Posted on 06/27/2005 7:01:26 PM PDT by wagglebee
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I was getting my taxes done in Burbank today and actually picked up the LA times. It was the first time I picked up an actually newspaper in 3 to 5 years. I thumbed through it and noticed most of the stories I read on free republic within the last 72 hours. Newsprint is dead.
I would surmise that was her real source.
When they took the fifth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own real estate.
When they took the fourth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment,
and I can say nothing about it.
She gave an important voice to people who didn't exist. These words that were never spoken by anyone will reverberate down journalism's hall, as we all remember the forlorn nobody who uttered the famous words..."Dan? Is that you?"
:-)
I remember her when she used to write for that litter box liner (AKA The Los Angeles Times.) She used to wax eloquent about the trials and tribulations of the illegal aliens. Its amazing to what lengths a liberal will go to prove their rightousness.
Don't forget Stephen Glass, another up-and-coming, flawed liberal journalist, for the formally acclaimed NEW REPUBLIC... They just have no personal ethics or conscience.. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/60minutes/main552819.shtml
Don't forget Stephen Glass, another up-and-coming, flawed liberal journalist, for the formally acclaimed NEW REPUBLIC... They just have no personal ethics or conscience.. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/60minutes/main552819.shtml
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That, however, would involve work! -- something modern day journalists are allergic to.
Plus, as you point out, the real story might not be the story the journalist wants to tell...
I was talking with my brother-in-law a few weeks ago and he had just heard some "new" piece of "breaking" news (I wish I could remember what it was) on CNN or something like that, I looked at him and told him I had known about it for almost a week. Look at what happened with Dan Ratherbiased and Memogate, FReepers knew all about it before there was any mention in the media.
But the bar should at least exist. Writing about a bartender when the bartender and the bar do not exist is, well, setting the "bar" too low -- even for a liberal rag like the Sacramento Bee.
A good number of syndicated columnists write opinion pieces. I'd think that would be good enough for the editors without making up scores of fictitious folk to make the articles more exciting.
Maybe what the reporter was churning out wasn't anything to write home about, so she tried to spice it up. ;)
yeah I know. I find it amazing when someone in Iraq or isreal reports on FR an attack as it is happening. scary and amazing.
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