“I’m Not a Leftist, But I Play One on TV” – by Jeff Cohen
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092206D.shtml
Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and a worthy media critic. Here he points out that Fox News didn’t invent the Hannity and Colmes model of right left imbalance on TV pundit talk shows, CNN did with Crossfire.
The taboo against genuine progressives as hosts was even clearer when Crossfire needed substitutes “on the left” and CNN chose Beltway centrists like Jodie Powell (President Carter’s press secretary) and Morton Kondracke (yes, the guy now on Fox … and no, he was no more progressive then). These were men who would never declare themselves to be “on the left” in real life; they seemed to wince when CNN made them say it on television.
Sort of makes you wonder .. “what are they afraid of?..is capitalism so fragile that you can’t have equally strong voices from the left?” Any system that can’t survive on open and equal exchange won’t stand the test of time … imho
– MAB
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