:: the so-called liberal media ::

[endseptember]

"The biggest political joke in America is that we have a liberal press. It's a joke taken seriously by a surprisingly large number of people ... The myth of the liberal press has served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces eager to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power ... Americans now have the

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ixnay on the comparisons to the azinays...

[jemperly]

i agree with you on your point about the media. in fact, i saw a really great documentary once on free speech tv called The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News with noam chomsky and others. check it out. (not to mention my most recent viewing of Outfoxed.)

however...

i very much dislike this fad of aligning one's particular foe with nazi germany (reference: the article i posted in my journal a while back about the deseret book CEO who equated the nazis with the gay rights movement). i really don't think any of these comparisons are valid, considering the vastly different contexts. the nazis didn't rise because no one was paying attention; they rose because there was a social and economic climate in post-WWI germany that was fertile soil for just such ideas. it wasn't because the dissidents didn't speak up; it's because there were relatively few (german) dissidents to speak of. many people were despondent and clung to the only political rally-cry that gave them hope for their children

Re: ixnay on the comparisons to the azinays...

[endseptember]

I wasn't by any means making an analogy between our government and our socio-political climate and those of Nazi Germany. I'm with you. I hate those analogies.

I was simply making the case that if power goes unchecked - if dissident voices are so quickly and unapologetically marginalized and discredited, if there isn't anyone who can effectively criticize the decisions made by those in power - the dangerous socio-political climate of which you speak is born.