** A televisual fairyland..why CBS puked, etc.

Link: Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | A televisual fairyland.

A televisual fairyland

The US media is disciplined by corporate America into promoting the Republican cause

George Monbiot
Tuesday January 18, 2005

On Thursday, the fairy king of fairyland will be recrowned. He was elected on a platform suspended in midair by the power of imagination. He is the leader of a band of men who walk through ghostly realms unvisited by reality. And he remains the most powerful person on earth.

How did this happen? How did a fantasy president from a world of make believe come to govern a country whose power was built on hard-headed materialism? To find out, take a look at two squalid little stories which have been concluded over the past 10 days.

Read the rest at the site. How the US corporate media is actually viewed in the rest of the world. Of course, this blogger has indicated tthat CBS and Rather caved way too soon and never did put up a fight which would have meant digging like hell into the Bush history they had so studiously ignored in the prior election.

Stay tuned even if blogger is just posting opinion that supports his worst thoughts about US "liberal media".---- Doug Wiken