Ted Rall for April 30, 2014

wondered: “when are they going after the media who attacks for the liberals for free?”

Agreed, bloody socialists. They should charge for it.How much are you being paid?

You’re right, Ted. We shouldn’t let voters know who the fat cat backers of candidates are. Disclosure is a very, very bad thing.

The only thing that is going to save the Middle Class is the Middle Class. We are the 99%—- that means we have the votes to elect people who will actually represent middle class workers and provide a safety net for those who are trying to get into the middle class.

We all need to know who is supporting the candidates. That is who they will be working for. They have no choice if they want to stay in office. You have to do the bidding of whoever is paying your way, just the same as we all do in our jobs. So, before going to vote, look it up on the internet. Open Secrets is a good site, but there are plenty.

If the candidate is getting their money from small donors or from unions, they are going to be working for middle class working people. If their donations are from corporations or from 1%ers, that’s who their votes are going to be working for. They are not going to go against them and do anything to help the middle class.

It would be political suicide.

Oh, c’mon, get real. The media in the US has been firmly center — at best — for ages now.Then there’s this:

A “meta-analysis” of bias studies — that is, a study of studies — shows something different: When all is said and done, left-leaning reporting is balanced by reporting more favorable to conservatives. “The net effect is zero,” said David D’Alessio, a communications sciences professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford.

D’Alessio drew his conclusion from reviewing 99 studies of campaign news coverage undertaken over six decades for his newly published work, “Media Bias in Presidential Election Coverage 1948-2008: Evaluation via Formal Measurement.” The research, he says, shows that news reporting tends to point toward the middle, “because that’s where the people are, and that’s where the [advertising] money is. . . . There’s nuance there, but when you add it all and subtract it down, you end up with nothing.”

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I find the left right goose-step of American politcal debate funny. I am referring to the comments here. Rall is not taking sides here as far as I can read. Just commenting on the way media in the U.S. sets up the “debate” around campaign publicity. What most Americans do not seem to get is that the monster of politics American style has developed this way because the system permits it to. Left or right, the noise is deafening. However, the GOP still needs to learn to communicate in the 21st century. With no apologies to Karl Rove and the Koch Bros. and their control of TV advertizing dollars.

Well put.

More like: “Prosperous Americans for Prosperity”!