"The fix is in, and it's working…"

The Anchoress ^ | Sept. 29, 2008 | Elizabeth Scalia

[comps4spice]

Glenn Reynolds has this from a media newsroom:

A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: "Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers

[comps4spice]

You know, if we lit up the phones of the local TV newsrooms and newspaper newsrooms, perhaps we could put the MSM on notice that we won't sit by quietly if their chosen one Obama wins and proceeds to silence his critics. A bit of balance now might actually buy them some good will later.

[brytlea]

Ping for later.

[Tarpon]

Well isn’t this just stating the obvious?

[Tublecane]

If it really was off the record, why are we reading about it? Journalistic “ethics” confuse me. Telling someone something off the record is just a way to tip them off without getting blamed. I’s also a good way for reporters to buy into gossip and innuendo. And what’s the deal with protecting your sources? Sources should have the courage to stand behind what they say.

If someone asked me if they could say something off the record, I’d say, “No. My brain is my record.”

[Silly]

MYBRAINISMYRECORD.COM is available!

[comps4spice]

Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) specifically asked the writer of the email if he could publish it without attribution, which was agreed to.

[nomad]

This could work to our advantage if someone planted something in the trash that the Rats felt they just had to use,something which could be easily proven wrong,but would make them look like the idiots they are.Remember how the forged Bush Texas National Guard documents caused the fall of Dan Blather, and pretty much stopped the assaults on Bush`s Guard record?

[Tublecane]

“Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) specifically asked the writer of the email if he could publish it without attribution, which was agreed to.”

Then it wasn’t off the record, was it? Forget journalistic ethics, this guy doesn’t know what words mean.

[Inyo-Mono]

Yawn. My father who worked for the L.A. Times for more than 40 years, from about 1947 to 1980, told me that they were in cahoots with the Democrats, which is why he retired early.

[prov1813man]

My father in law stormed out of the Boston Globe in the 60’s, after 30 years because “you’re all a bunch of @#$%$#^ communists !”

Later turned down a job with the Dukakis administration because “you’re stupid Mike”.

Both he and his wife had long careers in the newspaper business and recall quite clearly how “newspaper people” were gradually replaced by “journalists” swarming over the transome from journalism schools like rats swarming a ship.