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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: "New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics" |
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Clinton confirms the obvious...MSM liberal bias...and the Swiftees ate their lunch...
| Quote: | New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics
By John F. Harris
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 6, 2006; Page A01
Kerry advisers think the most important factor in his loss was the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which attacked his war record. The group initially received scant attention in old media outlets, but its accusations were fanned by the Drudge Report, Fox News and other new media platforms. By the end, the accusations dominated coverage in both old and new media.
Each time a similar episode occurs, it is often covered as an isolated and even eccentric event. But Clinton, in an earlier interview, said his party should understand that the ideological and financial incentives among politicians and media organizations mean that every election cycle will feature such episodes -- and it should plan accordingly.
But he said Democrats of his generation tend to be naive about new media realities. There is an expectation among Democrats that establishment old media organizations are de facto allies -- and will rebut political accusations and serve as referees on new-media excesses.
"We're all that way, and I think a part of it is we grew up in the '60s and the press led us against the war and the press led us on civil rights and the press led us on Watergate," Clinton said. "Those of us of a certain age grew up with this almost unrealistic set of expectations."
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LimaCharlie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Billy 'is' on to us!
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| It was the "perfect storm" of 2004...a lying fraud, the means and the will to expose him and a complicit media stupefied by their inability to shape the story. |
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Anker-Klanker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow! Give credit where credit is due (even though I don't like to). The fact that "old media" carries water (sets the agenda even) for the Democrats was an amazingly candid admission by someone of his stature on the left. He was, of course, warning about the rise of "new media," but he definitely laid bare what we've all known about "old media" from the "60s" until the present day. |
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:47 am Post subject: Re: "New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics" |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | | Clinton confirms the obvious...MSM liberal bias...and the Swiftees ate their lunch... |
Master of the Obvious is the term that applies here.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Heh, anyone notice how many times the bent-crank-in-chief wrote | Quote: | | ...press led us on... |
a big Freudian slip there, kinda like "how can we pull the wool over their eyes today" to describe his administration! Now how many times does he think this country will elect pathological liars!!!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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HEHEHE!
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