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Columnist Bemoans The Loss Of “Privacy” In Journolist Story; Conspiring Amongst “Friends” Is A-Ok!
Flopping Aces ^ | 07-24-10 | Curt

Posted on 07/24/2010 1:18:59 PM PDT by Starman417

This tripe from Kathleen Parker is something. She bemoans the loss of privacy and kinship when the Journolist blew up in the faces of some 400+ reporters:

It should come as no surprise that self-identifying liberals have liberal thoughts and friends, so no foul there, as Carlson has said. And, indeed, some of the comments are, on their face, condemnable, not to mention banal. But some also have been presented out of context and, besides, were offered as part of an ongoing argument among colleagues who believed they were acting in good faith that theirs was a private conversation.

Were they naive to think so? In this world, yes. Was Carlson right to “out” the private comments of people who, for the most part, have no significant power? That, to me, is the more compelling issue.

No significant power?

They conspired amongst themselves to get the Wright story off of the air:

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”

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1 posted on 07/24/2010 1:19:04 PM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

Whatever happened to the good old days when you and your friends could plot to destroy someone’s reputation and career in private?


2 posted on 07/24/2010 1:21:07 PM PDT by hometoroost (McCain is a Ron and Nancy Republican: Campaigns like Reagan, governs like Pelosi)
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To: hometoroost
The leftoids power has been diminished by the release of these emails. They best tread very, very carefully from here on out.
3 posted on 07/24/2010 1:26:26 PM PDT by JPG (Sarah Spitz? No, she swallowed the Obama agenda.)
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To: JPG

That would be true if they had any sense of shame, humility, integrity, or honor.


4 posted on 07/24/2010 1:27:38 PM PDT by hometoroost (McCain is a Ron and Nancy Republican: Campaigns like Reagan, governs like Pelosi)
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To: Starman417
I wonder how much these clowns were ever concerned about the privacy of Private Citizens...

ie; Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, Jack and Jeri Ryan, etc...


5 posted on 07/24/2010 1:30:30 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Starman417

You know it’s bad, when it takes days for the left to come up with “rationality” to protect groupthink members from considering the evidence.


6 posted on 07/24/2010 1:36:42 PM PDT by Eddie01 (All we every really knew was it was crazy to be doin' it any other way)
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To: Starman417

Privacy, another term for adultery and stabbing in the back of those who trust your official position.


7 posted on 07/24/2010 1:38:22 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrates Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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The libs merely showed their collective a$$es and confirmed what we have known for 20+ years; they are unpaid (for now) hucksters for rat pols.

Every commentator who tosses the usual “racist” canard in lieu of reason should be confronted as a member of Journolist.

8 posted on 07/24/2010 1:45:07 PM PDT by Jacquerie (The end of the state is the good life - Aristotle)
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Hey, Journalists! Are you reading this?

You trash our privacy, so we trash yours. Get used to it. You are NOT a privileged class; this is America.

If you don't like it, bring it! We do the work you guys won't do.

9 posted on 07/24/2010 1:47:45 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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Parker sides ther leftist Journolisters. Capt. Louis Renault alert, yawn.

- JP


10 posted on 07/24/2010 2:00:16 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Every time a Democrat mocks Sarah Palin, an independent gets its wings." - JP)
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How do we counter the leftist journalists. Example. Merrill Goozner is on the list. His 7/20 article is healined: New Gel Puts Women in Charge of AIDS Prevention . . . gel can limit the spread of the infection by 39 percent. If women routinely used the gel within a dozen hours before and after sex, the risk of contracting AIDS from an infected partner was reduced by 54 percent.

So Women are now in charge of changing the number of bullets in the magazine pointed at them from 100 to only 20 (54% of 39%).

That is the leftist concept of addressing the situation. Now imagine the cost of UN workers in all of Africa being paid to remind the women in the right time frame before and after. Essentially, any man who provides the gel has the license to rape.


11 posted on 07/24/2010 3:25:59 PM PDT by spintreebob
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What gets journalists’ undie in a knot is that the journolist exposed the participants’ bias. But everyone is biased, and journalists more so than most. This exposure is embarrassing for them because they have carefully cultivated this fantasy that journalists can be unbiased observers merely reporting facts. They make a large show of separating editorial from reportorial functions in media to maintain that fantasy. I well remember Cronkite’s signature signoff during his broadcasts, an imperial, omniscient “And that’s the way it is this 24th day of July, 1966.”

No one has omniscience, well except for God. No one is unbiased. That we have, because of squeamishness from the days of yellow journalism, tolerated and even insisted on a claim of no bias indicates we like living in fantasyland. That the journolist has exposed that fantasy makes the participants outraged, the profession as a whole embarrassed, and society perhaps a little more aware of reality.

It’s way past time to stop pretending journalists can report only facts and reality. They report their observations and their observations are colored by their biases. My suggestion to Kathleen Parker, Admitting your problem is the first step to recovery. We as a society would be a lot smarter if we simply admitted that every source of information has inbuilt bias and if we stopped pretending that any source is unbiased.


12 posted on 07/24/2010 4:49:37 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! They did to us what we should have done to Obama - the outed us - Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!


13 posted on 07/24/2010 7:56:28 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Spellcheck is for wimps and liberals)
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The Ministry of Truth was caught red-handed, and they don’t like the fact that the spotlight is on them for a change.

They have lost control of the narrative, and this self-righteous, indignant folderol from WaPo makes for a pretty pathetic figleaf.


14 posted on 07/24/2010 10:57:47 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Pray for our leaders: Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.)
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