Have major Democrats criticized the media within the past five years?

[More Than A Feeling]

I don't recall even Kerry and Edwards hammering the press, even after the swiftboat stuff? Did they? Why don't they blame the media just as Republicans do? It might force them to inject something ressembling truth and context into their stories. Just a thought.

[BillZBubb]

1. You are right.

Our side has just sat back and let the right wing set the media agenda. There incessant (and baloney) criticisms have made the media cower. We need to criticize just as vehemently about the right wing slant in what today passes for journalism.

[ms liberty]

2. Al Gore did, a month or so ago - to their faces I think n/t

[Protagoras]

3. If they do the Media isn't going to report it

Their job is to serve the master, not to take abuse or have their own actions observed. Except when they're busy interviewing each other of course. That's the best kind of news...when one talkshow host can interview another talkshow host.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

[Cerridwen]

4. Would we know if they had? Would they have been given the air time?

I think not.

[TayTay]

5. Well Kerry did say this back in Feb at the Kennedy Library

There's been a profound and negative change in the relationship of America’s media with the American people, of the flow of information in our society. If 77 percent of the people who voted for George Bush on election day believed that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, as they did, and 77 percent of the people who voted for him believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11, as they did, then something has happened in the way in which we’re talking to each other and who’s arbitrating about truth in American politics.

This is important to me not as a Democrat and not to somebody as Republican, it’s important to all of us as Americans. It’s important to us in terms of our Constitution and the fulfillment of the promise of this land. I don't believe that we have to go through a great soul searching about what we stand for or who we are or where the values fit in the debate in America, frankly. I think we know where they fit, and I think we know profoundly as Americans what really makes a difference. But when fear is dominating the discussion, and when there are false choices presented and there is no arbitrator, we have a problem. We learned that the mainstream media in the course of the last year did a pretty good job of discerning. But that there's a subculture and a sub-media that talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than the flow of information, and that that has a profound impact and undermines what we call the mainstream media of the country.

And so the decision-making ability of the American electorate has been profoundly impacted as a consequence of that.
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He has spoken out like that again and again this year. Didn't you hear it? Or might criticisms of the media not make it onto the media. Hmmmmmm

[More Than A Feeling]

6. How did Republicans get their criticisms into the mainstream then?