Conspiracy theorists are not going to like this one
More precisely, by conspiracy theorists I mean people who have been arguing that the Bush and Sarkozy administrations had been using their connections with media barons to influence the public opinion and thus, voters (Let’s leave Berlusconi and Putin out of this…).
Menzie Chinn reports on a recent study by University of Chicago professors Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro, who use standard econometric methods (which is why this subject is not too far away from the usual posts on this blog) to explain what drives a newspaper’s political orientation. Two main conclusions: a paper’s political orientation is very correlated to “the political orientation of people living within the paper’s market”, and “the politics of the paper’s owner seem to matter much less”. Chinn continues:
Gentzkow and Shapiro conclude that papers to some degree are just giving their readers what the readers want so as to maximize the newspapers’ profits.
The full study is here.
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1st draft notes from a very angry serious activist organizer, cutting edge boat-rocker and all around Concerned Citizen:
I’M PUNCHING UP
WOW! How do you elected officials in Congress live with yourselves after what you ALLOWED to happen to this nation? I was asking that question from 1997 to 2008 BUT I DIDN’T EXPECT TO STILL BE ASKING SUCH QUESTIONS IN MARCH OF 2010. I thought the American PEOPLE made it perfectly CLEAR what they WANTED in the last election… Y’know, all that about CHANGE, ETHICS, RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY.
I’m pretty sure I can speak for most of the Concerned Citizens of America (WHO, by the way, volunteered so much to get Obama and the Democrats ELECTED for just such a purpose) I’M NOT FEELING THE CHANGE on the vital issues of our day. If you politicHO’s think you’re going to do business as usual selling the American people out to Multi-National Corporate special interests then you must be #*~/’n INSANE!
I didn’t work so hard for Democrats so they could carry on Bush/Cheney/Paulson policy and the m’#*~/‘n PATRIOT ACT?
But it’s the Blue Dog Democrats that screwed up BIGTIME! You middle-of-the-road @$$holes gave power BACK to a damned Republican minority… You C@*/$ m*~/^#!’s ruined any hopes I still had in me for CHANGE. I CURSE YOU traitors to the worst part of hell. I hope all that talk about revolution, chopping the aristocrats up and feeding them to the homeless, IS TRUE! Cause you Blue Dogs would be the FIRST ON MY LIST! How’s that for being the wacky LEFT?
I blame the news media the most for NOT living up to their public service, 4th Estate obligations to provide responsible journalism and legitimate investigative reporting on the vital issues of our day. I DON’T CARE TO KNOW ABOUT THE LATEST CELEBRITY WORSHIP GOSSIP or sensational murder case/trial… GIVE ME SOMETHING I CAN USE TO PROBLEM SOLVE.
It’s because of you news SELL-OUTS that right-wing fanatical MORONS are STILL able to drive public policy. Does ANYONE believe that the Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin/Rush Limbaugh GROUPIES would have ANY political clout if you news media HO’s weren’t providing these extremist nutcases with undo attention?
Did you provide national coverage to Left-wing protest movements? I hardly saw a news story about the 10’s of 1000’s who gathered to protest the war in Iraq or all the waste, fraud, abuse, incompetence, scandal, corruption, reckless economics, arms dealing, war profiteering, Constitutional violations and a Corporate Crime Wave of EPIC PROPORTIONS. With a side of GOVERNMENT welfare for the rich… Did you so called fiscal conservatives do a #*~/’n thing while the scheming silver spoons privatized profits and socialized loses?
Ohhhh I know, I KNOW the Liberals did IT! If one is weal-minded enough then the Conservative Labyrinth, think tank propaganda machine BRAINWASHED you to believe EVERYTHING can be blamed on Liberals/Progressives. Ohhh, and that Global Warming is a lie… Has ANYONE ever tried to have a reasonable DEBATE with a Dittohead? You’d get more content going to the zoo and talking to the monkeys.
Did Andrea Mitchell or any of the highly paid national news anchors let the public KNOW about how Alan Greenspan was promoting FRAUD on Wall St? NO! Did you go to Florida during the 2000 presidential election to make sure ALL the votes were counted? NO! Did you COWARDS find out where all those missing BILLIONS of dollars and 175,000 weapons disappeared to in Iraq? NO! Did you provide the Tea Baggers and anti-health Care reform Conservatives with the legitimate information they needed so they wouldn’t come off looking like a bunch of holier-than-thou mental deficient’s?
Even though Republicans in Congress are now giving Americans the middle finger… these brainwashed idiots keep voting for Republican Party, silver spoon, con artists that want to turn freedom into a delicate concept and turn the USA into a Corporate owned, slave labor, Police State OR Communist China? HELL NO!
AND WHAT ABOUT THAT DISTURBING Supreme court decision giving MORE POWER TO MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS TO INFLUENCE OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS? What happen to THAT story?
You so-called ELECTED representatives of the PEOPLE and 3 branches of government better get back to working for the best interests of the American PEOPLE or there will be such an uprising of angry bold Concerned Citizens not even your law enforcement agents will be able to help you…
NOTE: (Hey ask Reginald Denny where the police were while he was getting his head crushed in on Florance and Normandy… Cops were 12 blocks away watching it on TV)
“I’M AS MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE”
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