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Fighting back against the PR presidency - A Washington Post reporter issues a call for defiance
Nieman Watchdog ^ | July 14, 2006 | Walter Pincus

Posted on 07/14/2006 1:01:46 PM PDT by PDR

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Veteran Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus thinks that Washington editors and reporters should be brave enough not to cover any statements made by the president or any other government official that are designed solely as a public relations tool, offering no new or valuable information to the public.
1 posted on 07/14/2006 1:01:50 PM PDT by PDR
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To: PDR; FrPR
I hope the Republicans are not paying a lot for their PR.

It's terrible.

2 posted on 07/14/2006 1:04:24 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (( Vote Fraud: The Democrats' Secret Weapon .... Well, secret to the RNC, anyway.))
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To: PDR
Forty years (or more) ago, Tom Lehrer had an intro to his song "We are the Folksong Army" which goes something like this:

"You know, you have to admire these young college kids, who have enough courage to really put it all out on the line, and stand up in coffee houses and cafeterias and come right out in favor of the things which they know everyone is against -- like peace, brotherhood and justice. Here's a song for them ..."

3 posted on 07/14/2006 1:07:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
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To: PDR

LOL, Walter is ticked that after 50 years he has lost his monopoly.

His propaganda machine has a chink in it, and huge cracks will be forming soon.


4 posted on 07/14/2006 1:08:01 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Kenny Bunk

How convenient for Mr. Pincus to decide that now is the time to do this. I'm sure it wasn't even an issue while Clinton was in office and used PR solely to address the issues of the day.


5 posted on 07/14/2006 1:08:36 PM PDT by mazda77
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To: ClearCase_guy

Why wait for a Profiles in Courage award, when you can pin one on yourself?


6 posted on 07/14/2006 1:09:32 PM PDT by dighton
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To: PDR

Here's my definition of courage:Not waiting 2 and one-half years to correct the lies you megaphoned for Joseph A, Wilson IV about the Administration. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4951


7 posted on 07/14/2006 1:09:36 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: PDR
The disturbing trend is that more and more of these informational offerings are nothing but PR peddled as "news."

Not unlike the way the Washington Post and the rest of the liberal media peddle opinion as "news".

8 posted on 07/14/2006 1:09:49 PM PDT by Starboard (Liberal superiorists hate the system that allows average people to make more money than they do.)
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To: PDR

Sounds like somebody doesn't like Tony Snow and how effective he is. *snicker*


9 posted on 07/14/2006 1:10:01 PM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: PDR

Pinko is alame excuse for a woman


10 posted on 07/14/2006 1:11:04 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (high compression hothead here)
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To: PDR

What a bunch of losers.

They dis Reagan for taking a few questions and then leaving.

But what about Clinton's method? He would take a question and then use it to drone on in campaign mode against the GOP or Rush Limbaugh or whoever and take up so much time with each question that he answered very few questions in total.

Why didn't they complain about that?


11 posted on 07/14/2006 1:11:23 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: roses of sharon

What Walter seems to be saying is that the death, murder, strangulation, call it what you like, of investigative journalism at the hands of media -- which oddly seems to have occurred in the early years of the Clinton administration -- has left that same media with nothing to sell but predigested pap.

Gee, Walter, that's too bad. The torch seems to have passed.


12 posted on 07/14/2006 1:12:32 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: PDR

Dear Walter Pink-us, you leftist jackal, I heard you on a talking head show the other day blathering yet again the Joe Wilson/David Corn talking points about Plamegate, which shows that after 3+ years and your own thoroughly dishonest reporting you STILL cannot do objective research and move past shilling for the talking points of depraved leftists. You want to pretend to be a wise sage of journalism and objectivity???? PLEASE, spare me your projectile-vomit propaganda.........


13 posted on 07/14/2006 1:13:02 PM PDT by Enchante (Keller & Sulzberger: Forget elections, WE are the self-appointed judges of everything)
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To: PDR
Well since they lie and distort and misreport everything anyway, I agree with him.

Love the way the Junk Media "Journalists" continually shoot their own industry in the gut day in and day out. What a great idea to complete their slide into total political irrelevance!
14 posted on 07/14/2006 1:13:30 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Fire Murtha Now! Spread the word. Support Diana Irey. http://www.irey.com/)
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To: PDR

He's a little late at this. The PR presidency ended in January 2001.


15 posted on 07/14/2006 1:16:59 PM PDT by mak5
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To: TChris; PDR
On the nose! Tony's getting to them.

Keep it up, Tiger!!

16 posted on 07/14/2006 1:18:02 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraqi Liberation VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: PDR

Then there those of us who are ...

"Fighting Back against a PR Media!!"


17 posted on 07/14/2006 1:20:20 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: PDR
In other words, "Down the Memory Hole".

How many speeches on Iraq or Social Security has Bush given that have received no MSM coverage: dozens? hundreds?

I note also that Pincus goes right from Reagan to Bush, Jr. We didn't have a President who used PR from 1993 to 2001? Is that his argument?

More transparently partisan bull----.

18 posted on 07/14/2006 1:27:44 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: Enchante
The Bush team also has brought forward another totally PR gimmick: The President stands before a background that highlights the key words of his daily message.

Its totally lost on him that his cohorts in the leftist TV media (CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/PBS) do essentially the same thing (i.e., visually reinforce the message) on screen every night.

You no doubt noticed that the "objective" Mr. Pink-us devoted four paragraphs to hack on Reagan.

19 posted on 07/14/2006 1:30:05 PM PDT by Starboard (Liberal superiorists hate the system that allows average people to make more money than they do.)
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To: PDR
I'm sure that our grandchildren will gather courage by shouting "Stand up and fight like a reporter!"

Good grief.

20 posted on 07/14/2006 1:33:02 PM PDT by catpuppy
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