Pundit Country

John Cole over at Balloon Juice writes about his amazement at a recently published article concerning how the Republican health insurance reform plan received no real media analysis while the Democrats plan was not only vetted by several committees, it was torn apart every which way by every corporate media pundit in America, and yet the GOP plan was treated as if it had been vetted and given careful consideration.

I seriously do not get this country. The subservience to the Republicans by the media at least made sense when they were in the majority and held the Presidency in 2001. But this is 2009, the Republicans have been routed electorally for the past few years, everything the Republican party believed in failed miserably the last eight years and they have been exposed as total frauds, they released a budget with no numbers on April Fools day, they have been whipping up teabaggers and gun nuts into a froth for months and screaming about death panels because they have no ideas or solutions, and when they finally do release their health care “plan,” it totally and completely sucks. It is nothing but fail, fail, fail, from the GOP, they just lost two more seats in the house, they are going through a horrible (yet delicious) civil war, yet according to the media, everything is bad news for Democrats.

Sadly, it’s been this way for years due in some part to the near monopoly conservatives have had on beltway media outlets since the 1970’s. I’m afraid that absent constant pressure from groups concerned with media accuracy and transparency coupled with a political class that refuses to do business with outlets that traffic in hyperbole and rumor, this will continue to be the norm rather than the exception.

The whole piece is here.

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