Our
View: Media from the right
We
hear it all of the time. The leftist media
are always at the throat of the real American,
shoving it's twisted lies and negative coverage
of all the great things Bush is doing down
their gullets.
This
is a popular scenario with all the GOP and
pals, but sometimes you really have to wonder.
If most corporations are favored by Republican-style
lawmaking, then why wouldn't the media conglomerates,
who are prone to merging, love those lawmakers
and the corporations where they sit on the
board who then advertise with the media.
This conclusion could be drawn easily from
the fact that the media is a business, and
therefore are favored by pro-business policies.
This could also seem apparent by the recent
cancellation of a CBS miniseries that depicted
President Ronald Reagan in a less-than-perfect
way. Not that anyone was planning on having
him canonized after he's gone, of course.
But
when you look a little closer, why should
a television network, usually consumed by
profit, spend a whole lot of money to promote
a miniseries that they were supposedly going
to pull the whole time? Who is CBS trying
to kid?
This
$10 million miniseries, not counting the
advertising, was canned quick once the GOP
started applying a little pressure. Persuasion
through the almighty dollar is the way of
the corporate world, and since we know that
all politicians are also businessmen they
probably knew right where to hit the network
to get the proper reply. Although CBS denounces
this as untrue, you should never believe
that darn liberal media.
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