tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7665037471991850080..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-15105003228586821192014-11-07T00:01:15.723-05:002014-11-07T00:01:15.723-05:00I pretty much agree with D. Hussein. I don't h...I pretty much agree with D. Hussein. I don't have numbers to back up my feeling, but the press seems to have developed a stronger anti-liberal bias over the years of media consolidation. Out of my imperfect memory, in 1978 there were 23 major media companies. In 1990 there were 16. In 2000 there were 9. Today? These numbers may be inexact, I'd have to look in Manufacturing Consent to get the exact years and numbers, but the trend is there. Each of those 9 or 6 media companies is subject to the control of two or three people. Well, within each company there are probably two or three hundred people who think they are decision makers, but they consciously or unconsciously defer to the owners. Heck, if you watch the video Manufacturing Consent they don't even think they do that, it's that insidious.Procopiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554355440319405363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6542415281106191292014-11-04T19:32:16.161-05:002014-11-04T19:32:16.161-05:00Steve, I totally disagree that the press ever boug...Steve, I totally disagree that the press ever bought into an anti-Republican narrative during the Bush years. Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, and Howard Dean influenced the media narrative? Seriously? It was just that the anti-GOP sentiment was so strong at the time because of Bush's massive fuck-ups that the press couldn't do anything to stop it.<br /><br />That being said, you're still right: Democrats are incredibly bad at messaging, with rare exceptions like Elizabeth Warren.D. Husseinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765325311355038313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-39156627408363641212014-11-04T09:45:03.460-05:002014-11-04T09:45:03.460-05:00Democrats "message." It's just that...Democrats "message." It's just that the loudest voices "messaging" are those that say, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, just because I'm a member of the Democratic Party, that doesn't mean I'm like our extremist redistributionist President." And that's going to keep happening until and unless someone runs a successful political campaign in a "red state" that sounds themes of economic justice and interracial solidarity, rather than the template the (D) consultant class knows well: work across the aisle, protect old people's medicine, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13526595705937179532014-11-04T08:52:43.774-05:002014-11-04T08:52:43.774-05:00Why don't Democrats ever learn to 'message...Why don't Democrats ever learn to 'message?'<br /><br />Is it because they mis-read Americans, and think we're logical, and will vote in our own best interests?<br /><br />We've seen 4o+ years when the population goes into mass hysteria over something - drugs, crime, immigrants, diseases, etc - and vote against their own best interests.<br /><br />And we'll likely see that again today - though, I hope against hope that the Democrats hold onto the Senate.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com