Many of us are talking here on dKos about how to change the way the Corporate Media (CM) reports on reality (or even if we should do our best to deconstruct it) and now that the primary race seems to be winding down, I thought we should start with an Action Item that all Dems can support. Follow me over the jump, please.
Media Matters put a piece up Monday about how the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post both made multiple calls for Teresa Heinz Kerry to release her tax returns four years ago, but have yet to even mention the fact that Cindy McCain won't release hers.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, the editorial pages of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal called on Sen. John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, to release her tax returns, with The Wall Street Journal citing the role Heinz Kerry's wealth purportedly played in her husband's presidential campaign. But according to a Media Matters for America search of editorials since January 1,* the Post and Journal have yet to call for the release of Cindy McCain's tax returns, despite the role her personal fortune has reportedly played in the presidential campaign of her husband, Sen. John McCain.
Link to the full piece here.
Most of us here, no matter who we've been supporting lately, believe that John McCain has gotten a free pass these last several months and that now's the time to change the story. As the CM has been shown to be reluctant to ask any hard questions of Sen. McSame, we should point out to them the double standard that they are operating under when it comes to the Republican nominee for president.
My suggestion is to use the links in the Media Matters piece to bombard the papers to call on them to show that they don't have a double standard when it comes to calling for transparency. E-mail these papers, call for them to be 'fair and balanced' and, if you are a subscriber, note that you notice how balanced they are when your subscription renewal form hits your mail.
Time to change the subject!