Posted on 03/13/2010 8:48:06 AM PST by jay1949
Former New York Times editor Howell Raines claims that a question has “tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform,” to-wit, Why don’t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? Which naturally raises the followup question, when did Howell Raines develop a “professional conscience”? Considering that the New York Times has been fabricating news for close to half a century, including a seamy plagiarism scandal while Raines was a Times editor, it is hard to conceive that he actually had one of those during his tenure. Yard sale item, maybe?
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LOL! Thanks for the graphic!
honest journalist???? and new york times don’t go together
Imagine the viewership FOX could generate if it really WERE a conservative news network!!!
Tee hee. Howell Raines pretending that he has a conscience of any kind, let alone a “journalistic” conscience.
Come on now, was this posted on Scrappleface?
Actually, I like the mix it has now, conservatives like Hannity for those so inclined, plus libertarians like Judge Napolitano for us conservative-leaning libertarian types. Libertarian viewpoints get short shrift elsewhere, and there are a lot more of us than the media folks realize. So I think a purely-conservative Fox News lineup might lose viewers.
No, but maybe it should be. I like the “Scrappleface” monicker — seems an appropriate spot for the likes of Raines.
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