Posted on 02/17/2009 5:49:16 AM PST by slomark
The newspaper business may be dying, but journalists’ careers are being reincarnated by the Obama administration.
The latest is the Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman. She’s hooking up with the administration as Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Transportation. Peter Gosselin, one of her coworkers at the Trib, recently hired on as chief speech writer for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Time Magazine’s Jim Carney is now Joe Biden’s communications director. CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta is rumored to be in the running for Surgeon General.
Many conservatives fear this intentional blurring of the lines between impartial journalism and partisan politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at ihatethemedia.com ...
I see no intentional blurring but instead business as usual for the left wing conspiracy. For absolute power all they need do is silence talk radio.
a variation on the theme”why buy the cow when you’re getting the milk for free?”
Your link goes to the beheading story! slomark needs to slow down.
What BLURRING OF THE LINES BETWEEN IMPARTIAL JOURNALISM AND PARTISAN POLITICS are you dreaming about?
The operative word is DREAMING. I think you are dreaming of a time long past. IMPARTIAL JOURNALISM...
As Bugs Bunny would say, “It is to laugh”
“Impartial journalism”?
Now THERE’S a laugh!
Beheading the media?
Hussein needs as many flacks as possible to manage the goofs and failures emanating from the West wing. His war on America will be fought with a teleprompter displaying thoughts that he could never conjure up.
Not since 1961 or so...
LOL! Crap! Wrong link, and to CNN of all places. Here is the correct link: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/obama-team-hiring-journalists-fast-as-they-can-be-laid-off
I wish I could edit the post, but can’t.
this is very european.
it is not unusual for a politician to pay a journalists expenses for covering the politician. It is almost a tip.
What line?
What impartial journalists?
yep
help?
Remember Gupta and Michael Moore?
There has to be a term coined for the abuse the administration is perpetrating......something stronger than "payroll-padding" or "patronage". It's criminal because it goes farther than pure reward politics......it's the premeditated, careful placement of propagandists in all government departments and bureaucracies.
I'd also like to see what the salaries are of each of the neo-Goebbels being implanted in our government.
This is frightening on so many levels because the tentacles-spreading and the power strategeries are taking place way over the heads of the complacent, uneducated lumpen masses.
Leni
Link has been fixed
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