Gag and bag this Nazi muffin.
(Shameless ripoff of pookie18 toon thread)
LMAO
Posted on 09/29/2006 7:32:58 AM PDT by Albion Wilde
I wholly agree with that college student.
Joanna Rytel She also wrote an article called “I Will Never Give Birth to a White Man,”
I have a mental image...that she's a triple bagger, two over her head and one over yours....because sh*t happens and it's best to be prepared.
It was so great having you both here. The welcome mat is out for you two any time. Thank YOU for the wonderful photos, Upchuck...
Wow, Washington State is a long way from Dahlia St, Washington, DC. Wish you could be here, too. We do have a great time. Thanks for your interest, Radiohead!
We do have a ping list, and I will endeavor to put you on it, altho the AAR duties do ricochet among a bunch of us. Feel free to FReepmail me any time for more information as the time approaches.
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Hope this helps. We look forward to meeting you! Thanks for writing!
Yup. Sad but true.
Yes, that piece is mentioned in the full article at the link. Scary stuff.
I had to be elsewhere, but I was with you there in spirit!
/pun intended.
GREAT JOB!
Well, that's an incisive piece of writing, and right on the money. Did you author that?
HOORAY bump!
As a side note, as those of us interested in the Revolutionary War look back on the battles, the ones that General Washington took part in always have a special significance (e.g., Harlem Heights, White Plains, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Yorktown, Brandywine, etc.). I would say its the same thing for Freeps: the ones with Jim's presence are of singular merit.
Big DC FReep pictures.
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Saturday morning bump!
I am such a quick study </sarcasm> that it only took me until I was 38 and after reading Reed Irvine's Accuracy In Media (AIM) Report for a couple of years to understand that journalism was not objective. That was back during the Carter Administration.I was particularly sensitive to the issue of the tendentiousness of the Democratic Party because I was working for a defense contractor and I was constantly seeing that any given Democrat politician, on any given day, did more harm to the national security than all the good I was ever likely to do for national security in my entire career. So I was fascinated to realize that journalism was slanted toward Democrats, and I wondered why.
The AIM Report then, and the Media Research Center now, continuously document clear cases of a leftward tilt to journalism. But nobody seriously addressed the issue of why in any reasonably satisfactory way. It was always just, "those evil journalists only hire liberals" or some such explanation which always seemed to me to boil down to a conspiracy theory. Yes, journalists are liberals - but why?
Being a quick study, it only took me about fifteen more years to begin to sort it out on my own. Journalism has rules for commercial success, and those rules - "If it bleeds, it leads," "'Man Bites Dog' rather than 'Dog Bites Man,'" and "Always make your deadline" are not politically neutral. The emphasis on bad news is a negativity which calls conservatism into question. Deadline pressure is a tendency to superficiality. And the need to have unusual stories makes the news unrepresentative of what normally goes on.
Five years ago I documented my understanding of the reasons for and implications of "bias in the media" in this thread. And I had the conceit that I would link in to that thread all the germane threads that I saw. So what actually happened was that I found myself turning that thread is sort of a blog of my thoughts on the leftist perspective of journalism. Realistically, the best way to read the thread probably is read the initial article and then jump to the latest comments and skim backward as much as you find interesting.
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