Posted on 07/19/2010 11:32:30 PM PDT by MitchellC
Is anyone surprised?
Spencer Ackerman - Washington Independent
Michael Tomasky - Guardian
Thomas Schaller - Baltimore Sun
Richard Kim - Nation
Jared Bernstein - Policy Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden
Holly Yeager - Columbia Journalism Review
Joe Conason
David Roberts - Grist
Todd Gitlin - professor of journalism at Columbia University
Chris Hayes - The Nation
Katha Pollitt - The Nation
Kevin Drum - Washington Monthly
Do you think Obama’s poll numbers and the numbers for his agenda would be where they are if people weren’t getting informed. If all Americans did was watch and accept what the nets and CNN and MSNBC and the Times and WaPo had to say we’d be awaiting the final state’s yes vote to repeal the XXII amendment. The effects of the web and Fox and Talk Radio have opened the floodgates on information and people, way beyond the arbitron numbers, have used it to inform themselves of this regimes perfidy. And let it be a lesson to our side when we regain our country, thatthe people’s interests must be respected and they must be told the truth.
The media blackouts, - like , DOJ New Black Panther case, are part of how the Left conduct business. We may see a more aggressive push toward control of the Internet --
Now that these MSM sentiments have been leaked out, how can any other news outlet call themseleves fair moderators and questioners of election debates?
-PJ
Exactly, I’ve been pointing this out. The final debate moderator between McCain and Obama had a pro-bama book slated to be released on Jan 20, 2009. It was in her own interest to see Barack win the presidency.
A rigged debate (and there are those who say Hillary was given the questions in advance) is a rigged election.
The 21 scandal was nothing compared to the rigging of the election.
Illegal immigration vs national healthcare
war on terror vs education
Did anyone ask Obama about his plan to cut our nuclear arsenal and opening our missile installations to the Russians for inspection?
McCain didn't even bring up the "Marxism" talk until the final debate. Why no ask him what Marxism means (since he knowingly said he sought out Marxist professors in college) and how his approach differs from Marxism.
Ezra Klein, the 24-year-old American Prospect blogging wunderkind who formed JournoList in February 2007. “Basically,” he says, “it’s just a list where journalists and policy wonks can discuss issues freely.”
But some of the journalists who participate in the online discussion say — off the record, of course — that it has been a great help in their work. On the record, The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin acknowledged that a Talk of the Town piece — he won’t say which one — got its start in part via a conversation on JournoList. And JLister Eric Alterman, The Nation writer and CUNY professor, said he’s seen discussions that start on the list seep into the world beyond.
Eric Alterman - Nation/CUNY
Jeffrey Toobin - CNN/New Yorker
high-profile membership — which includes Nobel Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman; staffers from Newsweek, POLITICO, Huffington Post, The New Republic, The Nation and The New Yorker; policy wonks, academics and bloggers such as Klein and Matthew Yglesias — JList itself has received almost no attention from the media.
Paul Krugman - New York Times
Matthew Yglesias - Think Progress (a "sister advocacy organization" of the John Podesta-led Center for American Progress (CAP) - draws freely on the resources of the George Soros-funded Media Matters website edited by David Brock)
David Brock - Media Matters
Run a push poll then to ask them about the economy and banking collapse.
Then follow up with “Did you know that in 2003 Bush pushed for oversight of Fannie Mae’s accounting and Barney Frank and other Democrats said nothing was wrong and that Bush’s call for investigations was only making the situation worse?”
"Give it up."? No thanks. I'm not interested in joining quitters like you. I'll stick with my patriot brothers and sisters who are still willing to stand and fight, and who still believe in America, if you don't mind.
By advocating the "America is finished" line of thinking, you're actually aiding and abetting the enemy. I hope you know that. It's treason.
If this were my website, you'd be banned for saying what you just did.
Beck talking about it now. Saying that the ‘source’ inside the journolist group says this is just the tip of the iceberg but he refuses to release it all because it might hurt the media. ???
It’s time for lawsuits and hearings into our corrupted press.
You know, you’re right. I’m so pissed off that I think today on my way to work I’ll go loot a FootLocker.
Bfltr
John Morrish - Journolist - Editor/site owner
"I live in Gloucestershire, in England, and have been a reporter and writer since 1980, writing for national newspapers and magazines."
"I am an experienced journalist and book-editor living in Cheltenham, UK. I can be contacted by email at mail@johnmorrish.com or by telephone: (0) 1242 693385. Or you can try the mobile: (0) 77 88 515387."
Okay this maybe a stupid question, but where are the documents and proof. I have always know this to be the case and tell all of my friends that the media operates in this manner but I can only see an article saying that documents state this.The economics of wire service journalism unifies and homogenizes journalism. The interests which news wire journalism is united around are, quite simply, their own interests. Those interests boil down to the same thing as everyone else - everyone believes in, and promotes in whatever way comes to hand, his own significance and importance.The behavior documented in this article is as predictable as water running downhill rather than up, once you understand that journalism functionally is a single entity. They beat up on people who do not kowtow to their own interest. Because they can.
Journalism claims to be objective, because they can. And nobody points out that to claim to be objective is actually to dramatize your own subjectivity.
71 posted on July 20, 2010 9:23:14 AM EDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
It's not a stupid question, but it seems to me to be an incomplete one.I want challenges - but what, specifically, requires amplification and substantiation in what I said above?
They need to be called out individually. Beck is covering the story now on his Radio show.
That's a key truth, but try getting any hard core liberal to either grasp, or admit to it. Not gonna do it. They MUST cling to their class warfare hatreds to justify their attacks against the majority.
It's a parasitic mindset. Much of the left will never find their way out of this degraded outlook. They're imprisoned, but will fight you to the death if you attempt to free them.
Speaking of Nazis - On this day in 1944, patriotic German officers attempted to assassinate Hitler and overthrow Nazi Germany’
Unfortunately Hitler wasn’t killed and the putsch was a failure, as the German military oath was to Hitler and since he survived they were still his men...
I note the U.S. military swears an oath to the Republic...
Just say’n :-) There ain’t no parallels between our Grand & Glorious El Presidente and Hitler, and the contemporary USA ain’t no fascist Germany!
We be a Free Republic.
Obviously.
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