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

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

[CasearianDaoist]

But this applies to the entire Left in every segment and in every sector of all of the bastions of their power: The political classes; the academics; the unions and the NGOs all feel that they are completely above anyone that does not reside within these clericies.

This sort of narcissism and solpisism is the mark of the psychotc and the sociopathic personality and it manifests itself in rage and self serving rationalization.

IT will only get worse.

[CasearianDaoist]

The kust have not figured it out yet, but they will.

Go look at googles new protal stuff and check out the newsoptions. The Left may be insane but they are not stupid.

[CasearianDaoist]

kust=just; protal;=portal. (need some coffee.)

[mewzilla]

Go look at googles new protal stuff and check out the newsoptions. The Left may be insane but they are not stupid.

Sure they are since it's plain to see what they're doing. Doesn't say much for google's people, either.

[randog]

Meanwhile, New Media is making innumerable end-runs around the MSM, thanks to conservative talk radio, the Fox News Channel and the public Internet.

And it's interesting how the New Media just sat this one out and reported on the circus. Don't get in the way of your enemy while he's busy destroying himself.

[NoClones]

this is no surprise that the msm would defend newsweek...

...after all, its easy & has been standard operating procedure for decades to make up a piece of bull and attribute it to unnamed sources!

[CPOSharky]

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

Did you really mean, "..were US military instead of UN Peacekeepers raping women and kids."?

[colonialhk]

This is getting really old. All aboard for the "anti- anything Bush success express". Tickets at any journalism school or old-line media company near you!

[saveliberty]

That's true, it will get worse, because the narcissistic misanthropy works for them. And because they are the establishment, they enable each other to keep it up.

[saveliberty]

Try Kona. It's good, it's strong and it's American. LOL!

[paul_fromatlanta]

Newsweek is looking better than they did at first - now that they are saying they submitted the article in advance to the Army and made the only change the army asked for and the Red Cross is saying they started complaining about interrogators at Guantanamo disrespecting the Koran in 2002.

Also note that the army has not said the incident didn't happen but only that it was not recorded in the interrogation logs - which makes perfect sense since the incident, if it occurred, would have violated guidelines issued in 2003 in response to Red Cross complaints.

Still, the reporting was sloppy and Newsweek deserves a bloody nose for using one unsubstantiated anonymous source.

[Just A Nobody]

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

There, fixed it.

[paul_fromatlanta]

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

I've read dozens of stories about the oil for food scandal and the problem with UN workers (although I got the impression it was mainly UN soldiers).

And the only American media that I know of who ran a picture of Saddam in his underwear was Drudge. But I didn't even blame Drudge for that becaue I thought how fit Saddam made it slightly newsworthy - he certainly doesn't look mistreated.

[numberonepal]

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

In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
Waiting for the Noose (Saddam's Skivies)

[nutmeg]

ping! (article by John Podhoretz)

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[handy]

Yes. Clarity is always a good thing.

[Peach]

I hate the media. Hate them with a passion. It's not even healthy at this point.

[OESY]

But, sometimes they don't respect each other:


Franken Retracts

Joking about journalists going to jail for protecting their sources? Plays great at the White House, no doubt, and actually just about everywhere else these days. Except, say, at the 35th anniversary dinner of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. There, it's sort of like flushing a bucket of Korans down a star-spangled toilet:

Then [Al Franken] turned toward The New York Times table in the front of the room, where sat Judith Miller, best known these days for two things: her articles on weapons of mass destruction that didn't quite pan out and the possibility she will go to jail for not revealing sources in the Valerie Plame case. "Judy,"" Franken said, "maybe you can find some WMD in your cell."

Nice fear-up harsh, dude! Sensing danger in the crowd's stony silence, Franken nimbly retracted. "OK, I shouldn't have told that joke." But it was too late for apologies, and the evening quickly devolved into a riot of burning glances and self-righteous indignation. — -- GREG BEATO