{"id":14242,"date":"2012-06-12T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2012-06-12T07:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:24:28","slug":"welcome-to-alice-in-wonderlands-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14242","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Alice In Wonderland’s America"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Podhoretz<\/a> posted an article yesterday at the New York Post<\/a>\u00a0contrasting the press coverage of the Obama Administration with the press coverage of the Bush Administration<\/a>. He cites specific instances of how similar stories were covered and how many stories were written about similar incidents. I admit–I assume bias on the part of the press, but to see the details listed was amazing to me.<\/p>\n

The article reminds us:<\/p>\n

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To take just one example: Scooter Libby<\/a> was accused, though not charged or convicted, of revealing the name of a covert CIA operative, thus potentially endangering her life. In the case of \u201cFast and Furious,\u201d a federal agent was in fact murdered by a gun that was effectively sold to a Mexican cartel by the Justice Department<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thing that always amazed me about the ‘covert CIA operative’ was that she drove to CIA headquarters every day. Didn’t anyone ever think that if anyone wanted to find out what she did for a living all they had to do was follow her to work?<\/p>\n

The article reminds us:<\/p>\n

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But the issue isn\u2019t whether the Times or any other media organization has done some<\/em> stories. What was present during the Bush years scandals but isn\u2019t in the Obama years is \u201cthe drumbeat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The drumbeat happens when a story reaches critical mass in all media sectors. The New York Times and The Washington Post assign reporters to focus on it full-time. Their stories appear daily, often on the front page or in prominent locations on their Web sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The questions raised by those stories dominate the White House press briefing at midday. The answers at the press briefing, combined with new details, are the focus of NPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d and the network-news programs. The reports here are strengthened by reaction from Congress members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All that, in turn, provide the Times and the Post with more stories, and the hearings they set up and the political machinations that follow create more stories in affiliated media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

None of this is managed, manipulated or directed communally. It\u2019s organic, the way the media business works.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Except it really hasn\u2019t worked this way with coverage of the Obama campaign in 2008 or the Obama administration in the years since.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome<\/a>). Generally speaking, the press would have had their toenails pulled out rather than say anything nice about George Bush or the people around him. I didn’t necessarily agree with everything George Bush did, but I believe he was a good man who loved America. The press treated him very shabbily. It is my hope that if Mitt Romney is elected, the press will do its job, but not set out to destroy his administration as they have attempted to do with Republican administrations in the past.<\/p>\n

Finally, I should thank the major media for their bias–it has created a demand for alternative media, of which I am a part. Thank you, you have made a little old retired lady feel useful!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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