Posted on 02/21/2005 11:45:31 AM PST by Pikamax
If this battle is lost, the wounded could include you Manning Pynn
February 20, 2005
Wounds inflicted by the war on journalism have been neither physical nor fatal, but the injuries have extended far beyond newspapers and television news programs.
Recent assaults have included the following:
The federal government fed fake news segments, promoting administration programs, to television stations -- some of which naively aired the tapes.
The federal government paid columnists and commentators to promote its programs as though the endorsements resulted from their own evaluations.
A federal appeals court ruled that, on penalty of going to jail, two reporters must divulge a confidential source who outed an undercover agent, when it wasn't even they who revealed the agent's name.
All that has been going on to the constant radio drumbeat that journalists are the enemy.
Some of the most grievous wounds, though, have been inflicted by journalists, themselves:
Jayson Blair lied about his whereabouts, made up stories and brought down the management of the New York Times.
Jack Kelley falsified articles he wrote for USA Today with similar effects on his newsroom.
Dan Rather relied on forged documents in a CBS News broadcast about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Someone needs to call a Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance
This happened during the Clinton years. Go back and check your sources and debates.
I don't believe anything the media says anyway.
I cna't read the whole story because I'm not registered at the site and won't be. I took the early comments as whiny.
--we must not forget Monica Lewinsky's famous comment to the effect that "I'll tell Bill and Rick [Kaplan] (head of CNN News) will print whatever he (Bill) wants"--
I never said we didn't need conservative judges and I despise the ACLU. So I guess I'm lost by the question.
"Jayson Blair lied about his whereabouts, made up stories and brought down the management of the New York Times.
Jack Kelley falsified articles he wrote for USA Today with similar effects on his newsroom.
Dan Rather relied on forged documents in a CBS News broadcast about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service"
And yet the writer doesn't seem to see the irony in all that?
How terrible it is to be so deluded by ones self importance that the obvious just seems to escape you.
Yes, the wounds are self inflicted and chronic. If the press actually did their job, the blogs would have nothing to do, but the constant censoring and/or selective news reporting to fulfill a liberal agenda it the noose that the MSM put around it's own neck.
Sadly, the press is so arrogant, that they will probably pull the trapdoor out from under themselves as well.
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