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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
  Cowardice
Former LA Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi has a book at #14 on the best sellers list of the NYTimes. You would never know that based up on the lack of media attention.

To sum up the reasons why he has been ignored in the media, unlike his previous two bestsellers, he says:
“I think it all goes back to fear. If the liberal media would put me on national television, I think they’d fear that they would be savaged by the right wing. The left wing fears the right, but the right does not fear the left.”
This rings all too true, but it is something I simply don't wholly understand. It explains a myriad of journalistic sins, from Iraq to slanted coverage of Al Gore's 2000 campaign.

Why are they afraid? Ratings? Circulation? Corporate ownership? None of this adequately explains why our national press is a bunch of spaghetti-spined wimps in the face of the rabid-right. I don't get it.
 
Comments:
I think it is the right's ability to manipulate the majority of their followers to take their word on a leap of faith.

Your average lefty, again in my opinion, tends to do a little more critical thinking than the average NASCAR dad.

Those on the right who can stick their head up above the haze of spin, see it for what it is and use it to their advantage. The rest just spew the talking points without really thinking about what they are saying.

If the media puts something out there that the right can spin, the net result is further damage to the truth.
 
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