Posted on 09/23/2004 10:50:02 AM PDT by FlyLow
I don't NEED anyone to save me from President Bush. I am perfectly capable of deciding how to vote all by myself. That just proves they think they are smarter than the rest of us.
It was a fairly simple matter to come out swinging at CBS instead of apologizing and deferring to Rather and Mape's reputations. The CBS story, at its core, was an exercise in bad journalism, bad fact checking and bad sourcing, made worse by its failure to mention the other side of the story when it finally went to air. The national media wasn't hurt by what Rather did, it was hurt by not gunning him down immediately for breaking every rule of their profession.
I'm sure that was an innocent typo on your part!
... My take on what happened here is that the producer, who I've never met, and who has a great reputation, but the producer, Mary Mapes, became obsessed with this story ...Here is the spin, epitomized. Mapes was a rogue agent, obsessed, out of control; the CBS debacle was an abberation, a case of professional journalists led astray by the wiles of a mad producer. Hang Mapes and the problem is solved. Mapes is the human sacrifice being offered to mollify the viewing public.
BTTT.
I hear ya on that one, Brilliant!
Brit Hume was talking about a Memo that one of the fox reporters had gotten their hands on that showed Mapes doing something underhanded or illegal regarding a Prison and communications between two PRisoners.
It was damaging enough that she lost her Prison privilages.
Anyone know anything about it?
Now the MSM is on the "Mapes is crazy" bandwagon, further relieving Rather of any responsibility.
Remember you heard it here, Rather will walk away clean, and Mapes will take the fall.
Fineman is a liberal and a Clinton apologist. Coming from him, this speaks volumes.
Grand justifications like saving the world makes liberals dangerous.
Rather will walk, but he Old goat will wear this tar babby around his neck for the rest of his professional days - AND into his retirement where he will have to suffer eternally for it.
A reporter is only as good as his last story, This is Dan's last story that anyone will pay any attention too.
Revenge is Sweet.
You're right -- and Mapes, herself, is also an "editor." When the MSM prates on about its system of "checks and balances," this is what it amounts to. When the "editor" is biased, whatcha' gonna' do? Having worked in the media with many a biased editor, I know what goes on.
...what's happening is that the national press core is crumbling. I've got to say, if Roger Ailes and Fox had done something like this, you know, the world would be on fire, but they didn't. It's CBS that did it."
Why not save the world from a treasonous, cowardly Ketchupman who would place our nation under the purview of the UN and raise to dominance the so-called "religion of peace"?
I am not big on the bible thumping.
So this does not come from a 'religiousity' mindset.
But there is a principle called repentance.
simple: turn around and go the other direction.
you can just do it,
not talk about it.
not have an inquiry over it.
ADMIT the mistake and simply don't DO it anymore.
It puts an end to all the turmoil deception and strife.
This would ALL blow over for CBS and Rather in two weeks if it was done in an obvious way. But instead, they will obsess over it, investigate it, put in new proceedures, talk it to death... and tomorrow, next week and next year, do the same old shit over and over and over and over.
Fair and balanced should be the mantra. EVERY news org should do their news style... hannity and colmes. One reports the facts one way, the other with an alternate set of words, and the viewers decide what the REAL facts are and what they mean.
The reason CBS won't do 'repentance' is simple. It interferes with their agenda... plain and simple. Changing their modus operandi, would derail their anti-american and communist/socialist leaning bent.
Since that is their core... we can expect NOTHING but more of the same, until their ultimate downfall via the new media... folks will just tune them out, more and more.
Affiliates will drop off and via attrition, they will eventually extinquish their own existence.
bon apetite CBS.
Mary Mapes has just been outed as a law breaker by Fox News.It seems that she was caught red handed by a Colorado federal penitentiary warden trying to put prisoners in touch with each other through a scheme involving the prison mail system. In violation of federal regulations.One of the prisoners was referred to as Peter Langan a white supremacist. Who is Peter Langan ?
Who is White Supremacist Peter Langan? What is his connection to Mary Mapes
While I posted info on Langan, who is connected to the OKC bombing and was on the witness list at Terry Nichol's trial, I am suspicious of the story as there is no link, and the poster is a fairly new freeper, I thought you might want to take a look at it and possibly follow up as I won't be around the next few days, my Mom is coming to town. I pinged Doug from Upland as well.
Let's not forget how more caring they are, too.
In case he hasn't noticed, the world IS on fire. And if the MSM had done something about Kerry 30 years ago it might not be. And it continues to do nothing about Kerry today. But no matter. The Fire Department is on duty and is extinguishing the flames. Too bad, but the MSM will be the last building to be saved, if it isn't too late by then. The new media is already taking over, in case they haven't noticed.
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