Posted on 06/30/2010 4:02:51 PM PDT by Starman417
News of the Dave Weigel/JournoList dustup shouldn't of surprised many of us. For those hiding under a rock the story begins, and ends, with a Google Group of "Journalists" who had internal discussions about the news of the day....and how best to spin it to make the right seem bad, racist, and all that jazz while making the left look like stellar human beings who are the Country's saviors. Here is Politico over a year ago:
For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.Proof of a vast liberal media conspiracy?
Not at all, says Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
But some of the journalists who participate in the online discussion say — off the record, of course — that it has been a great help in their work. On the record, The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin acknowledged that a Talk of the Town piece — he won’t say which one — got its start in part via a conversation on JournoList. And JLister Eric Alterman, The Nation writer and CUNY professor, said he’s seen discussions that start on the list seep into the world beyond.
That was in March of 2009. Five days ago Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, a man supposedly hired to cover the right, was outed by emails from that list, as a Conservative hating dweeb.
Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel resigned today after a host of offensive e-mails surfaced revealing his disdain for much of the right - the beat he was charged with covering. Fishbowl DC, which published a number of those emails yesterday, confirmed the resignation with the Post just after noon.Yesterday I reported on leaked emails from Weigel to a listserve of liberal journalists bashing conservatives and conservatism - you know, the people Weigel is supposed to be covering. As bad as those email were, a plethora of messages from Weigel published in the Daily Caller take the conservative-bashing to a whole new level.
The new emails also demonstrated that yesterday's quasi-apology from Weigel was really not as sincere as he claimed. He said that he made some of his most offensive remarks at the end of a bad day. But these new emails show that there was really nothing unique about them, and that offensive remarks about conservatives really were nothing new or uncommon.
But the story isn't about the dweeb. It's about the collusion amongst some 400 reporters to spin the news in a certain way.
This is the liberal bias we have been writing about for years, and Andrew Breitbart wants to out it:
Read more at floppingaces.net...
The Left lies.
I’m sure your list could have gone on for days but I got your point right away!
If their lips move...they are lying.
If they write an article...they are lying.
Left means...Truth LEFT behind!
The left seems to be imploding and collapsing under their own lies.
Daily Kos is suing their pollster over fabricated polls which were widely quoted in other media outlets... Ezra Klein’s Journolist was the back room where the MSM refined their talking points, and when the lights were turned on they scattered like roaches...
Al Gore is outed as a pervert, and his religion is exposed as a fraud in the East Anglia email scandal.
It’s a beautiful thing.
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