The Suspense and Waiting is Over at Last: New York Times Endorses Kerry

American Digest ^ | October 16.2004 | Vanderleun

[Cementjungle]

Holy cow!

Next think you know CBS will switch sides and endorse Kerry too!

[Fred Nerks]

They are full of excuses...here's one:

"Max Suich, former editorial director for Fairfax, wrote about this in 'The Age'. He noted how these days it's much harder for journalists to get any useful party sources other than the official ones. Maybe they don't exist - party membership has shrunk and the party operations are increasingly run by professionals connnected to the leader's office. He thinks political reporting is becoming like sports reporting, all about scores and who won today's match.
This might be the new divide between the media and the public. Where the details are increasingly manipulated and controlled, the public will just turn off from the detail and reflect on the big picture."

IMO that's just what they did...didn't listen to the ideologically driven journalistic garbage and made up their own minds as to what was important...and came up with SECURITY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.

[Liberty Valance]

This is hilarious. Has the NYT EVER endorsed a Republican?

[Scothia]

Ooooo! News flash--NY Times endorses Kerry! And while you're at it, Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen Degeneres are gay.

[okie01]

"Where the details are increasingly manipulated and controlled, the public will just turn off from the detail and reflect on the big picture."

Truly, this would have broken any journalist's heart.

Because, right now, there's a whole lotta reflectin' goin' on out thayuh...

[MrNatural]

Dog bites man.

[Bonaparte]

"New York Times Endorses Kerry"

Karl Marx wasn't available?

[Bonaparte]

"How could the voters have been so WRONG?"

Just before Peter explains that we had a "tantrum."

[Bonaparte]

I believe they endorsed Coolidge in 1924.

[Bonaparte]

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[freebilly]

I believe they endorsed Coolidge in 1924.

I had no idea Rita was that old, but I thought she was a Dem, like 99% of the people in the entertainment biz....

[openotherend]

New York Times = Wart on Edwards lip

[Fred Nerks]

After November 2nd, I hope the US is littered with the broken hearts of journalists and all your MSM 'newspapers' become kitty-litter!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Gasp!!! I'm in shock!

[GeronL]

Your MSM will be in the same sad situation as ours are in Australia. Banging their heads against the wall and wailing; how could we have been so WRONG?

Dude, my fellow FReeper, I love ya but thats naive. They will bang the viewers and readers heads against the wall and ask why the voters are so stupid. Like when Peter Jennings said after the 1994 election that the voters threw a "temper tantrum" by putting the GOP into the Congressional majority.

[ladyinred]

I am so surprised! I just knew they would endorse Buchanan too! Oh, he isn't running this time is he. Well, that explains it then.

[kingattax]

i agree.....she's mildly irritating to say the least

[Fred Nerks]

"...and ask why the voters are so stupid."

I guess that's one small difference between us; no matter how the MSM twists the truth to suit its left-wing bias, the average aussie knows when he/she is being lied to. We have very few talking heads with celebrity status or influence. Aussies don't worship opinion-makers, even our radio talk-show hosts have limited persuasive powers...I guess we are an irreverent bunch. Your Peter Jennings wouldn't last five minutes. (And his pay-packet would have nothing in it.) I don't know how it happened, but your media people seem to have taken on the aura of little gods. Somehow, you will have to find a way to pull the rug out from under them. Why has entertainment become confused with information?

[maryz]

Do they know when the Old York Times actually wrote the article?? Was it before or after the DNC Convention???

They probably could have written the bulk of it before the primaries, just leaving blanks for the name and a few indiviudal details for verisimilitude.

[GeronL]

Why has entertainment become confused with information?

I have no idea.

Believe me if I knew of a way to pull the rug from under the establishment media I would.