This is interesting:
The left-wing blogosphere is declaring an all-out
war against the mainstream media - desperately concerned that
inside-the-Beltway reporter-love for D.C. fixture McCain is already
creating too large a mountain for any Democratic nominee to scale.
"This campaign is not going to be between the Democrats and the
Republicans," said Philadelphia's Duncan Black, who writes under
the name Atrios and whose highly popular progressive political
blog, named Eschaton, inspired the gathering of bloggers and
political activists called Eschacon '08.
"It's between the Democrats and the media."
Jay Rosen has lots more
here.And
if you're interested in the relationship between McCain and the
media I highly recommend this
Rolling Stone dispatch by David Foster Wallace, published
during the 2000 primaries.
On a related note, if your candidate is Barack Obama and you're
worried that the media loves the other guy too much... well, you're
probably unlikely to ever feel as though your candidate is being
treated fairly, to put it charitably.
topics:
Barack Obama, Mainstream Media
