Ten Things You Can Do to Help Progressive Journalism
3rd April 2010
A distillation of the Crustian worldview. Usually they aren’t this honest.
What’s wrong with this picture? Air America vanishes into the ether, while Glenn Beck indoctrinates 2.7 million daily viewers with his histrionic brand of right-wing lunacy. Independent news agencies must continuously solicit donations from readers to stay afloat, while hate-filled shock jock Rush Limbaugh makes $50 million a year.
Of course, there’s nothing ‘wrong’ with this picture in the eyes of anybody who realizes that broadcasting is a business and in that business those who produce content that people are willing to pay for will win out of people who don’t. ‘Progressives’ are champions at refusing to accept this reality and feel moved to make up their own facts to substitute for those that the world hands them. (Anybody who can call Rush Limbaugh a ‘shock jock’ with a straight face has so tenuous a connection with reality that it’s probably a medical condition.)
The Nation and TheNation.com are part of a progressive journalistic community that is challenging the right in every medium.
To massive yawns. That’s what burns their asses the most, and leads to the meme that The People are just too stupid to know what’s good for them. Funny how that works.
Below are ten steps you can take to help keep progressive journalism alive:….
Needless to say, it’s also a great blueprint for resisting ‘progressive’ journalism. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.
April 8th, 2010 at 18:36
Some of the same people who think that Rush Limbaugh is a “shock jock” see nothing wrong with Howard Stern’s attitude and treatment of other people.