Archive for Media Criticism
Ringside with McCain
With all the images and references to boxing offered by the media, this image caught my attention. I was recently informed that McCain has played an active role in Boxing legislation so he’s no stranger to the sweet science. The symbolism here is too obvious but do notice the two men in the foreground with clinched fists cheering on McCain. With this photo the Times actively reinforces the message explicit in McCain’s visual props.
See the accompanying article here.
Thought Process Flowchart: Maureen Dowd
Finally a flowchart explaining how “Modo’s” mind works. This is absolutely hilarious. Unfortunately she still gets prime real estate at the New York Time’s to spew her filth. She’s been at it a long time. Remember back in 1999 when she wrote about Al Gore:
“Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he’s practically lactating” (June 16, 1999).
From 236.com. More at the link.
ABC hearts McCain: this puree of pure irrelevancies
Paul Rosenberg slices and dices the latest ABC shrill for McCain. A great analysis exposing the practice of subjective balance or perhaps imbalanced objectivism.
The post also contains a link to his terrific review of the new book, Free Ride: John McCain and the Media by David Brock and Paul Waldman of Media Matters. My copy was delivered this morning.
Anyone with an ounce of sense listening–sans kool aid–to this puree of pure irrelevancies would immediately conclude that McCain was showing the strains of his age, and needed to take a good long nap-say until sometime after the November election. Except of course, that such witless blathering has become totally normalized as a mainstay of our political discourse over the course of the past three decades.