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Shocker: Veteran WaPo Reporter Admits MSM's Bias Is "Overwhelmingly To The Left"
NewsBusters.org ^ | 22 September 2006 | Dave Pierre

Posted on 09/22/2006 6:12:39 PM PDT by infoguy

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1 posted on 09/22/2006 6:12:40 PM PDT by infoguy
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Not news, except it is news when one of them admits it.

I see Arkanside in his future.


2 posted on 09/22/2006 6:16:28 PM PDT by sine_nomine (American is a great country: 20 million illegals can't be wrong. So build that wall, Mr. Bush.)
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They'll have to Arkancide this guy before he says any more.


3 posted on 09/22/2006 6:17:19 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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In no way surprised, ping.


4 posted on 09/22/2006 6:17:31 PM PDT by Obadiah
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Once in a while a miracle happens. Like Bernie Goldberg of CeeBS. They managed to destroy Bernie when he dared tell the truth about media leftist bias, and they will this guy no doubt.
5 posted on 09/22/2006 6:17:32 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: infoguy
"shocking" in the honesty?

That is a shock!

6 posted on 09/22/2006 6:18:15 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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The only proper response to this "revelation" is ,

duh

7 posted on 09/22/2006 6:19:52 PM PDT by the lone wolf (Good Luck, and watch out for stobor.)
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EDSALL: You mean people people?

What other kind of people are there?

8 posted on 09/22/2006 6:21:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Insultification is the polar opposite of Niceosity)
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Dude...you're in big trouble for that piece of honesty. Thanks, though. But now watch your back.


9 posted on 09/22/2006 6:22:28 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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>>EDSALL: You mean people people?<<

By "people people" he probably means "my kind of people," the liberal elite, as opposed to the unwashed ignorant masses in flyover country.

/sarc


10 posted on 09/22/2006 6:23:57 PM PDT by SerpentDove (It's not rocket surgery.)
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This guy, Edsal, when he goes on his radio and tv interviews, will probably say that he was just putting Hewitt on because that's what Hewitt was wanting and looking to hear.


11 posted on 09/22/2006 6:35:29 PM PDT by adorno
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15 or 25:1 - I'm going on memory here, but I believe in Barbara Bush'a autobiography she said something like 4 or 5 of the 100 or so reporters in the pool admitted to voting for GHWB.


12 posted on 09/22/2006 6:35:33 PM PDT by Felis_irritable
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Had to bookmark this for future reference. The leftwing is so blantantly dishonest. The only thing shocking is every once in a blue moon, one says something remotely honest.


13 posted on 09/22/2006 6:36:49 PM PDT by Always Right
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Memory refresh:

"The media, I think, want Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards . . . as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there's going to be this glow about them that is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points."

journalists from outside the Beltway picked Mr. Kerry 3 to 1, and the ones from Washington favored him 12 to 1.

Evan Thomas of Newsweek on media bias

14 posted on 09/22/2006 6:38:21 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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Didn't some high ranking member of the national media say back in 2004 that the media was worth 10 or 15 points for Kerry?

Ever once in a while, they will drop the pretense and admit what is obvious.


15 posted on 09/22/2006 6:39:52 PM PDT by Aetius
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Don't read into this that Edsall is repentant. Like a rattler, he will strike back.


16 posted on 09/22/2006 6:43:18 PM PDT by billhilly (DU Funnies pingee # 911)
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To: ladyinred; infoguy
Once in a while a miracle happens. Like Bernie Goldberg of CeeBS. They managed to destroy Bernie when he dared tell the truth about media leftist bias, and they will this guy no doubt.
No one is to be considered "objective" who questions the objectivity of reporters. That is a violation of journalism's self-definition. Thomas B. Edsall has read himself out of the "objective journalism" guild.

The reality is, of course, that it is arrogant to assume you know what is objective.


17 posted on 09/22/2006 6:44:48 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Always Right
Had to bookmark this for future reference.

Great idea. This one will come in handy the next time someone tries to challenge the reality of liberal media bias.

18 posted on 09/22/2006 6:45:45 PM PDT by infoguy (www.frankenlies.com ... www.themediareport.com ...)
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To: infoguy; Milhous; MortMan; CGVet58; CasearianDaoist; headsonpikes; beyond the sea; E.G.C.; ...

BTTT


19 posted on 09/22/2006 6:46:02 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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If the MSM was fair, we'd never lose an election. The MSM knows it. The Dims know it.

Owning the MSM is the Left's greatest accomplishment, followed by owning the educational system and dominating most municipal governments.


20 posted on 09/22/2006 7:01:34 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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