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Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

I'm comfortable on the progressive side. But I'm still more pitched at fighting the Right than I am about building a progressive platform for the future. It's fair to say that that conversation doesn't interest me as much.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.