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Most of the world's people denied truthful reporting
HoustonChronicle.com ^
| May 7, 2002, 11:04PM
| unsigned editorial
Posted on 05/08/2002 4:08:09 AM PDT by rw4site
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"To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses"They recognoize a problem of abuses exists.
One little "abuse" with a large portion of America's press is that they consider the freedom to be exclusively theirs.
Another little "abuse" is they don't report much on political matters other than what their agenda supports.
It's all about what they don't report.
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:08:09 AM PDT
by
rw4site
To: rw4site
"recognoize" = recognize
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:14:13 AM PDT
by
rw4site
To: rw4site
HEADLINE:
Most of the world's people denied truthful reporting SUBHEADLINE: No kidding. And it ain't just in the Third World either.
I believe the Liberal Media in the US is the only example in history of a Free Press that refuses to report the Truth.
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:23:38 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: rw4site
Most of the world's people denied truthful reporting This is especially true of the people who read the Houston Chronicle.
To: rw4site
Are there any Houston Residence that would like to confirm whether this is the pot calling the kettle black? After all, what does the US media know about "truthful" reporting?
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:30:09 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: tcostell
Residence = Residents
LOL, it's really early here, no coffee yet.
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:30:48 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: rw4site
A free press is a free press. That doesn't mean people not in the press have to cooperate with the press or provide it information. The free press is supposed to discover information by its own means and not rely on government to feed it. If the press wants war front coverage, have at it. Just don't expect military resources to be used to protect you while your run around the front lines.
When the government stops the press by force (or law) then that is a whole other matter.
Just because Bush doesn't provide the press with the information it wants doesn't mean he is some how limiting the freedom of the press.
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posted on
05/08/2002 4:53:15 AM PDT
by
DB
To: rw4site
Most of the world's people denied truthful reporting I didn't know most of the world's people could get the CBS, ABC and NBC signals.
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posted on
05/08/2002 5:11:04 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: rw4site
The problem with the press is the same as with government,they have their own agendas.You can send Geraldo to a war zone and make him a star but he will still never know how those people live.The press like our government officials live in their own little world.It is like Clinton telling you he feels your pain and he has always lived off of government and in his Ivory Tower.The only pain he ever felt was Hillary smacking him.
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posted on
05/08/2002 5:16:21 AM PDT
by
gunnedah
To: rw4site
This article appeared in the Houston Chronicle, a paper with an increasing problem with truthful reporting. We suffer from having only one major newspaper which has an interest in promoting their agenda instead of accurate reporting.
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posted on
05/08/2002 5:23:05 AM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: rw4site
When I lived in Houston the Chronicle was referred to as the Houston Comical. The Post had better coverage before it was shut down, and it didn't amount to diddly.
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: rw4site
[Freedom of the press] has been restrained by the Bush administration since Sept. 11... "Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed?" asked Vladimir Lenin. I'm sure there was no agenda whatsoever in making this analogy.
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posted on
05/08/2002 5:50:32 AM PDT
by
tdadams
To: rw4site
The press has become as big a liar as Arafat. But what is worse is they seem clueless.
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posted on
05/08/2002 5:53:09 AM PDT
by
dalebert
To: rw4site
Bump
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posted on
05/08/2002 6:21:06 AM PDT
by
EdReform
To: SkyPilot
"Most of the world's people denied truthful reporting"
That would without a doubt include the DNC's rigid control of the mass media.
One telling piece of absolute evidence?: "Bias" and other exposes receive their only mainstream exposure on Fox occasionally. Otherwise it's an astonishing and unprecedented total media blackout for the #1 bestseller.
Incidentally Terry McAulfee, the DNC head, Clinton family buttboy, and $100,000 to $18 million stock fraud con artist, has announced a coordinated well funded campaign to neutralize the growing influence of talk radio and internet media critics. Free Republic and Drudge Report have been under coordinated legal assault by the DNC and its operatives for some time. We can expect more litigation. I have also noticed a distinct rise in site disrupters over the last several weeks.
On a positive note, circulation is way up at the fastest growing print newspaper in the US, the 200 year old, fiercely pro-Republican NY Post in New York City. And did you ever look at the end of the Drudge Report at circulation (hits per day) figures. Drudge is rapidly approaching ONE BILLION hits per year!
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posted on
05/08/2002 6:23:36 AM PDT
by
friendly
To: rw4site
Oh, BS!! Look, CNN is CNN! LIVE WITH IT!!!
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posted on
05/08/2002 6:32:47 AM PDT
by
Tacis
To: friendly
I have noticed an increase in the disruptors here in Free Republic recently as well.
I don't like to do the "Well, you're new--so screw you!" routine. But it is easy to tell sometimes.
Part of it is directly attributable to homosexual and gay rights groups who feel threatened by the current scandal in the Catholic Church. A recent post here on FR from GLAAD made that all too clear.
Some of the disruptors here on Free Republic were cited by our lurkers on Democratic Underground. They were even soliciting screen names from their friends that sounded "Right-Wing Wacko-like."
Oh, and I forgot to add this comment to the above article regarding what the Houston Chronicle says about media:
It exposes the corruptions and weaknesses of the powerful and elite.
Or...not.....
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posted on
05/08/2002 7:03:50 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: rw4site
A free people cannot exist in the absence of a free press. Wrong! A free press has nothing to with people being free.
A free press will help prevent a government from increasing the enslavement of its subjects, but to the degree the people are governed those people are not free.
The press most definitely does not make people free. In fact the press, by promoting its own agenda, works towards the intellectual enslavement of its own readers or listeners.
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posted on
05/08/2002 7:18:54 AM PDT
by
eFudd
To: SkyPilot
Bump for truthful reporting through the Internet. We are denied it elsewhere.
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posted on
05/08/2002 7:28:50 AM PDT
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friendly
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