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Keith's current commentary is Even The Media Began To Sit Up And Take Notice.
I was at the Olympia Washington rally and experienced the strength of 2500 pro labor supporters. We filled the capitol building to capacity with many turned away. It was clearly a day of support for labor, but reading CNN and local tv reports, the day was one of competing rallies and much media attention was given to ranting teabaggers. It is clear that our media is broken. Keith raises the question of demographics. TV is chasing aging eyeballs.
Media at the moment – especially television – honors the foreign correspondent, the disaster correspondent, and the feel-good correspondent.....But a complicated, essential domestic political story offers no opportunity for getting photographed helping out poor wet people. It has the perils of alienating right wing viewers (who grow as an audience percentage simply by dint of the reality that the left, and the youth, have been abandoning television as a primary means of information consumption for the last 15 years).
The spirit of the crowd was firm, strong, defiant, and confident. We know we are right, and we know we have the power to win if we join together. The news services aren't reporting it, but a mobilization of the middle class is sweeping America.
There is yet another poll by a right-winger showing that Governor Scott Walker’s trolley has completely jumped the track. No less than the old toe-sucker himself, Dick Morris, has concluded that 54% of Wisconsin opposes Walker’s unilateral move to suspend one of the arch stones of democracy and eliminate collective bargaining for public employees, and only 41% supports it. ...Even the tv networks may have to begin to sit up and take notice.
Keith keeps Fox News in the target as he points out the hypocrisy of Fox being opposed to pretenders making news. Pimps and whores anyone?
The newest edition features the crazed Eric Shawn and the mercifully sleepy Jim Pinkerton excoriating a television outlet for doing an interview with the man who prank-called Governor Walker (Judge’s Score: 10.0; Degree of Difficulty: 0.2). This is Fox, mind you, the network that canonized little Jimmy O’Keefe for hiding his Oswaldian good looks under a pimp costume that would’ve gotten him laughed off the set of Shaft. Fox? Opposed to giving television time to people pretending to be something they’re not?
And finally, Keith ends with a brief note that
1)asks for help with comment backlogs
2)announces videos within a few weeks (including Thurber)
3)sets late spring for the Current TV 8 PM broadcast
Check out the Keith's take on Congressman Paul Broun's attempt to play apology catch up for not confronting assassination talk.
Good Stuff and plenty of other content to enjoy and discuss. Consider joining the group and involved in creating a DKOS outlet for Fok News.
With the mainstream media in the tank, it is important now to blow on the embers of alternative journalism so that it becomes a healthy guiding light in our dark times.