Bush's Disdain For The News Media Puzzles, Angers Many Journalists

USA Today ^ | 12-22-2003 | Peter Johnson

[Cultural Jihad]

Ah, the Project for Excellence in Being the Mouthpiece For the Latest Fashionable Fad Liberal Cause.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Why read the "news" when you have access to the "truth"?

[Clinging Bitterly]

>> The media was Monica during the clintoon admininstration.

Or at least seemed to wish it was. Bet the guy with the kneepad concession at the Whitehouse pressroom misses those good old days.

[suzyq5558]

I dont blame president Bush for disdaining the media,not at all. the media is so crazed with hostility towards this administration why bother?
the media make's me ill,i dont listen to them or read them any longer myself.

[Burkeman1]

You don't read them or listen to them? So you listen to the government now only? That is conservative? The gubmint tells the truth? GW is a decent man but he is no dictator. The many bureacracies he rules over have their own agendas and myriad byzantine political goals. To not watch or read even liberal dominated media and simply rely on the word of the administration you happen, at the time, to agree with is just not wise.

[ForGod'sSake]

death rattle
n.

A gurgling or rattling sound sometimes made in the throat of a dying entity(eg, maintsream medis), caused by loss of the reality reflex and passage of the thought processes through accumulating arrogance.

FGS ;^)

[Williams]

This entire article is contrived nonsense. Bush's relationship with the press is nothing like Vietnam or Wtaergate, unless it's the reporters who are delusional. None of the President's or anyone else's quotes in the article substantiate the strawman that they set up - an isolated Bush seething at the media. It just ain't happening that way.

[Luke21]

Where is the phrase "liberal news media" in this nonsense? These people are complete idiots. How could the animosity Republicans have to these Bolshevik nags in the press not even be mentioned? But it is so very predictable.

[TASMANIANRED]

"Except for our VERY local "free sheet" that covers local town issues, I've not read a line in the newspaper since the Internet came along. Still, I guarantee that I know more about what's going on then 99% of people that read any "major" newspaper from cover to cover every day...including "journalists" that still work for those same papers. I'm sure there are many here that can say the same."

I gave up the Louisville rag about 10 years ago, should have done it 5 years earlier but I liked the Sunday crossword. It got to the point that the first 2 paragraphs slanted the whole story. There simply are not enough local stories that intrest me. I am not intrested in the local stick up's, what the various basketball, football, track teams are doing.

The feature articles were a total joke. I canceled my subscription with the welfare reform debate. This supposed unbiased series was a total barf.

The fear mongering when the legislature passed concealed carry was a puke fest.

No matter what the local story was they had to seek out a minority voice and point out what a "local black businessman" had to say about a wedding , a sale on shoes, new styles in brassiers. A minority opinion isn't necessary on everything, what the hell happened to reporting facts.

I think most of it was column filler, like a bunch of teenagers filling a term paper with fluff to come up with the right number of pages.


Why in the world would GW want to waste his time reading tripe?

[suzyq5558]

What i meant to say is that do not need to read the newspapers, i used to work for our local rag intill this past summer.what a crock of BS.
i come to the internet to get my news without the spin.
i get tired of the hostility don't you? wheres both sides of the issue? why is it that on the sunday shows they have five dems to one repub?
and i never did say that iam a blind follower of all guvmint all the time now did i?
I just dont need the print media to get the news nor do i need the alphabet channels.

[dighton]

Journalists Easily Puzzled, Angered

[Utah Girl]

President Bush is starting to bug the media even more (I didn't think it was possible.)

[BushMeister]

Wow. Those little bolsheviks really came out of the woodwork in the last three paragraphs, didn't they?

[Cultural Jihad]

Whatsamatter? Afraid someone isn't going to read one of the irrelevant liberal media's anti-Bush screeds, and that makes you squeal?

[My Favorite Headache]

Perfect.

[ladyinred]

Oh come on! The media bashes this guy constantly and they wonder why he doesn't like them? Are they really this stupid?

[right way right]

I heard GWB looks at the drudge report when he sits on the can.

And wipes with the NYT.

[cyncooper]

It's nothing like the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton examples. Also, the media were too soft on Clinton and he still whined like a big ole baby because they dared to report the obvious goings on.

Now they're turning themselves into the story, since President Bush does dismiss them, but he is never outright rude, unless they are so brazenly rude to him first. In fact, he's downright pleasant and nice to them, beyond what they deserve, IMO.

[Cultural Jihad]

Why in the world would GW want to waste his time reading tripe?

But, but they have degrees in journalism, wear cool tweed jackets with elbow patches, and smoke pipes with a nonchalance that says "I don't care how much I stink." Their hairy arms are covered in tatoos, and they like to get into fights in bars. And then there's the men ...

[cyncooper]

And to buttress my point, Bill Plante appears in this year's "BarneyCam" Christmas production. And what does he do? Turns around and bellyaches about how "secretive" this WH is.

Sheesh.

(And he did a fine job in the Barneycam thingy)