Democratic Media
Listening to one of the leftist radio shows (either Democracy Now or Free Speech Radio News) on my way home tonight, I heard FAIR’s Janine Jackson giving a speech on the virtues of “democratic media". Jackson was listing all the problems in America that could supposedly be remedied with “democratic media", and one of them was the unjustified war in Iraq.
It seems to me that the Iraq war had widespread popular support. Thus, wouldn’t any truly “democratic” media have to reflect that support? Otherwise it would be undemocratic - elitist, even.
I wonder how much attention the demos would really want to pay to the author of articles like Fear and Favor: How Power Shapes the News and Anything But Racism: Media make excuses for “whitewashed” TV lineup.