Democracy Now

[Cinderskenney]

Hi all,
Today Democracy Now had Kucinich come into their studio to participate in the debate that he was excluded from last night. I have for a long time been a listener of their show, but recently I have felt that they provide unfair coverage of the main stream candidates, especially Obama and Hillary. This little interview today was a nice step toward reconcilling. However they have not once talked about Ron Paul's campaign, or the fact that Kucinich and Paul are more alike than any of their peers.

I've started leaving comments on their site, asking them to have fair coverage of the Paul campaign, which stands for everything they tout to belive in - truth and justice.

If you do a search on their site for Ron Paul, you will see they've never done a story on him, only a headline, and when they do mention him, it's usually condescending and trite:

"JUAN GONZALEZ: Gareth Porter, I’d like to ask you, I was watching the Republican debate last night on Fox News and was astonished to see one of the moderators spend quite a bit of time on this topic, questioning every one of the candidates as to whether they believe the Navy commander on the scene did the right thing by not blowing the Iranian boats out of the water. Surprisingly, only Ron Paul, the maverick, even questioned some of the facts of the incident as reported. Your response to this suddenly becoming a topic for the presidential debates?"


What's so surprising about it? Ron Paul speaks the truth. If they were listening to him they would know.

Democracy now had a great article on the chosen advisors of the main candidates and atrocities that they are linked to. Of course, they also continue to do stories on fake topics and contribute to the airtime that these candidates already dominate.

You can leave comments on their site. I have been asking them to do more coverage of Ron Paul's campaign.
You can view their site at www.democracynow.org.

[brandon]

Check out who pays the bills at democracy now...

Democracy Now! receives indirect funding from George Soros, and direct funding from Soros' Open Society Institute, the Glaser Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, and other left-leaning foundations.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6891

Now do you understand?

[Cinderskenney]

Yeah...I do. I knew they were left wing, but I thought they might have had a shred of integrity. Apparently not. Thanks for the info.
So, there really is not one single avenue of fair reporting. Bias is one thing, but corporate sponsorship and bias = fascism.

[brandon]

Yeah...I do. I knew they were left wing, but I thought they might have had a shred of integrity. Apparently not. Thanks for the info.
So, there really is not one single avenue of fair reporting. Bias is one thing, but corporate sponsorship and bias = fascism.

Yea, I used to watch the program also. They really do a good job of pretending to be neutral, it took me a while to see what was really going on.

[Cinderskenney]

Where do you go for your daily dose?
Besides the Daily Paul of course.

[brandon]

Its really hard to find an unbiased source. I usually get a little bit of info from everywhere. If a story is particularly devisive, I will read about it from a left source, a right source, and an indy source. THen try to draw my own conclusion, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

[FenceWalker]

I'm about down to Current TV now. It was started by Al Gore, but seems to be a user driven network. Folks make and submit stories (pods) and then everybody votes on them and the top vote getters get put on the air.

I used to watch Democracy Now but realized they were just a bit too slanted to the left for my tastes.