Comments on: Covering for Karl and Mark -or- Why I Call It “The GOP/Media Complex” http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:58:07 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: skippy http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936365 skippy Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:28:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936365 <p>i call it the “mmm,” the multi-millionaire media.”</p> i call it the “mmm,” the multi-millionaire media.”

]]> By: james http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936362 james Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:17:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936362 <p>yes, but the rings are in a very, very private place which kind of explains the loss of blood to the brains of these turds.</p> yes, but the rings are in a very, very private place which kind of explains the loss of blood to the brains of these turds.

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936341 earlofhuntingdon Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:46:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936341 <p>I’ve always found Tapper a flimsy excuse for a reporter. This blatant selling of coverage - if not for money like the WaPoop, for perks and access - is marketing by the corporate owners of the news. They cultivated it into a fine art during eight years of Karl Rove and George Bush. It’s what helped give rise to Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ, SprintNextel and other mergers, consolidations and concentrated ownership and sweet business and outsourcing deals whose revenue dwarfs the cost or profit from the news.</p> <p>The Repubs may get the lion’s share of such treatment, but rest assured Rahm & Co., is demanding it as ruthlessly as Karl Rove.</p> <p>We need a warning label on such news coverage akin to tobacco warnings:<br /></p><blockquote> <p>“Consuming this product undiluted by real news may be hazardous to your mental health and your pocketbook.”</p></blockquote> <p>Not doing that is like reading an unregulated industry’s list of contents on what it’s sold you and are about to eat.</p> I’ve always found Tapper a flimsy excuse for a reporter. This blatant selling of coverage – if not for money like the WaPoop, for perks and access – is marketing by the corporate owners of the news. They cultivated it into a fine art during eight years of Karl Rove and George Bush. It’s what helped give rise to Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ, SprintNextel and other mergers, consolidations and concentrated ownership and sweet business and outsourcing deals whose revenue dwarfs the cost or profit from the news.

The Repubs may get the lion’s share of such treatment, but rest assured Rahm & Co., is demanding it as ruthlessly as Karl Rove.

We need a warning label on such news coverage akin to tobacco warnings:

“Consuming this product undiluted by real news may be hazardous to your mental health and your pocketbook.”

Not doing that is like reading an unregulated industry’s list of contents on what it’s sold you and are about to eat.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936339 Waccamaw Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:32:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936339 <p>Will be interesting to see what happens if sinclair goes belly up…..</p> <p>Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please! Let the karma strike there.</p> Will be interesting to see what happens if sinclair goes belly up…..

Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please! Let the karma strike there.

]]> By: Waccamaw http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936338 Waccamaw Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:29:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936338 <p>Dog bless <em>The State</em> and McClatchy!<em></em></p> Dog bless The State and McClatchy!

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936337 bonkers Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:28:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936337 <p>This has always been Issue #1 for me. If we had just some semblance of an actual Press, voters would never vote in people like modern-day Repubs. Look at what happens when the electorate gets even tiny morsels of truth regarding Iraq or Healthcare…opinion polls go over 70% to the side of justice.</p> <p>I worked full time in at a BigMedia outlet when Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act (1996? 97?), and knew it was going to speed up the downward descent of “The Press” by allowing massive conglomeration.</p> <p>We can change this. We must start strengthening anti-trust laws and enforcing them…hard. Starting with BigMedia.</p> This has always been Issue #1 for me. If we had just some semblance of an actual Press, voters would never vote in people like modern-day Repubs. Look at what happens when the electorate gets even tiny morsels of truth regarding Iraq or Healthcare…opinion polls go over 70% to the side of justice.

I worked full time in at a BigMedia outlet when Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act (1996? 97?), and knew it was going to speed up the downward descent of “The Press” by allowing massive conglomeration.

We can change this. We must start strengthening anti-trust laws and enforcing them…hard. Starting with BigMedia.

]]> By: Twain http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936336 Twain Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:27:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936336 <p>Cillizza must go around with his mouth in a permanent pucker. “g”</p> Cillizza must go around with his mouth in a permanent pucker. “g”

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936335 Teddy Partridge Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:21:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936335 <p>Very few young establishment-employed Washington journalists will disagree with Chris Cillizza’s choice of role models for himself as a “political journalist:” Russert and Broder</p> Very few young establishment-employed Washington journalists will disagree with Chris Cillizza’s choice of role models for himself as a “political journalist:” Russert and Broder

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936334 bonkers Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:20:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936334 <p>All in “The Family.”</p> <p>I mean, why would a bunch of national DeeCee BigMedia stenographers be so tight with a Governor of South Carolina?</p> All in “The Family.”

I mean, why would a bunch of national DeeCee BigMedia stenographers be so tight with a Governor of South Carolina?

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936333 Bluetoe2 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:20:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/covering-for-karl-and-mark-or-why-i-call-it-the-gopmedia-complex/#comment-1936333 <p>Or Jeff Gannon, male prostitute.</p> Or Jeff Gannon, male prostitute.

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