Gee, I wonder why the corporate press is despised. Maybe it’s because CNN is the kind of shill operation that edits their clips to show two black women getting the bums rush out of their town beating WITHOUT SHOWING the reason they were upset:some old creep white guy tore up their poster of Rosa Parks.

Not a shot of the old white creep being ejected. Not a word from the “reporter” who caused the disturbance and why.

Nope, don’t know why you corporate charlatans are so hated.

Old, white males loved Oldsmobiles. We bought a car that felt like we were driving back in the good old days, when life was easy and didn’t hurt, cars were tanks, womenfolk didn’t call us “sir”, and gas was cheap. And then the kids took away our keys. Olds died from its own success.

Fred Hiatt and most of the print media have fallen into this trap. Apart from being corporate tools, their marketing strategy plays to the prejudices of the people who buy their dead tree product — older, whiter, and more Republican. And getting older every day.

“This is not your father’s Washington Post”.

The people working RAM are incredible but getting seen is a holy grail so far. I arrived at 5:00 a.m. on Monday, the Forum was a zoo, there were blocks of cars and I ended up parking on a side street and walking to the Forum. I along with, I would bet a thousand people were turned away by 6:00 a.m., a little sea of people in need. My tooth that needs extracting went back at eleven that night and they had already run out of numbers for the next day. I am going back this evening, they are doing the best they can but man what a mess. If anyone knows any Doctors, Nurses or Dentists with a California license implore them to volunteer. The first day they only had enough Dentists to utilize under 60% of the chairs they had set up.
It double sucks in Cali because they won’t grant a waiver for out of state Doctors to practice for frigging free. The medical associations need to shrivel up and crawl under a rock sometimes. Rapid Area Mobile are saints among us.

I meant Tuesday morning, typing while writhing is rough.

From WAPO

“In the second term, he felt Bush was moving away from him,” said a participant in the recent gathering, describing Cheney’s reply. “He said Bush was shackled by the public reaction and the criticism he took. Bush was more malleable to that. The implication was that Bush had gone soft on him, or rather Bush had hardened against Cheney’s advice. He’d showed an independence that Cheney didn’t see coming. It was clear that Cheney’s doctrine was cast-iron strength at all times — never apologize, never explain — and Bush moved toward the conciliatory.”

my favorite of the latest media failure to recognize news is the reporting on McCaskill’s townhall where no shots of the tearing up Rosa Parks poster was shown, just a couple of black women getting into it.

I’ll bet Stan Brock grew up idolizing Richard Halliburton and his “Flying Carpet“. I wonder sometimes if he ever wonders how things got so messed up.

Good luck on that dental work, igo2go. Few things are more debilitating than a rotten tooth.

Good morning, pups. Kristof and Cohen are off today, so it’s Collins flying solo. In “Gunning for Health Care” she says that at the town hall meetings on health care, we are reminded of the gun gap in this country. There is the part that thinks a room full of screaming people is the worst place to bring a firearm, and the part that holds it is the place where you need it most.

Here she is.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge for later, and I’ve got apple walnut muffins. We had another drenching thunderstorm last night, so we’re now probably somewhere close to 9 inches of rain over normal for the year.

ig2go, I hope you’re successful in getting that tooth taken care of. There may be worse pain (phlebitis, perhaps?) but a toothache is a kind of misery that makes it impossible to think straight. Got my fingers crossed for you.

That 2nd angle video is really amazing, isn’t it? The woman with the poster is completely polite and had put the poster down immediately when McCaskill reminded about no signs.

The freakshow Teabagger runs from behind her and violently grabs it off the chair, completely unprovoked.

Without New Media outlets, and advances in technology that allow so many to record video and put it online, imagine how we’d only know the BigMedia spin about how this was just some out-of-control Black woman in a room full of nice polite and patriotic White people, who are just a little concerned about their “health care.”

It’s up to each of us to grow New Media with word-of-mouth marketing and donations/subscriptions.

To my surprise, CNN had 2 women on this morning talking about the cost of health insurance for the self-employed. One said (paraphrased) that it’s as much as a mortgage and a car payment combined and then the ins. company will cancel you if you get sick. The other talked about breaking her foot and the co-pays cost her $1800. I was thinking that, finally, I’m seeing a report on the real problem. But then the idiot reporter (John something) said “Wow, you have good insurance”. Talk about an alternate reality. Since when is $1800 for a broken foot evidence that a medical problem couldn’t wipe most people out.

Eyeballs won’t do it. We’re going to have to pay talented people a rewarding wage to dig up and report the news. That means tens of thousands of people paying hundreds of dollars a year to be informed.

Look, I get the Chicago Tribune at 79 cents a day and $1.99 on Sunday, and it’s a miserable rag and a waste of money and good trees. I would gladly pay triple that $350 a year for a real paper.

You’re right, bonkers. The only way it’s going to work is if we buy our news.

We sure could use the trillion bush buried in his ME litter box but at the end of the day bush doesn’t worry about his health care I bet.

The way I heard it was three rules:
Don’t complain
Don’t explain
Don’t press your luck, the Jury hasn’t been seated for the last rule yet.

No kidding.
Sounds like David Schuster covered it, at least.

FunnyWheelieDiva

Yes, there are two fundraisers on this site right now to do precisely that. Imagining Marcy Wheeler and Mike Stark doing actual investigating and reporting on a full-time basis. Wow.

This is available to us right now. Just have to act.

Since when is $1800 for a broken foot evidence that a medical problem couldn’t wipe most people out.

If you’re a TeeVee anchor earning $2.5 million per year,
which is a middle-class income, it sounds like a reasonable deal.

I don’t read the New York times.

I watch CSPAN, especially CSPAN Washington Journal most mornings where I can actually call in once a month and speak with and ask questions of a senator, representative or industry person or an industry watch group.

I do watch NBC Nightly News, only because once Brian Williams worked in the Carter administration.

I do not watch Farce, the Nation, Meek the Press, or This Weak, with George Stephanopoulos.

I have a joke for you.

Why does a birther movement and an anti heatlhcare town hall government disrupter movement exist?

Because President Obama does not have anything to do with Monica Lewinsky.

Join the Liberal Democratic party of the United States

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/…..cpartyusa/

Agreed, and online participation in spreading facts.

StonyPillow, I have cancelled WaPo and our locals, they do not earn my subscription $$ because they blatantly slant the news.

what Marion said below. There might be some pain that’s worse than toothache but nothing more uncomfortable. I mean, that makes sense to me. Senator Grassley says you should tie a string to the tooth and tie the ither end to the doorknob of an open door. have someobe slam the door. Voila! Extraction. Newt says if it’s good enough in the cartoons it’s good enough for everybody.

Sorry to make light of your situation. The whole thing – the throngs of people with no healthcare – is a disgrace.

clarification. Marion said that below you @ her 8; which is above me.

You just gave me the motivation to donate again. Thanks.

“You have good insurance” ???? You gotta be kidding. The guy said that? Part of the problem is that some of the people in the MSM are just too friggin’ ignernt to deal with the issues of the day – especially a complex one like health care reform. Some are disingenuous; too many slaves to bogus equivalency. But too many just plain stooopid.

first thing I tell someone who doesn’t believe it’s a convervative, corporate owned media, I ask them;

‘have you ever noticed who has the last word on a political broadcast?”

it’s always the covervative corporate point of view

Yep, he said that including the “wow”.
Now, off to the salt mines.

By modern media don’t you mean the propaganda machine?

The LA Times had a great story on this clinic yesterday, and follows it up with an editorial today:

Cable news channels have devoted hours of airtime this week to the rancorous debates about healthcare reform at town halls across the country, supplementing the coverage with alarmist commercials about rationing and government-run care. Notably, opponents of the reform effort haven’t tried to defend the status quo. Instead, they’ve spent their time painting exaggerated pictures of what the system might look like in the future — a world of “death panels,” delayed treatments and lethal cost-cutting. In short, their nightmarish depiction of “Obama-care” looks a lot like a Hollywood version of an HMO, but with seniors instead of starlets.

It’s too bad the television cameras haven’t been trained instead on the Forum in Inglewood, where the Remote Area Medical Foundation opened a temporary clinic this week. The scene makes a compelling case for a healthcare overhaul, putting a human face on the dry statistics about uninsured and underinsured Americans. . .

Lots more at the two links.

The MSM has been a total failure for the past 30 years. They were in love with Reagan, over looking the complicity of George Will in the Carter debates, ignoring the
WH complicity in Iran Contra, glossing over the suffering of peoples of Central America and have refused to do their job as the protector of the public ever since.

Big money for anchors and star reporters have aligned them with the interest of the financiers and power brokers. The press is now in love with those who wield power with no regard for consequences.

The rise of the blogs have been the only counter point to the constant drum beat of might makes right.

We all owe a great deal of gratitude to the bloggers who had the vision to challenge conventional wisdom of the media with the internet.

I am so glad you gave the background…obviously it was a troubling picture, as if they were the disruption…with implication they were likely against health care!! Everything they wanted to achieve, I guess. Say it loud. Thanks

Well, I’m self employed and I pay about $1,320 per month. That is a house payment + car payment in many places.

Wow. That is about $250 less than my entire monthly take-home pay in my last “good” job (the kind my local politicians brag about bringing to town, in yet another bank call center).

I agree that the comment by the “news” man on CNN isn’t just because he’s “too stoopid”, it’s because he’s too rich.

I am more and more convinced of the correctness of my theory – that news reporting began deteriorating when “reporters” who never went to college but started in the business as copy boys/girls and earned a working-class income became “journalists” with college degrees with college degrees earning 6-figure and more incomes.

I’m not claiming that reporters of the Ben Hecht “Front Page” era were “objective,” but they weren’t trying to be, therefore they didn’t bend over backward to do the “he said, but he said”. There were multiple papers in every town, owned by different publishers with different points of view.
The Murdoch law, allowing ownership of multiple news outlets by one person/corp. was another major step down the hill.

hahahaha. That’s funny b/c it’s so true.

I cancelled my Comcast cable service. I still have Comcast internet service but I would drop it in a hot minute if I could find something progressive and better. I think if all progressives dropped their cable tv, we would have grassroots media reform. And here’s the funny thing, I don’t waste the minutes and hours of my life watching useless crap and I can see whatever I want on the internet, my blood pressure is lower and I get a lot more done.