[Timesink]

The rest of the article is available here. This is a must-read piece; you gotta see the nastiness that is building amongst the press.

[Wphile]

I didn't even read it. All I can say is "screw 'em." If the stupid press wasn't badgering these guys all day for some sort of "news" then maybe everyone could settle down and figure this mess out. It is unchartered waters and the press cries for answers. They say, "just tell us you don't know" and when they get "we don't know" the press screams..."they don't know!!!! EGADs, run for the hills." God, I hate the press.

[Ironword]

Problem is, on top of the anthrax attack being something new, we're dealing with a still-Clintonized CDC. The broom has not yet swept the various activists, incompetents, and other patronees from the ranks of the organization.

[reloader]

Diane Sawyer interviewed Bin Laden last Thursday ?How the hell does that work.

[what's up]

The administration has done a first-class job of moving in quickly to defend against the anthrax threat. In addition, their skill at managing a message which is calming, yet calls people to be alert couldn't be better IMO.

The press are a bunch of hyenas and they have been getting on my nerves BAD the last week or so.

[P-Marlowe]

The press is kind to Bush when compared to what some of the Freepers have been saying lately. Its not just the liberal press that is turning on bush, it is the far right as well. He cannot please anyone. That tells me he's probably doing everything right.

[MoJo2001]

I really don't like Howie. He gets on my nerves. As if we expected the media to stick with Bush. We aren't stupid Howie. If you want some media brainwashers, check out DU.

[KC_Conspirator]

For every "blood of the WTC victims on their hands", anti-American liberal press whore there is 1000 patriots.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

On CNBC some clown was saying that the administration said this war would be short and, yet, it is not over, despite the fact that Bush, Rimsfield, Powell, et al., have all said it would take a long time. The press puts words in Bush's mouth and then they say he was wrong about something they said, not him. Nothing has changed.

[Imperial Warrior]

PISS on the media. When the hell since WWII have these sons of bitches EVER been on America's side? I say draft every damned one of them.

[kingh99]

The press were told at the onset this would be a long drawn out war. It was spelled out letter by letter. So what does the press do, start carping after great victories haven't been had in 3 weeks.

These clowns are starved for a story which means they don't know what is going on the war front, which means ---->good.

They need to shut the hell up about the constant updates on "civilians" casualties in Afghanistan. They are giving comfort to the enemy, the unpatriotic bastards.

[lowbridge]

"They don't know what the hell they're talking about," says Bill Plante, a CBS White House correspondent

Oh, and you do, Bill?

[Penny1]

The real problem is, they're not finding any dirt...

They can't find any coverups, they can't find any dirty little secrets in how the administration is handling things currently, so all they can do is rail about this or that. When Rumsfeld says, "yes, no or we don't know" that pretty much stops the question cold, and no matter how much badgering they do, they can't get anything different out of them.

If the press is that hot about whining, they ought to go back and investigate how the Clinton Administration got us into such a state of vulnerability to attack in the first place. But then, that would mean trashing their own liberal side...

It's about time the media started growing, changing and actually doing something useful...

-penny

[Mo1]

Ok ... I got half way thru it and couldn't read anymore .. what a load of crap .. the media has some real balls to even print that crap .. they wouldn't know how to report the news if it smacked them in the face .. they IGNORED reporting the truth for the last eight years .. and now they care .. why .. because they have an AGENDA that's why .. and as for as I'm concerned the media can kiss my irish @ss ..

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"After six weeks of generally sympathetic coverage, the anthrax-obsessed press is turning on the Bush administration."

Last week, during a live White House briefing with Ari Fleisher,
FOX NEWS left the live briefing to show the OJ Simpson verdict.
If I had not seen it with my own eyes I would not have believed that FOX NEWS did that.
Since when is OJ Simpson more important than a live White House briefing during a time of war/

[Iam4theRepublic]

I think this whole thing started with the "release" of the right-wing being blamed for the ANTHRAX terrorism. Which is B.S. Imho.

[prognostigaator]

In appreciation of Kurtz' comments,Cokies' views, and the Time.com article, a copy of a previous response....

Lucky breaks ....Time Magazine starts it, the Fleet Street press in jolly old England takes their lead and runs with it...[Drudge incensed at the English press on tonight's radio He cites a headline -"This War Is A Fraud" .

Simply because a strategic attempt of a long shot failed ,the pundit journalists at Time.com confidently write the future of the cold war against terrorism.

How quickly the editors and writers for Time, the AP, Reuters and the unholy tri-partite of ABCNBCCBS ,their affiliates on cable, namely CNN , and leading astute columnists such as Maureen Dowd discount over 4,000, [that's f-o-u-r t-h-o-u-s-a-n-d ] American lives were snuffed in ONE DAY.

It would appear from their writings and broadcasts that not one of them suffered the death of a loved one that gruesome morning.

No, they delude themselves into believing that reporting the news as they see fit to print and speak , in that they have been so indoctrinated with the liberal leftist view learned in J-school and amply propagated by the by-laws of their 'professional associations' ,that they believe that the freedom of the press was inserted into the Constitution not because so many of the contemporaries of that time did suffer the grief of loss in that war for independence, and so knew what sacrifice was for being a patriot , but for the effete and snobbish them.

How they have shirked their responsibilities in becoming the selfish to their own agenda , unpatriotic egotistical members of the fourth estate as we recognize them to be today-as first rate clymers [spelled a-h].

How will they report the memorial service being held today ? Will they preface it with the information that umpteen civilians in Afghanistan were killed , and that the US forces destroyed hospitals and food warehouses...?

Well, mabe they won't preface it, but will slip it in somewhere under their byline......

Bastards....there is not one drop of patriotic American blood in their veins , and not much of what earlier journalists had -printer's ink when truth ,loyalty to the American way was an unequivicated legacy.

[TennesseeProfessor]

I support Bush and Rumsfeld, but I have to agree that the handling of the antrhrax has been a fiasco. Thompson lost my support when he he claimed that "he got it by drinking from a mountain stream." And we have a plethora of conflicting information about the DC anthrax. Daschel says it is potent stuff. Thomson says it is "garden-variety". US-AMRID says the coating has bentonite; the CDC says no. An anonymous source says that Atta met with an Iraqi agent; a different anyonymous sources claims the "totality of evidence" shows the "spores" came from the US. All of this conflicting information leads to a loss of confidence in the government and makes me think they wouldn't recognize military-grade anthrax if they got it in the mail.

[Reagan Man]

The press is upset that the feds aren't giving them access to Middle East operations being carried out by the US military. Keeping the media in the dark about the conflict in Afghanistan, leaves Bush and company open to a higher level of criticism right here at home. Of course, the media never offers any suggestions for exactly how the Bush administration should be going about handling this anthrax scare. Most likely, becasue they have no suggestions. At least no worthy suggestions. But the media has turned some very limited and low level terrorist attacks into full blown panic mode over the events involving anthrax.

America should continue to attack terrorism at the root of it's very existence by destroying the terrorist infrastructure and thereby curtailing any future expansion. Overall, this will help out significantly to offset future growth within the ring of world wide terrorism. With constant military and economic pressure being applied, it should lead to the eventual downfall of international terrorism. Problem is, it will take quite some time to achieve the goals spelled out by President Bush. If America is to be victorious in the end, patience, resolve and courage is required by everyone.

And the media can go to hell!

[psjones]

Isn't this the same press that was all over the House of Representatives for leaving early so that their building can be swept for anthrax? Sheesh, now they're tripping all over themselves to criticize the administration for not knowing beforehand that the postal workers were in danger. Obviously, they didn't think that an onopened envelope can be as hazardous as an open one. After all, how many employees at AMI tested positive for exposure, not that many.

[GVnana]

Shall we include the media in the War on Terrorism?

I hear Time magazine is launching a real Bush hit piece tomorrow--back to the "village idiot" days. Within weeks of the highest measured approval ratings in history.