Posted on 12/22/2007 3:13:48 PM PST by Zakeet
THE Second Amendment provides a good test of the American politician. If a candidate is not going to trust the people with guns, why should we trust said candidate with the government?
The equivalent test for journalists will be taken next month as the press marks the 10th anniversary of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky story.
How a newspaper or columnist describes this event tells a lot about how that newspaper or columnist views the audience.
I am not talking about whether it is described as presidential perjury or a sex scandal. That is a right-left spin thing that now has little relevance.
I mean how the story was broken - by Matt Drudge through his drudgereport.com.
The story did not break in "Newsweek," even though its reporter, Michael Isikoff, had the goods. His editors sat on his story.
Whoever shopped the story to Isikoff, then shopped it to Drudge, who posted it online. This made the Internet buzz, as people debated the subject in AOL chat rooms.
The Washington Post broke the story in the print media on Jan. 21, 1998.
On Jan. 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton wagged his finger and told a press conference: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Thus began one of the most entertaining years in American politics.
The lasting effect is what the scandal (readers may choose the adjective) did to the American press corps.
Overnight, a then-31-year-old former gift-shop clerk at CBS became the most important man in American journalism.
His Internet site averaged 85,000 unique visitors a day in 1997.
On Monday, 18.3 million people visited his site. That is more than all the people who watched ABC, CBS and NBC news combined that night.
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it'll never happen; unless the interviewer, wants to take a short evening walk in Ft. Marcy Park....what "($hrillary: we don't need no) freedom of the press".
“Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you.”
Now, if you want a hugh dose of good old fashioned fiction, try the foreign money-funded Clinton Massage Parlor/Library. It is unbelievable how they take facts and squeeze them until they no longer exist, turning all potential negatives into hoorays for the Clintons. And the library is the place where all info re Hitlery is in a permanent lock box, unavailable to the voters. This in spite of the "open government" that she pretends she will establish once elected. GAG! These people are demented!
And she wasn't that bad looking during her early years
There were some freepers who were mystified as to why Clinton had an affair with Monica when there were certainly some better-looking women who he might have bedded
My only thought is that one average-looking woman who is willing to make an effort at making you happy has more worth than 10 beautiful-but-self-absorbed ice maidens who are not willing to make an effort
skinkinthegrass, quit hitting the d*mn post button already. :-)
sorry, for the x posts, cr@ppy ISP. :/
Here's the real test that this author fails to realize: "The story did not break in "Newsweek," even though its reporter, Michael Isikoff, had the goods. His editors sat on his story."
Does the newspaper or columnist view the loss of sitting on a story as a good or bad thing?
-PJ
:)... the MSM simply can not hide their bias anymore!... and that is good.
“Thats more “experience” than Hillary has.”
Speaking of experience, a vote for Monica would be better than a vote for Hillary. Monica has had more experience and time spent in the Oval Office taking care of presidential business than Hillary has!
Me, too.
people debated the subject in AOL chat rooms.
Was it the AOL chat rooms that made the story? I remember I was following Drudge for some. I took a peak at Drudge just before going to bed on a Saturday night, and he had the siren up with some teaser text. I watched it develop over the weekend, and mentioned to my allergist Monday morning that a big story was going to break. Rush then turned it into a story too big for the Drive-by Media to ignore.
Good times.
I love Drudge. He has changed the face of journalism himself.
Hope he stays around for a long time.
I was actually looking at CNN.com at work and one of the user comments from the story pointed me to the Drudge Report. The Drudge Report has been my first stop for news ever since!
I heard about Drudge on Rush’s show.
Totally. Me too.
That he had no sex life with his "wife" is no excuse.
That he is incapable of normal sexual relations is revealing, but not surprising, given his history.
I feel sorry for Ms. Lewinsky. She was taken advantage of, used and misused, and cast aside by a worthless pile that is Bill Clinton.
And now his "wife" is running for president on this jagoff's record?
jeez
FR “moment-of-silence” bookmark
I lurked on FR from 1998-2001 and finally registered after 9/11. Changed names last summer, but did not do it the right way, so I lost my old identity!
psst. wakeup you fell asleep on the posting button ;-)
Anyone ever notice that Clinton’s women all had the same physical characteristics? The pudginess, the 80s hair-dos, that type of facial features, the homeliness of it all. It’s just eerie, like looking at the women the FBI profiles on those crime shows or something.
Same here. Was introduced to Drudge & FR (don't remember the order, but close together - too long ago :) in '98. I attended the March for Justice in October of '98 on the mall in DC (Drudge was there, among many others), the House Manager's rally in May of '99 (also in DC - met Jim Robinson), and have been an avid FR reader, occasional poster, ever since. Those were the days :)
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