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2004-10-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

Newsweek's Thomas Reaffirms Media "Absolutely" Want Kerry to Win

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Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-20 2:24:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well may I comment that I think you guys in the MSM are doing a shit job of reporting the news and frankly I don't beleive anything you tell me. You a bunch of reakin Morons who would do better in a petting zoo with the chimpanzees mimcking someone. What a pathetic bunch a ass wiping, syncophatic, unconstructive, defeatist punk mother fuckers you all are.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-10-20 10:02:15 AM|| 2004-10-20 10:02:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't hold back, Bill - tell us what you really think. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-20 1:25:54 PM|| 2004-10-20 1:25:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Naw, we need some /seething/! Personally I feel like the MSM are a bunch of traitors that need to be prime examples of how being a traitor earns you death. We need a law that if a reporter is found to have lied or 'mis-stated' the truth, they spend 5 years as Leroy's cellmate in a Federal prison and if do so about a federal election, then it should be considered an act of treason and they get executed. Yes...I hate reporters.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-10-20 2:39:24 PM|| 2004-10-20 2:39:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This election is entirely about the institutional media trying to hang on to their fading authority and power.
Their reign of terror began with the 1960 election, when the visual power of television superceded all rational considerations and put Hollywood's choice, JFK, in the White House.
This process has gone on for decades, until many millions apparently accept media pronouncements at face value. Last night, I briefly watched the deranged liar Bill Maher pontificating about "what thinking people believe" and "how thinking people" see things. The only support for this was Maher's word alone, his authority as a celebrity.
It was almost comical that these mindless pronouncements were being made in the name of "thinking people" as though anyone with an ounce of reasoning power would accept a media personality's word for anything.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-20 3:26:56 PM|| 2004-10-20 3:26:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 AC - And he's among the "deepest" of the celeb "thinkers", heh.

Posted by .com 2004-10-20 3:33:09 PM|| 2004-10-20 3:33:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What AC said. It used to be that a NY Times reporter was a major cultural figure with a prestigious and influential position in society. In fact, most of Pinch's reporters are just people who write stuff. They do not write better than many bloggers-- in fact, that write worse than a Lileks, a Steyn or a Wretchard-- and certainly have less insight and worse judgment than the best bloggers. The only thing that distinguishes them is the thoroughness of their reporting and the quality of their sources. But even that's not clear anymore.

The NYT used to be the paper of record. Now it's just a lifestyle guide for a certain bicoastal and college town demographic.

Posted by lex 2004-10-20 3:34:04 PM|| 2004-10-20 3:34:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Maher's a clown. The next phase in the blogosphere's continuing assault on the crumbling MSM stronghold is for bloggers to webcast their own streaming video and audio productions.

Screw these jokers on the networks and cable. I want to hear Steyn, and Lileks, and Iraqis, and military experts like Ralph Peters, and genuinely wise and insightful people like Tom Wretchard.

Smas the MSM. Let a thousand blogs contend.

Posted by lex 2004-10-20 3:38:09 PM|| 2004-10-20 3:38:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, as the election nears the MSM is pulling out all the stops in its pro-Kerry push. Yahoo's news site is leading with "US Warplanes kill family of six in Fallujah" (by Yasser Faisal) with the requisite picture of a blanket-wrapped bundle identified as a child being pulled from tne rubble. Right under that photo is another, from AP, of a son sobbing into a US flag over the death of his father, an Army staff sgt.

I wonder just how far they will go? We have a couple more weeks to find out, I guess.

Posted by docob 2004-10-20 3:51:22 PM|| 2004-10-20 3:51:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Lex, the New York Times is the newspaper of record that overlooked the Holocaust story. They've been biased for a loooong time. The prestige comes from the big words they use, and the number of subordinate clauses in their sentences.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-20 4:38:28 PM|| 2004-10-20 4:38:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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