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Modern Journalism: We Report, We Decide
American Thinker ^ | March 21, 2014 | Brian Joondeph

Posted on 03/21/2014 11:49:16 AM PDT by tips up

Peeling back the curtain hiding the incestuous relationship between the mainstream media and the White House, Arizona reporter Catherine Anaya revealed that “President Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, receives questions from the press in advance of his daily press briefing.” She found it very interesting that Mr. Carney “knows what he's going to be answering and sometimes those correspondents and reporters also have those answers printed in front of them, because of course it helps when they're producing their reports for later on.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: journalism; media
The modern media, a clown show...
1 posted on 03/21/2014 11:49:16 AM PDT by tips up
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To: tips up

“We decide what we report”


2 posted on 03/21/2014 11:55:29 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: henkster

Did they threaten her Mom?


3 posted on 03/21/2014 12:15:01 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: tips up

More like a puppet show.


4 posted on 03/21/2014 12:17:23 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: tips up
We are "the media," now.
5 posted on 03/21/2014 12:34:32 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: tips up
The really interesting thing about news today is what is not reported.
6 posted on 03/21/2014 12:36:47 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: tips up

Can I change your post, a little? The media is a show clown..

It isn’t just the modern media - the slant towards various political views in the MSM goes back to the 1930’s with the NY print media’s selective reporting of Stalinist Russia. In the TV media I will skip Vietnam and go to Iraq just prior to DESERT STORM (1991) when CNN became a mouth piece for the Iraqi regime in order to maintain a presence in Bagdad. As for the internet - you can make your own list of blogs, both right and left.

One final observation - the print media has be an arm of the liberal/progressive/socialist wing of American politics since the mid-1970s, after Watergate, when journalism schools started teaching that the Republicans were the root of all evil in America


7 posted on 03/21/2014 2:48:47 PM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: tips up

Should read...”We DON’T Report so YOU CAN’T DECIDE!”


8 posted on 03/21/2014 4:29:59 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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