mdispo: A nice take on the current state of the media...

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http://forum.blueridgenow.com/viewtopic ... 5c#p122784

Story about the media by the media.....

From the article:

This press corps serves at the pleasure of this White House and president, led by people like Ezra Klein and JournoList, where they plot the stories together. The problem here is that no one will name names.
But I want to talk about this Libyan thing, because we crossed some lines here. It’s not about politics. First of all, we’ve had nine days of lies over what happened because they can’t dare say it’s a terrorist attack, and the press won’t push this. Yesterday there was not a single piece in The New York Times over the question of Libya.

Twenty American embassies, yesterday, were under attack. None of that is on the national news. None of it is being pressed in the papers.

If a president of either party—I don’t care whether it was Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush—had a terrorist incident, and got on an airplane after saying something, and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified! It would have been—it should have been the equivalent, for Barack Obama, of George Bush’s “flying over Katrina” moment. But nothing was said at all, and nothing will be said.

It is one thing to bias the news, or have a biased view. It is another thing to specifically decide that you will not tell the American people information they have a right to know, and I choose right now, openly, and this is—if I had more time I’d do all the names for it—but The New York Times, The Washington Post, or the most important papers that influence the networks, ABC, NBC, and, to a lesser extent—because CBS has actually been on this story, partly because the president of Libya appeared on [Bob Schieffer’s “Face the Nation”] and said, on Sunday, while [U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.] Susan Rice was out—the U.N. ambassador has no portfolio on this matter—lying, said of the secretary—you know why, notice the Secretary of State wasn’t out there doing this—was on national television, lying and promoting the White House line while the Libyan president, the very same moment, is saying “This is a premeditated attack.”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/ ... z287mRDc7L


mdispo the brainiac.

[Colonel Taylor]

Do ya not think the media should report the news? Do ya think they should collaborate on the gettya questions?
Isn't Patrick Caddell one of YOUR leading liberals?
Come on how much more of a lefty can one get then to be a Carter and Brown man, even till 2010 he is still a lib man working on the Romanoff campaign.
So what was so bad about his tirade by your fellow liberal?

[Bungalow Bill]

Same old the liberal media controls everything nonsense that the Republicans and wingnuts
have been going on about for the last forty years. It's just as idiotic as most of their delusions
and exaggerations. I'd imagine that in the first few days after the Libyan attack, things weren't
clear on who did what. You've got a lot of folks over there that still have the weapons they were
using during the uprising against Qaddafi, you know the one that we supported and that, in a
roundabout way, led to this attack, so Uncle Scam got his ass hit by blow back again. Yep, keep
up the good work. Cadell was writing a few months ago about how the Democrats should ditch
Obama and get Little Hill in there and other assorted nonsense. He's a mega dope.