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Eric Alterman - author of What Liberal Media? - appeared at a workshop called “Reversing the Right’s Hold on the Media” on the final day of the three-day “Take Back America” conference sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future, which states as its goal pushing the Democratic party to the left.
Alterman said the dominance of conservatives in the media is now so powerful that “it’s a steamroller rolling over what is left of what we (liberals) believe and what we have worked for.”
Alterman also credited organized and well-financed conservative organizations that mobilize the media when they feel their message is not being heard.
“Every time [conservatives] read anything they don’t like, they are on the case of the media, they are working the reps, and they are saying, ‘How dare you say that all homosexuals aren’t going to hell?’”
A clearly frustrated Alterman told the audience that liberals “don’t lack for sound facts; we really just lack the capacity to get the facts out there.”
Alterman credited conservative philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife for successfully pioneering the conservatives’ takeover of the media in America.
No liberal media? I gotta say some of these people write better material than most stand-up comedians.
Even though I can look at this ignorance through my conservative eyes and see it as pure propaganda and can name CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NYT and others as pure liberal media machines - - it’s sad there are some who will take this guys words as gospel and believe there is no liberal media.
No liberal media? Hardly!
June 10, 2003 - 12:29 PM on June 10th, 2003
What he should be saying is that the liberal media is huge but increasingly irrelevant. Their bias worldview has become increasingly obvious since 9/11 and folks are tuning in to talk radio and Fox to hear alternative views. This drives them nuts.
June 10, 2003 - 02:05 PM on June 10th, 2003
I want to know one thing, how can we believe someone in that industry saying that the right has a hold on the industry?
If that is true that would mean they are losing control… hmmm…
maybe they do have a point there.
I only see a few stations that have a right slant, but the majority of them are so far out in left field you have to have a pair of binoculars to see them make a play.
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“don’t lack for sound facts; we really just lack the capacity to get the facts out there.”
—this is such bull, they have CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC… I could go on and on… they are just running scared because people are actually seeing through their lies and going other places for the real truth… look what happened at the Times, the only difference is the Times got caught. let’s investigate them all, bethcha there won’t be too many differences after that… Ha Ha…
June 10, 2003 - 02:41 PM on June 10th, 2003
See Pejman Yousefzadeh’s rebuttal of this excreable book at:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-050203E
Free Cam!
June 11, 2003 - 02:55 AM on June 11th, 2003
See Alterman.
See Alterman cry.
Cry, Alterman, cry.
See the US public ignore you.
Doesn’t having the right to choose suck?
Goodlink, Alf.
Cry, Alterman, cry.
ROFLMAO.