"The creation of right-wing media, and of the strategies by which the right wing has penetrated, pressured, co-opted, and subdued the mainstream media into accommodating conservatism, was not an accident. Once upon a time, right-wing strategists, operatives, and financiers believed that they could never win political hegemony in the United States unless they won domination of the country's political discourse. Toward this end, a deliberate, well-financed, and expressly acknowledged communications and deregulatory plan was pursued by the right wing for more than thirty years -- in close coordination with Republican Party leaders -- to subvert and subsume journalism and reshape the national consciousness through the media, with the intention of skewing American politics sharply to the right. The plan has succeeded spectacularly."
= = =
David Brock, former Republican who defected and wrote "Blinded by the Right" exposing Republican lies, has a new book out.
"The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy."
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/05/11/noise/index.html