NYP: MARKET FAILURE -- The 'competition' defends Newsweek

New York Post ^ | May 20, 2005 | John Podhoretz

[OESY]

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said... we would encourage them to move forward and do all that they can to help repair the damage that has been done by this report."...

You saw media organizations and their representatives swooping in to save Newsweek's bacon and try to redirect the story— to change it from the tale of a media-created catastrophe to a tale about Washington censorship and the misbehavior of the Bush administration.

You saw Terry Moran of ABC News berating McClellan, demanding to know "who made you the editor of Newsweek? Do you think it's appropriate for you, at that podium, speaking with the authority of the president of the United States, to tell an American magazine what they should print?...."

You saw Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times get in on the action: "Are you asking them to write a story about how great the American military is? Is that what you're saying here?"

Moran expressed disbelief that the White House would blame Newsweek's story for the riots — even though we've all seen the pictures of the magazine being set on fire in the midst of them.

This is guild loyalty.

...Journalists of today are far more interested in currying favor with each other than in exploiting each other's weaknesses. And they view an attack on one as an attack on all.

You are supposed to believe that the giant organizations of the news business are incredibly competitive, constantly looking for the exclusive, the big scoop....

And the enemy isn't the magazine that made all journalists look bad and made the country look bad. The enemy is the president, because... he might look more favorably on the media if it were to "write a story about how great the American military is."

[gregwest]

They're feeling the heat. Time to stir up the pot! :)

[Mo1]

This is guild loyalty

And the guild has declared war on US and the military

Just watch how they will print every piece of garbage they can find

[saveliberty]

This is truly indicative of Groupthink to extremes -- such that the MSM is to insecure to withstand any questions or scrutiny.

The more this behavior is enabled, the more disturbed these personalities will become. Shouldn't the federal government mandate group therapy? ;)

[mewzilla]

Just watch how they will print every piece of garbage they can find.

Meanwhile scandals like Oil For Food are part of the news that's not fit to print. Go figure.

[Mo1]

Meanwhile scandals like Oil For Food are part of the news that's not fit to print. Go figure.

They raping of women and children by UN workers don't seem to be fit for print either

But Hey .. We got to see Saddam in his underwear

rolling eyes

[RayChuang88]

And you wonder why MSM patronage has dropped dramatically in the last 15 years. Especially newspapers and anyone associated with Old Media.

Meanwhile, New Media is making innumerable end-runs around the MSM, thanks to conservative talk radio, the Fox News Channel and the public Internet. Even George Lucas is feeling the heat of the New Media as he has come under considerable criticism for using Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith to criticize President Bush.

[LibSnubber]

"Meanwhile scandals like Oil For Food are part of the news that's not fit to print. Go figure."

Merely proof positive of the media's own personal agenda - and how they are not interested in honest reporting done in an unbiased way. They have to defend each other - because they know they are ALL going down (which is fine by me).

[mewzilla]

Too bad for them there's the New Media.

Bwah hah hah hah hah...

[handy]

They raping of women and children by UN workers don't seem to be fit for print either

How many 6,000 word stories would we see if it were US military raping women and kids instead of UN Peacekeepers?

[prairiebreeze]

It reminds me of frat and sorority behavior. Very juvenile. Why would I want to read anything these infantile people wrote?

[Mo1]

It would be printed in every paper around the world

[Rummyfan]

You saw Terry Moran of ABC News berating McClellan, demanding to know "who made you the editor of Newsweek? Do you think it's appropriate for you, at that podium, speaking with the authority of the president of the United States, to tell an American magazine what they should print?...."

McClellan should never take another question for the jackass Moran.

[sageb1]

America's journalists - loyal to no man, to no country, and to no God - Satan's tools.

[Patriot from Philly]

As the New York Times obsesses over the deaths of 2 detainees in Afghanistan I continue to be puzzled over the coverage of this war. The most important thing to me is: are we winning the war, how is it going, what is the strategy, have we infiltrated Al-queada, what about Syria.

The media seems fixated on minor stories. But it's worse than that. It's almost as if we used the example of WW2 and let Joseph Goebbels decide what was covered. He would focus on atrocities, propaganda, hurt national pride.

In other words, the US media is covering this war as if they are advocates of the enemy. It is disgraceful.

[roses of sharon]

They are a liberal aristocracy with a duty towards party, the DNC/UN.

They are vampires that suck the life's blood out of everything good, and shrink from a US flag like it burns them, remember when a few days after 9/11, they took off their flag lapel pins? They just did not feel right about wearing it.

I say we drive a stake thru their power, one by one.

[saveliberty]

The allowable discourse in the liberal MSM becomes increasingly narrow so that all that remains is to talk in extremes.

[Marauder]

I live in a small town where we can't get the local stations with our satellite system, so I have to catch local news (AND major network news) on another TV set with its rabbit ears.

All those resources for news and commentary, and I watch FoxNews exclusively. The MSM have alienated me completely.

[alrea]

Newsweak and CBS are finishing off what little market socilalist rags have.

[gaspar]

Disdain has turned to hatred but the American media is too stupid to notice. Journalists are now considered less honest than used car salesmen, and that is not a good thing in a democracy.