So the dowdie one says newspapers print gossip as news, but only if they have sources.
The trouble I find with that attitude is that they fail or are slow to widely disseminate the truth once is has been proved to them, and they are resentful and belligerent about it - ala Buckhead.
This is another variation on the double standard we see in the MSM.
It is because they are not driven by a search for truth, but by an agenda of forming the world that they want.
Thus, the standard becomes: How can we spin the information that we have to advance the Agenda?
When we look at MSM reporting with this in mind, much is explained.
The only source the dowdy one uses for her Hate GW opeds is her over drugged/whacked out brain.
"Warning - it is not our practice to determine truth of our reporting. It is the sole responsibility of the consumer to do the fact checking."
Failure to post that warning should make these people personally liable for libel suits.
Good work!
Gee, sounds like both of these weirdos are parsing their words. Kinda goes back to the meaning of the word "is" is.
What crap they spew!
What an incredibly stupid thing to say. If the president says something at a press conference one can report on that because that is what he said...if you do an investigative report about a claim regarding the past you have an obligation to actually seek the truth and not just report what is said. These are two DIFFERENT types of reports and for someone who is supposed to be a reporter to fail to understand the difference...well, she needs to go back to school and take journalism 101 so she has a grasp of how reporting is actually done.
Alright, you know the rule: bring out the CZJ pics.
I still love Matt Drudge's comment on journalism. It's a trade, not a profession. Talk about putting these arrogant asses in their place.
Well, there you have it... "News=Opinion". That explains it all, doesn't it?
"Truth? TRUTH? We don need no steenkin truth! Now git before we disembowel ya."
I watched the LK interview as well.
Probably shouldn't nitpick, but it bothers me that so-called intellectual Dowd cannot use the English language above the 8th grade level.
She said: credible, which means believable or truthful. She meant to say credulous, which means easily convinced of something.
It is both amusing and irritating (I'm not sure in what proportion), when these liberals pretend to be educated and intelligent.
Mary Mapes took the word of a Bush-hater who had been HOSPITALIZED FOR MENTAL ILLNESS as gospel.
She wanted to believe it. Or even if she didn't believe it, she thought it would help defeat the Republicans--which was her goal.
What planet does she come from?
"investigative reporting is not stenography."
I heard a similar thing said on FOx Watch by the resident liberal..I can't even remember his name. Only he said, "reporting is not stenography"
First..I guess we know how they feel about all the secretaries and court reporters out there....they obviously feel SO superior
But in actuality, a good reporter DOES mean getting it right and accurate, as a stenographer's main mission is. But too many journalist don't care about that credo any longer. A good reporter TRIES to get the WHOLE story accurately. Journalism 101 says that reporters are NOT to put in their own opinion...Obviously, that's not entirely possible HOWEVER journalists should avoid "loaded" words and should AT LEAST get quotes from both sides of the article. The lack of performing these basic requirements for an article is what has led the MSM back to "yellow journalism"
roflol!