Comments on: Getting Real http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » New Media, New Politics http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15892 Tue, 30 May 2006 12:54:50 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15892 [...] Certainly much of media does little more than act as a conduit for right-wing propaganda. The reasons for this are complex. Many media personalities (passing as journalists) are ideologues pushing their dogma with an evangelical zeal. But others of them are, I suspect, unconscious of the role they play in the noise machine. Matt Bai comes to mind. He seems sincerely oblivious to the power of mass media politics even though he is immersed in mass media politics. (Which may be the problem; does a fish perceive water?) [...] […] Certainly much of media does little more than act as a conduit for right-wing propaganda. The reasons for this are complex. Many media personalities (passing as journalists) are ideologues pushing their dogma with an evangelical zeal. But others of them are, I suspect, unconscious of the role they play in the noise machine. Matt Bai comes to mind. He seems sincerely oblivious to the power of mass media politics even though he is immersed in mass media politics. (Which may be the problem; does a fish perceive water?) […]

]]> by: Jill http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15780 Sun, 28 May 2006 15:17:34 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15780 Thanks for this post (which I found by Technorati-ing "matt bai"). I've said basically the same thing twice: http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2006/05/28/matt-bai-should-meet-the-bloggers-virtually-or-in-real-time/ and http://writeslikeshetalks.blogspot.com/2006/05/letter-to-matt-bai-re-can-bloggers-get.html Glad to know it's not just my mind that thinks this way. Thanks for this post (which I found by Technorati-ing “matt bai”). I’ve said basically the same thing twice:

http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2006/05/28/matt-bai-should-meet-the-bloggers-virtually-or-in-real-time/

and

http://writeslikeshetalks.blogspot.com/2006/05/letter-to-matt-bai-re-can-bloggers-get.html

Glad to know it’s not just my mind that thinks this way.

]]> by: The Heretik http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15735 Sun, 28 May 2006 01:35:24 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15735 I trust you will have endless opportunities for entertainment and enlightenment, sometimes at the same time. I trust you will have endless opportunities for entertainment and enlightenment, sometimes at the same time.

]]> by: alyosha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15731 Sat, 27 May 2006 19:03:37 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15731 Be sure to see Jamison Foster's <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200605260016" rel="nofollow">terrific piece at Media Matters</a>, opening paragraphs: "The defining issue of our time is not the Iraq war. It is not the "global war on terror." It is not our inability (or unwillingness) to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health care. Nor is it immigration, outsourcing, or growing income inequity. It is not education, it is not global warming, and it is not Social Security. "The defining issue of our time is the media. "The dominant political force of our time is not Karl Rove or the Christian Right or Bill Clinton. It is not the ruthlessness or the tactical and strategic superiority of the Republicans, and it is not your favorite theory about what is wrong with the Democrats. "The dominant political force of our time is the media. "Time after time, the news media have covered progressives and conservatives in wildly different ways -- and, time after time, they do so to the benefit of conservatives." Be sure to see Jamison Foster’s terrific piece at Media Matters, opening paragraphs:

“The defining issue of our time is not the Iraq war. It is not the “global war on terror.” It is not our inability (or unwillingness) to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable health care. Nor is it immigration, outsourcing, or growing income inequity. It is not education, it is not global warming, and it is not Social Security.

“The defining issue of our time is the media.

“The dominant political force of our time is not Karl Rove or the Christian Right or Bill Clinton. It is not the ruthlessness or the tactical and strategic superiority of the Republicans, and it is not your favorite theory about what is wrong with the Democrats.

“The dominant political force of our time is the media.

“Time after time, the news media have covered progressives and conservatives in wildly different ways — and, time after time, they do so to the benefit of conservatives.”

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15723 Sat, 27 May 2006 15:40:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15723 Getting real?...Tony Blair called Iraq.." the child of democracy" Getting real?…Tony Blair called Iraq..” the child of democracy”

]]> by: skippy http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15691 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:27:50 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15691 ps. check out <a href="http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2006/05/and-best-analogy-of-week-award-goes-to.html" rel="nofollow">punch and judy</a>. ps. check out punch and judy.

]]> by: skippy http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15690 Sat, 27 May 2006 01:19:57 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15690 hey, maha, i'll look for you in vegas! hey, maha, i’ll look for you in vegas!

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15685 Fri, 26 May 2006 22:10:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15685 <i>I don’t have to concern myself with Britiney’s virginity any more?</i> Probably not. I don’t have to concern myself with Britiney’s virginity any more?

Probably not.

]]> by: justme http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15684 Fri, 26 May 2006 21:22:26 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15684 Once again Maha you are sooooo right... the so called"MSM" has become a waste of time for anyone who honestly wants to be informed.They have made themselves an obsolete joke. There is never an intelligent conversation about issues within the MSM coverage of any given topic...it's all sound bytes over substance... with 24 hours a day to broadcast they still have the nerve to claim they "just don't have the time" to really dig into a story and tell it all.It is funny to me how watching the newshour(1 hour program on PBS) they find time in 60 minutes to go more in depth then all 3 24 hour "news" stations combined. At some point it was decided that news should be entertaining rather than educational(which is why the MSM can't seem to get their tiny minds out of the clintons crotches)....I for one am bored silly and I think that if the members of the MSM had good sex lives of their own they would not need to discuss the sex lives of others. As for the yearly Kos in vegas,,,politics and casinos in the same place????OMG that is my heaven!!!!!!!I don't suppose you would consider packing me in a suitcase and taking me too???I know a few male strippers there that make a hell of a breakfast... If you won't take me(or all of us) please please please keep us updated here?I think it will be a great chance to network with all of the great bloggers out there...maybe you will even run into Glenn Greenwald! Cool!....plus it will be fun for you to know among all those great bloggers,, your still the best! On a personal note, Maha, I will be sending you a e mail about one of your fellow bloggers....it will be coming from ck....so watch for it ok? Once again Maha you are sooooo right… the so called”MSM” has become a waste of time for anyone who honestly wants to be informed.They have made themselves an obsolete joke.

There is never an intelligent conversation about issues within the MSM coverage of any given topic…it’s all sound bytes over substance… with 24 hours a day to broadcast they still have the nerve to claim they “just don’t have the time” to really dig into a story and tell it all.It is funny to me how watching the newshour(1 hour program on PBS) they find time in 60 minutes to go more in depth then all 3 24 hour “news” stations combined.

At some point it was decided that news should be entertaining rather than educational(which is why the MSM can’t seem to get their tiny minds out of the clintons crotches)….I for one am bored silly and I think that if the members of the MSM had good sex lives of their own they would not need to discuss the sex lives of others.

As for the yearly Kos in vegas,,,politics and casinos in the same place????OMG that is my heaven!!!!!!!I don’t suppose you would consider packing me in a suitcase and taking me too???I know a few male strippers there that make a hell of a breakfast…

If you won’t take me(or all of us) please please please keep us updated here?I think it will be a great chance to network with all of the great bloggers out there…maybe you will even run into Glenn Greenwald! Cool!….plus it will be fun for you to know among all those great bloggers,, your still the best!

On a personal note, Maha, I will be sending you a e mail about one of your fellow bloggers….it will be coming from ck….so watch for it ok?

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15683 Fri, 26 May 2006 20:44:52 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/05/26/getting-real/#comment-15683 Maha..I loved your analogy of puppet theather with punch and Judy. I guess that's why I appreciate your blog so much..it's your ability to concisely define complex issues in the minimal amount of words. You also have shown me by your work and dedication what value, substanance, and potential there is in blogs. At the risk of sounding melodramatic..I truely believe that politicals blogs such as yours have become the vanguard of America's liberty. They offer the opportunity to partake in America and they will in time be acknowledged for the power inherent in their nature. I'll click the pay-pay button to help you carry the message to Vegas..There's an old New York expression..." yeah,say it with money! Oh, gee.. ya mean I don't have to concern myself with Britiney's virginity any more? Maha..I loved your analogy of puppet theather with punch and Judy. I guess that’s why I appreciate your blog so much..it’s your ability to concisely define complex issues in the minimal amount of words. You also have shown me by your work and dedication what value, substanance, and potential there is in blogs. At the risk of sounding melodramatic..I truely believe that politicals blogs such as yours have become the vanguard of America’s liberty. They offer the opportunity to partake in America and they will in time be acknowledged for the power inherent in their nature.

I’ll click the pay-pay button to help you carry the message to Vegas..There’s an old New York expression…” yeah,say it with money!

Oh, gee.. ya mean I don’t have to concern myself with Britiney’s virginity any more?

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