Comments on: Newsweek Editor on WH vs. FNC: “A Song That Has Not Worn Well”

By: straitshooter

straitshooter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:05:29 +0000

Meacham knows he’s the captain of a sinking ship. They’ve pulled out all the stops with a series of clumsy juvenile covers this year (Telling Rush to shut up, Pulling the Plug on Granny, etc.), and yet they can’t buy controversy to save their jobs. He has two choices: Hire some conservatives and endure the wrath of the left or stick with the redesign and the hard-left approach and die a slow, expensive death. It’s classic supply and demand economics, Meacham. There’s too much of your product, and yes, you are chopped liver that’s been left out in the sun. There’s not enough prominent conservative journalism out there (Fox News and, um, well, hmmm …) so they are laughing all the way to the bank. Meacham, maybe you can scrub toilets at Newscorp after you get fired.

By: Pat Doherty

Pat Doherty — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:24:17 +0000

Is there a more insufferably pedantic member of the commentariat than Jon Meacham? Perhaps he could enlighten the philistines again about Obama’s “Burkean conservatism.”

By: CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:40 +0000

Obviously Newsweek (which is in bed with Keith Olbermann) forgets that the study of the election coverage showed that FNC gave Obama more positive coverage and less negative coverage than they gave McCain. So its really stupid to talk about their influence, or rather lack thereof, when they were giving Obama better coverage.

By: Jim R

Jim R — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:19:59 +0000

On Anna’s article she’s right on the money that Obama was not and is not as liberal as some supporters thought and as detractors continue to claim in their demonization scheme.

She’s also right about incremental progress being the rule on big issues in our country’s history, but in my opinion she overplays the divided government reason and underplays the special interests virtual ownership of our political leadership since the 1976 Buckely V Valeo decision that legalized bribery.

As to Mr. Meacham’s perpetual concern trolling for the left in concurring with the conventional wisdom that the WH shouldn’t take on Fox, his take is old school Broderite/Gergen capitulating mindset that have shown Democrats to be weak Republican-lite and unwilling to stand by their principles.

The new media mandates that untruths and smears be refuted vigorously and quickly (ask John Kerry) from here on out. Wishing for the old days when intelligence, class, and being right on the issues wins the day are long over.

I haven’t heard a word from the punditry anywhere that maybe, just maybe, some older middle class and retired people hearing for the first time that their beloved Fox News might not necessarily have their best interests at heart, and might being skewing the news to support rich corporate interests’; that maybe this will have a significant effect on the 2010 mid-terms. Just maybe.