On "The Media"....

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Too much of a Chomskyan-Zinnist rant for me to totally agree with it but I want to bring it up so that I pinpoint to this precise thread the very moment some inane mumbler blathers on about "the media" (Definite article always included never extra).

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There's more here (and it should be read). Cut for word limit, anyway the beggining is the best of it.

[jokerman]

FOX News isn't really part of the conservative media establishment, in the sense that it's a propaganda arm for established industrial/political power.  CNN fulfills that role quite nicely (with MSNBC as the potemkin alternative).  That's what the average joe means whenever he rages about CNN's liberalism.  What he really means is that CNN is elitist, but obviously in American discourse elitism in any kind of intellectual realm is always associated with liberalism.

Now the article is rather good, but in getting caught up in a left/right, citizenry/elite type spiel the author misses the real nature of FOX News.  Perhaps many in the conservative establishment intended for FOX to serve their interests squarely, but it has really evolved into something else over the years, much in the same way the GOP has lost control of its Tea Party wing.  The head has been lopped off the beast, and the result is Frankenstein's Monster.