"Truth Fights Back" Kerry enlists grassroots to help fight RW lies!

Daily Kos diary: "Truth Fights Back" Kerry enlists grassroots to help fight RW lies!

I think it's important that this be done and that someone other that Obama does it.

Please don't let this happen again.



I think is was Sam Rayburn who said to his republican opponents in congress, "If you stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you."

and Kerry is NOT going to let Obama go without back up the way big name Dems failed him in 2004 - they cowered not wanting to get on Rove's radar when he and Bush were at their most powerful.

http://www.truthfightsback.com

sign up / tell a friend:
http://www.truthfightsback.com/site/splash/

are all convinced that the media is LIBERAL

even Bill Kristol famously let the cat out of the bag awhile back when, in a rare moment of candor, admitted that the media is anything but that




http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-liberalmedia.htm

Conservatives often promote the myth that the U.S. media are liberal. This myth serves several purposes: it raises public skepticism about liberal news stories, hides conservative bias when it appears, and goads the media to the right. GOP strategist William Kristol also reveals another reason: "I admit it: the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures." (1)

In unguarded moments, however, even far-right figures like Pat Buchanan come clean: "The truth is, I've gotten fairer, more comprehensive coverage of my ideas than I ever imagined I would receive." He further conceded: "I've gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage -- all we could have asked… For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every Republican on earth does that." (2)

So what's the real story? The fact is that conservatives have powerful friends in the media: the corporations that own them, and the corporations that pay for their advertising. These giant firms have been increasingly successful in bending the media's message to suit their self-interests, which include a conservative and pro-corporate agenda. Studies show that the media are eerily silent on the issues most important to workers, consumers and other citizens adversely affected by corporate behavior. Conservatives respond to these charges with (old) polls showing that most journalists are personally liberal, but these polls are outdated. New polls show the majority of journalists are centrists. And of those who are not centrists, there are more conservatives than liberals on economic issues. We'll explore more of this question below.