I urge you to read Somerby's
latest:
Here at THE HOWLER, we think Olbermann has become a total clown; we’re unimpressed, at this point, with Maddow’s performance. On the other hand, both hosts are good at dishing out comfort food. The other tribe is stupid and bad—and our tribe is smart and good. This is what they persistently say, night after night, on their programs.
Throughout history, we rubes have hungered for us-and-them stories. But aside from her skill with snark and comfort food, has Maddow’s work been all that good?
How solid is Maddow’s actual work? In fact, in the week we’ve been reviewing, her work was frequently flat-out bad, both on the merits and when it came to her over-the-top presentation. You might not mind her fumbling work on the budget so much—if she weren’t so deeply engaged in so much mugging and clowning and snark.
I had high hopes for"progressive" radio when Air America began. I wanted to see an emphasis on old-school investigative reporting. But what did we get? The left simply established a cheerleading squad, which offers a lot of
rah rah in order to counter the Fox News
rah rah.
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The left simply established a cheerleading squad, which offers a lot of rah rah in order to counter the Fox News rah rah.
And all yyou do is stick pins from your soiled diaper into Obama dolls all day long.
What a sick joke you have become.
Get Over it! or Get Help.
You smell to high heaven and your brain has turned to putrid mush.
Why can't you see yourself objectively? Why can't you see yourself at all?
A mystery. Wrapped in a soiled diaper.
Evidently the mixed Air America/Jones Communication/the old Nova M have lost their local south Florida station. Supposedly they have gone to an all-sports format as of today (although I was listening to Ron Kuby in the car in the 3-6 pm slot today, so maybe it was an April Fool's joke, or only applies to their evening programming?)
I think that the old Franken show used to feature some good research pieces, as the current Thom Hartman show also does. The problem with this wonkiness is that it is bad radio (not to me, but for a general listening public).
Sorta the same thing applies to the KO and RM shows. You cannot do a lot of serious in-depth reporting in those formats and keep an audience.
Whatever limited value they do bring to the table is unique among their cohort of cable shows, and they have a value for whatever amount of that they actually do.
Even when they stray from strict adherence to the truth, there is a value in the very smack-down nature of their presentations against the world champ smack-talking artists (the GOP and their like-minded conservative corps). Debates or what passes for those in this debauched era are often less determined by an impartial judge's count of who made the better points than by things like attitude, loudness of speech, snappiness, and so forth.
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Anonymous 2:53 PM~
Thanks for the reminder from the 'Graduating Class of Obot Courtesy and Poise 101'.
It was a perfect reminder of why I left the Dem party after 37 years.
Carry on (to your party's destruction) as you see fit.
BTW- I am sorry and sad that your parents never bothered to give you a name. What a shame. You could make one up?
I notice that Obamanation is beginning to hate Bob Somerby because he won't drink the Kool-aid.
A mystery. Wrapped in a soiled diaper.
How poo-etic
A mystery. Wrapped in a soiled diaper.
Isn't it gassy when the Obots get classy?
Joe, thanks for this great link to Somerby. Mr. 2T and I have to turn off these two cheerleading, "comfort food" bobbleheads these days.
You are so right that this faux-investigative duo is nothing more than the Dems version of Fox. Like Taibbi says, we're fucked.
anonymous 2:53
omebody-say eeds-nay edical-may attention-tay....
Emjaybee
I have been MSNBC Free for several weeks now. I am a much happier person for it as well.
I found myself recording the dumbest things they said and even transcribing it. What a waste of time.
yeesh.
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Isn't Air America owned by Clear Channel? How is that left? It's not. It's pretend left. Barry backers bought out many left outlets 2004-08.I don't think out side of blogs, there is a left media.
Annie, if it is now, it didn't start out that way. And the content hasn't changed with the owners.
I tuned in to check up on Maddow a week ago (well, I had to do something when my internet was down!).
Her muggling and attempts at clowning were appalling. If I'd seen that as an audition tape I'd have said "don't give up the day job."
Air America has been owned by Clear Channel for some time now. And I beg to differ that the content didn't change. They didn't start out as the MSNBC mini me they are now.They are jack booting for the Upper Crust along with the rest. As far as I can see there is no major Left media , as I under stand the term, outside of blogs.
However there is media who pretend to be Left and whose job is basically redirecting populous anger away from the proper targets. IMO
Annie, Clear Channel does NOT own Air America. However, since Clear Channel cannot program Rush against Rush on multiple stations in markets they own the majority of stations in, on some of their stations they've been programming AA.
NOW, they appear to be canceling the AA programming in some markets, in favor of either all news or all sports (the 940 WINZ AM station down here is now 'The Sports Animal,' with JT the Brick, Fox Sports, and etc.).
Yes, the ownership of Air America changed, and likely, its thrust changed, although mostly through the various changes of hosts.
But Mark Green, the new CEO, is not a corporatist toady whatsoever, and has lost elections because of his perceived leftward biases.
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