Thursday, June 4, 2009

Quote of the Day

"For all the talk of a media love affair with Obama, there is a deep and largely unconscious conservative bias in the media's discussion of policy. The range of acceptable opinion runs from the moderate left to the far right and cuts off more vigorous progressive perspectives." -- E.J. Dionne in today's WaPo. You don't have to watch the Fuxed News Channel to see this; just watch CNN or any of the major networks, especially the Sunday talk shows. The far right has peppered the mainstream media with extreme voices that often go without a vigorous challenge.

1 comment:

Brian said...

E.J., that's because in teevee land, shoutfests mean ratings! If they start talking about actual issues we'll just flip to Montel!