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2004-05-08 Fifth Column

News Media: Those Lying Lies and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them?

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Posted by .com 2004-05-08 6:46:37 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 one in four people believe what they read in the newspapers

See? We're raising a bunch of morons.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-08 10:04:39 AM|| 2004-05-08 10:04:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 President Bush...prefers to get his "news" from White House and national-security staff, rather than as reports from journalists. Though that may have stunned the media elite...

Who are dumber than they look, if they were stunned by that. The POTUS prefers to get his information from our intelligence services, rather than the newspapers. What a concept.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-05-08 10:40:27 AM|| 2004-05-08 10:40:27 AM|| Front Page Top

A 1999 survey conducted for the American Society of Newspaper Editors also points out that about 53 percent of the public view the press as out of touch with mainstream America

Only 53%? Wonder what a 2004 poll would show.

Another 58 percent believed journalists didn't care about inaccuracies

I can personally testify that they don't. And that's not even about "big" stories that can make careers.

A 2002 Harris Poll produced similar results. In the age of Enron and WorldCom disasters, even accountants scored higher on trust than journalists

Ouch. But deservedly so.

Creating an ethics standard of the sort that Fortune 500 companies require of their employees would "put the fear of God" into reporters, he says

Only for the ones who actually believe in a God, which leaves the liberal elite (i.e., most reporters) out.

The fact that they think someone has to tell them what is right and wrong, else they won't know, speaks volumes about them. None of it good.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-08 12:33:25 PM|| 2004-05-08 12:33:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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