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Help us rename the “Mainstream Media”

September 17, 2009 on 4:55 am | In Culture Scene, National Political | No Comments

Regular readers know that we have fought a battle against the term “Mainstream Media”. It’s way too benign and implies that the ideas the major networks and large newspapers advance are in the mainstream of public thought. We’ve been calling them the old, establishment media- but they’ve outgrown the niceness of that lable.

They refuse to cover Van Jones honestly. They refuse to cover the ACORN scandal. They report the Joe Wilson incident with as much malice as possible- and now- now they offer their Sunday morning news shows to him for propaganda purposes. Until this man came to the White House and until this level of corruption overtook the press, you would have had to travel to Cuba to see the President’s pre-packaged proaganda on every channel.

OK. We need a new Name- Pravda USA or TASS America? What do you think?- sjm