This was inevitable with the economic crisis. In The Nation magazine, leftist media critics John Nichols and Robert McChesney announce their utopian intentions to have the government intervene heavily in the media sphere and spread their tentacles all over the project of insuring an "independent" media in every American city and town. It’s time for an "immediate journalism economic stimulus," and then a much bigger government "investment" in public broadcasting. If that sounds like jamming the accelerator on funding a feistier left-wing PBS/NPR/Pacifica axis, you would be exactly right: [inane arguments - snip]
If these names are not familiar, they are certainly well known on the radical left. Together, they wrote a book called Tragedy and Farce lamenting coverage of Iraq and the re-election of George Bush: they argued
"that during the 2004 election and throughout the Iraq war and occupation, Americans have been starved of democracy’s oxygen: accurate information.
More than anything John Kerry, George Bush, or even Karl Rove did, the media’s miscoverage of the campaign and war decided the election."
[No, you read it right: these media luminaries seriously contend that the media's coverage of the Iraq war, by 2004, was an aid to getting Bush re-elected. Cue alternate-universe music {I've no idea what that is, but these folks are obviously hearing it}]
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