The Tea Party is the first true new media movement. It's the first mass uprising to organize outside and against the press, because—according to the helpful New York Times poll reprinted in Zernike's book—it doesn't trust it and it doesn't need it. Activists find out about meetings through Facebook or TaxDayTeaParty.com, and come armed with information from WorldNetDaily or Glenn Beck's multiplatform factoid machine. They'll still talk to reporters, because appearing in print still ads a kind of credibility and fame that can promote the movement. There's just no pretense that the activist needs the media to succeed. (Also, during the reporting of his book, Bunch became a fellow at Media Matters, which will probably allow most activists to dismiss him as an agent of S.O.R.O.S.)
Still, if liberals want to read this book up for the stories of crazies being crazy, they're in here. Bunch goes beyond Nashville to the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, to the Pittsburgh suburb that produced the deranged cop-killer Richard Poplawski, and to the Arizona political rallies where, for a little while, it looked like J.D. Hayworth would capitalize on recession-driven immigration panic and oust John McCain. But Bunch, writing for a liberal audience, understands exactly why two years of surging unemployment would lead people to right-wing populism. He just thinks they're being scammed.
Why should the TEA Party reject the main stream media that makes up evidence to tell their stories, like the NBC side saddle gas tank, like Dan Rather accepting a false service record for "W"?
All media slants, so why not listen to the media that supports your beliefs?
Too many on the Left accept the print as gospel, but I can remember at least 2 Pulitzer winning series that were found to be falsified. One even featured a fictional protagonist.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Stop..Its a corporate media..It's owned, operated and serves corporate interests, and if you don't even know that there's no point in discussing anything, any further with you...SS109-Come back after you learn the 123,s and ABC's of how the world works...
She can't right now, she is working 50 hours a week!!!!
You decide Wayne, are we ANGRRRRRRRY or just gullible?
You can paint things your way all you like, but the truth is we are angry at what people like you will allow our government to get away with and keep on defending it!!!!!!!! Most rational Democrats are refusing to be part of what Obama is doing, because they can see the anger growing in this country.
Nmysys wrote: She can't right now, she is working 50 hours a week!!!!
You decide Wayne, are we ANGRRRRRRRY or just gullible?
You can paint things your way all you like, but the truth is we are angry at what people like you will allow our government to get away with and keep on defending it!!!!!!!! Most rational Democrats are refusing to be part of what Obama is doing, because they can see the anger growing in this country.
Hey Einstien, how come you wern't angry when Bush emptied the treasury and put our kids in debt forever...? Where were you then- Nothing like closing the barn door after the horses have bolted.
All I can say about all you whiney,hateful,hysterical progressive/liberal/DemonCrat types is wait until the results of the coming election cycle to see just how far you are off the mark...I don't think you realize how small a percentage of the population you really are. I get news feeds from the left, right, and center to be an informed individual and make educated decisions. All I see from any of you is vile innuendo without any factual basis. For example, you keep bashing FOX, but you never refute what they say with verifiable facts. Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al...you always insult them ala Alinski, and never come up with any intelligent, well thought out fact based discussion, and that is to your detriment... rofllol
