Posted on 08/08/2006 9:24:41 AM PDT by connell
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To describe the MSM as a bunch of intellectually incurious, useless, effete hacks would only be partially accurate. They are actually quite useful---to our enemies.
There are some who consider them to be accidentally useful, like Lenin's "useful idiots." They say that it is the de facto result of the aggregate biases held by the majority of journalists, but that it is not intentional.
I wonder.
Misreporting, faked photos, staged incidents. Refusal to correct stories that have been utterly discredited. The withholding of footage that proves an earlier report incorrect.* Rathergate. Joe Wilson. Repetition of lies that have been long exposed as such. Incessant, blindingly obvious bias.
It seems to me that at least some of the things the MSM has done cannot be anything BUT intentional.
In the last few days, we have learned---at least those of us who do something more than merely suckle at the withered teat of the MSM have learned...
(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...
Green Helmet Guy Alert in the Philippines:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1679955/posts?page=1
Look at the sign behind them.
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