Wed 16 Jan 2008
What a miserable debate last night. The worst of the campaign season by far. This one started off with what looked like a a group hug in the principal’s office over race relations and it slid downhill after that.
The candidates aren’t at fault here, it is the mainstream media. The spoon-fed, pre-programmed “gotcha” drip of questions did not serve the people of Nevada or We The People for that matter. The whole shindig seemed to be designed to give each candidate an opportunity to bitch slap their opponents. Definitely not something worthy of Jefferson’s Virginia Statehouse.
The bright spot was the heckler. The heckler also had the most poignant statement – race baiting which is what this debate was all about. A purposeful attempt by Russert and the gang to start a class/race war among the candidates, thankfully they did not bite.
I am left wondering when We The People will bite back… bite the mainstream media?
BTW, today’s strip is dedicated to Dot. You can’t see her right now. She is fighting the good fight, deep down in the trench.
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January 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I have never been a fan of Big Media, although I do catch CNN from time to time and read the website frequently (what can I say? I like their tech articles and Lou Dobbs).
I do agree with you though, and I really wonder when people will start looking at the media for what it is: all hype and no content.
January 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am
i recently moved to the US(Mnt Airy) from the UK. I knew the US media was bad but I have been truly stunned by just how bad it is. It does not deliver the ‘news’ it delivers opinion. Even on the rare occasions it broadcasts any ‘asithappens’ event they TALK over it, they did it with obama’s keynote speech in NH they did over the fed guy wittering on about the economy yesterday they do it over other reporters as they send in their on the spot accounts. MSNBC IMO is the least worst of the bunch but only because all the others are towering piles of crap. CNN has sunk so rapidly it made my head spin. It used to be the best comparable on a good day with the BBC (probably the least bias news outlet there is, because it is required to be so).
The US media treat the consumers like neotonised morons incapable of forming their own opinions and ideas.
Love the strip btw.