Beating the Press - Literally

only in America could a man who has called the corporatized, in-the-tank, mainstream media his "base" -- the media that made him its darling and hailed him for his supposed "straight talk" -- run against that very same media, bashing it figuratively while "peace officers" were doing so quite literally in the streets of St. Paul, in a manner unseen since the Sixties and the Chicago days of Daley and the subsequent Nixonian "nattering nabobs of negativity" era. Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

The mainstream media certainly has its problems -- problems that include a downturn in revenue and its well publicized lack of skepticism during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Nevertheless, I still find a lot of accurate information in the plainly written newspapers that I read and believe that an institution so routinely attacked from both the left and the right must have value.

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