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April 05, 2005
MSM Gives Bush Another Free Pass
The MSM (main stream media), or what Jay Rosen in his Press Think blog calls the Legacy Media, gave another free pass to George Bush last week when he commented on Terry Schiavo’s death. Among other things, Bush said, "The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak."
Reports of Bush’s comments on CNN’s web site, for example, didn’t even mention the above remark. The New York Times didn’t pick up on it either. Why not, when it’s obvious that Bush was using Schiavo’s death to make a blatant political appeal to the religious right and was being totally hypocritical by saying "The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak," because every policy of his administration, from the war in Iraq, to trying to kill Medicare, and trying to privatize Social Security, is based on the strong trying to marginalize the weak?
It seems as though the Bush administration has succeeded in intimidating the press. No wonder many bloggers are gaining importance and credibility, especially with younger people.
Posted by Charles Warner at April 5, 2005 10:45 AM
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