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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Sep 7 2004, 02:59 AM
I guess we'll leave it at that, I disagree that the media is some republican propaganda machine. I've seen just as many attacks on the Bush presidency coming from the main stream media.
Maybe what the Democrats have to look at is they're just not very good at dealing with it, and because of that they've spun into this whole ineffectual and stupid at least I'm not Bush strategy.
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From the mainstream media I would agree with you (unless of course you include Fox as 'mainstream'). The problem is the majority of people do not look to numerous sources for information. Liberals read the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. because there is more of a liberal slant and conservatives look to the New York Post, Washington Times, and Wall Street Journal's Opinion section because there is more of a conservative slant.
So the people who already oppose Kerry because he is a member of the opposite party, are reading stories from one type of source. The same goes for democrats and Bush. Unfortunately, strictly conservative publications are also read by hard line right wingers and accepted as objective fact which leads to the stories trickling into the mainstream media, although they are poorly researched and extremely biased, so in reality there is more criticism in the media of the Democratic party and their candidate than there is for Bush.
Even if the media did criticize each candidate evenly, it shouldn't be. Kerry is attacked on a personal level about things that happened 30 years ago, while Bush is being criticized for doing a poor job in the last 4 years.
The Anybody But Bush strategy shouldn't suprise you at all. The Democrats do not have an even moderately charismatic candidate, so they are simply going to criticize Bush's record which is extremely easy and say that they're guy isn't going to be nearly as bad. Calling it ineffectual and stupid because you disagree with it doesn't make it so. I can't prove to you that it will be effective any more than you can prove to me that it is ineffectual so I suppose we'll just have to wait for the election, but I think you'll be suprised.