Reply #5: MSM-Bush Administration: both part of the same franchise

[kenny blankenship]

Democrats can have positions that a majority of Americans would benefit from and that a majority may already agree with, BUT...
But the MSM tells everyone with a TV radio or newspaper/magazine subscription that really everybody agrees with Bush and the Republicans and that nobody but a few minorities agree with and identify with the Democrats. There is only one political party that is acceptable if you listen to MSM. Their favorite message is that Democrats must change or hide their message if they are ever going to be allowed to hold office. That's what they tell the country a thousand different ways every day. Would you vote for a party that you believed was unpopular, could not represent people like yourself, or HAD TO lie about itself in order to "sneak into" office? Probably not and convincing you not to is the MSM's job #1.

People may not trust MSM, but really that's irrelevant. Do people trust advertizing? Of course not, and yet advertizing is an effective, indeed essential, part of the glorious free market system--a system so free that if the brainwashing ever stopped for just 48 hours the whole thing would crash to earth. What's the most essential and critical element of advertizing? Repetition. And what does the MSM do but repeat variations of the message that big business Republicans MUST be allowed to run and re-order the government's policies and laws as they see fit, and that the Democrats cannot possibly take the reins of government without wrecking everything?

If you need to ask why MSM would paint such a distorted and one-sided picture of political parties and political sentiment in this country then explaining it to you probably won't help.