Howard Kurtz Admits Press Buried Murtha’s Ethics Problems Until After The Elections

http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | November 19, 2006 | Noel Sheppard

[hnj_00]

Tell us something we don't know!!!

[geezerwheezer]

McCain too was an unidicted co-conspirator in the "Keating Five" scandal involving a bunch of federal dollars used in bailing out a savings and loan group of banks. McCain accepted big bucks from the crooks and should have gone to jail, but squealed on them right before the hammer fell. He is still dirty from that, and the MSM is setting that fool up so they can destroy him if he gets the nomination. Some of McCain's supporters think most of us have very short memories, but I think McCain is in for a really rude awakening, and I hope it is soon. I do not like him, nor do I trust him either.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: the tsunami of downsizing of MSM employees. Stuck on stupid.

Spin and spike, you pay the price.

That earthquake was us! We have a free press today, again! You are no longer the gatekeepers of information.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

To be fair, without the MSM what would be our primary source of information?

But here’s the thing, IMO.

MSM individuals and cliques spike stories, cut the legs off stories, spin (lie about?) stories.

But thanks to today’s free press we can peek around those dummies to find the whole news and nothing but the news. More often than not we find truth in another MSM organization, perhaps on the other side of the globe.

We can put legs on a story. We can cut the legs off stories that are provable lies.

It’s not enough today to qualify for MSM employment simply because you are special and you "want to make a difference."

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I'm saying that Big Journalism isn't after "whoever's in power" nearly as much as it is after anyone who doesn't just talk but actually does things. Including the military and the police who provide security - notwithstanding that they are essential to the government, and journalists are known for favoring big government.

The x42 administration, for example, was great at posturing and criticizing - but it didn't actually do much of anything. Cutting and running out of Somalia, for instance.

The x42 administration did in fact take an amazing amount of criticism, it's true - but it had an amazing amount of sleaze to criticize. FBI Filegate alone was hundreds of felonies in the White House itself, more than enough to bring down any Republican administration a dozen times over. Yet x42 hadn't even begun and - trailing scandal the whole time - was reelected and survived an impeachment on counts on which he patently was guilty.

Don't tell me that the x42 administration couldn't catch a break from Big Journalism - any Republican administration would have been ridden out of town on a rail for the tenth part - nay, the hundredth part - of that administrations malfeasance.

[rlmorel]

[RandallFlagg]

Thanks for the ping.
"ENEMEDIA" added to keywords.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"Kurtz impresses me more and more.

Not me. I saw him on CNN when he was asked whether CNN had a liberal bias, and he said no.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[lowbridge]

Tell us something we don't know!!!

Did you know that Kerry served in Vietnam?