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"I would
not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding
what is news is the most subjective of acts
and it is probably the most important thing that we do."
-- Carl Bernstein
"In the past, in the days of ink-stained wretches and typesetting, it
was the editors and publishers who set the news agenda. A small coterie
of journalists decided what was most important, what went on page one,
what was to be emphasized day after day." -- David S. Hirschman, Editor
& Publisher
“Anything negative,
no matter how commonplace, can make the front page of the New
York Times, while
even remarkable acts of bravery or compassion are passed over in silence."
-- Thomas
Sowell
“Framing
is a process whereby communicators, consciously or unconsciously, act to
construct a point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation
to be interpreted by others in a particular manner.” -- Jim Kuypers, Assistant
Professor of Communications, Virginia Tech
"... political reporters love to write about politics
as if they are merely disinterested observers of political events and the
public's perceptions of them, when in fact they play a very key role in
shaping those events and perceptions." -- Greg Sargent, a liberal
columnist for the Los Angeles Times
"This
is what passes for journalism today. Participate in contriving a story
and then report it contrary to the facts." -- Jed
Babbin
"Some folks in the media are quite willing to lie to you." -- D.
J. Drummond
It turns out that the entire Valerie Plame
scandal was a hoax from the beginning, blown up and perpetuated by the
agenda-driven mainstream media. Check
it out HERE
"Deborah Solomon's weekly short interviews in
the New York Times Magazine are the most irritating possible example
of the snotty, smarmy, smug and holier-than-thou attitude that pervades
the entire enterprise that is the Times." -- Don
Luskin
"What a difference three days make. 72 little hours. In that
time, a New York Times reporter went from tolling the death knell
of real wage growth to reporting a 7-percent wage jump over last year after
inflation." -- Ken
Shepherd
"... press conferences ... [have] become a customary
courtesy over the years, but courtesy is a two-way street, except for those
in the media who act like spoiled brats, as if they have some inherent
right to whatever serves their institutional, career, or ideological purposes.
... The media love to wrap themselves in the mantle of 'the public's
right to know' but there is no such dedication to that right when it goes
against the journalists' own prejudices." -- Thomas
Sowell
See::How
to "report" a phony civilian body count:HERE
"There once was a time when reporters took pride
in their courage. Now, however, they take pride in their 'political correctness.'
That's one reason why people don't trust the press any more." -- Tony Snow,
3-30-2000
"Large
sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current
conflict in Lebanon. They are actively fanning the flames." --
Tom
Gross, National Post
"Following a precision
strike by bloggers from around the world, the mainstream media's reputation
can be seen going up in photoshopped smoke in Lebanon." -- Perry
de Havilland
"Now
that the wire services and their photographers have been called out on
it, they're all dancing on the head of a pin trying to explain away the
discrepancy. They've been nailed
as willing participants in the Islamic terror propaganda efforts."
-- Neal
Boortz, HERE
See how students at a "prestigious" J-School cheated
on an ETHICS test HERE.
"I’m no longer surprised that journalists lack an internal regulatory
mechanism (sometimes called 'ethics' or another quaint old-fashioned term
that no longer applies, 'patriotism') to prevent the release of information
that could damage their own country. On the contrary, they actively search
for that information and release it with great relish." -- Charles
Johnson, in "The Media are the Enemy," HERE
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How
the Media Enable Terrorism
"A strict observance of the written laws is
doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest.
The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when
in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous
adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty,
property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing
the end to the means." -- Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810
"We are now, my friends, in a situation where
the majority of Americans get their news and information about what is
going on with their government from entities that are licensed by and subject
to punishment at the hands of that very government. Nobody can truly
believe that this is what our founding fathers had in mind." -- Neal
Boortz
"In politics,
the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts
of the media." -- Thomas
Sowell
"America's free press is supposed to be one of the guardians of our
freedom. But while the press is free it must also be responsible,
and in this it fails comprehensively. ... If a free press is not responsible,
it cannot be a defender of freedom. It can become the enemy of all
who fight in defense of our way of life." -- Jed
Babbin
"The
New York Times
is now reeling from so many huge mistakes by reporters and management that
people are saying it's
one of the worst newspapers in America." -- Donald
Trump, 10-28-2005
"What is this morbid obsession that liberals have with Fox? It's
as if Democrats, pampered and spoiled by so many decades of the mainstream
media trumpeting the liberal agenda, are so shaky in their convictions
that they cannot risk an encounter with opposing views. Democrats have
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time and 98 percent of
American humanities professors to do their bidding. But no, that's not
enough -- every spark of dissent has to be extinguished with buckets of
bile."
-- Democrat Camille
Paglia
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"Not
only is the media biased, but it's biased in the way it even covers itself."
--
Neal
Boortz
"...there's a difference, even in publishing,
between the lies we tell about ourselves and the lies we tell about others.
It is a rare publisher that troubles to fact-check an author's claims,
especially in times when proofreading can seem like too much trouble."
-- New
York Times Editorial, 1-13-06
"Recently two highly respected journalists
-- one on the left and one towards the right -- tried to make a case for
saving the business that has been their bread and butter: newspapers.
They both failed. ... '... people in the newspaper business try to make
me feel better about working in the newspaper business,' Pitts wrote."
-- Paul
Chesser
TimesWatch
presents the Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times
of
2005
"We certainly
don't view government with the same awe we felt before Watergate broke,
or journalism with the same respect it had before Dan Rather struck, but
all available evidence suggests that it was our earlier attitudes that
were misinformed." -- Glenn
Reynolds
"All is woe and darkness in the house of media.
If you were measuring journalists' public standing on a scale of 1 to 10,
10 being the best, right now we're in less-than-zero territory ... The
great flaw of media-scandal coverage is that it's so intramural:
journalists
covering other journalists in trouble ... this is a bit like assigning
a second cousin of the Gambinos to cover The Family's latest criminal trial.
... The real lesson of the Times scandal is ... that the Age of
Media Arrogance is over." -- William
Powers
"But
I stopped watching [CBS] some time ago. The unremitting liberal
orientation finally became too much for me. ... A large swath of the society
doesn't trust the news media. And for many, it's even stronger than that:
They abhor the media and perceive it as an escalating threat to the society."--
Van Gordon Sauter, former President of CBS
News, in the
Los
Angeles Times, 1-13-2005
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| "The MSM [mainstream media] is very defensive of its credibility, and
is loathe to point out serious errors no matter who points them out. It’s
all the worse when upstart media competitors like bloggers point out the
errors." -- Don
Luskin |
| "Newspapers
do have a few things going for them....you can't line the bird cage with
the Internet or wrap fish in a cable news channel." -- Neal Boortz |
| "It is kind of ironic when you think about it. I
mean the internet was begat by the old Arpanet which was created to keep
the flow of important data moving through alternative nodes when one or
more of them became disabled or nonfunctional. ... Not just ironic. Delicious."
-- Jessica's
Well |
| "The Internet interprets censorship as damage
and routes around it." -- John Gilmore |
| "Decades of state censorship have yielded a mastery
of euphemism and allegory so subtle the Chinese government ends up promoting
films meant to mock its rule. If any culture will find a way to discuss
freedom while routing around [the censorship of] the word freedom, it's
China's." -- Kerry
Howley |
| "What's even more laughable is those
in the press (like the amazingly pompous and inane New York Times)
who are now tut-tutting about how awful it is that these independently
funded groups are allowed to be heard. Oh, what is it you're afraid of,
Mr. News Editor Man? That you don't get to be the gatekeeper of what people
are allowed to hear about any more? ... The Internet has detected the mainstream
media as a form of censorship and simply routed around them." -- Dean
Esmay |
| "A sudden loss of status and influence is a profound shock to most
people who have spent their lives aimed at the acquisition and enjoyment
of socio- political standing. Relieved of the ability to shape the consciousness
and behavior of others, a certain number unburden themselves of the inner
restraints which kept them from openly voicing the condescension and scorn
they have for those whom they regard as their social, intellectual, and
moral inferiors." -- Thomas
Lifson |
| "The real luxury [of the internet in general and the blogosphere in
particular] is not having someone like you [MSM people] misrepresent what
people are, do and mean by your selective 'fact-sifting', out of context
quoting, and sloppy reporting. ... I am targeting the entire
profession here. I am an equal opportunity ranter." -- Adriana
Lukas |
"A bunch of amateurs, no matter how smart and enthusiastic,
could never outperform professional neurosurgeons, because they lack the
specialized training and experience necessary for that field. But what
qualifications, exactly, does it take to be a journalist? What can
they do that we can't? Nothing. Generally speaking, they don't
know any more about primary data and raw sources of information than we
do -- often less. Their general knowledge is often inadequate.
Their superior resources should allow them to carry out investigations
far beyond what we amateurs can do. But the reality is that the mainstream
media rarely use those resources. Too many journalists are bored,
biased and lazy." -- John
Hinderaker
"Journalists are no better than other liberal-arts
majors at doing regression analysis with infinite variables." -- P.J. O'Rourke,WSJ,
4-16-02
Guerilla
Media on the rise |
| "Question: What does the stock
market know that the mainstream media [MSM] do not? Answer: almost
everything." --
Larry
Kudlow |
| "The power of the blogosphere (more properly, the
internet) does not lie in a handful of bloggers with well-read sites. It
resides in the hundreds of thousands, or millions, of smart, well-informed,
engaged readers who, collectively, have amazing knowledge and expertise
in just about any area you can think of. What is new is the ability to
bring together these disparate sources of knowledge, analyze them, and
disseminate them in real time. We help to do this, but on a big, fast-breaking
story like this one, the real impetus comes from our readers--a point we
make in every interview we give." -- John
Hinderaker |
"The people in the MSM don't think of themselves
as liberal. They're just in
favor of collectivism and against individualism in general
-- without using many labels (or much thought) of any kind.
They go out of their way only to mention a minority group if they can.
Groupism is what they believe in." -- Rick Gaber
"World
Ends; Women,
Minorities
Hardest Hit"
-- headline parody by James Taranto, HERE.,
6-6-03
"Report: Tsunami Hit Women Hardest" - headline,
CNN.com, 3-26-05
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| "The MSM's avoidance of the individualist
perspective is now routed-around." -- Rick Gaber |
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See how "editors and policy wonks on the left are so obviously up to
their old tricks already" HERE.
SHAME on the
media for burying this
story about Louisiana authorities preventing the Red Cross and Salvation
Army from delivering food, water, medicine, and care to the people trapped
in the Superdome, Convention Center and all of New Orleans.
.
"Remember how CBS News spiked a poll showing 67 percent of Americans
supported George W. Bush's tax cut plan? It didn't stop there.
Now ABC News has poll results it doesn't want to handle. An ABC News/
Washington Post poll found that 58 percent think Bush's tax cut is 'about
right' or 'too small.' Only 36 percent said it was 'too big.'
Did these results make it to air? Of course not!" -- Neal
Boortz, 3-29-01
"The media seem
to have come up with a formula that would make any war in history unwinnable
and unbearable: They simply emphasize the enemy's victories and our losses."
-- Thomas
Sowell
.
"Headlines
from Afghanistan always read 'Five Soldiers Killed and Wounded,' not '150
Taliban Killed.' If today's journalists reported the Battle of Midway,
we'd read 'U.S. Aircraft Shot From Skies,' with a brief mention of the
destruction of the Japanese carrier fleet buried at the bottom." -- Ralph
Peters
Domestic
spying? The Clinton administration spied domestically on the
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jerry Falwell, the NRA, Cardinal O’Connor
and others, none exactly international terrorists. You remember the
unrelenting uproar about it in the nation's press and airwaves, don't you?
You don't? Oh, yeah, right. Never
mind.
"I’m no longer surprised that journalists lack an internal regulatory
mechanism (sometimes called 'ethics' or another quaint old-fashioned term
that no longer applies, 'patriotism') to prevent the release of information
that could damage their own country. On the contrary, they actively search
for that information and release it with great relish." -- Charles
Johnson, in "The Media are the Enemy," HERE
"Sometimes
the fourth estate seems more like a fifth column."-- Dr. Thomas
Sowell, HERE
and HERE
"It's the enemedia." -- Fred Nerks
"Suppose
that American media were really funded and supported by the Muslim Brotherhood,
and openly opposed to the United States. How would the coverage differ?
Answer: not at all." -- Charles
Johnson
"Why do 'they' [the editors of
The New
York Times] hate us?" -- Michael
Barone
Journalists
invite terrorist to a party, yuk it up with him, and now The
Guardian actually hires a supporter of terrorism.
(How chic. Vomit.)
“Muslim
Community Leaders Warn of Backlash from Tomorrow Morning’s Terrorist Attack.”--
parody of a Guardian headline written by a commenter on Tim Blair’s
website in Australia
"Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained
away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush -- sophistry
washed down with Chardonnay." -- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
"Caught up in the hidden marxist agenda of
their postmodern rhetoric, ... the graduates of these journalism schools
march in lockstep with ... the poor victimized terrorists and all the helpless
and persecuted dictators and tyrants ..." -- Pat
Santy
“Islamists who murder non-Muslims in pursuit of
explicitly Islamic goals are airbrushed into vague, generic 'rebel forces.'
You can't tell the players without a scorecard, and that's just the way
the Western media intend to keep it.” -- Mark
Steyn
.
The AP calls terrorist mastermind bin Laden
a "dissident" here.
Outrageous.
"Sheridan’s omissions are part of a larger problem of journalists who
have wittingly or unwittingly become defacto public relations representatives
for extremist Islamist groups. Taking their press releases at face value,
journalists have helped effectively to cover up the larger, serious issue
of the growing secret network of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US." --Andrew
Cochran
See
how "the last five years of relentless dishonesty and fecklessness
in the American media"
have made nuclear war a near-certainty here.
"The courts have given the news media carte blanche, in the name of
the First Amendment -- but the media are no better than government at
exercising unchecked power. When it's known that no one can punish
you, a certain kind of person stops caring whether he hurts anybody. And
such people tend to rise within any organization that doesn't work hard
to have a conscience." -- Orson
Scott Card
"... all of the major news outlets in this country, at this very moment
in fact, have been ... scurrilous and malevolent." -- Kowalski
"There is corruption in our business [of journalism]," he said. "We
need to get back to basics. This war should be studied and talked about.
In the run up to this war, to my mind, there was a gross abdication of
responsibility." -- John Burns HERE
.
"After rioters have been christened 'demonstrators' by the media, it
was perhaps inevitable that terrorists would be christened 'militants'."
-- Dr.
Thomas Sowell
“Kidnap and behead Westerners, or bomb schools,
and the Associated Press will call you an 'insurgent.' At worst, a militant.
... But attack a dictatorial Ba’athist regime and suddenly you’re a terrorist,
sans scare quotes...” -- Charles
Johnson
"... how the Reuters
'news' service described its effort to treat
terrorists and their victims 'on a level playing field'."--
James
Taranto
."Is
there any more cowardly class of Americans than journalists? ... the nation’s
media professionals have lately demonstrated a kind of courage rarely seen
outside a hamster cage." -- Tim
Cavanaugh
"When our media has the testicular fortitude to report on terrorists
honestly, then they will have gained the moral authority to lecture any
White House on censorship and the responsibility of fully informing the
public. Until then, such demonstrations as we saw this week by the White
House press corps only stands as a perverse monument to the media's hypocrisy
and venality." -- Ed
Morrissey, 2-19-2006
"Refusing
to even acknowledge the Santorum-Hoekstra announcement is another black
eye for American journalism, and further evidence that the MSM is (thankfully)
on its last legs." -- Spook86
The
New York Times disorts Rep. Hoekstra's letter
.
"This cult of murderers [Iraq's terrorists] will kill some of their
own women and children and then try to make it look like they were killed
by American forces. The media, of course, will fall right in line with
this anti-American
game." -- Neal
Boortz
"I'm not so old as the Gray Lady, but it seems to me the working
motto of the New York Times has always been 'All the
news that fits our agenda,' not just since its various story-fabrication
scandals came to light." -- Rick Gaber
.
"The Times' new motto: 'all the news that others find
unfit to print'."--
Don
Luskin
The
New York Times is being sued over its motto. Check
out The
Fat Lady's Comical Self-Importance as well.
"Like the activist who loves The People but despises every actual person
he meets, the Times’ editorial page takes liberal stands when the
issue is safely abstract -- but when it comes to the paper’s profits and
political battles, the Little Guy can get bent." -- Matt
Welch
"The New York Times: It Just Can’t Stop Hating Success and the American
Way of Life" -- Dr.
George Reisman
.
"The press is hostile to the idea of liberty.
Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think
that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education,
whatever it is -- it's got to be more
government." -- Harry Browne, July 4, 2002
"When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is
to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom
very cheap." -- Dr.
Thomas Sowell
"It seems as though you can't go a week without some idiotic myrmidon
yelling, 'there oughta be a federal law!' " -- Neal
Boortz
"It's gotten to the point where relying on
journalists to be government watchdogs (to protect liberty against
demagogues), is like relying on pedophiles to be inspectors of daycare
centers (to protect toddlers against abuse)." -- Rick Gaber
"The purpose of the government is to provide the service, and the purpose
of the media is to provide the vaseline." -- old libertarian joke
"The time is long overdue for schools of
journalism to start teaching economics. It would eliminate much of
the nonsense and hysteria in the media, and with it perhaps some of the
demagoguery in politics." --
Thomas
Sowell
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a
specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal
science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous
opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."
– Murray
N. Rothbard
"Never -- and I mean never -- blindly trust
the statistics you read [or hear] about the economy." -- Don
Luskin, HERE
“Americans are fed a steady diet of idiotic commentary and specious
'analyses' most of which flow smoothly down the gullets of unsuspecting
nightly-news, viewers, newspaper readers, and National Public Radio devotees.
But for those of us vexed with some comprehension of supply and demand,
comparative advantage, the role of prices, the nature of money, and other
economic insights, most of what is uttered or written by the news media
on economic topics is so ignorant that it hurts to hear it.” -- by
Donald
J. Boudreaux
"Well, of course capitalism
is the cause of prosperity. Given the overwhelming evidence of the 20th
century, only a
New York Times reporter would regard this as a surprising
or controversial conclusion." -- Robert
Tracinski
"As a leap of faith, let us assume that the
New York Times is
telling the truth about the facts. What does this one woman's story prove
in a country of more than a quarter of a billion people? ... The Timesstory
gets around that problem by simply declaring her to be like 'millions at
the bottom of the labor force' who are part of 'the hidden America.'
This unsubstantiated assertion is crucial to the point that they are trying
to make. But what if your faith can't leap that far?" -- Thomas
Sowell
See "how the process of straining political
events through the standard journalistic narrative templates - especially
the
right-vs.-left narrative -- can simplify a story so greatly that it
emerges as a different story, perhaps even the wrong story" HERE.
"What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of
ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating
all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection
to mere emotion."-- H.L. Mencken
"The mainstream media is to information
what American Idol is to real talent and ability." -- Mike Hu
"It is not just bias -- the vast majority of media people are truly
ignorant about economics (as well as history, the military, etc. etc.)
They are mostly privileged white libs who went to liberal arts colleges,
where they majored in English (along with sex and drinking) and were indoctrinated
by left-wing professors. They then went off to J-school for further
polishing into the little gems we see today. They have rarely had
to engage in critical thinking or the use of logic to support their positions.
The MSM is a hive, with a hive mentality. The swarm is dangerous, but the
individual worker bee ain’t that bright." -- Phineas
Gage
Check out THIS
example of "economics reporting" which goes beyond embarrassing to the
incredibly bizarre.
"Many Western journalists, in contrast to revolutionaries,
do not treat ideas seriously, and therefore fail to recognize the power
of ideas in action. They don't realize that chaos and brutality must accompany
a determined effort to implement ... thorough-going socialism." --Prof.
Morgan O. Reynolds
"It's hard for the media to ignore a good 'racism' story, even when
the
definitions don't fit." -- Neal
Boortz
"Journalists, being simplistic by nature and trained to seek melodrama,
almost always screw up science stories. They simply hate to add all the
qualifiers, conditions and uncertainties because it detracts from the drama."--
Charley Reese 6-19-2001
"When covering what scientists say, reporters are particularly prone
to getting the story wrong. Most of us have little training in science,
little understanding of how it works, and too much faith in any one given
scientist. ... Businesses often twist science to make money. Lawyers
do it to win cases. Political activists distort science to fit their agenda,
bureaucrats to protect their turf. Reporters keep falling for it."
-- John
Stossel,
Give Me a Break.
"The Global Warming alarmists are the anti-science
religion that is trying to forcibly indoctrinate and convert everyone while
suppressing dissent. And the news media are their patsies, their stooges,
their puppets. Right now, let's start demanding that whenever the local
newspaper or TV stations say anything about Global Warming, they back it
up with actual data that takes into account the solar oscillations, the
real climate history of the earth, and the facts about what CO2 actually
does in the atmosphere. ... It's time to stop letting them pass along other
people's lies. It's time for the news media to stop doing cocktail party
'research' and dig down into the science and get it right." -- Orson
Scott Card
"Journalists are no better than other liberal-arts majors at doing
regression analysis with infinite variables." -- P.J. O'Rourke,
Wall
Street Journal, 4-16-02
"As the twentieth century drew to a close, the connection between hard
scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic ... in great
part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of
fact." -- Dr.
Michael Crichton
"...America's news media and largest periodicals don't have it [that
tiny grain of knowledge]. They work by the T&P (trust and parrot) method.
They may differ in whom to trust and parrot; but they share a common inability
to evaluate. They will find two opposing viewpoints and manufacture a 'controversy;'
for they think objectivity lies halfway between the truth and a lie (or
worse, between two lies)."-- introduction to the Access
to Energy Newsletter
"I
operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate.
... It operates with the objective to simplify
and exaggerate,
which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists." -- Dr. Michael
Crichton, 1-28-05
"The case we made is: with most reporters, the understanding they have
of most issues has the depth of floor wax." -- Cal Thomas, 9-18-04
"It used to make me incredibly angry anytime I saw a story like this
reported in such a sloppy and dishonest fashion. It still makes me angry,
but it comes as absolutely no surprise anymore. I have come to expect this
kind of crap from the mainstream media. The only nice thing I can say is
that at least they are consistent ... just imagine that your local newspaper,
read by everyone you know, wrote a story saying that you were accused of
some horrible act -- let’s say rape for the men, child beating for the
women. Imagine that the headline and opening dozen paragraphs of the story
herald the accusations made against you. Then in the thirteenth paragraph
of the story they say that DNA tests have cleared you of the rape (for
the men) or that an investigation had found no evidence of child abuse
(for the women). Let’s say that your local television news picks up the
story, and reports the accusations, but doesn’t bother to report the DNA
or investigation results." -- Lorie
Byrd
Journalists conceal Julian Bond's crazy talk here.
"An
analysis by David Boaz of the Cato Institute found that major newspapers
used the phrase 'shift the court' 36 times in covering the
Alito nomination. They referred to changes in the 'balance of the court'
32 times and 'the court's balance' another 15 and used the phrase
'shift
to the right' 18 times. ... By way of contrast, not a single major
newspaper used anything like those phrases when the Senate considered the
Ginsburg nomination, though her appointment would clearly change the ideological
makeup of the Court." -- Wall Street Journal Political Diary
1-24-06
"I was a liberal from a family of liberals, until I compared the media
reports on the Clarence Thomas hearings with the actual hearings." -- hippoetry
"Accurate reporting loses out to sensationalistic
reporting every time. Thus we like to say that, at least when it comes
to long term accuracy, no pundit survives contact with a historian. ...
Editors also rely on the fact that most consumers of mass media news do
not revisit old stories to see how accurate they were. Historians, however,
do that all the time." -- Jim
Dunnigan
"British PM Stanley Baldwin once dismissed a similar abuse of media
power as 'power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout
the ages'. In fact, the performance by much of the media is probably a
slur on most sex workers, who, one presumes, don't generally dismiss the
wishes of 40 to 50 per cent of their customers. Many journalists are certainly
living down to their standing as one of the least-respected occupations."
-- Michael
Warby
THIS
study by the Election Science Institute says exit polls in Ohio
put John Kerry ahead of George Bush because those who voted for the President
were more reluctant to respond to the pollsters. (Well, duh!
WHO in their right minds expect Republican voters to trust ANYbody who
might work for the MSM? Oh, I forgot -- the MSM!)
"One media observer noted that in fact, 'there was a time in this country
when psychopaths, simpletons and political hacks were not allowed to report
the news.' ” - Media
Giants Fail To Deny Diversity Programs (Associative Press) [satire
by Lewis Napper] |
