Canadian Paper: NewsMax Classified as 'Addiction'

Newsmax ^ | Monday, Dec. 15, 2003

[nickcarraway]

Free Republic, soon to be a contolled substance...

[thoughtomator]

Well at least there's some substance, eh? Better than the NY Times-Cageliner!

[weegee]

Now let's consider this:

Saunders describes Eric, a "successful engineer" who lives in Canada and has found "permanent residence on Planet Left." Eric believes in the gospel according to Michael Moore and thinks the 9/11 attacks were secretly propagated by the CIA.

and

Countering Eric, Saunders discovers a citizen of "Planet Right" – a young female lawyer in Los Angeles named Krista, who is in her early '30s.

Krista startles Saunders by admitting she won’t even look at the Los Angeles Times.

Now recall that the LA Times has been caught fabricating stories, lying in reports, and faking digital photos that they have run.

This proved deception is comparable to looney claims that the CIA attacked the United States on 9.11?

If the CIA is so guilty then why the flap for Robert Novak "outing" a CIA employee? Wouldn't that be a "good" whistleblower?

The left lies. Leftist editors control the media. Nuff said.

[OPS4]

The liberals are edicted to adult web sites, and communism, no wonder newsmax scares them.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[Trampled by Lambs]

If Newsmax is cocain the FR must be like mainlining pure heroin.

[Hegemony Cricket]

my thoughts exactly! :-)

[Always Right]

Free Republic, soon to be a contolled substance...

It is certainly more 'addictive' than newsmax.

[netmilsmom]

>>If Newsmax is cocain the FR must be like mainlining pure heroin.<<

It is to me.
Pitifully, FR does not have the metabolism boost of those substances and my butt is getting wider. Thank Goodness for Carlo putting those low carb goodies on!

[B Knotts]

Here's the original article:

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20031206/FCDOUG06/TPNational/

This guy really doesn't get it. He describes the Globe and Mail, and CNN, as "broadly centrist."

The point is: news coming from the point of view with which you tend to agree is what you are going to perceive as centrist, unbiased, or objective.

The thing that Fox News is doing is presenting balanced coverage, which is an idea foreign to the Globe and Mail/CNN types.

[radiohead]

If Newsmax is cocain the FR must be like mainlining pure heroin.

My son used to be on 'some political website' for hours at a time. Every now and then he'd come out of his room and tell me something interesting from the site. I used to caution that he didn't have a life and should get off of the *#($ Internet.

Then I started looking at the posts myself. I started lurking a little every day. Then I finally got the nerve to sign up and post my first response. Since then I have been like a junkie, making promises to myself that I can stop when I want to. "I won't go on FR until I've done my reading." "I won't go on FR until I've made dinner." "I won't go on FR until I've actually done some work." The typical empty promises of the junkie.

FR has become a big part of my life. I've found a lot of kindred spirits here (and some pretty bizarre people as well). My son and I frequently freep at the same time from our individual computers, calling back and forth to each other about some interesting post we've found.

I'm pretty sure I'm addicted. Thank goodness it's legal.

[Your Nightmare]

If NewsMax is addictive, the cure is the truth. That lying rag is an embarrassment to conservatives.

Here is the original article: http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20031206/FCDOUG06/TPNational/

How NewsMax took a quote from one person in the article saying they were "addicted" to NewsMax and turned it into "Canada’s leading newspaper, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, reports that NewsMax.com may be addictive to some Americans, who, once turned on to the conservative-leaning site, can’t shake it." is too typical of NewsMax's journalistic standards.

BTW, I believe the Toronto Star is "Canada's leading newspaper"

[Onelifetogive]

Free Republic, soon to be a contolled substance...

I'm thinking ADA!!!

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL

[Joe Boucher]

Ya know that the libs got nothing to compete with F.R. or evan newsmax so they are going to try to shut both down as an addictive situation.
Can't blame them for trying. If I were them getting my ass handed to myself I'd try to stop the add ass hander too.
Read em and weep.

[Republicus2001]

Hell, I've been hooked on the L.A. Times since the old Herald-Examiner went out of business...only recently quit buying it tho and like all addictions now I need better like the Wall Street Journal for my news "jones" on paper....

[Amerigomag]

Ya know that the libs got nothing to compete with F.R. or evan newsmax so they are going to try to shut both down as an addictive situation.

Please don't delude yourself. While NewsMax is now considered on the fringe of the mainstream we are still the kooks way out on the far right.

Just as we occassionaly visit DU to see what the liberal kooks are doing, we are visited by mainstream conservatives to monitor what their kooks are doing.

[gcruse]

Addiction? Well, no. I'd call Newsmax and WND addled, bless their hearts, not addictive. After a few hair-on-fire exercises in rhetorical pushme-foolyou, one learns to exercise caution.

[gcruse]

BTW, I believe the Toronto Star is "Canada's leading newspaper"

It's arguable.  The Star is Toronto's leading newspaper.

The Globe and Mail sees itself as being Canada's national newspaper.

[roadcat]

"Canada’s leading newspaper, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, reports that NewsMax.com may be addictive to some Americans, who, once turned on to the conservative-leaning site, can’t shake it."

Hypocracy from a newspaper! So what about the fact that thousands of people buy the same newspaper day after day. Are they not addicted? And those newspapers are full of nonsense, lies, and useless trivia and garbage. That's an addiction, tossing your money away on a bad habit.

I use toilet paper and toothpaste every day, yet I wouldn't say I'm addicted to them. they are a necessity. No money wasted there.

Just like Newsmax and FreeRepublic - a necessity, for finding the truth. No money wasted there, either.

[joesnuffy]

Marxism is the opiate of the atheist-elite