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Posted on 10/19/2011 8:52:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Someday, cultural historians will look back on the early 21st century and speculate about what killed the credibility of America’s so-called liberal-media elite.
They will ask, Were the wounds self-inflicted or the product of a methodical plot?
Make no mistake about it. We did this to ourselves.
As a card-carrying member of the leftist media near-elite — alas, I’m not nearly rich or famous enough to be regarded as a 100% elitist — it pains me to see my brethren sinking like the sun in the west. But we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
We’ve been out of touch with what people on the streets are thinking. The problem is twofold. We didn’t care to listen to them, and by the time we heard them we had missed the opportunity to break the story and inform the public. We were followers, not leaders.
In the 20th century, the two biggest media triumphs were exposing the Vietnam War as a failure and the Watergate-soaked corruption of the Nixon administration. In those instances, heroic reporters had their ears to the ground. That’s the difference between then and now.
To be objective — like everyone says the media ought to be, but seldom are — and blunt, let me post this simple question: Why should anyone believe us any more?
(Excerpt) Read more at beta.finance.yahoo.com ...
Huh? You didn't listen to the public and by the time you heard them it was too late to inform them of what they have been trying to tell you?
“YES...the author still doesn’t ‘get it’.”
Agreed. It seems as though most people don’t “get it” that this is a fluff piece. The author is trying to equate the OWS people with the TEA Party. He’s trying to give them legitimacy as a genuine grassroots phenomena. We need to continue to pound away at the MSM and point out that there is no comparison between the the two groups.
To wit, here’s a comment from a poster named “Scott”:
“Strange how the epiphany somehow involves giving BETTER and MORE coverage to the leftist protests. Typical self-serving fluff.”
He appears to be the only person on Yahoo who understands what the article is about, while everybody else is completely off the mark.
in the seventies university j-schools taught their future
jourbalists to smirk and laugh at people they disagreed with,
to tow the new left party line, to use alinsky smear tactics,
and to have no regard for the truth.
We have to disabuse ourselves once and for all that the media is a separate, distinct entity that just happens to favor one political side over the other.
They ARE the other side.
These are J-school grads who enter that field because they’re the most dedicated of the left lib brainwashed kids who view “journalism” as a prime career choice for spreading the gospel of statism and collectivism as well as nihilistic social issue beliefs.
(They state this as wanting to “make a difference” and “change the world”)
Look how easily they flitter in and out of Dem organizations
and administrations and vice versa.
the purpose of the article is to legitimize the OWS crowd.
The author then attempts to cement the idea that George Bush ruined the economy and that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan were unprovoked. The author then tries to morally equate the occupy wall street miscreants with the Tea Party movement.
Interesting headline. Too bad the author uses subterfuge to dishonestly try and sell garbage.
Well, he go this part wrong. The media made us fail in Vietnam, especially after the Tet offensive which was a big failure on the communists part, but which the media made into a victory for them in the long run.
even when they ‘come clean’, they still smell.
They don’t kill how many they kill or surrender to murderous thugs and despots..
They only care about declaring victory for themselves... standing amidst the ruins.
don’t kill know how many
We’ve been out of touch with what people on the streets are thinking.
The use of the plural in "on the streets" is the tip off. The usual term is "(the man) on the street." "Streets" indicates that he's talking about the Occupy people, i.e., the ones who espouse the same beliefs he does.
Nice try, Mr. Friedman.
We were followers, not leaders.
How about just being reporters for a change?
Typical opinion from a 60's liberal self-centered brat.
Exactly. He even exposes his own stupidity by saying OWS isn’t just a fringe “like the Tea Party”. BULL!
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