Posted on 02/19/2006 8:02:33 AM PST by blogblogginaway
If the nation's top magazine have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage.
This just in! Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning covers of Cheney for high impact on newsstands Monday, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.
NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means.
The magazine's editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."
...Or what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the slick click age of information and news cycles.
Agreed. Most people I know, and they are not all Republicans, thinks the MSM has lost their minds.
The same thing is happening here. The MSM is completely imploding, showing that it is incapable of following the REAL stories (Iran's nukes, where did the WMDs go, China's growing threat) and instead focuses on anything it thinks will "get Bush."
Life is good.
Now, if the same thing would only start to happen to universities and Hollywood.
They jumped the shark with Kerry, this is just dessert.
Would that we had the net and FR during the fall of communism... that would have been incredible.
Quick, now is the time to invade Syria. The MSM is not looking! :0)
Who reads this crap anymore? These magazines strike me as eight-track tapes with utility only as novelty items or to pass time at the dentist's office.
Pravda! And I thought is was dead! Everyone of those scum mentioned are anti-American upper West Side dilettante communists who, strangely enough, will be the first morons decapitated when Muslim terrorists take over NY!
Cheney/Bush '08!!!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Keep digging you Loons
They will waste another week on wild conspiracy theories. Next thing you know, if Cheney got a parking ticket in 1970 the media will breathlessly report this as urgent breaking news. I think everyone who is not a diehard Michael Moore fan is getting tired of non-news being spinned as news. Some well-paid media people don't seem to know the difference between journalism and creative writing.
And Saddam's tapes
I'm sure you did, Mark, and I can't wait to buy your rag and learn what Cheney had for breakfast that morning and what he had planned for that evening that got cancelled and what time he went to bed, and who knows what other critical information.
The dead tree media are flaying about as they sink into the bogue to join the dinosauers. Who cares? Does anyone actually read Newsweak and Slime anymore?
Since we're talking media; TAGLINE
You're right. Even my crazed left-wing NYC neighbors think the press is over the top on this one. I heard one reporter on MSNBC call for an opportunity to grill Cheney about his drinking habits back when he was in college! Do these guys have any idea how nuts that sounds?
The liberal media viciously attacked VP Dan Quail for being a "light weight" but now is attacking VP Cheney for the opposite reason. The MSM is so transparent.
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