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it is not at all clear to me that Democrats, i.e. the Democratic Party itself, have a group of people coordinating our "public face" ... we frequently see complaints on DU about how "the media" are only interested in hearing from a very narrow range of Democrats ... we get Biden (ad nauseum) and Lieberman and a small handful of others ...
why don't we hear from Conyers and Waxman and Markey and McGovern and Ryan and so many many others? maybe the media are to blame ... maybe they refuse to let anyone outside their frequent flyer club on the air ... but it seems to me that the Democratic Party could have a greater say if they wanted one ... if the Sunday shows were told that the Dems wanted others to be heard, it's not at all clear to me that the "big shows" would refuse to give them a forum to speak ... and if that has been a problem, Democrats should be taking the issue to the American people; that certainly has not been the case ... i think much of the narrowness of which Democrats are heard from is the fault of the party itself ...
we've been talking about the need for a Democratic Party "rapid response media squad" since the 2000 election ... maybe we've made a little bit of progress; it's hard to tell ... clearly, we have a long way to go ...
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