01 Nov '15 20:49>
Originally posted by EladarBecause outside your ultra-right-wing bubble, mainstream voters recognize that the media is owned by conglomerates motivated by turnover and advertising sales, not Yuri Andropov, Chernenko or Philip and Elizabeth's handlers from The Americans.
How is recognizing today's media as being no better than pravda going to go down poorly with voters?
Maybe voters in the North East who are no better than Communists anyway.
Over my lifetime I've seen politicians of all stripes and parties attack the media, and from Wilson through Major to the current GOP candidates (the latter of whom have a much poorer case than the former in terms of the way they're being presented) , all of it falls flatter than a pancake with the electorate, who expect their self-appointed leaders to at the very least stand up for themselves and take flak. If you're in public life, you're certainly entitled to whine at the small part of the media you don't own and can't yet abolish, but you have a bully pulpit, media time and a party machine, and if you can't handle the pressure, make way for someone less sensitive.