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I think the Corporate Media's behavior can partly be explained by the extreme pressure brought to bear by the right. They are able to marshall thousands of rude, bullying, threatening blog posts, letters, e-mails, boycott threats, speeches on the House floor, and so on everytime the media says or does something they don't like. They got Dan Rather fired, for cripes sake. Media figures are understandably frightened of offending them. The left is unable to match that level of threatening behavior. For example, look at the difference in what happened with the Reagan miniseries, and the execrable ABC show blaming Bill Clinton for 9/11. There were attempts by the left to yank the ABC show, but it went forward anyway. Why is that? Partly because the left is not willing to get it's s**t together and get really angry and focus that anger.
