Re: [Pen-l] estimating the economic value of the right-wing pull of corporate media...

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Could one (crudely) estimate an economic value to the right-wing pull
> of major media? In other words, with what deficit does a Democratic
> Presidential candidate begin, if the candidate runs even slightly to
> the left of the political line of the Washington Post, which trashes
> Obama for supporting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, even though
> this is the position of the majority of Americans and Iraqis, the
> majority of Congress, the majority of Iraqi parliamentarians?

This assumes that Obama is under siege from the ruling class's media, 
as if he were Hugo Chavez. I would say that there is virtually no 
difference between the mindset of Barack Obama and the Graham family 
that owns the Washington Post. They all want to make sure that 
American imperialism succeeds in its mission to control the Middle East.


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