Krugman Owns "This Week" (Video)
| Mon Jan. 26, 2009 7:41 AM PST
I want to build on the point that Adam Green, writing at Open Left, makes about the need for more liberals in the mainstream media. Watch the clip below from the "Roundtable" segment on yesterday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Aside from Krugman, there are no liberal voices. The others on the panel either spout tendentious re-imaginings of political and economic history (George Will) or half-baked solutions that are grounded in little to no schooling or expertise (Sam Donaldson).
Green asks, "What would this segment be like if Krugman wasn't there?" I totally agree, but not just because Krugman reps the lefty point of view. In the absence of expertise, conventional wisdom fills the void. You see that from Will, Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts. Krugman pairs a liberal perspective with actual knowledge, and it's that combo that makes him the most effective member of the panel. We need more liberals in the media, but we really more liberal experts in the media. So go out and nab those Nobel prizes, folks. There's an idea war to be won.
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The six corporations that own the bulk of the MSM are used to framing public debate by limiting the exposure given to real liberals, while providing a national platform for 'conservative pundits' to distort the issues, revising history as needed to suit their purposes.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for those six corporations to put more intelligent liberals on the air
Sam Donaldson is one big, dumb, frackin' idiot!
George Will fails to mention on unemployment is that (A) we have more illegals now than the early 80's and (B) the way that the unemployed are measured has changed considerable (ie add 2 or 3% to todays figures to get pre-Clinton figures).
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