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

["Robert Naiman" <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't think the right-wing pull of the US media has an
influence, have a bunch of conversations with left-liberal Americans
who don't follow world affairs closely about Venezuela. Many of them
think Chavez is a dictator. When you explain to them what Chavez is
actually doing, they're for it. You can thank the Washington Post and
its brethren for that.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert Naiman writes:
>> ... 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?
>
> in (partial) defense of the WaPo editorialists, they see their job as
> being to disagree with the majority, to inform & educate. In defense
> of thye vast majority of Americans but not the majority of Congress,
> they don't read WaPo editorials. I'd guess that almost no-one reads
> newspaper editorials at all.
> --
> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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