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Distrust of media harms democracy
Kansas City Star ^
| 8/27/04
| Lewis W. Diuguid
Posted on 08/27/2004 4:53:14 PM PDT by Huntress
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To: axel f; bad company; Mercat
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:22:59 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: Huntress
I think this guy is taking the Kerry approach - please, don't criticize us. Please make them stop.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:29:35 PM PDT
by
sevry
To: Huntress
Lewis W. Diuguid is the quintessential KC (Red) Star's elitist voice on the left - he still hasn't recovered from the fact that despite his dire warnings we now have Right to Carry here in Missouri, and none of the hysterical predictions he made have come true. In any case, any correlations between Mr. Diuguid's perceptions and reality are purely coincidental.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:34:30 PM PDT
by
ahadams2
(http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com is the url for the Anglican Freeper Resource Page)
To: Huntress
...just another example of the MSM trying to explain their utter ineptness to inform the American people. It's not their fault that many average Americans can no longer stand Rather,Jennings,Brokaw with their bias accounts of the present administration.
A great example of them losing control..their starting to "blame" others.
Doogle
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:34:32 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF..408th MMS...Ubon, Thailand "69" ..."Wolfpack".night line delivery "Doogle")
To: Huntress
"Criticism of the media often hijacks the Diversity Coalition meetings at the Minority Museum." Best literary opening sentence since "Call me Ishmael..."
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:43:02 PM PDT
by
fat city
(Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
To: Huntress; Admin Moderator
Yes. You nicely ask the Admin Moderators, "Could you please add '(Arrogant, biased media harms democracy)' to the title, please?"
And if you are in favor that day, they may grant you your wish.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:44:09 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
To: Huntress
Distrust of media makes "democracy" (I hate democracy, let's say "self-government" or "republic" instead) stronger, not weaker. When people distrust, they tend to think for themselves. The author of this piece is a putz.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:51:25 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Huntress
If I am reading this correctly, it seems the whining leftist nutjobs are complaining that any national media allows a Republican voice to have any credibility. I am so sick of these b*st*rds!
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:53:19 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left." (Eccl. 10:2))
To: Huntress
Whats to "distrust? The middle east has aljazeera. We have cbs, nbc, abc, cnn, and public tv and radio. Surely no one distrusts them. LMAO
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:53:25 PM PDT
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: Huntress
Wow, you'd think a journo would know better than to shoot the messenger. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:54:28 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Huntress
Its great news! The media's arrogance, laziness, boredom, and sloppiness is affecting their work. Along with their extreme partisan tilt. The clymers are in full panic mode.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:56:57 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Huntress
Its great news! The media's arrogance, laziness, boredom, and sloppiness is affecting their work. Along with their extreme partisan tilt. The clymers are in full panic mode.
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posted on
08/27/2004 5:56:59 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: coconutt2000
No, the headline should be: "What the Heck am I Talking About?"
This is one of the most poorly written columns in recent memory.
To: Huntress
Americans think journalists are sloppier, less professional, less moral, less caring, more biased, less honest about their mistakes and generally more harmful to democracy than they did in the 1980s.
Maybe that is because journalists ARE sloppier, less professional, less moral, less caring, more biased, less honest about their mistakes and generally more harmful to democracy than they were in the 1980s. And the public trust in the 4th estate will continue to decline so long as journalists continue to push their agenda instead of trying to present the truth. The media is the enemy.
To: Huntress
The media is the nervous system of the democracy, said Jeff Cohen, former MSNBC/Fox News contributor. If it's not functioning well, the democracy can't function.
I assume Diuguid is referring to our Constitutional Republic and not a democracy. It survived well before organized media came about. In fact, it was birthed amidst small, independent writers much like today's Swift Boat Vets.
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posted on
08/27/2004 6:08:46 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: Huntress
The media wing of the democrat party puffs on.
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posted on
08/27/2004 6:21:54 PM PDT
by
MonroeDNA
(Hillary was in charge of the FBI files, which went into a data base: WHoDB. Genious hackers, expose)
To: Huntress
The real title should be
"Media's Lack of Concern for the Truth endangers Democracy"
To: blue-duncan
This guy is so far to the left he makes Ralph Nader look like the founder of the John Birch Society. He spews his Prozac ramblings in the K.C. Star once a week. It is the only part of the paper that wont compost. Even the germs turn their nose up at his writing.
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posted on
08/27/2004 6:37:39 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
To: Huntress
The author's technique (I cannot in good conscience refer to him as a "writer") is shoddy, adolescent, and lacks any sort of persuasive technique. This indicates the assumption that his audience automatically agrees with him.
Apparently the school of "journalism" that graduated the author of this piece cared more about leftist indoctrination than about teaching even the basics of persuasive writing.
He also seems to take for granted that his audience shares his barely-concealed vitriolic hatred for anything or anyone to the right of Lenin, Stalin, or Pol Pot. Again, lack of persuasion.
Now I can see why people around here refer to that rag as the "Kansas City Red Star".
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posted on
08/27/2004 7:00:06 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
("Party Before Country" - The New Motto of the Democratic Party)
To: Huntress
Yet another indymedia screed. The writer lost me right off the bat with the yawn inducing "Diversity Coalition" and "Minority Museum" and "multicultural"....
Leftists are nothing but slogans. Jibber jabber.
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posted on
08/27/2004 7:07:39 PM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered.©)
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