The 'Media Party' is over (CBS' downfall is just the tip of the iceberg)

MSNBC ^ | Updated: 5:12 p.m. ET Jan. 11, 2005 | By Howard Fineman

[RoseofTexas]

Thank you JESUS! Next the evil ACLU!!!

[beyond the sea]

Were Dan Rather and Mary Mapes after the truth or victory when they broadcast their egregiously sloppy story about Bush's National Guard Service?

They were not after the truth, and it wasn't a "sloppy" story, it was a criminal story!

[Borges]

For better or worse, the U.S. media is become more like Europe. Where you have newspapers that declare their allegiances off the bat and go from there.

[Piquaboy]

They will be sorely missed.

[beyond the sea]

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the "media" has any credibility.

Right here for ONE!

[beyond the sea]

Where you have newspapers that declare their allegiances off the bat and go from there.

That's not bad! As long as they come out and say it! It would be ok if 'The Slimes' came out and said it.

[VaBthang4]

"We have a president who feels it's almost a point of honor not to hold more press conferences — he's held far fewer than any modern predecessor — and doesn't seem to agree that the media has any "right" to know what's really going in inside his administration. The AMMP, meanwhile, is regarded with ever growing suspicion by American voters, viewers and readers, who increasingly turn for information and analysis only to non-AMMP outlets that tend to reinforce the sectarian views of discrete slices of the electorate. "

I cannot explain to you just how satisfying it is for me to read that.

Starting in 1999 there has been a steady stream of events that real people could rejoice over. Here is but another one.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL!
Howard really has a bee in his bonnet,
and THAT is worth the price of admission!

[NutCrackerBoy]

already posted here

[Grand Old Partisan]

The New York Times was founded by a Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

[drhogan]

my main exposure to the msm now is via articles posted on FR.

[onyx]

It was posted YESTERDAY,
not a few minutes ago!

[dirtboy]

At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history.

And ever since, they have tried to shoehorn just about all events into one of those three worldviews: the civil rights movement, Vietnam and Watergate. But those dogs don't hunt any longer.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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And yet long time LIBERAL Los Angeles Times Media Critic DAVID SHAW still tells that...


RATHER's work's 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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[ContraryMary]

The New York Times was founded by a Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Must have been a long time ago...

[bankwalker]

The New York Times was founded by a Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Both parties have changed drastically since then, as well as the leadership of the Times organization. Your point is irrelevant today.

[beyond the sea]

The good old days, eh?

[ghost of nixon]

wow! - a brutally honest piece about the MSN from someone within the MSN? Kudos to Howard Fineman

[Bahbah]

"It was posted YESTERDAY...."

And at one in the morning, if I may add that. I missed it as is sometimes the case with repost, so I, for one, appreciate it.