Posted on 06/11/2004 10:49:11 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Edited on 06/11/2004 11:23:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"We in the media failed the nation by not reporting these things about Reagan at the time.
"I have learned a lot about this side of Ronald Reagan...things I never new before. So I, too, have failed America."
[paraphrased]
More..
Bernard Shaw: "Can I say something that touches on a very sensitive issue? The news media, and how we failed to thoroughly cover and communicate the very essences we're talking about possessed by Ronald Reagan. What I've been reading and what I've been hearing, I did not get during his two terms in office. Or did I miss something?" Wolf Blitzer: "I think you're on to something, Bernie, uh.. "
Shaw: "I think we failed our viewers, listeners and readers to an appreciable extent. I can't quantify it, but I'll put it there. Because I certainly missed a lot."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
CNN is "campaigning". FOX is whipping their butts in the ratings - hell CNNfn is even ADVERTISING for views ON FOX NEWS.
So, like good liberals, they are "campaigning" to the center...(but still spin to the left). If the worst happens, and CNN takes the #1 spot over again, they'll be just as leftist as they ever were.
Shaw: "I think we failed our viewers, listeners and readers to an appreciable extent. I can't quantify it, but I'll put it there. Because I certainly missed a lot."
And this is the media outlet who trumpet that they are the "most trusted in cable news" (or something like that). Off of this comment, I wouldn't trust these guys to find cow sh*t in a dairy barn!
Cool!
Conservatives in cemetaries around the nation are rolling over in unison right now.
Goldberg or Shaw?
They are rather easily distinguishable.
Goldberg I'd expect.
Shaw would be a major surprise.
Bernard Shaw: "Due to the fact that we have been caught with our pants down in our lies and distortions, I think it best we plead ignorance."
Bernard Shaw cost Dukakis several million votes.
Probably more than Gerald Ford lost
by granting freedom to the Poles in that other famous debate.
To the moon.........one of these days......maybe today.
How about a journalism degree meaning something...like a basic education in math, science, etc., so that one could at least begin to give accurate reports...whatever your field, I am sure that when the media has a story in your area of expertise, you end up laughing to keep from crying.
Instead of many of the cynical comments I've seen here, maybe we should take his comments at face value. I generally vilify liberals, but this sounds sincere...almost like an epiphany. Maybe, after seeing the outpouring of "love" expressed by the American people, he actually had change of heart. President Reagan, would have (and has) forgiven him the slight.
Besides, we can always go back to bashing him if he changes course!
Shaw's comments/reporting were more balanced when he first started at CNN. After a while, CNN management slapped his wrists and he quickly fell into line with the rest of them, but he was not the same after that.
Really? I thought the DA sounded like he got a revelation.
Bernard Shaw is saying that the press was mistaken. They were not mistaken. They were not and are not interested in truth -- only power.
The press works very hard to promote their people and their agenda, and they will say anything that they believe helps them. And they are very good at what they do.
Tune in next week to hear what he has to say about W.
Don't forget their economic reporting in 1992. Soon as Clinton was in..no more recession. LIKE MAGIC.
Shaw does get 1 point for being polite though. :-)
...hear, hear...
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Of course.
Brain malfunction here....
I wasn't commenting on your spelling. I was teasing you about the multiple posts. They made me smile. Thanks.
The recession that helped Bush Sr. loose, was turned around before he went out. The sleepers and sinkmeisters the media love so much, eventually got it going in the wrong direction again.
Now it's such a bad thing that war in Iraq. But get Kerry in and we'll be seeing red carpet and interviews with laughing children. America will be great again. Vote Kerry.
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