Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Liberal Media
I have often wondered where the concept of the liberal media in the United States came from. I survey the media landscape and all I can see is a conservative media and a mainstream media. Where is the liberal equivalent of Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly? And if there is none, how did the term "liberal media" come into being?
Eric Alterman addresses similar issues in The Nation. He writes -- Liberals are now grappling with a problem not unlike that facing the far right forty years ago: how to get one's ideas across through media that twist and distort them beyond recognition? It is hardly an academic question.
Eric Alterman addresses similar issues in The Nation. He writes -- Liberals are now grappling with a problem not unlike that facing the far right forty years ago: how to get one's ideas across through media that twist and distort them beyond recognition? It is hardly an academic question.
