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Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by martythemaniak on Friday December 03, 2010 @11:33AM (#1966426)
I don't know about others, but the reason why I am firmly on Wikileaks' side can be clearly seen in that video. The media are a bunch of pliant, spineless, brain-dead, PR sound bite regurgitating pussies. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a media figure really dig into someone powerful and call them out on their bullshit? Everything the powerful do and say is so scripted and carefully managed that it loses any connection to reality.
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by javanix on Friday December 03, 2010 @11:41AM (#1966467)
Well, Jon Stewart for one, when he isn't being just a stand-up, does tend to call out major journalistic and political figures for their inadequacies in this regard.
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by gruseom on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:09PM (#1966603)
With extreme irregularity (i.e. when it suits him) and a disingenuous tendency to hide behind "I'm just a comedian" as soon as anyone calls him on it.
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by javanix on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:19PM (#1966653)
Well, true, but I've always read that as him not wanting to become the same sort of political lighting-rod that he hates. He was very careful to avoid any overt political associations for his rally, for instance.
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by salemh on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:18PM (#1967458)
His long interview with Rachel Maddow shows his thoughts on this quite well. (link is to an article breakdown with full-video linked) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/11/rachel-maddow-jon-s...
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by martythemaniak on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:11PM (#1966616)
True, Jon is one of the very very few. But isn't it telling that serious political discourse can now only take place on a comedy show?
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by Tangurena on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:05PM (#1966585)
PG pointed in that direction with his essay "The Submarine" and how PR firms have a total stranglehold on news media. With the huge consolidation in the media, and the main news sources all controlled by the same few companies, it makes sense why the big companies don't want to rock the boat.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators by jbooth on Friday December 03, 2010 @11:58AM (#1966556)
Yeah, that video infuriated me. We had the host and 2 out of the 3 guests just harping on about how the guy is "anti-american". For basically doing the job they're supposed to be doing. And this was on MSNBC.