Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News | The Huffington Post

Please read full article. Daou is right.

We predicted that Colbert's hilariously, right-on slashing and dicing of the preznit, the entire right-wing of nutters and the "librul Media" would be all over the NET this morning. It was.

We also predicted that it would be given very short-shrift by the Sunday morning, gas-bag shows and it was.

The preening, D.C. media just doesn't know what to do with the truth. They seem all quite shell-shocked when anyone dares to speak truth to power, even in a comedy skit.

We should be getting rid of the the Bush enablers in the press and MSM, right after the Bushites and their co-conspirators in Congress.

Let it be remembered that the press in Nazi Germany were questioned about their behavior at Nuremberg, and how they assisted Hitler in his quest to conquer the world.

The Blog Peter Daou: Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News The Huffington Post:

"It appears Mash's misgivings about press coverage are well-placed. The AP's first stab at it and pieces from Reuters and the Chicago Tribune tell us everything we need to know:

Colbert's performance is sidestepped and marginalized while Bush is treated as light-hearted, humble, and funny. Expect nothing less from the cowardly American media. The story could just as well have been Bush and Laura's discomfort and the crowd's semi-hostile reaction to Colbert's razor-sharp barbs. In fact, I would guess that from the perspective of newsworthiness and public interest, Bush-the-playful-president is far less compelling than a comedy sketch gone awry, a pissed-off prez, and a shell-shocked audience.

This is the power of the media to choose the news, to decide when and how to shield Bush from negative publicity. Sins of omission can be just as bad as sins of commission. And speaking of a sycophantic media establishment bending over backwards to accommodate this White House and to regurgitate pro-GOP and anti-Dem spin, I urge readers to pick up a copy of Eric Boehlert's new book, Lapdogs. It's a powerful indictment of the media's timidity during the Bush presidency. Boehlert rips away the facade of a 'liberal media' and exposes the invertebrates masquerading as journalists who have allowed and enabled the Bush administration's many transgressions to go unchecked, under-reported, or unquestioned."