Zell’s Bells
April 5th, 2007Let me get this straight: Hillary Clinton raised a little more money than Obama, but Obama is designating more of it toward the primary, and so everyone says that Obama raised more money, even though he didn’t? In the same story, Jesse Jackson says, “This is a long road and a long process to the White House, but make no doubt about it, Barack Obama is driving the fastest car.” Which is a bad thing. “Peaking” before the actual primaries begin. People that peak during fundraising stages are a dime-a-dozen in politics and Barack would do well to remember that when everyone is labeling him a Winnar!
God bless American politics and journalism.
A billionaire, Sam Zell, bought the Tribune company, which means that he owns the Chicago Cubs, the LA Times, WGN and Chicago Tribune. My first thought hearing it was, Maybe they’ll finally move the Cubs out of town and tear down Wrigley, but that’s mean, and I don’t mean it. My second thought, upon further review, was how ridiculous this all is. Eccentric billionaires buying newspapers and media? That’s how we get Rupert Murdoch, and that’s not a bad thing, but then I thought about it some more and said, “Better than having, say, governments buy the newspapers.” But not by a lot.
Thank God we’ve got a Capitalist system that allows a lesser of two evils to buy our media instead of the greatest evil of all: government! and I’m serious but for the “evil” label on the government.
It’s a helluva choice, though, between Bill Frist and Richard Mellon Scaife, but at the least, we can ignore Scaife. If the government ran the media there’d be no escape.