Readers on the right and left argue about it constantly:
So who controls the media?
Who are those shadowy people (or beings) controlling what the media reports in news stories, what ostensibly independent editorial boards write? Who are those people who can snap their fingers and get Rupert Murdoch AND The New York Times to do their bidding? Who REALLY calls the shots?
Hint: the answer IS HERE.
PS: Hey, Bob Novak. It’s time to wash my underwear and to stir things up with another story about a CIA agent. And Maureen Dowd: when you’re in San Diego, take my cats to the vet. OH, Maureen: it’s time to do another column written as if GWB is a little boy. Bill O’Reilly: It’s time to kiss and make up with Al Franken.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.