Find "The word journalist has a distinct
smell to it." -- Alicia Colon,
HERE
"... we live now in
the Age of Post-Journalism.
All that was before is now over, as
this generation of journalists
voluntarily destroyed the hallowed notion
of objectivity and they will
have no idea quite how to put
Humpty-Dumpty back together again."
-- Victor
Davis Hansen
See: How the
Mainstream Media Misses the
News HERE
|
Would
the Last Honest Reporter
Please Turn On the Lights?
This [financial
crisis] was
completely foreseeable and in
fact many people did foresee
it. One
political party, in Congress and
in the executive branch, tried
repeatedly
to tighten up the rules.
The other party blocked every
such attempt
and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie
Mac
and Fannie Mae were making
political contributions to the
very members
of Congress who were allowing
them to make irresponsible
loans. (Though
why quasi-federal agencies
were allowed to do so baffles
me. It's
as if the Pentagon were
allowed to contribute to the
political campaigns
of Congressmen who support
increasing their budget.)
...
If you who produce
our
local daily paper actually had
any principles, you would be
pounding this
story, because the prosperity
of all Americans was put at
risk by the foolish,
short-sighted, politically
selfish, and possibly corrupt
actions of leading
Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce
our
local daily paper had any
personal honor, you would find
it unbearable
to let the American people
believe that somehow
Republicans were to blame
for this crisis. ...
So I ask you now: Do
you
have any standards at
all? Do you even know
what honesty means?
Is getting people to
vote
for Barack Obama so important
that you will throw away
everything that
journalism is supposed to
stand for? ...
... tell the truth
about
John McCain: that he tried, as
a Senator, to do what it took
to prevent
this crisis. You will
tell the truth about President
Bush: that his
administration tried more than
once to get Congress to
regulate lending
in a responsible way.
This was a
Congress-caused
crisis, beginning during the
Clinton administration, with
Democrats leading
the way into the crisis and
blocking every effort to get
out of it in a
timely fashion.
If you at our local
daily
newspaper continue to let
Americans believe — and vote
as if — President
Bush and the Republicans
caused the crisis, then you
are joining in that
lie.
-- Novelist Orson
Scott
Card, a Democrat,
HERE
|
"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
"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
"If you haven't
been under a rock the last few weeks, or
relying on the mainstream media
as your sole source of news [which is even
worse], you are likely aware
of some of the questionable circumstances
surrounding the organization
Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN)." -- Jeff
Poor
“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
"...one
of Taranto's Laws of Journalism: When it
appears in a news story, the word
some
is a first-person pronoun." -- James
Taranto, 6-3-2009
"... 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
“The
traditional media are playing a very,
very dangerous game -- with their
readers, with the Constitution and
with their own fates. The sheer
bias in the print and television
coverage of this election campaign is
not just bewildering, but appalling.”
-- Michael
S. Malone
"... 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
See how students at a
"prestigious" J-School cheated
on an ETHICS test HERE.
Public
Evaluations of the News Media: 1985-2009
"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
>
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
|
|
"Bigheaded lectures for the umpteenth
time about the 'century-old
standards' at The New York Times, the
'legacy' of Edward R. Murrow
or the 'prestige' of the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
do not cut it anymore in a world of Jayson
Blair, Eason Jordan and Dan
Rather." -- Victor
Davis Hanson
"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
righht -- 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
|
|
| "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 mucch
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
|
| "The
MSM's avoidance of the individualist
perspective is now
routed-around." -- Rick
Gaber |
|
|
"Look Bernie,
of course there's a liberal bias in the
news. All the networks tilt left."
-- CBS NEWS Presiddent
Andrew Heyward,
to six-time EMMY award winner Bernard
Goldberg, quoted
HERE.
.
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
.
“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
"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.
"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
"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]
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