{"id":13565,"date":"2010-07-08T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:05:03","slug":"quote-of-the-day-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/08\/quote-of-the-day-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: &#8220;The US no longer has an adversarial press&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uF2rEm_9KO4<\/p>\n<p><em>Four minutes and eighteen seconds of nonsensical vocables from Sarah Palin.\u00a0 On her relevant experience in foreign affairs: &#8220;Our next door neighbors are foreign countries are in the state I&#8217;m executive of [sic] . . .\u00a0 Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of America.\u00a0 Where do they go?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e have to realize that the US no longer has a truly adversarial press.  It has a commercial press that is entirely driven by fear of losing  readers and\/or viewers. Remember that the MSM allowed Palin &#8211; then a  total unknown &#8211; to go an entire campaign without an open press  conference. She knows they&#8217;re patsies. She&#8217;s much less afraid of them  than they are of her. And rightly so.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/07\/moms-just-know-when-theres-something-wrong-ctd.html#more\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Andrew Sullivan<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">*<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;The Renaissance of Books&#8221; (1973) comparing the commercial interests of the &#8220;free&#8221; press with the dictatorial control of Orwell&#8217;s telescreen in <em>1984<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the democracies, of course, radio and television reflect the economic anxieties of selling and making profits through consumer goods rather than the political anxieties of censorship and thought control, but the cultural consequences have many parallels.\u00a0 Newspapers also become one-way streets in proportion to their preoccupation with headlines and deadlines: however, the competition of television is now forcing them to becomes something more like journals of opinion.\u00a0 (<em>CW<\/em> 11, 154)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roger Ailes, president of Fox News in January: &#8220;I&#8217;m not in politics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in ratings.\u00a0 We&#8217;re winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uF2rEm_9KO4 Four minutes and eighteen seconds of nonsensical vocables from Sarah Palin.\u00a0 On her relevant experience in foreign affairs: &#8220;Our next door neighbors are foreign countries are in the state I&#8217;m executive of [sic] . . .\u00a0 Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of America.\u00a0 Where do they go?&#8221; &#8220;[W]e have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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