The mainstream media coverage of this election season is evolving into a cultural battle of Progressives versus Conservatives.

Progressives are quickly gaining ground against the right-wing spin machine in the mainstream media, despite the frantic antics of the neocon Media owners and their sockpuppet General Managers to stifle the Pro's objective points of view.  

The insider pro v. con production wars at MSNBC are  visible enough for the general public to perceive. And that blatant right-wing spin, and the slanted management behind it, is best exemplified by the removal of Maddow, Olbermann and Matthews from the talking-head tables at MSNBC.

But the Pros fought back... Keith's Monday night Countdown this week gave Obama an open forum to effrectively rebutt the latest Republican spin very personally.  And Maddow did more of the same, dissecting the latest disinformation promulgated by the Republican/MSM trash machine and exposing some of Palin's fatal fault lines that the rest of the media refuse to even mention.

How persistently this volley/counter-volley continues is a story yet to unfold, but there is no doubt we will see more of it in the next few weeks, and I for one sincerely hope it transcends this election, abiding well beyond November.

If any factor or influence in our society needs change, it is our Mainstream Media. Their outright abdication of the 4th Estate and their profane partisan commercialism have rendered them dangerously disposable, by the sheer weight of popular rejection.

Keep after em', Keith, Rachel and Chris, and everyone who is part of their production circle! Don't give up an inch of the ground you have already won.

from the LA Progressive

"En route to the governor’s igloo, Palin managed to land what Anne Kilkenny says is the plumb political appointment in the state: Chair of Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC), a $122,400 per year patronage slot with no real authority to do anything other than hold meetings. She took the job despite having no background in energy issues and, as it turned out, not liking the work.

“She hated the job,” an OGCC staff member who is not authorized to speak with the news media told me. “She hated the hours and she hated what little work there was to do. But she couldn’t figure out a way to get out of the thing without offending Gov. Murkowski” and the state Republican Party regulars, some of whom were pissed off they didn’t get appointed.

But ever the opportunist, Palin quickly concocted a way. First, she waged a campaign with the local news media claiming that the position was overpaid and should be abolished – despite the fact that she lobbied Murkowski hard to get it. Then, mounting what she saw as a white horse, Palin raised a cloud of dust by resigning from the OGCC and riding away with an undeserved reputation as a “reformer.”

But when a local reporter dared to suggest that the reformer Empress has no clothes, Palin tried to get her fired.

“She came at me like I was trying to steal her kids,” said the targeted reporter, who now works for an oil company in Anchorage. “I heard she had a wild temper and vicious mean streak but it’s nothing like you can imagine until she turns it on you.”