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September 7, 2005
Waking the Sleeping Giant
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
Jack Shafer, Slate's editor at large, has a wonderful piece (The Rebellion of the Talking Heads) listing a bunch of times in the past few days when mainstream media (MSM) have had enough and started calling a spade a spade when talking to government officials. I would dearly love to have a functional Fourth Estate in this country again, because I believe that MSM still has a huge influence on the course of thought and political policy in the US. I'm just sickened that it took something of this magnitude to jolt them finally out of their passivity.
EDIT 9/8: As usual, Jon Stewart says it way more funny than I do, comparing MSM to a fat drunk in a NJ bar, stirred to sudden action.
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1. Seth Finkelstein on September 7, 2005 4:21 PM writes...
Hurricanes don't have high-priced lobbyists and PR firms.
Permalink to Comment2. Nadine on September 9, 2005 12:56 AM writes...
Correction. Hurricanes don't *need* high-priced lobbyists and PR firms. They sweep in and say... "Oh, is that all you did since my brother was here? Well then this is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me."
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