the DEVIL made him do it!!! seriously, he just couldn't help himself... nobody ever told him "if it sounds TOOOO good to be true, IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"
Posted on 10/02/2004 1:33:51 PM PDT by mrustow
Did Murrow really defend Hiss? Nixon, however, and not McCarthy, was Hiss's accuser (and prosecutor).
Well, he and his comrades sure started early, this time 'round. They were unleashing October Surprises already in 2003!
Well, that would sure make for a short article!
the DEVIL made him do it!!! seriously, he just couldn't help himself... nobody ever told him "if it sounds TOOOO good to be true, IT'S NOT TRUE!!!"
LOL! It sounds like no one ever told a whole bunch of journos that line.
Thanks for the ping!
You bring more clarity to this. Many still believe that the MSM is not really that biased. They make the case that they are misguided or sloppy. We should long for the day when these fanatics are truly exposed and banned from all places where decent people gather!
That's another awesome piece of writing from Nicholas Stix.
Thanks much for the ping.
BTTT.
FOX; We report, you decide. Rather: Here, swallow this!
My pleasure.
I think that a lot of people who are not socialists really don't want to knpw the truth about the media. Look at the veneration that Walter "Tet Offensive" Cronkite enjoyed. Look at the suburban Republicans who don't want to know what's really going on in the nation's cities.
Yeah, 'tain't bad.
Sure thing.
BTTT
Why did Rather do it?
Go to any one of your local institutions of higher learning and sit in on a class on journalistic integrity and you'll soon find out.
It's called "activist journalism", and it's the poison that has infiltrated all of the mainstream media since the 60's (and, consequently, made a website like this one absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to get their news undiluted by socialism and anti-Americanism). In fact, Rather (not) had a large hand in this himself 35-40 years ago.
And then there was the Black Eye at Black Rock of the Bush interview. In 1988, media guru Roger Ailes suckered Rather into conducting a live interview with Vice President George Bush, then the Republican presidential candidate. Journalists don't like to conduct live interviews, because they then lose the power of the final cut. Being able to cut a story means being able to shape it. Instead, Ailes and Bush did the shaping, with Bush, in a politician's fantasy come true, going on the offensive, attacking Rather.
Actually, it goes back to the 1950's, documented by muckraking author Vance Packard in The Opinionmakers in the 1960's. The Columbia School of Journalism surveys their students annually, and one of the questions asked is why they entered journalism. The political motive became evident in the 1950's, and it had increased to a majority in the 1960's. The proportion has increased to more than 90% since he wrote his book (as shown in periodical articles addressing the same subject that have been published since then), and now the vast majority of working journalists are politically motivated and overwhelmingly liberal, thus poisoning the well of public opinion against traditional American values. It's amazing we aren't France already, so strong is the tilt toward moral anomie, internationalism and socialism in media.
That old ph*rt stood up in front of a camera after a one-week whirlwind visit to Vietnam and threw a war! And to make things worse, we were winning when he did it.
To this day, whenever I see Cronkite's face, that's the only thing I can think about.
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