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Gannett News Story Treats “Radical Right Wing Judges” as fact
Federal Review ^
| Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Posted on 06/21/2006 7:26:49 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA NY—According to Gannett news, there’s no question that recent presidents have appointed “radical right-wing judges” to the bench.
In the Monday (June 19) issue of the Ithaca Journal, reporter Raymond Drumsta wrote that Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D) appeared at a local event and “railed about issues such as … radical right-wing judges appointed by recent presidents and America's prison population.”
At no point in the article did Drumsta, or his editor,see fit to note that this was a matter of opinion. Instead, the story reported the characterization of the judges as if it were fact.
In addition to his work for Gannett, Drumsta, a former military reporter, works as a freelance writer. It is unknown whether he or his editor failed to note that the Journal article was assuming facts not in evidence.
Gannett news has come under fire in the past for bias. In 2002, journalist William McGowan, in his book “Coloring the News,” described how Gannett’s corporate policies required editors to assign and craft stories and news content in order to meet the chain’s “diversity” goals.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cityofevil; demagogicparty; drumsta; gannett; gannettnewsservice; hinchey; ithaca; ithacajournal; mediabias; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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City of Evil bump:
To: Behind Liberal Lines
If they be radical right wing judges, then make the most of it!
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posted on
06/21/2006 7:39:45 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I saw Ithaca and knew this was crapola. Read Coloring the News. It will vindicate any thoughts you had about media.
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posted on
06/21/2006 7:41:27 PM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
radical right-wing judges appointed by recent presidents Presidents?
What right wing radical judges were appointed by Bill Clinton?
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posted on
06/21/2006 7:42:10 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
("I don't think Pat Kennedy is crazy, he's just a drunk" -- G. Gordon Liddy (5-10-06))
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Gannett is run by anti-American liberals.
The cartoonist in my local paper Matt Davies is from England or Ireland, whatever.
He won a Peabody for his hate-filled anti-Bush, anti-military, anti-conservative cartoons.
Meanwhile sales of 'The Journal News' have steadily plummeted.
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posted on
06/21/2006 7:45:56 PM PDT
by
new yorker 77
(FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Matt Davies Cartoon
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posted on
06/21/2006 7:54:06 PM PDT
by
new yorker 77
(FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Seems that respect for the language and intent of the Constitution -- as well as regard for personal liberty and the right to property -- makes someone a "right wing radical".
Sheesh!
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posted on
06/21/2006 8:08:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: new yorker 77
If that courthouse was a ship, then it would be leaning to "port", which is the left side.
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posted on
06/21/2006 8:16:48 PM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
radical right-wing judges appointed by recent presidents Recent President? Do they think Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a Radical Right Wing Judge?
Hmm.
Of course their definition of "Radical Right Wing Judge" is one who goes to the text of the Constitution first, not Scottish law, or emanations from the penumbra of the Constitution. Only if the text is unclear, and I can't think of anywhere that it is, do they look to precedent, or even Common Law. ( Which is nothing more than English precedent anyway).
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posted on
06/21/2006 9:46:15 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Upstate congressmen should be thankful for the prison population explosion. If not for incarcerated downstate badguys, upstate's population would be a lot smaller, and there'd be even fewer seats for congressslimes.
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