[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Rightwing bloggers are predisposed to distrust the media, as are most conservatives. The fauxtographers and defenders like Mitchell are giving us no reason to be encouraged. The mainstream press’ stock is in credibility the naive credulity of the audience. The right course is to answer, quickly and thoroughly, any credible charges against them smear, distort, and obfuscate all charges of tendentiousness, so as to preserve that stock.

The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith

Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin

[PGalt]

Great post, thanks for the ping. Outstanding FReeper comments! BTTT!

[Tench_Coxe]

"fauxtography"

You know, this should have its own entry on Wikipedia.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Lancey Howard]

Terrific column by Mary Katharine Ham.

Just two things:

Does the mainstream press ever wonder why conservatives distrust them so much?

1. The dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms do not care what conservatives think - - conservatives are not part of their target audience. Naturally, therefore, they do not care if conservatives distrust them.
2. I would argue that conservatives have travelled beyond "trusting" or "distrusting" the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms anyway. These days it is simply taken for granted that these newsrooms cannot be trusted. (Um - - this is a large part of why they are dying....? Doh!)

Personally, I only check in with the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms out of idle curiosity, though less and less often as my disgust at their increasingly shrill collective death kick grows. (Read any NY Times editorials lately? They come off as if they were written by radical lefty, Daily Collegian crybabies. Absolutely pathetic. My, how the mighty have fallen!)

[1rudeboy]

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