Monday Madness [Media Whores]

¡Hola! Everybody...
Vacation starts this Friday! I’m going to an intensive meditation retreat (one I missed when Mother Dear was visiting recently), and then maybe spend a few days in New Hampshire at someone’s cabin. I never thought of NH as a suitable vacation destination until a former girlfriend convinced me. It’s very beautiful.

I have a busy week up ahead!

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-=[ Media Whores ]=-

Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.

--Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786

I first caught wind of this stink here. If you check out today’s blog photo, you will find the following from Meet the Press’ David Gregory to the people who handle the hooker governor from SC. It reads:

“Look, you guys have a lot of pitches... I get it and I know this is a tough situation... Let me say just this is a place to have a wider conversation with some context about not just the personal but also the future for him and the party... This situation only exacerbates the issue of how the GOP recovers when another national leader suffers a setback like this. So coming on Meet the Press allows you to frame the conversation how you really want to... and then move on. You can see you have done your interview and then move on. Consider it.” [emphasis added]

This is beyond putrid and it takes away whatever sympathy I may have regarding the slow death of the corporate-owned news media. A man or woman attempting such behavior on a street corner would be arrested for prostitution and rightly so. I submit that journalists today are more concerned about maintaining “access” than actually serving as a watchdog against entrenched power. Rarely have I witnessed such blatant pandering and brown-nosing.

Simply put, Gregory was willing to trade access on his show in exchange for an opportunity to “frame the conversation how you really want to…and then move on.” To borrow the idiotic line by uber-neocon Grover Norquist regarding government: I want to shrink the MSM until we can “drown it in a bathtub.” These are not “news” organizations. They are infomercials for corporatist ideology.

Love,

Eddie