If you support a progressive agenda, then support a progressive candidate.
Check out the first segment of the most recent episode of the Media Project, from WAMC public radio.
In it, a listener (myself) asks the following:
Given the results of a recent Zogby poll in which 44 percent said they "believe the United States' system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections," doesn't this discredit the corporate media's rationalization that they ignore "third party" candidates because no one is interested in them?
Listen to Times-Union editor Rex Smith's response to this. He claims that it's not the media's job to drum up support for smaller party and independent candidates. He doesn't say what IS the media's job though. I naively thought it was to provide the public the information they needed to make an informed choice at the ballot box. And Smith can't quite figure out why newspaper sales are tanking.
It's hard to listen to this segment without wanting to puke... or to laugh hysterically. It contains more spin than Karl Rove in a G Force machine.
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