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Hard Times (at the Old Gray Hag)
Investors.com ^ | 1/4/06 | staff

Posted on 01/04/2006 5:35:40 PM PST by pissant

Media: The New York Times is under fire from the left and right over the handling of its wiretapping story. But that's just the latest in a pattern of embarrassing mistakes and misdeeds by the "paper of record."

It's been all the blues that's fit to print for The New York Times reporters, editors and brass lately. The memory of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal was just fading when veteran Washington reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for protecting a source — then promptly shown the door amid suggestions of receiving more than leaks from her contacts.

It might have helped if Miller weren't resented by others at the Times for lacking a liberal political agenda.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jaysonblair; judithmiller; liberalmedia; nyt; plagiarism; spying; traitors
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Best thing that could happen to the News industry would be for the Hag to go TU.
1 posted on 01/04/2006 5:35:42 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

FGS, could someone please have mercy on us all and pull the plug at the NYT? A true mercy killing I could support.


2 posted on 01/04/2006 5:38:39 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness (Make high definition tv fun. Aggravate 'em until their heads explode.)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Indeed. Let some other, more reputable publication take over it's facilities....like the Weekly World News


3 posted on 01/04/2006 5:40:23 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

You have to ask yourself, who would be stupid enough to advertize in the Times these days?


4 posted on 01/04/2006 5:42:51 PM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: McGavin999

Especially after they've been caught lying about their circulation.


5 posted on 01/04/2006 5:43:41 PM PST by pissant
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I disrespectfully agree...no, I respectfully disagree!

Will Shortz (the replacement for the real genius, Eugene Maleska) has the best daily crossword puzzle in the country. I do it everyday and it is holding my alzheimers at bay...IIRC (huh?).

6 posted on 01/04/2006 5:43:52 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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I will admit it has a fine crossword puzzle, in addition to a nice style section. LOL


7 posted on 01/04/2006 5:44:53 PM PST by pissant
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To: McGavin999
You have to ask yourself, who would be stupid enough to advertize in the Times these days?

Since when does being unprofitable mean failure for liberal media. NPR, Air-Head America, LA Times, Boston Globe, Providence Journal, et al, ad nauseum. Making money? Who cares!

8 posted on 01/04/2006 5:47:45 PM PST by N. Beaujon (http://www.nbeaujon.com)
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To: pissant

That might happen after James Risen let the cat out of the bag on Katie Couric's little show the other day. His statements were more profoundly revealing than most have recognized. After listening to his defense of the leakers and his explanation of the "concerns" of the "Whistleblowers", it is clear that the motives of these individuals was policy differences not civil liberty concerns. In oher words...it's all about politics.

Risen's statements about the concerns of the bureaucrats and careerists within the executive branch pointedly betray the argument he makes; that their motives were pure. Bullshit! He revealed that his sources were responding to an administration that had the temerity to actually make policy decisions that they did not agree with.

Here is how Risen described the motives of the leakers;

"the checks and balances that normally keep American foreign policy and national security policy toward the center kind of broke down. You had more of a
radicalization, in which the career professionals were not really given a chance to forge a consensus within the administration. The principals: Rumsfeld, Cheney Tenet and Rice were meeting constantly, setting policy and never allowing the experts, the people who understand the region to have a say."

This statement by Risen indicates many things, among them that the career professionals with the executive branches, such as the Justice and State Departments, thought it was they, not the elected President of The United States, that should be deciding course and policy decisions within the Government.

Policy had been "radicalized", they were not allowed to "forge a consensus", "The principals: Rumsfeld, Cheney Tenet and Rice were meeting constantly", "never allowing the experts" to have a say. My God, imagine that, the highest elected officials in our government actually deciding a course that differed from those career leftwing bureaucrats who forged the failed policies that got us in this mess in the first place.

Risen has made a stupendously stupid admission and revealed the true motives of the "Whistleblowers". Their motives were borne of hubris and politics, not the law, and certainly not your civil liberties. They are in deep trouble and they should be.

Freegards,

PresidentFelon


9 posted on 01/04/2006 5:48:50 PM PST by PresidentFelon (Reuters Reporter Adam Entous beats his mother)
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"I will admit it has a fine crossword puzzle, in addition to a nice style section. LOL"

Hmmmm...the Times xword puzzle...

"11 letter word for evil company" Halliburton

"7 letter word that best describes Republicans" Corrupt


10 posted on 01/04/2006 5:50:36 PM PST by fizziwig
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To: Dark Skies
Will Shortz (the replacement for the real genius, Eugene Maleska) has the best daily crossword puzzle in the country.

Yes, he does. I use substitutes now, but it is not the same :(

11 posted on 01/04/2006 5:51:25 PM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake)
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To: PresidentFelon

I read Risen's pathetic interview. I think a nice tight noose is too good for the bottomfeeder.


12 posted on 01/04/2006 5:52:04 PM PST by pissant
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To: fizziwig

That would be TOO easy for most of their readers.


13 posted on 01/04/2006 5:52:34 PM PST by pissant
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To: PresidentFelon

That is a great analysis/explanation, PresidentFelon.


14 posted on 01/04/2006 5:55:22 PM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake)
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To: pissant

Paper of record? More like paper of wreckage.


15 posted on 01/04/2006 5:57:53 PM PST by Malesherbes
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To: Malesherbes

Unfit for TP, in my estimation.


16 posted on 01/04/2006 5:59:10 PM PST by pissant
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To: Dark Skies

Do you subscribe, or do you root through the garbage for this rag? I, for one wouldn't even root through a garbage can for this piece of trash. :)


17 posted on 01/04/2006 6:00:46 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
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To: pissant

18 posted on 01/04/2006 6:03:16 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
I subscribe online but a hacker friend of mine charges it to Jim Robinson...so in a way, all contributing Freepers are helping me fend off Al Zheimers.

Oooops...thanks Jim. And keep those Freepathon smackers flowing fellow Freepers.

And no...Jim didn't tell me to say that.

19 posted on 01/04/2006 6:04:47 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Ichneumon

LOL. I like that. Though I would have the classifieds face up, don't want to damage your parrot's brain.


20 posted on 01/04/2006 6:05:12 PM PST by pissant
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