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Originally Posted by MadMax
so, could you say that they went from portraying him as a monkey to something else post 9/11? I'm welcome to an education. Noone is doubting your knowledge on the matter.
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Look I just don't know where you're getting this idea that all media portrayed Bush as a chump - pretty certain a number of major news networks were very supportive of him (like, Fox at least, perhaps?).
http://www.salon.com/2007/04/10/media_failure/
This is a very simple article that outlines specifically how the US media collapsed and basically kowtowed to US government and advertising industries.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
I'd also recommend watching Buying the War (Bill Moyers) which is a available free online.
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Originally Posted by MadMax
I distinctly remember a change in how he was put on the screen. Never before had he been shown to be making jokes especially.
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And herein lies the problem. You've been making gross generalisations about how all media behave based on a mentally small sample size blurred by a decade or more and skewed to whatever biases you happen to have.