Post by leftysergeant on Jan 4, 2008 18:35:05 GMT -5
It has to be a good sign for attitudes in America that a bi-racial candidate just walked all over the favorite of the main-stream press.
But there is another story running beneath the surface here. It has to do wirth the power of the corporate media.
Going into the race, Hillary Clinton was getting a lot of her publicity from the Rupert Murdoch news outlets. I think it is because Murdoch needs a merger-friendly FCC to help him gobble up more radio and tv stations and newspapers. He is more likely to get that from Clinton than from Obama or Edwards. Clinton is his least horrible nightmare, if the GOP gets wiped out in November.
I know where a lot of Obama's advantage came from. Oprah got the yopung people fired up and eager to do something.
Naturally, the right-wing press just dismissed the whole matter because they figured that the crowds were just there to see Oprah and it would not carry much weight come crunch time.
Well soooprize!
They followed through on that enthusiasm.
And, in a way, Oprah kind of handed Murdoch his ass on this one.
Schadenfreude is sweet.
But there is another story running beneath the surface here. It has to do wirth the power of the corporate media.
Going into the race, Hillary Clinton was getting a lot of her publicity from the Rupert Murdoch news outlets. I think it is because Murdoch needs a merger-friendly FCC to help him gobble up more radio and tv stations and newspapers. He is more likely to get that from Clinton than from Obama or Edwards. Clinton is his least horrible nightmare, if the GOP gets wiped out in November.
I know where a lot of Obama's advantage came from. Oprah got the yopung people fired up and eager to do something.
Naturally, the right-wing press just dismissed the whole matter because they figured that the crowds were just there to see Oprah and it would not carry much weight come crunch time.
Well soooprize!
They followed through on that enthusiasm.
And, in a way, Oprah kind of handed Murdoch his ass on this one.
Schadenfreude is sweet.
