journalists 
maintain about themselves but it hardly exists.  The standard journalistic 
model of "balance" means that the TV journalist asks a  few questions, lets the 
interviewee answer, and then moves on without commenting  on or pointing out 
false claims, i.e., without exposing propaganda (Carney can  check his own 
magazine to see how that sad, propaganda-boosting process  works -- _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/27/the_correction/) , _here_ 
(http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/time-correction.html) , and _here_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/28/new_correction/) ). Few 
things are 
easier than submitting to those  sorts of televised rituals. Carney is exactly 
wrong. Propaganda thrives --  predominates -- in our democracy for many 
reasons, the principal reason being  that we don't have the sort of journalist 
class 
devoted to exposing it. Anyone  who wants to contest that should examine the 
empirical data above, or more  convincingly, just look at what the Bush 
administration has easily gotten away  with over the last eight years -- the 
systematic deceit, the radicalism, the  corruption, the crimes.  
The ideological extremism and _growing ethical_ 
(http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/palin.investigation/index.html)  
_questions_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/03/halperin/index.html)  that 
define Sarah Palin -- 
and especially the  discredited, rejected core beliefs of John McCain -- means 
that the McCain  campaign should have much to worry about in this election. 
Having Sarah Palin  face the mighty, scary American press corps certainly isn't 
one of them. That's  just a melodramatic distraction, one that will redound 
to the GOP's benefit.  Palin will "face" our media soon enough, and it will 
probably be the easiest  thing she'll have to do between now and November. 
full article - 

<_http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/06/carney/index.html_ 
(http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/06/carney/index.html) > 







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