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CBS anchor John Dickerson: Press ruined its reputation 'on its own'
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/17/17 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 02/17/2017 7:34:04 AM PST by markomalley

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To: 9YearLurker

Maybe because Trump will be on the road in FL on Saturday?


61 posted on 02/17/2017 8:25:40 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rurudyne

The whole premise of ‘Captain Planet’ was idiotic from the start:

Evil people wanting to spread pollution, poison and filth intentionally all over the place, for no discernible reason other than they just like to do that.

That’s why my then 10 year old daughter said it was stupid. Nobody does that kind of stupid stuff................


62 posted on 02/17/2017 8:26:32 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: henkster

Ernie Pyle....................not Gomer...............


63 posted on 02/17/2017 8:27:41 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: MeganC

Don’t forget, “BOMBSHELL!”, “MUST SEE”, “INCREDIBLE MOMENT”, “AMAZING”, etc.


64 posted on 02/17/2017 8:35:13 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Red Badger

I’ll bet not one in five college students know who Gomer Pyle was either.


65 posted on 02/17/2017 8:35:38 AM PST by henkster
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To: Red Badger

More beating is necessary.


66 posted on 02/17/2017 8:37:04 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Altura Ct.

The one man in the msm that knows the truth


67 posted on 02/17/2017 8:38:25 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Batman11

You can’t spell Chuckle without Chuck.


68 posted on 02/17/2017 8:38:57 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JPJones

They did a great job of it themselves.

Trump gave them some solid advice on how to get it back - but they refuse.


69 posted on 02/17/2017 8:39:32 AM PST by aquila48
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To: henkster

Probably so. They can name all the Kardashians and their children, though.................


70 posted on 02/17/2017 8:39:45 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: 1Old Pro

Ouch !


71 posted on 02/17/2017 8:40:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: aquila48

The beatings will continue until morality improves........................


72 posted on 02/17/2017 8:40:48 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: JPJones

“I’m sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican.”


I thought that saying anything is “American” is being nationalistic!


73 posted on 02/17/2017 8:41:41 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: markomalley

Hmmmm....surprised to hear this from Mr. Dickerson, who is usually sickeningly smug.


74 posted on 02/17/2017 8:42:12 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: markomalley

Soon to be EX-CBS Anchor


75 posted on 02/17/2017 8:43:27 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: 1Old Pro
When the latest SNL skit is closer to the truth than a nightly news report, the media has a problem.

Yep. When The Onion, aka "America's Finest News Source," appears to have more credibility than the real MSM, the MSM has a MAJOR problem.

76 posted on 02/17/2017 8:49:13 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: markomalley
"....'This not a laughing matter,' NBC "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd said on Twitter after the conference. 'I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican'...."

Well guess what, Chuck You Toad? Delegitimizing President Trump is what's unAmerican.

And that, my man, is not a laughing matter.

77 posted on 02/17/2017 8:49:26 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: markomalley
A press that is free to investigate and criticize the government is absolutely essential in a nation that practices self-government and is therefore dependent on an educated and enlightened citizenry. On the other hand, newspapers too often take advantage of their freedom and publish lies and scurrilous gossip that could only deceive and mislead the people.

"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814.

"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811.

"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806.

"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819.

"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.

Just a little stroll down history lane! enemdeia, indeed!

78 posted on 02/17/2017 9:12:09 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trust not one word from the enemedia, until it can be independently verified!)
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To: BlackbirdSST
I forgot to add mt personal fav! I stand with TJ!

"Our newspapers, for the most part, present only the caricatures of disaffected minds. Indeed, the abuses of the freedom of the press here have been carried to a length never before known or borne by any civilized nation." --Thomas Jefferson to M. Pictet, 1803. ME 10:357

This has been an issue since before our inception. While the need of a 'Free Press' is obvious and Thomas Jefferson spoke highly of this need to a Free Nation, as much as he and many others spoke after our Nation formed, it's obvious it all left a bad taste in their mouths. A taste that likely required many Ales to wash away.

79 posted on 02/17/2017 9:22:51 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trust not one word from the enemedia, until it can be independently verified!)
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To: HotHunt
I wish I could remember which reporterette said that "Kill the King" aka, "get the POTUS" was the media's main job.

She was referring to GW Bush of course.

Obama? Wow, so much bootlicking.

Did he EVER get a tongue-lashing by a reporter during the eight years?

Or hell, a genuinely tough question, with follow ups?

I personally don't recall that ever happening.

EIGHT YEARS of sucking up to Obama.

80 posted on 02/17/2017 9:26:57 AM PST by boop ("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
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