NRN: How the Media Learned to Bend Over Backward to Please the Right (7.18.08), Note: Low audio until 1:20 From the third annual (2008) gathering of the ...

NRN: How the Media Learned to Bend Over Backward to Please the Right (7.18.08)

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July 18, 2008
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Note: Low audio until 1:20

From the third annual (2008) gathering of the progressive netroots live at Netroots Nation in Austin, TX.

FRI, 07/18/2008 - 1:30PM, Exhibit Hall 4
Once upon a time, dramatic TV coverage of showdowns in Birmingham and Selma made the media equal partners in the struggle to civilize America. After the 1968 Democratic Convention,however, executives startled to learn that most Americans reviled the media for "taking the protesters' side" set in motion the broken mainstream media dynamic of today: bending over backward to please a mythic "middle America," patronizing even the most popular liberal political expressions as "elitist." Building on Rick Perlstein's NIXONLAND, this panel will explore this pattern's causes and consequences, and whether and how online activism might change it.

PANELISTS: Paul Krugman, "Digby" Parton, Rick Perlstein, Duncan Black

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