[Sir Napsalot]

Readers become so jaded, this (journalistic reporting) is, like everything else, the 'new normal'.

We always give them (media) the leeways, well, because it is the NY Times, or WaPo, or you name it.

Until we the society in general demand more independence, integrity and responsibility from those who call themselves journalists/editorial boards, it is so easy for them to become the mouthpiece of a certain political party, and the outright propaganda machine for one-sided views.

[Sir Napsalot]

When I said ‘one-sided views’, I meant Statists for both Dem and Repub party.

[BRL]

I kind of understand quote approval agreement for an interview that is granted. It is because the media is now so dishonest they will deliberately twist words and massage the quotes to change the intent of what the interviewed person is saying. Everyone knows it and nobody wants to deal with it. The media allows it because they know it too.

[skinkinthegrass]

that "freedom of the press" thingy died long ago (early '60s)...
esp. since "Cam(e)alot/JFK" and the "We must form the news, not just report it" media mindset.

[Carl Vehse]

So the fifth-column mainstream media are essentially Obamabuttboys and liberal skanks. Surprise, surprise.

[Pollster1]

Actually, I read the report and didn’t react either. Was this news to anyone? Whether we thought it was a formal quote approval agreement or something more vague but just as effective, we all know that the NYT and the rest of the mainstream media no longer provide anything that qualifies as objective news except by accident. Having reconsidered this story, I still don’t care. NYT, WaPo, and the rest are unreliable tools of the government and of crony-capitalist corporations, and the details don’t interest me.

[JPG]

CNN became boot-lickers in Iraq and Cuba when they slanted their reports and cut the regimes slack at every turn. Some ‘journalists’.

[rwa265]

Like my Dad always said, “You can believe only half of what you read in the newspapers, and only half of that is true.”

[Lady Lucky]

If enough conservatives truly cared, which they don’t, they could run the NYT out of business and buy it at yard sale price.

[redgolum]

If you want access, you will play ball the way the king wants.

That and many are happy to follow orders. They are true believers, and will do whatever it takes to win.

[StAnDeliver]

Here's how young journo thought pattern works:

• They got Nixon, whoever he was
• Subsequent Presidents have made sure to never get got
• Except Clinton, and he got away with it
• So good reporting is a veneer anyway
• I'd rather opinioniate/agitate anyway, it's easier than reporting
• And the paper will print it unquestioningly, even if false
• Oh, what? The paper downsized again? I'm out of a job?

[Bender2]

Journalism of the Drive By Media ( i.e. CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc) has been officially dead ever since Uncle Walter... threw the United States under the bus in Vietnam in 1968.

[a fool in paradise]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

The lack of reaction to a New York Times report filed by Jeremy Peters on July 15 and found on the front page of the its July 16 print edition has, at least to me, been nothing short of stunning.

....

What Peters told readers, in essence, is that White House officials, the Obama administration in general, the Obama for America campaign, the campaign of presidential challenger Mitt Romney (though the evidence Peters provided is thin and seems to relate largely to the candidate’s family), and powerful Washington politicians on Capitol Hill are dictating what the press will print concerning their nonpublic statements and remarks — and that the press is, for the most part, acquiescing with little if any objection.

The same as when Mark Halperin at ABC News (now at Time-Lies) said that both sides would not be held to the same standards.

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/10/09/20041009_195805_mh.htm

ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE'

And these are the same presstitute Stalinists who will be moderating the debates.

[PushinTin]

Those people who do not read the newspaper are uninformed. Those people who do read the newspaper are miss informed...

[Random_User_250]

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. -- Joseph Stalin

[combat_boots]