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The death of journalism
Posted on 10/15/2004 10:38:26 AM PDT by Visioneer
CBS = Forged Government Documents
NBC = Interviews with Kitty Kelley for 3 days
ABC = Using North Vietnamese testimony to discredit our own Vets
For all practical purposes, National mainstream broadcast "journalism", in the USA, is dead.
Just my opinion...
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: journalism; ournalism
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:38:27 AM PDT
by
Visioneer
To: Visioneer
It's been dead for quite some time now. Decades, in fact.
To: Visioneer
No argument here. Hooray for FR!
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:41:01 AM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Visioneer
For all practical purposes, National mainstream broadcast "journalism", in the USA, is dead. It isn't just broadcast "journalism."
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:41:04 AM PDT
by
stevem
To: Visioneer
As a former practitioner of the craft, I must agree with you.
To: Visioneer
Journalism is suppose to call it like you see it, not call it like you want it seen.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:41:22 AM PDT
by
T-Boy
To: Visioneer
You forgot the VANITY tag.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:42:02 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Visioneer
As a former practitioner of the craft, I must agree with you.
How sad...especially when our founders looked to a free press to help ensure the survival of the Republic.
The inmates not only run, they OWN, the asylum...
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:42:49 AM PDT
by
Visioneer
To: Visioneer
You know, the scary part is, it's not just your opinion. It's a fact.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:42:51 AM PDT
by
Gary Drumm
(Right Wing Conspiracy Member Number 258971364)
To: Visioneer
Great vanity post. Honestly. Nice and succinct; gets the point across in 3 seconds.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:44:29 AM PDT
by
jdm
To: Visioneer
For all practical purposes, National mainstream broadcast "journalism", in the USA, is dead.
Just my opinion...
I agree.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:44:54 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Vote Bush 2004-We cannot survive a 9-10 President in a 9-11 World)
To: Visioneer
The MSM is losing it's grip on American public opinion and they want it back. John Kerry is the MSM's last best hope at turning back the influence of the New Media. Bet your bottom dollar that a Kerry presidency will result in an attempt to squelch political speech on talk radio and the internet. The MSM has a different reason for wanting JFK elected.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:45:29 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(If it talks like a liberal, votes like a liberal and spends like a liberal, it's a liberal.)
To: Visioneer
Thank goodness for Free Republic. Thank goodness for the blogs. If we didn't have both of these, who would we turn to for the truth. I have finally seen the MSM for what they are and I am not the only one.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:46:18 AM PDT
by
Merry
To: Visioneer
It is not 'Dead Journalism'...This is "COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA" and they way it has divided America, it seems to be rather effective, which breaks my heart.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:47:47 AM PDT
by
Woogit
To: Merry
If there were no alternative to the MSM, the battle would already be over....
To: Question_Assumptions
This might be a little off the point but when Lincoln had bee dead for 10 years a group of people tried to steal his corpse. They were caught before they were able to do it. As a precaution against further attempts they dug a pit in the crypt and before they lowered it down and poured tons of concrete on it opened it up. The attending officials which included his son were aghast at the stench which came forth. President Lincoln's corpse was just starting to rot because of the 3 times that it was embalmed during his train trip and funeral. As Lincoln the MSM has been dead for years it's just not starting to rot and smell.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:48:51 AM PDT
by
reagandemo
(The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
To: Visioneer
In other breaking news, the Red Sox won the World Series.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:49:28 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("!Allahu Snackbar" - the war cry of the pajamadeen - Let's stop VOTE FRAUD NOW! Write your reps!)
To: Question_Assumptions
It's been dead for quite some time now. Decades, in fact.Agreed. It's just the stench from the corpse that we're getting.
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:49:29 AM PDT
by
A2J
(Oh, I wish I was in Dixie...)
To: Visioneer
I disagree with the premises.
Journalism has always been yellow.
It's very roots are in propaganda.
Gossip and opinion persuasion is the very origin of journalism.
The earliest printing presses were run by partisans and ideologues. Only very recently in history have we had these so-called "journalistic standards", invented by these same partisans and ideologues in order to inoculate themselves from criticism and accusations, and to add weight and authority to their own propaganda. What better way to get people to believe you over your rival than to claim that you are unbiased while peddling the same propaganda as always?
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posted on
10/15/2004 10:51:47 AM PDT
by
counterpunch
(The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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