He then pulls another stat out of his database:
"Percentage of Americans who favor socialism: 20
Number of mentions of "socialism" past month in Lexis radio and TV transcript search: 69+
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Although nearly one of every two Americans is committed to a public option in the health care bill, the public option received only 1/4 as many mentions in US mass media in the past month as Tea Partiers, who are supported by 1 in 9 Americans.
Most mentions of socialism, the political-economy preference of a fifth of Americans, in US corporate media are pejorative, occurring in stories about North Korea or China, or as insults directed at President Barack Obama. (In a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Americans supported capitalism and 20% supported socialism. Some 27% did not know what they supported.)"
So there you go: this reveals a media as out of touch as the politricians they cover.
That's why I am calling for something new so that the 20 percent can have as much impact as the 11 percent and so the people enraged at Wall Street can be heard. Isn't it time for something new on our side of the spectrum that, just coincidentally, has the possibility of reaching so many more discontented people and constituencies?
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