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  • It's only business Glenn

    [Read the article: The American media's fringe ideological view of Pelosi's trip]
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    Why does the MSM stick to the tried-and-true -- macho chest-beating and mindlessly recycling neocon shibboleths? Because that's what sells, obviously. Recall, the MSM is only directly "consumed" by about 10% of the population -- "Hardball," "MTP," "Nightly News" and "O'Reilly" fans -- so it only needs to satisfy that group. About 7% of the group believes and is sustained by those myths casting America as the new Sparta, and the other 3% -- Atrios, Kos, you, even me to a very small extent -- get off on making fun of and remonstrating against those who propound them. Just as Colbert makes a living mocking O'Reilly, and Limbuagh does the same mocking Hilary, all the right and left-wing bloggers get something -- money, publicity, self-esteem -- from endlessly exposing each other's intellectual fraudulence.

    Saturday, April 7, 2007 12:12 PM

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