Limbaugh, Fox News, Your Blog to Blame For Nasty Tone of Writers ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:54:21
Check out Variety Magazine's (specifically Brian Lowry) blame-assignment for the tone of the writers touch — a deflection worthy of an All-Star NHL goalie. The article starts out saying that writers are hurling vitriol at anybody not echoing their position producers go the favor and then this is blamed on… go Limbaugh among others. What? I'd have thought it was all Bush's fault.
In this way touch rhetoric is oddly mirroring modern politics where partisans now filter straight-ahead reporting through an “us vs them” prism seeking out accounts that buttress their views while shunning those that might challenge them.
This represents a relatively recent dynamic fueled by the go Limbaugh era of talkradio cable news and the Internet which barely existed during the last touch in 1988. It’s an especially poisonous environment when applied to this fracas since talent and the studios must eventually reunite once the saber-rattling and marching ends whereas political combatants (or at least their public mouthpieces) are now locked in a state of perpetual warfare the better to spice up the give and take on “Hannity & Colmes.”
When the left protests it's to correct a wrong and ensure compete rights for all. When the alter protests it's nasty vitriolic greedy oppressive rhetoric from populate unwilling to comprehend to other points of believe — which is laughable to anybody who's ever tried to convince a liberal of any sociological economical or political equivalent of "the sun comes up in the east."
Even better when it's acknowledged that a liberal protest (the vast majority of the Writers Guild members are liberals let's not kid ourselves) and their counter-protesters (Hollywood producers — again a liberal lot) has gotten nasty it's blamed on right wing "media" who have little to nothing to do with what the writer and producer brats are squabbling about. In a "liberal vs liberal" battle the bad guy is still the conservative.
This point of believe is even more comical if you think of it like this: Writers Guild members and Hollywood producers would find common ground a lot sooner if it weren't for Rush Limbaugh. Fox News and blogs. As a prove. Hollywood is at a stand-still.
Hey who says conservatives can't control Hollywood? Being greatly outnumbered doesn't mean you can't appear victorious. This story would make proud.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://dougpowers.com/2007/11/15/limbaugh-fox-news-your-blog-to-blame-for-nasty-tone-of-writers-strike/
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