Posted on 12/15/2004 12:41:04 PM PST by mrustow
Hey..thats the date that little religious guy was bornded??Right? Thats why we get that day off right? Whats his name?? KWANZA?????
Sounds more like Gollum.
Sure, she'll appear to be at the top of her game after all this, but crap eventually sinks.
Anyone heard from the Dixie Chix lately?
And then there was the little matter of Mapes hooking up Burkett with the Kerry campaign (Joe Lockhart?), so that by SHEER coincidence, the Democrats had a whole ad campaign, "Fortunate Son", ready to roll the day after the "60 Minutes" piece. Ah, serendipitous synchronicity- no ideological double team here- but we do have the ultimate oxymoron-(mainstream) journalistic ethics.
So often reporters have invented facts to "compliment" their story. Interviews with fictional poverty-stricken individuals were said to be true representations of how it is on the street. Jason Blair comes to mind, the poster boy for fictional journalism.
But hey, this "fake but true" standard is and always has been a phony journalistic shield for those lazy idiots who are about to get their butts fired!
Say "Goodbye" Mary.
ping
Good ol Jason. Anybody know the where abouts of Jason these days ??
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