Posted on 08/27/2004 4:53:14 PM PDT by Huntress
One thing that I believe would greatly help the United States better focus its efforts and resources at solving real problems, is for the Television netowrks to experience a total electrical power failure for five years!
Actually, Diuguid's in the Red Star twice a week now. He's a car wreck in print--he's terrible, but I can't stop looking. Morbid fascination, I guess, that anyone could be so clueless.
Yeah, just turning the camera on them and letting them talk does that.
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First he says that the public doesn't trust the media. Then, he pulls a switch and says that it's the fault of Fox News Channel, when all the while it's been the alphabet nets, their counterparts at the NYT, WashPost, and the rest of the print media that have been spinning like mad for the liberal "cause" (or "scam", if you like) for decades now.
Pinning the blame for their own loss of credibility on someone else is not just standard operating procedure for them - far from it. It is actually rooted in the very conceptual framework of liberalism!
The motivation for this type of behavior is a deep, broad portion of the entire liberal mindset. It is the idea that they are in no way responsible for their fates as individuals. To the liberal mind, their successes are the result of impersonal "historical inevitibility", and any failures are the result of a vast, shadowy conspiracy.
This explains the perpetual claim of victim status by liberal individuals and groups.
Even when failure is the result of bad decisions, bad choices, bad luck, sloth, dishonesty, or any combination thereof, the liberal MUST place blame on something other than their own person or group, or the whole conceptual house of cards comes crashing down in a tidal wave of cognitive dissonance.
I could go on and on and on deconstructing the foolish, childish, and yet dangerous liberal mindset, but I would end up getting WAY off-topic.
Aha! I get it! It's not that the distrust is well founded. It's that there is distrust!!!!!
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819
Ol' Tom J. didn't seem to hold them in high esteem back then. Why should we have changed our opinions in the intervening time... the "media" certainly haven't provided any reason for us to change them.
In fact, more recently, one who should obviously know how the leftist media works said:
"Far from performing a watchdog role, the ‘free press’ serves the needs of those in power."
--Noam Chomsky, MIT professor
And then there's the opinion of one of their own guys, who just happens to have some prize named after him:
"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it' can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." --Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaper publisher
I guess if he didn't get it right, nobody is gonna.
Unfortunately, Lewis Diuguid (is that French for "do good" or "doo-doo guide"?)- aka Missouri's Maureen Dowd- wouldn't know "journalism" if it came and crapped a pile on his desk while he was "agonizing" over another "steaming pile" of his writing. "Red Star" indeed! This kinda krap would make Stalin and Goebbels blush.
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