Thursday 3 September 2009

how the media caved in to the wingnuts

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/if-it-screams-it-leads-by-dday-ive.html

The stringer said he was one of 10 people around the country assigned to watch such encounters. Price said he was told flatly: "Your meeting doesn't get covered unless it blows up." As it happens, the Durham audience was broadly sympathetic to reform efforts. No "news" there.


So...the media cravenly insisted they wanted to see fights, and the wingnuts gave them fights. And that's all they reported for a solid month. That, and the GOP's lies.

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