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2008-06-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-06-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 newspapers written by people whom everyone believes to be drunks, misfits, dropouts and lowlifes.

lol! Drunk on a barstool is the new impression of today's American journalist. It's all just agenda driven crap and everyone knows it, except maybe grandma.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-06-24 03:48|| 2008-06-24 03:48|| Front Page Top

#2 If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.

William T. Sherman quote

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-24 07:52|| 2008-06-24 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Or -

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
William Tecumseh Sherman

- which the NYT has shown to be.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-24 09:10|| 2008-06-24 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Journalists as scum was the generally held opinion in this country until WWII. But the Greatest Generation had a media that served it with Ernie Pyle et al. It wasn't until we discovered Uncle Walter lied about Tet that the scales began to fall off and we realized what every previous generation had known. They are scum.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-24 09:38|| 2008-06-24 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 consider the dim bulbs that come out of J-school, and you understand why, when combined with Hubris and general ignorance of most subjects they report on, we get the biased mush we get.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-24 09:44|| 2008-06-24 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Our impending victory in Iraq will be the worst setback for activist journalism since Goebbels shot himself.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-06-24 10:30|| 2008-06-24 10:30|| Front Page Top

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