Mail Bag
November 3rd, 2004 - 12:47 pm
Jon Baliles asks:
As Kerry has asked Bush in his phone call, with Tom Daschle out of the way in the Senate, with a battle in Fallujah looming and Iraqi elections imminent, and with our election OVER, will the MSM turn to showing a more favorable look at what is going right in Iraq?
Short answer: No.
You read it here first.
Everyone wanted Kerry and Edwards to concede (as they should have) in an effort to stop the partisian bickering and pull the country together in a time of war. But realisticly, how is that supposed to materialize if the media only wants to throw gas on the fire?
Longer answer: HELL no.
Even longer: The bad news will continue until election results improve.
The Old Media will be ignored as irrelevant. How do you think Bush was elected in such large numbers despite the media drum beat on his head? People stopped believing them or better still, stopped reading them or watching them on TV.
Perhaps Brokaw’s replacement will see the light and start telling the truth? Then NBC will slowly ease back into relevancy. Same with the other nets. WaPo is already seeing a sliver of light and other papers will follow suit.
LA imes is seeing their numbers and their advertising income drop, what do they do? Hire Michael Kingsley as managing editor of course. So their earning will get to the point where they’ll start telling the truth or go out of business. With Kingsley in charge, I’d bet on staying the course and going down with the ship.
The NYT. Never! Throw the old gray carcus out. It’s dead.and can’t be revived.
If the Iraq spin continues it will be motivated solely by spite. In recent months the bad coverage was aimed at making Bush look bad, for electoral reasons. Now that they can’t hurt him, maybe they’ll turn their attention elsewhere. Maybe.
My husband is in Iraq and the MSM is generally laughed at. They know the President is behind them and the American people support them in droves. The men and women who volunteered to lay down their lives so we are safe at home are doing their job and doing it well, the media can go blow.
Perhaps they can be ‘distracted’ by Madame Hillary, their candidate for 2008?
Brenda, what do your husband and his colleagues say about THAT possibility … Hillary as Commander in Chief?
I tend to agree. The MSM invested so much of themselves in their leftist spin that they can’t back down now, for fear of appearing even more irrelevant and untrustworthy than they already have. It’s going to take the passing of the Old Guard to make a difference, I think, and you can bet they will have to pry CBS out of Dan Rather’s cold dead fingers.
I suppose we will soon find out which way the MSM will go on their coverage of Iraq.
I may be way off base on this but I expect we will need to drop the hammer on Fallujah at some point soon.
It will be difficult to prevent all civilian casualties.
I expect that the MSM will change their characterization of Iraq from an abject failure to maintain order to one of indiscriminate brutality in seeking order.
We shall see.
If the Iraq spin continues it will be motivated solely by spite.
I believe that’s factored into Stephen’s answer. It would be in mine, which — not coincidentally — is the same.