Call me old-fashioned, but I could not believe last night's convention coverage: they were analyzing things as if it were college sports.
I sat down with my sons last night to watch the convention coverage, thinking I was exposing them to something important, and I was amazed. It was truly like football game analysis -- the news has turned into football game analysis! The media have kept this race close so that the public will keep tuning in.
I was watching MSNBC and CNN -- but it felt like ESPN. I watched as they started talking about how Michelle would be a different dressing First Lady. That was actually a point of conversation! How about: Is Obama's energy policy on point? Is McCain backing a new Cold War? Is there a chance McCain's cancer will reoccur? These are the kinds of questions I want to see discussed -- not how Michelle Obama's wardrobe will differ from previous First Ladies.
And how about discussing how McCain twisted a Jay Leno joke about how he owns 7 houses into a diatribe about being forced to live in a box for five years? With all due respect to him, one has nothing to do with the other. Maybe McCain is losing it. When my father was 72 he started to forget things. I still loved and respected him -- but that doesn't mean I wanted him to be president.
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Stop watching the MSM circus. Until more Americans do this and start getting their news from legitimate sources, the advertising dollars will keep flowing to these "news" organizations and they will get worse.
It's all about the money bro, no ratings, no advertising dollars, no voice.
OBAMA NEEDS TO MAKE MEDIA CONSOLIDATION A CAMPAIGN ISSUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The disrespect to the speakers is incredibly rude. If this were 4 years ago, Barack Obama would not have made the cut with his speech. The producers and directors of CNN and MSNBC should be fired. I'm tired of James Carville and the other so-called experts pontificating. Say it once and get on with the actual, live coverage of everyone speaking, not just the "stars"!
You're in the entertainment business and you're surprised that news goes for an entertainment spin? I'm not buying it. As for the cracks about John McCain's age, why no mention of Biden's 66 years? If you're going to use age against McCain then the argument that youth (relatively speaking) has a downside...inexperience...is completely acceptable. Maybe you're frustrated because you see that Obama has been stumbling lately. If I were an Obama supporter I'd be concerned about the stage for his acceptance speech. Greek columns? And the Democrats wonder why Obama can't shake the elitist tag.
American media establishment have been proved liars and water carriers for an all too willfully lying Washington administration. We can take back our power, turn off American media until we get proper "journalism." 


So long as we continue to watch these gongs shows they'll keep delivering us clown acts. When will Americans jump off the carousel?


You have other media choices. You have the freedom to choose. Why not make a better choice for yourself and your family? Send American media a strong message: Give us honest journalism or we'll find it elsewhere.
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http://healinganation.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/georgias-on-everybodys-mind/


Baracck Obama, annoyed by the persistent airing of the lying, filthy Republican terrorist ad, is "organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12816.html


There used to be a time when media were responsible to the American public for their content. There used to be a time when media had to prove they were serving the public good. Now they flip their middle finger at us.
How would you respond if every time you went to a shopping mall, every employee inside flipped their middle finger at you?
In this culture, whatever is on TV --sports, reality shows, politics, natural and unnatural distasters, wars...- are all just another roadside attraction.
This includes all criticism of the above.
During Gov. Schweitzer's speech (also seen as background to one of the setups that MSNBC kept tossing to and from), the "experts" yammered on about how the Democrats were failing to "go after McCain as being like Bush." Meanwhile - you guessed it - Schweitzer could be seen and heard on CSPAN giving Busch/McCain a serious drubbing to thunderous applause.
Chris Matthews actually drools when he talks about "smashmouth politics," gleefully willing one of the most important events in American History into a twisted metaphor for the Philadelphia streetcorners of his youth.
I'm making an urgent plea to the wizards out there who could put together such a clip, and a companion plea for other readers to build some demand for it. I'll bet a Huffpost blogger would publish it. Maybe it would go viral, and expose the media sham (shame) to a wider audience.
I'm amazed that, DURING speeches that are blasting McCain as being more of the same, these "political experts" are blasting democrats about how they aren't hitting on the issues hard enough. Weeeellll, if you actually went to the SPEAKERS, you'd notice that they are doing a pretty good job thus far. One of my favorites has been Claire McCaskill (MO). She's been awesome...and so was Schweitzer! He tore the roof off IMO...great set-up for HRC.
Here is my prediction: in an effort to drum up ratings and keep this race close, these "political experts" are going to be huge fans of the RNC. They'll note how the republicans have hit hard on "substance" (ie-Obama's flag pin, his "exoticism", his lack of patriotism, his celebritydom, how he bodysurfs, Ayers, Rezko, M.Obama's hairdo, etc.--you know, the real SUBSTANCE), and things look bad for Obama. Then they'll roll out the new "polls" that state that McCain has taken the lead firmly over Obama. THen they'll wonder aloud why...but won't connect the dots to themselves.