Reporter(Pincus): Media should help set national agenda

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | October 21, 2006 | BY HEATHER WECSLER

[johnny7]

In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the press’s traditional role in helping to set the national agenda, longtime Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said this week. “I would argue the electronic and print media have more power than they did 50 years ago, but they turn over their space and time to events initiated by government officials and their critics,” Pincus told a lunchtime crowd Monday at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.

[johnny7]

Writhing in the tar pit...

[Paladin2]

"initiated by government officials and their critics"

Walt, don't the media head the "critics"?

[Dog]

Dear Walter

NO ONE and I mean NO ONE elected you to set the agenda....report the damn news and forget the agenda setting.

[Bigh4u2]

Just report the NEWS and STFU!!

[johniegrad]

Wow. These people are as self absorbed as they are in Hollywood.

[libertylover]

In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the press’s traditional role in helping to set the national agenda

Heather has to be bordering on insanity to write such a sentence. Me thinks she's only pissed because the Bush administration won't cow-tow to liberal "advice".

[NittanyLion]

“Fox [News, a Murdoch property ] gains viewers over a presumably neutral CNN partly because people want opinions,” he said.

Hahahaha!!!

What's the real source for this satire? The Onion? Iowahawk?

[SusaninOhio]

What in the heck is he trying to say anyway?

They really live in a world of their imaginations, don't they? I think they really believe the crap they spew. Isn't that a description of sociopaths?

[SusaninOhio]

He = She.

[Lakeshark]

Sometimes it makes you wonder if we can survive fools like this..............

*Sigh*

[Master of Orion]

Apparently he hasn't been watching the CNN mini series, "War on the Middle Class". They've been playing it up big time this week.

[Just mythoughts]

Think maybe he was in the room when McCain and Feingold devised their campaign finance reform agenda? This election sure had demonstrated the media orchestration of what issues are covered.

[FMBass]

“In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the press’s traditional role in helping to set the national agenda”



Would love to see the MSN advertise this. Imagine the slogan: “We are not here to report the news, we are here to set the national agenda”!

[CPOSharky]

They can't even run a newspaper sucessfully, and they want to run the country? (I know, I know, they are liberals.)

[lentulusgracchus]

Heather has to be bordering on insanity to write such a sentence.

She's quoting Walter Pincus's comments.

Pincus coined the thought. Of course, he delivered it in the middle of a Clintonista institution -- yeah, that's detached!

[beyond the sea]

Walter Pincus said this week. “I would argue the electronic and print media have more power than they did 50 years ago ---

STFU Walter.

[Carolinamom]

Bingo! And Dittos!

[Seattle Conservative]

"NO ONE and I mean NO ONE elected you to set the agenda....report the damn news and forget the agenda setting."

I agree with your statement but also think that the media, especially the NY Slimes, WA ComPost, ABC,NBC,cBS, CNN, MSNBC have trying to do precisely that - - they've been trying to set the agenda so to speak since Bush took office, especially the last couple of years, and most especially this year wrt the elections - JMO.

[johnny7]

If you watch CNN... Bob Woodward's always on... and always setting the agenda. Pincus himself helped 'set-the-agenda' in the Plame/Wilson scam... so did cBS in RATher/Mapes.

The only agenda these traitors desperately need... involves a firing squad.