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To: bryan999

Getting scooped is the least that should happen to these Liberal scumbags who think “Freedom of the Press” is the freedom to choose sides and lie.


2 posted on 12/25/2012 5:51:01 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Feckless
Getting scooped

Is that some liberal sexual act, or just the traditional journalism expression? I found out "teabagging" was a homosexual practice after Anderson Cooper started using the expression all of the time, and he would know.

3 posted on 12/25/2012 5:55:00 AM PST by Bernard (John Kerry as SOS will be the almost-perfect symbol of the Obama administration.)
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To: Feckless

Continues still today, with the ongoing cover-up of Obama/Soetoro/Dunham/Bounel.


23 posted on 12/25/2012 7:47:42 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Feckless; Bernard; Hotlanta Mike
Getting scooped is the least that should happen to these Liberal scumbags who think “Freedom of the Press” is the freedom to choose sides and lie.
Getting scooped is exactly what should happen to “objective” journalists who elect to spike an obviously significant story.

Of course, getting scooped implies competition. And it is no accident, comrade, that Newsweek was scooped by an internet site. The Associated Press newswire is a continuous, 24/7 virtual “meeting” of all the large journalism outlets. The result of that “meeting” is precisely as Adam Smith would have predicted: 

"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices."
The effect of continuous meeting is of course a complete absence of ideological competition amongst journalists. You can have all the independence you want among editorial pages, and still have no ideological competition among the “objective” reporters.
The reason wire service journalism - grievously misnamed “the MSM” - is socialist is actually quite simple. In order to not be socialist, you must respect “the man in the arena” above “the critic.” All socialist rhetoric actually boils down to the conceit that criticism is superior to execution. Surprisingly enough, journalists - who after all consider it their job to report bad news and ignore the good - want to criticize everyone else’s execution. But let them - and note well, Lenin and Mussolini were both journalists - obtain power, and suddenly criticism of their execution is uncalled for, because their motives are above questioning.

26 posted on 12/25/2012 1:04:23 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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