re: #596 albusteve

yes, the liberal MSM beast that chose, then crowned BO for us

You’d be surprised. Much of the left loathes the MSM just as much as you do.

One stereotype on the right is that the MSM has a liberal bias all the time and rolled over and crowned Obama.

Yet much of the left, and nearly all of the progressive/liberal left (and especially the blogosphere) despises the MSM and has done for years. They feel the problem isn’t that the MSM shows liberal bias—but that the MSM engages in shallow reporting, is stupid, is lazy, and is far more interested in preserving its friendships with whatever Administration is in power than it is in doing its job. They’re nicknamed the “chattering class” or the “the Village” on the lib/progressive blogs: a group of rich talking heads that set the tone of our discourse and drive the narrative and are completely ignorant.

In other words, liberals might acknowledge that the MSM this time favoured Obama and pushed narratives that helped him…but they’ll point out that last time the MSM was pushing narratives that demonised democrats. They don’t like the MSM any better because the MSM decided to love Obama this time. They hate the MSM because they believe it’s never interested in doing real reporting or being honest whoever’s narrative they’re pushing.