i agree that the fringe has way more power than it should, but...
moondog Send a noteboard - 02/10/2009 06:38:41 AM
i think the whole partisanship of politics has always been around since the invention of politics, and it's only because of the ubiquitousness of news reporting on a 24/7 cycle that it seems like things are out of hand. maybe things are a little more stirred up than normal, but this is pretty much how things have been for ages and ages.
the one difference now is that the media coverage is completely 100% invasive, whereas before it was mostly a matter of whether a person paid attention to it or not. political coverage has become extremely close to celebrity coverage, and we all know what garbage *that* kind of "news" is
and as a result, people are looking to become a political "celebrity" and trying to speak and think in sound bites, because that's how their message is going to be packaged in the end.
the one difference now is that the media coverage is completely 100% invasive, whereas before it was mostly a matter of whether a person paid attention to it or not. political coverage has become extremely close to celebrity coverage, and we all know what garbage *that* kind of "news" is
and as a result, people are looking to become a political "celebrity" and trying to speak and think in sound bites, because that's how their message is going to be packaged in the end.
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- 01/10/2009 09:30:12 PM
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How do you change this though?
- 01/10/2009 10:51:10 PM
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Pelosi is part of the problem
- 01/10/2009 11:10:45 PM
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that was hyperbole, as he's said OVER AND OVER
- 02/10/2009 06:21:16 PM
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really which elected leaders on the right talked about death panels?
- 02/10/2009 06:41:05 PM
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Dumb column from Friedman.....read a history book.....
- 01/10/2009 11:15:46 PM
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I disagree, obviously.
- 02/10/2009 12:11:48 AM
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No, it hasn't always been like this; I think Watergate changed it, and maybe Vietnam.
- 02/10/2009 02:13:07 AM
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remarkably, i agree with the troll
- 02/10/2009 06:27:40 AM
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Partisanship, yes, but this is more than that.
- 02/10/2009 06:57:14 AM
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i see things at a different level than you do
- 02/10/2009 07:31:24 AM
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Personally, I think you're seeing the cart rather than the horse, but that's just me.
- 02/10/2009 08:14:46 AM
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- 02/10/2009 08:14:46 AM
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Not true
- 02/10/2009 12:32:58 AM
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why did we fight the Spanish American War and the War of 1812 again?
- 02/10/2009 04:18:56 AM
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You just completely undermined your point
- 02/10/2009 06:22:54 AM
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I think the role of cable news is over played
- 01/10/2009 11:29:26 PM
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Possibly.
- 02/10/2009 12:02:05 AM
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To many people distrust the media for it to be just the right who distrust them
- 02/10/2009 04:15:50 AM
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i agree that the fringe has way more power than it should, but...
- 02/10/2009 06:38:41 AM
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I think Friedman puts it very well when he says...
- 02/10/2009 11:24:02 AM
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did I read this correctly?
- 02/10/2009 03:00:33 PM
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As I already told you, this is not about "the left" complaining.
- 02/10/2009 03:38:15 PM
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it didn't become an issue until it started hurting the left
- 02/10/2009 04:44:29 PM
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Eh, many aspects of it have been criticized for a long time.
- 02/10/2009 09:12:22 PM
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also, about clinton, since you say you were too young to remember...
- 02/10/2009 06:47:45 AM
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really because my memory goes back further then that and things were nasty then to
- 02/10/2009 03:04:58 PM
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