I posted several days ago about ABC ignoring their own poll and completely leaving Ron Paul out of their post-debate coverage. But wait, there's more! Paul Levinson, PhD, Professor and Chair of the
Dept. of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University says this is going into his curriculum as well.
Comments Professor Levinson:
We learned a lot of things in the twentieth-century about totalitarian societies, and what makes them possible. George Orwell got it sadly right in his 1984 novel, in which the dictatorial party in power controls the people by literally removing disliked officials from photos in newspapers.I was not in Iowa on Monday, and thus can not offer any direct testimony as to the size of the crowds. But if ABC did what it looks like it did in the video - if it deliberately gave the impression that Ron Paul had just one supporter when in fact he had many - then ABC should know that it has acted in the tradition of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, in the dangerous deceptive manner of totalitarian societies not democracies.
