MSNBC's Olbermann & Crawford Suggest Bush Team "Set Up" Newsweek (And The Story of The Yellow Kid)

MRC ^ | Tuesday May 17, 2005 | BrentBaker,Brad Wilmouth

[fight_truth_decay]

Same story written on March 9th, 2005, the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service reported:
"(KRT) - The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, March 8: "Yet recently declassified court documents allege that, as far back as 2002, some of Guantanamo's staff cursed Allah, threw Korans into toilets, mocked prisoners during prayers and deliberately took away prisoners' pants knowing that Muslims can't pray unless covered."

Why suddenly does this becomes a HUGE story?

So when did Yellow Journalism (not to be confused with urine stained prison toilets) become so popular?

Why back "in the mid-1890s, Pulitzer (in the New York World) and Hearst (in the San Francisco Examiner and later the New York Morning Journal) transformed newspapers with sensational and scandalous news coverage, the use of drawings and the inclusion of more features such as comic strips."

"As newspapers (and our present media elite) began to compete more and more with one another to increase circulation and obtain more advertising revenue, a different type of journalism was developed by publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst"(Ah..same players, different game).

"After Pulitzer (and let us not forget the Prizes! for ex., goes to : "Series exposing Vietnam atrocities" ) began publishing color comic sections that included a strip entitled "The Yellow Kid" in early 1896, this type of paper was labeled "yellow journalism." Drawn by R.F. Outcault, the popular (if now-unfunny) strip became a prize in the struggle between Pulitzer and Hearst in the New York newspaper wars. Outcault moved the strip to Hearst's papers after nine months, where it competed with a Pulitzer-sponsored version of itself.

"The Yellow Kid" (insert the Kid of any media hour) proved the first merchandising phenomenon of the comics. The character was portrayed in keychains and collector cards, (now coffee mugs,t-shirts and caps) appeared on stage and even had a short-lived magazine named after him."

"The (same) papers themselves trumpeted their concern for the "people." At the same time, yellow journalists choked up the news channels on which the common people depended with shrieking, gaudy, sensation-loving, devil-may-care kinds of journalism. This turned the high drama of life into a cheap melodrama and led to stories being twisted into the forms best suited for sales by the hollering newsboy."

Well, the newsboys are still hollaring, only the faces have changed and their hair more coifed. The need to succeed coupled with the greed for recognition; no matter how many lives it may cost from their media transgressions.

[mhking]

Great minds think alike...[g]

Related story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1405118/posts

[KJacob]

"Craig Crawford, whose new book is, 'Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media.' Pre-order your copies now.

I wonder if Keith's two viewers will rush to their parents (or guardians) for permission to buy the book?

[Jackson Brown]

if you want to understand this -- just go to

http://www.newsweek.com -- and see what shows up.

MSNBC

[Paul Atreides]

Well, it took them a LOT longer to start that than I thought.

[fight_truth_decay]

..well maybe some will like the Yellow Kid?..when I first started this story it was clear..guess my Yellow Kid made me come in last! Apologies to you.

[Fudd Fan]

Crawford = big dope

Meltdown with Keith Olberman - who's watching? Only time I catch a glimpse is when channel surfing.

[fight_truth_decay]

Great minds think alike

*blushes*

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

More creaks from the sinking ship.

[theFIRMbss]

>I wonder if Keith's two viewers will rush to their parents (or guardians) for permission to buy the book?

They will ask the guards
to get a copy for the
building's library . . .

[toddlintown]

Look. I said this on another thread. Karl Rove set this up. HAAAAh-HAAAAH-HAAAAh!

[TexasCajun]

Isn't it MSNBC that hired the talentless Reagan as a dig to conservatives republicans?

[Socratic]

Oh yeah, right before Laura Bush is to visit the Mid East, team Bush seeks to inflame the region and spark numerous deaths. Did the world always contain so many phychos or has modern media only served to expose the madness?

[etcetera]

"...am I a victim of my own favorite logical fallacy here?"

Keith gets it right, but doesn't know it.

[dts32041]

I have heard Ketih O's staff tried to flush a bible and a Torah down the toilet as they were snorting coke.

My source refuses to be ID, but has prove reliable in the past.

[etcetera]

The press is angry because it's one of the left-wing supremes and can't be criticized - just like the judiciary.

[fight_truth_decay]

My source refuses to be ID, but has prove reliable in the past

OK..let's run with it..Make it an EXCLUSIVE!!! ;)

[Republicus2001]

There used to be a real crappy dumb sports jock reporter in LA back in the 20th century whose name was Keith Olbermann. An absolute worthless Columbia School of Broadcasting type...I wonder if this could be his son.

[Darth Republican]

On Laura Ingraham's show today, she referred to this bit of media CYA saying, "so this is what they have cooking up in the pot."

I wouldn't have phrased it like that, although 'pot' may well have been involved.

[stylin19a]

Set-up at last...I knew it...just wondered why it took so long to happen.
Though I DID say Newsweek would claim they were setup. (And Newsweek implies they were setup by saying the WH & the Pentagon didn't object to the article )