[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?

[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.

[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)

[Cultural Jihad]

I guess this accounts for the vast majority of the 'many angry journalists:'

Walter Cronkite said...
... analysts say ...
... CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller says ...
... says veteran CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante ...
... says Stanford University journalism professor Ted Glasser.
... says Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Says Playboy editor James Kaminsky ...

[Jeff Gordon]

Cronkite thinks Bush may be exaggerating how little attention he pays to the media.

I love Cronkite. He speaks so clearly for the liberals of the world. I will never forget Cronkite's total disgust the night Reagan was first elected. I have never seen such naked hate as shown that night. That night, Cronkite made my day, my year and my decade of the 90s.

[Tamzee]

The news editors and directors gatekeeping mainstream media can only drool at the thought of having access to the top level info that Bush does.

This is just another tantrum hit-piece by the rotten brats who've grown to think they're the center of the universe.

[lepton]

Many of the major newspapers consistently misquote, or write articles about a debate between two sides, but only quote what one side is saying about the others comments - without quoting the original comments. It takes a lot of reading to get around that - or just reading the transcripts.

[Cultural Jihad]

"Stanford University journalism professor Ted Glasser"

From his bio pages at Stanford:
http://www.stanford.edu/~glasser/positions.htm

... where this position is listed:
"Member, advorsory board, Media and Peace Institute, University for Peace, Paris, France, and San Jose, Costa Rica"

Here's the website for the "Media and Peace Institute":
http://www.mediapeace.org/

And here's the website of the "University For Peace":
http://www.upeace.org/

Oddly enough, there's a link for a "virtual tour" of the U. For Peace, but most of it centers on the little town in Costa Rica which is occupied by these foreigners, who have to drive through quaint coffee plantations and local flora to reach it. Lucky for them, they can find fresh fruits from wage-slaves as they strive for peace!

Fresh tropical fruit can be bought from street vendors.

[nutmeg]

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[Political Junkie Too]

They're just annoyed that their influence doesn't influence him. The First Amendment gives the media the right to speak -- it doesn't force anyone to listen.

It's the age-old existential question: If an anchor pundits in the woods, but nobody is there to hear, does spin occur?

-PJ

[fly_so_free]

Did anyone in the media notice how Diane Sawyer behaved during her "interview" with the President of the United States? She was rude and obnoxious the entire time. She interrupted President Bush constantly and every question she asked seemed to come straight from the DNC. I didn't feel this was an "interview" at all. It seemed more like a debate with Diane Sawyer playing for the Democrat party.

Perhaps if the press would behave like journalists,(instead of Propagandists' for the democrats), and treated President Bush with the the same respect they gave to Bill Clinton, the maybe Bush would be more accommodating to them.

[1FreeAmerican]

It doesn't take intellectual curiosity to read the newspapers- it takes a 10 gallon barf bag.

[freebilly]

Says Playboy editor James Kaminsky: "It's appalling to think that the man who runs the country somehow finds time for a long gym workout each day, but can't muster up the intellectual curiosity to peruse the newspaper. Is it laziness, arrogance or a willful combination of the two? Does the president really need a human filter to deliver only news the White House staff thinks he wants to hear? Do gossip items sometimes get thrown into the daily 'readings'? How about the funnies? How hard is it to watch the damn TV news, even while working out?"

Yeah, Dubya should be reading P-Layboy for the hard news....

Is this guy insane or just a moron...?

[DeepDish]

"But that goes with the job and "it's difficult to understand why a president who spends so much time promoting the virtues of democracy would want to insulate himself from one of democracy's most important institutions, namely, a free and independent press," says Stanford University journalism professor Ted Glasser."

The press is free but it has never been independent. The stories reported as news are edited to conform to the world view of the ownership. The problem with the press in the United States is that the press has been goose stepping to the same beat for years. If you read the New York Times there is no reason to pick up any other major paper; they all report from the same playbook.

I am not surprised that Laura reads the paper and then tells George if there was anything interesting in it. If this was the Clintons, USA today would put it on the front page as an example of the first lady's involvement in the political process. Instead they spin it as a president too intellectually dim to participate in the paper's overblown sense of relevance.

I hope Laura does this on her own. I would consider a man who forces his wife to read the New York Times to be engaging in spousal abuse.

[Qwinn]

"Does the president really need a human filter to deliver only news the White House staff thinks he wants to hear?"

Does this mean that the media themselves aren't human? I mean, they filter the news at least as much as anyone on his staff would.

The newspapers and TV news aren't fed by some computer chugging out unbiased reporting. It's humans filtering news. Bush just decided that he prefers his own filter to theirs.

Either that, or the media isn't really controlled by humans, it's run by aliens. Which, considering how wrong they always are and how absolutely clueless they are about human nature, wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Qwinn

[driftless]

They're just upset because Bush doesn't read their drivel. Their little egos have been hurt the poor things.(yuk,yuk)