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The consolidation and control of the media is even more distressing below the surface, alpha phi. Two Time-Warner media outlets, "Time" and CNN, sponsor, promote, and provide "air time" to John Hinderaker and his "Powerline Blog", as I documented in my last post here.

In addition to lending credibility to Hinderaker and his "message", the support from Time/CNN expands an audience for Hinderaker and Powerline that conveys a message that the newspaper of record in this nation's capitol is involved in an intentional "plot" to de-throne Bush. The Washington Post is discredited as a "news" source, and Bush is further empowered to pursue his extra-constitutional agenda and aggressive foreign policy because he is portrayed as a "victim" of a hostile and unreliable press.

Those who read Hideraker seriously because he's often on CNN and because he author's Time's "Blog of 2004", are thus pre-empted from seriously considering WaPo reporting that had the potential to check missteps of the Executive and Legislative branches. We end up observing comments from our political opposites that portray "Time" and CNN as "too liberal", as they are reduced to obtaining their "information" and POV from foxnews and the likes of Hinderaker and powerline, through no small influence of Time and CNN.

These poor, propagandized, bastards do not even realize who steered them away from the major sources of news that the rest of us sift through in our effort to hold our government officials accountable. We end up not even similarly defining the "issues" with those who watch foxnews and read Powerline.......

It is surreal to me and not what I could ever have anticipated.....
And I'm the one labeled as being paranoid ?????