For those of you following the US elections you'll have observed Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's tactical shift to attack the press over media bias and running blatantly untrue campaign ads.
Today his campaign held a conference call to attack the press - which Mr. McCain formerly called 'his base' - for exposing the rampant lies underlying his ads and past few weeks of his campaign, which prompted this statement from Time's Joe Klein:
...it should be remembered that Steve Schmidt is doing this for two (nefarious) reasons:1. he's hoping to work the refs: if he complains enough about press bias, we mainstream sorts will cower, cringe and try to seek false equivalences between the two campaigns.
2. the more time we spend covering this nonsense, the less we'll spend on the real issues in this campaign.
Feel familiar?
The PLP's media bias refrain is an effort to work the refs; a tactic to make the media "cower, cringe and seek false equivalencies".
Bermuda's media are tame and outgunned by a massive taxpayer funded disinformation apparatus which has exploded under the PLP.
