And the "media food chain" threat has gone from orange to red.
Once it was just one crafty and inordinately powerful capitalist pulling the strings of largely innocent, mostly unwilling, puppets.
Now there are myriads of Richard Mellon Scaife's in pajamas pulling a vast conspiritorial network of strings with irresistible force.
Horrific nightmares must be afflicting the deserving.
From a New York Times article reporting the views of a cabal of contra-right retrograde reactionary regressives ("Agressive Progressives", in their own view):
Mr. Fertik [, president of the democrats.com blog,] maintains that the blurring of boundaries has benefited left-wing bloggers less than their adversaries on the right, saying that reports posted on conservative blogs more easily make the jump to the main news media. "The way we perceive it," he said, "is that right-wing bloggers are able to invent stories, get them out on Drudge, get them on Rush Limbaugh, get them on Fox, and pretty soon that spills over into the mainstream media. We, the progressives, we don't have that kind of network to work with."
From a Wall Street Journal report of a Clinton administration press release about the diabolical use of the media food chain by a charter member of the vast right wing conspiracy:
Bill Clinton's Whitewater problems are due to a "media food chain" through which conservative philanthropist Richard Scaife engineers a "media frenzy"--at least according to a White House report running 331 pages. The notion: Mr. Scaife's funding of the Western Journalism Center and publication of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review introduces "conspiracy theories and innuendo," which are then picked up by the likes of the American Spectator magazine and London's Sunday Telegraph. From there they enter the "right-of-center mainstream media," such as the Washington Times and this editorial page. Then Congress looks into the matter and "the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by the remainder of the American mainstream press as a 'real' story."
Chortling over his newly disclosed power, Mr. Scaife asks, "Now that George Stephanopoulos is going to ABC, does that mean he'll be working for me?" Yet the report from the White House counsel's office--entitled "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" and coupling a series of brief analyses with a large package of press clips and Internet gleanings--demonstrates the extremes of White House press management. Lanny Davis, the new White House special counsel for scandals, says the report was created "in response to press inquiries and provided to journalists who asked." Mr. Davis complied with this newspaper's request for a copy, but declined to respond to questions.
Link to the latest media food chain scandal found at Lucianne.com. Interesting comments there. Particularly #5, nevernaught's:
When an article mentions liberal bloggers and is in the NYT, one knows there's trouble in tutu land.
