An insight into American news coverage
Bob Cesca over at The Huffington Post gives us Johnny Foreigners a valuable insight into the news coverage in America right now - and, erm, always. Here’s an extract:
“I don’t know if you’ve dared to listen to far-right talk radio lately, but I can assure you that they’re not ignoring Senator Obama - or his family. Put it this way: if you only got your news and opinions from talk radio, you’d probably believe that Senator Obama is some kind of foreign-born baby-killing Manchurian Candidate terrorist - if not a sexist uppity black man who, if he loses in November, will incite race riots in every city…
We too-often overlook the influence of far-right talk radio given the overproduced, groomed-monkeys on far-right cable news shows…
Could it be - I don’t know, just a hunch - that the opinions of perhaps a third of all Americans are shaped by FOX News Channel, cable news shows like Morning Joe and, especially, far-right talk radio? Could it be that the lies and blind-patriotism of these far-right propagandists are painting an historic, brilliant, accomplished, patriotic presidential candidate as some kind of Bin Laden meets Farrakhan chimera? 24 hours a day? In every town in the Union?”
But fear not - because as Cesca brilliantly points out at the end:
“Given the ideological landscape of cable news, talk radio and the nefarious lie-based caricature therein of Obama as a black-power, fetus-crushing Muslim terrorist, why isn’t *John McCain* 20 points ahead in polls?”
Indeed. I highly recommend reading the full article here - it starts with a brilliant commentary on the, well, commentary surrounding Obama’s two-minute, direct-to-camera ad.
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