non-stick Blagojevich

That title almost rhymes.

Does anyone wonder why they keep doing it? The news reports on Blagojevich's attempts to sell off Obama's senate seat continue to mis-label him as having no party affiliation. Oh but yes... leaving out that information is a mis-label, because if it's a republican doing bad things, the "R" is ever-present. We know that Blagojevich is a democrat simply by observing the lack of the party affiliation tag, and the media knows we know because they have played this little game for years. We've known for years, they know we know, and yet they keep doing it.

Are they fooling anybody? Well, probably somebody, some of the time. That however, is not the reason they leave out the "D" next to Blagojevich's name.

They leave it out, because of basic marketing principles. Successful marketing is a series of little hits. Not the one big superbowl commercial, it is seeing the product name and placements over time. Giving up on true reporting, the news media markets a product we call the democratic party. Even if we see there is no "D", and we know the "R" is always there, we also see the "R". The mind will store information associating the R to bad people, but the "D" will be less besmirched. Because we do not SEE the D. Even if we know all this, our minds are being conditioned over time to associate the R with bad, but not the D. It works too, just watch any poll on the subject.

Don't think they do that on purpose. They can't be that conniving. calculating? Then you need to answer for yourself, why do they leave off the "D". Every time, a new scandal breaks, why not identify when they know we know the lack of a label means democrat. Why keep doing it year after year?

They do it because it works.