[leprechaun9]

""One of the great ways to learn about America is by reading a newspaper on your own, whether it's the letters to the editors or anything else," says Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

On this point, I side with Thomas Jefferson, "A man who reads nothing is better educated than a man who reads nothing but newspapers."

[dix]

Dubya is turning the libs every way, but loose. The man has flat out got them nailed.

[Trust but Verify]

"One of the great ways to learn about America is by reading a newspaper on your own, whether it's the letters to the editors or anything else," says Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

This guy has been getting too much press lately. He was one of the 'journalists' who was so offended by Bush keeping the secret about the trip to Baghdad. Wahhh... Baby.

On a personal note, I learned a little something this morning about our local liberal rag, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. We were caught in the middle of a high-speed police pursuit in Milwaukee yesterday in which officers from 4 jurisdictions were trying to apprehend a driver who had committed several hit-and-runs and was eluding police by smashing through fences and driving erratically and fast during rush-hour traffic. At one point, LEO thought they had him stopped and as an officer approached the vehicle, he accelrated towards a deputy, who fired three shots at the large white van. Here's the headline from this morning's paper:

Deputy fire shots at unarmed motorist.

You can't make this stuff up!

[an amused spectator]

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.

We Merkuns got to get us one of those. ;-)

[Ghengis]

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?"

Some folks don't like being told, "You're beneath me. You're irrelevant to me."

When I read Kaminsky's response, it reminds me how much of a collective tightass society the left has become. They used to be the free and easy, no rules, who cares folks. Now they're setting up rules and paradigms faster than they can remember them.

[maui_hawaii]

Disdain For The News Media

This guy has to be kidding.

When I was in college I had the unfortunate experience of meeting some pretty horrid girls.

They were the biggest liars, back stabbers, trash talkers, two faced, mean people one could ever hope for.

They were seriously unforgiving and hateful. They sought to degrade others or catch them in something all the time. And talk about gossiping (and believing gossip...)

And they wondered why we weren't and still aren't friends.

I say good riddance. I wish I had never met any of them.