Media whores

Mykeru serves up a nice post on Guckert;

They have a deal with power. It's quid pro quo: The Bush administration puts a total tool like Michael Powell in charge of the FCC to dismantle the old rules against media consolidation that reek of socialism, or worse, civic responsibility because they put the public welfare above the corporate bottom line and, in return, the media licks Bush administration ass until their neocon sphincters positively gleam. And any loose cannon that isn't going with the program gets kicked right off the gravy train. Not as if any of them are not going to go with the program. What the radical right wants is the same thing the media owners want. They go to the same parties and tee off together. And the people who work for them just want to get invited to eat the crumbs they leave behind.

Which is why no one should be surprised by the pathetic saga of Bush administration media payola which has most recently manifested itself in the exposure of "Jeff Gannon", a member of the White House Press Corps as a transparent shill and the organization he worked for, Talon News, as a cardboard front that couldn't hide the sour milk stench of Goopers lurking behind it.

I got your money.