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Reporter(Pincus): Media should help set national agenda
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^
| October 21, 2006
| BY HEATHER WECSLER
Posted on 10/21/2006 5:47:27 AM PDT by johnny7
In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the presss 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mediabias
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Writhing in the tar pit...
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:47:28 AM PDT
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
"initiated by government officials and their critics"
Walt, don't the media head the "critics"?
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:49:19 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: johnny7
Dear Walter
NO ONE and I mean NO ONE elected you to set the agenda....report the damn news and forget the agenda setting.
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:49:56 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: johnny7
Just report the NEWS and STFU!!
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:50:03 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: johnny7
Wow. These people are as self absorbed as they are in Hollywood.
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To: johnny7
In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the presss traditional role in helping to set the national agenda Heather has to be bordering on insanity to write such a sentence. Me thinks she's only pissed because the Bush administration won't cow-tow to liberal "advice".
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:55:30 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(If it's good and decent, you can be sure the Democrat Party leaders are against it.)
To: johnny7
Fox [News, a Murdoch property ] gains viewers over a presumably neutral CNN partly because people want opinions, he said. Hahahaha!!!
What's the real source for this satire? The Onion? Iowahawk?
To: johnny7
What in the heck is he trying to say anyway?
They really live in a world of their imaginations, don't they? I think they really believe the crap they spew. Isn't that a description of sociopaths?
To: SusaninOhio
To: johnny7
Sometimes it makes you wonder if we can survive fools like this..............
*Sigh*
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posted on
10/21/2006 5:59:28 AM PDT
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: johnny7
Apparently he hasn't been watching the CNN mini series, "War on the Middle Class". They've been playing it up big time this week.
To: Dog
Think maybe he was in the room when McCain and Feingold devised their campaign finance reform agenda? This election sure had demonstrated the media orchestration of what issues are covered.
To: libertylover
In the name of objectivity, too many media outlets have abdicated the presss traditional role in helping to set the national agenda
Would love to see the MSN advertise this. Imagine the slogan: We are not here to report the news, we are here to set the national agenda!
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:02:55 AM PDT
by
FMBass
(“Now that I’m sober I watch a lot of news” – Garofalo: From “Treason” by Coulter)
To: johnny7
They can't even run a newspaper sucessfully, and they want to run the country? (I know, I know, they are liberals.)
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:05:25 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Demonrats vote on Nov. 8th. Pass it on.)
To: libertylover
Heather has to be bordering on insanity to write such a sentence. She's quoting Walter Pincus's comments.
Pincus coined the thought. Of course, he delivered it in the middle of a Clintonista institution -- yeah, that's detached!
To: Bigh4u2
Walter Pincus said this week. I would argue the electronic and print media have more power than they did 50 years ago ---
STFU Walter.
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:10:07 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
( Either hold your nose a little on Election Day ......... or grab your ankles for the next years)
To: Dog
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:10:11 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
("I don't have time to be fingerpointing." ---President George W. Bush)
To: Dog
"NO ONE and I mean NO ONE elected you to set the agenda....report the damn news and forget the agenda setting."
I agree with your statement but also think that the media, especially the NY Slimes, WA ComPost, ABC,NBC,cBS, CNN, MSNBC have trying to do precisely that - - they've been trying to set the agenda so to speak since Bush took office, especially the last couple of years, and most especially this year wrt the elections - JMO.
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:10:19 AM PDT
by
Seattle Conservative
(God Bless and protect our troops and their CIC)
To: Just mythoughts
If you watch CNN... Bob Woodward's always on... and always setting the agenda. Pincus himself helped 'set-the-agenda' in the Plame/Wilson scam... so did cBS in RATher/Mapes.
The only agenda these traitors desperately need... involves a firing squad.
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posted on
10/21/2006 6:14:34 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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