If I haven't heard it, its news to me.
Posted on 11/14/2009 2:15:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his column in Monday's paper, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz observes that Fox News personality Glenn Beck is dominating the media conversation -- even to the point of forcing a White House official to resign -- without a bit of help from newspapers, television or other mainstream news sources. "It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job," Kurtz writes. "But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no longer be necessary."
Kurtz notes that White House green jobs advisor Van Jones, who Beck had relentlessly attacked for his profane comments and conspiracy-theorist past, resigned before the New York Times had run a single story on the conflict. Neither had there been any mention of the story on any of the network newscasts. Beck's ratings have soared to 2.25 million viewers for his 5 p.m. weekday slot in the Fox News lineup, despite losing multiple advertisers over his routinely over-the-top commentary. He deflects criticism by describing himself as a former "dirtbag" and a "clown," but at least this time, he beat the mainstream press to a serious story.
New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson said her newspaper was "a beat behind" on the Van Jones story, and that "we should have been paying closer attention."
Thank goodness for Beck! No one else in the media has enough balls to do it and there would be no resignations if there wasn’t the smell of crap following these socialists around.
What a guy, huhh? Stay well, Mr. Beck, and God bless!
Glen Beck is the man
Van Jones is not an unfortunate soul. He is an evil despicable person of low character.
The answer? Well every thing they print about an Obama official has to be vetted, reviewed and edited before it can be published. That gives Conservative Talk Radio and bloggers a 48 to 72 hour handicap.
The MSM can't keep up, and they are GOING DOWN!
Charlie: If I don't want to report it, it's NOT news to me.
Ya think, Kurtz? Any clues?
Anita Dunn....
The list will keep growing the MSM has given up all semblance of Journalism. The Fourth estate has proven itself to be the impotent puppets of the liberals and the dimocRATS. Instead of hold them to a set of standards they raise the bar for Conservatives and Repulicans and give the others a pass. Nixon was brought down by his own hubris, but also by solid investigative journalism by Woodward and Bernstien. Same with Gary Hart.
But now it was the National Enquirer that showed John Edwards pecadillos, and talk radio and Matt Drudge that brought out the infamous "Blue Dress" against Bill Clinton, as well as Castle Grande, whitewater etc.....
Where was 60 minutes, Time, Newsweek, NY Slimes, the Washington Post?
The MSM integrity died with Tim Russert. Part of me really beleives that Obozo got in because Russert was not around to steer the MSM.
And Beck is there to help usher it all in.
The problem with the mainstream media is they can't handle the truth about Obam's administration, and they are complicit in the cover-up. Why does Glenn Beck have such a large audience? Because he isn't afraid of the truth.
**...every thing they print about an Obama official has to be vetted, reviewed and edited before it can be published..***
The MSM typists have no concept of investigative reporting, vetting or reviewing serious threats to our Republic. They are pathetic and deserve ingnominy.
Unfortunate souls...... they are soul less! I gravitated to Beck because he tells it like it is and has the poof to back up everything he says and he doesn’t whitewash it, play it down or repeat mantras over and over. He knows the deal and now we know the deal and now we must call thier bluff.
Beck should put pressure on Bauer and make him defend Obama on the eligibility issue. The media needs to expose this. We can’t rely on our corrupt courts and justice department. Beck can take down Obama by exposing Bauer and his law firm.
“Obama is quickly becoming the complicit progressive MSM’s Waterloo
And Beck is there to help usher it all in.”
You would think the lame stream media would drop the burning match before they get burned!
When the NYT, Kurtz's rag and others in the Fringe Media finish spinning, they make it sound like the Obammunist slime is quoting George Washington.
Actually, any negative stories about Ogabe have to be deep-sixed if no one else has published them. If others have published already, then negative stories must only be mentioned in a short paragraph buried somewhere in the middle of the paper, and recast as a meritless partisan attack on Ogabe.
“There is no truth in Pravda.”
They’re more than a beat behind. And it’s not just one story.
They are completely dark on the greatest story of our age:
The destruction of the American Constitution and the American Way of Life.
Now if only Beck could help expose the other Poser in the WH and cause him to resign.
Last I heard, that phone ain’t rung.
What do you get when you mix equal parts shameless partisanship, customer disdain, “info-tainment”, lack of professionalism, arrogance, meanness, fawning adoration of the unworthy, and intense focus on the grotesque, perverse, and pernicious?
Well, it certainly isn’t good network news ratings.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
Beck didn’t beat them to the story. They were never going to tell it.
I thought that was now a Fringe Media that consisted of
NYT, Wash crimes, Newsweak. etc....
some unfortunate soul ..
Van JONES??? (loud guffaw)
Then berating MSlimeMedia for not following up on Becks/FOX's stories to defend - ah, when the WH warned - publicly - MSM NOT to follow up on FOX stories, you don't really think that was the first orders from headquarters?
What a bumbling bunch of idiots, the liberals.
I fear that the state-owned media, will in fact become just that, with state bail-outs.
They’re doing rotten because people are no longer buying into their drivel hence their product suffers. Let them fall...
Go Beck!
I haven’t watched since he died. And won’t. For the most part I only watch Fox but I did like Tim Russert. The man did his homework.
Howie: Please resign immediately! Your only salvation may be that you resign before EVERYONE realizes what a bad “journalist” you have been,...are...and will be. Even you family must be embarrassed by you.
Gee, Howard did you forget that Obama has costs millions of jobs; not one in America; the government takeover of private businesses?
Besides Beck is right.
mmmm mmmm mmmm let me think . . . a steaming pile?
mmmm mmmm mmmm let me think . . . a steaming pile?
Glenn needs a board with pictures that he takes out like terrorists playing cards.
Unless it is a conservative! Then they can tell you what he/she did when they were thirteen, true or not.
Hallelujah! From your lips to God's ears.
Yeah. Kinda the way my wife always beats me to the brussels sprouts.
Talk-show hosts tell the inconvenient truth, which resonates with the American people despite the best efforts of the establishment media to downplay it, which costs some Marxist, America-hating, Leftist, Obama hack his job," Kurtz grudgingly laments.
There. Fixed it.
Well, there's good news, Jill. There are at least 40 more Van Joneses out there for you to get the drop on.
Time's a wastin'. Hop to it. Chop, chop.
The MSM typists have no concept of investigative reporting, vetting or reviewing serious threats to our Republic. They are pathetic and deserve ingnominy.
That's because when they finish vetting this steaming piece of crap and his Chicago mob---there's nothing left to report!
Well said. The New York/Washington DC corridor is actually a foreign occupying power totally divorced from America.
They are the ruling elite on a par with Louis XIV and court. The answer then, and the answer now is GUILLOTINE !
(figuratively speaking...of course :)
Helping us survive the UbamaNation ...one day at a time !!
Does anyone know if Beck has a “deep throat” ??
Well .. quite frankly .. I believe O’Reilly is just plain jealous of Beck’s popularity. Nothing stinks worse than jealousy.
Now, the two of them are teaming up .. and I suspect O’Reilly believes he can TAME Beck and thereby retain his status as #1.
The American Way of Life is somewhat on its head: we’re afraid and angry and unsure and blah blah blah — but those first few old parchment pages of the American Constitution have withstood attacks by much better men than Obama. Keep the faith!
Beck got huge ratings so fast he has to be scary to O’Reilly.
“There is no news in Tass.”
For the same reason they liked “uncle Joe” Stalin in the 1930’s
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