A symbiotic dream world
Political ·Monday May 4, 2009 @ 00:09 EDT (link)
A thought came to me while watching Glenn Beck's Tea Parties: Media Lies Exposed show (link goes to first of five): the liberal media provides the service to liberals of perpetuating their dream world. In this dream world, they are the brave victims, conservatives are racists, conservative protests are bankrolled by Fox News, and more government is the solution to everything. It's symbiotic: the liberal media gives watchers a cozy reassuring fantasy world and keeps out unkind reality, and they watch it and raise its ratings and advertising revenues.
(It's possible that the conservative minority—some shows on Fox (forget talk radio, it's opinion and doesn't pretend to be news)—is guilty of the same thing, but if so, it's far less obvious, and less heinous coming from a minority of sources or a single source; and I'm also pointing out a particular case here where the attack machine either tried to ignore an event that would be noteworthy to an unbiased observer, or ground into full smear mode.)
Ack. I hate silly disclaimers.
