This is the definition of smug and elitist.
Posted on 10/21/2006 5:47:27 AM PDT by johnny7
In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the press’s traditional role in helping to set the national agenda, longtime Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said this week. “I would argue the electronic and print media have more power than they did 50 years ago, but they turn over their space and time to events initiated by government officials and their critics,” Pincus told a lunchtime crowd Monday at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.
(Excerpt) Read more at nwanews.com ...
I guess he missed that whole camp;aign to get women in that golfclub by the NYT.
Must be a member of Congress ...
Give a whole new meaning to the phrase "sexual congress", don't it?
Any article purporting to be a serious criticism of today's MSM which begins "In the name of objectivity," and goes on to suggest that a slavish devotion to impartiality hamstrings the newsies simply cannot be taken seriously.
"[L]ongtime Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus Pincus" is advising everybody on a listing ship to rush over to the lower side, and he will be as astonished as anyone when that only means the ship takes on more water and sinks faster if his advice is followed.
This is going to turn out to be another celebration of the free market. The "consumers" of news are taking their dollars elsewhere -- most of us, I dare say, in pursuit of the truth, not some chopped, molded, formed, and partially predigested by lefties pap.
Another MSM ego, constricted more and more by declining circulation and poked by annoying bloggers and alternative media types, finally explodes in a stunning fit of grossly-inflated self-worth.
Those media a-holes already try to set the agenda, a secular liberal one.
As Joe Friday from Dragnet use to say "Just the facts mam"
>>>In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the press’s traditional role in helping to set the national agenda, longtime Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said this week. <<<
Yea, We The People much prefer unelected liberal reporters setting the nation's agenda over our elected officials.
You're a reporter... not God.
Report the news goofball.
An avowed Democrat, Pincus praised the conservative-leaning Rupert Murdoch for building a media empire that promotes a certain point of view.
“Fox [News, a Murdoch property ] gains viewers over a presumably neutral CNN partly because people want opinions,” he said.
CNN is ANYTHING but neutral. Fox has commentators from both sides of the aisle.
But since Pincus is such a flaming liberal, he sees the center as right-wing.
"My Name Is Rachel Corrie," by contrast, is a scrappy, one-sided monologue consisting of nothing but the fugitive observations of a young woman who, like so many idealists, treated her emotions as facts. "I am disappointed," she declares, "that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world."
And that is what we see today in modern liberals. They are unable to discern their emotions from reality. In fact, they treat reality as unreal because it violates their emotions. And what is the typical reaction of liberals to the failure of their ideas? Why, they just need to do more of such, in hopes that if you do enough of it, it will actually succeed.
A sane person allows reality to interact with their opinions and feelings. Liberals see such as moral weakness.
Basically, at the end of the day, there is a Rachel Corrie hiding within every old, fat and dumpy liberal like Pincus. They all bemoan that the world is not the way they want it to be. And as a result, they all end up getting run over by bulldozers, either literally (in Corrie's case) or literally (in the MSM's case) because they simply refuse to acknowledge that the bulldozers are real, because they don't exist in their imaginary worlds.
I stopped reading the moment I saw this!
What's next? The Joseph Stalin Institute for Human Rights?
Actually if these little America-hating commies were setting the national agenda, we'd be a Stalinist type dictatorship in about 15 minutes.
“This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world."
Now that is one bizarre statement!
Bizzare to us. Not to them. In fact, that could well be the core liberal mantra.
Narcissists do not believe they are left, they are convinced they are in the exact center, the center of the Universe. They can't see otherwise. It's an interesting phenomenon because those of us on the right can clearly see where we are, where the center is, and where they are.
This is the definition of smug and elitist.
like dan RATher and his FAKE and inaccurate news reporting... er i mean libel.
media: The means by which information is distributed such as print, broadcast, CD-ROM, World Wide Web, and so forth.Pinko, you are supposed to be conveyors, not originators.
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