Peter Daou, Kerry's former "netroots" advisor, recognizes that the Republican Party works effectively with rightwing blogs to get its message out through the corporate media, but the Democratic Party doesn't. Here's a dead-on explanation of this asymmetry, picking up on themes Professor Wilson has discussed extensively on For the Record:
Are right-wing bloggers and activists really more effective at flooding Corporate Media outlets with complaints about unfavorable coverage than progressive bloggers?
Or is it perhaps that decisionmakers, players and talk show hosts in the Corporate Media are, for the most part, ideologically aligned with the Republicans?
If this is the case, claiming that complaints from members of the Right-Wing audience forced the Corporate Media to follow the GOP spin would be extremely convenient and self serving.
This would also explain the broken Progressive Blogger/Corporate Media link. No matter how timely and fact-based the Progressive Bloggers’ information is, the Corporate Media consistently refuses to give positive attention to what Progressive Bloggers have to say. Could be because they really do not like what they have to say.
While Right-Wing bloggers’ views are more extreme and more crudely expressed than the Official Republican party line, they’re basically the same ideology: pro-corporate, pro-imperialist, theocratic and totalitarian. And the GOP delivers, consistently, for the Right-Wing activist base in the form of legislation and appointments.
That's the Republican carve-out, in a nutshell.
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