Gronbeck's work is far more complex than what you represent, to the point where your claims could comfortably be called flat-out lying. Good job, I'm sure the Professor would be proud of you.
Here's a starting point: you conveniently ignored all the work on the dichotomy between the "social libertarianism" of the media and the overwhelming party-line GOP supply-side religiosity that all major media hew to (until the crash comes and they all find the populist religion, because it's a matter of selling whatever people want to hear at the moment--no less true for mass media than politicians). The rhetoric of nationalism and economic authoritarianism sits alongside that of "liberal" ideas such as, oh, I dunno, the government shouldn't spy on innocent citizens (guess the founding fathers were liberals).
Nice argument from authority Fail there, though. Well done.
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Date: 2008-09-18 01:55 pm (UTC)Here's a starting point: you conveniently ignored all the work on the dichotomy between the "social libertarianism" of the media and the overwhelming party-line GOP supply-side religiosity that all major media hew to (until the crash comes and they all find the populist religion, because it's a matter of selling whatever people want to hear at the moment--no less true for mass media than politicians). The rhetoric of nationalism and economic authoritarianism sits alongside that of "liberal" ideas such as, oh, I dunno, the government shouldn't spy on innocent citizens (guess the founding fathers were liberals).
Nice argument from authority Fail there, though. Well done.