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The media certainly has a big impact because it has to. I mean, save for word of mouth, how else would you find out about the candidates? Newspapers, television, internet and books are our means of connecting with a world beyond our immediate person. Thus these things have immense control over our interpretation of the world, but since none of them represent this monolithic structure that we call "the media", we can expect degrees of truth as a result of the conflicting viewpoints expressed in all these media forms.

If you pay close attention to the debate moderators, you will see that they are dismissive in their tone when addressing Kusinich. One went so far as to laugh and roll his eyes. The message was clearly, "Don't take this guy seriously. He is a joke. It is safe to ignore his message."

How can she say the media does not have a big impact on polls, if i am just your average citizen, i am probably only watching 30 minutes of news, either from cnn, or fox or whatever other channel they prefer. If they only talk about 2 or 3 candidates that are so called "top tier" then that is the only exposure that people are going to get as who is running.

the bigger question is it the media choose their stories and their candidates before the race even starts, but is it the media's fault that people don't bother to research candidates on their own.

This woman is nuts..the media CLEARLY has a huge effect on the polls

Hey,

One more thing, does the guy at media matters ever dissect any false hoods in the media about Republican candidates, left wing media and pundits?

Question for Brooke:

Brooke:

talking about Honesty.

Here's a question for YOUR show

Why are all the politicians DENYING the obvious fact that we will be in IRAQ for the next

20-25 years.

Not at current troop levels, but what about the
bases that were built IMEDDIATELY as we got to IRAQ???

Not a single candidate has admittedf tht they won't be able to REALLY do anything to SIGNIFICANTLY reduce troops there!

MarkB

The problem that we have to address is "Why are politicians phony?"

Limiting this to the "front runners" is that if you say controversial things that a person agrees with, you are authentic. If the person doesn't agree with you, you are divisive, polarizing etc.

This is sales. You sell your self in a way so that you can make the sale (votes).

If people were better educated, had some level of intellectual and emotional maturity you would get better politicians.

Let's face the facts we get the political process, the candidates and the government we deserve!

SHE'S PAID HER BILL

Hillary boasts of her eight White House years

As the campaign approaches a crescendo,

And just who will deny that experience counts--

Years of coping with rumor and innuendo.