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NBC's Gregory: Knowledge of Journalist Votes Would Compromise Reporting
Business & Media Institute ^ | June 13, 2008 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 06/13/2008 7:54:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

“Why shouldn’t people know the person who is reporting on [President George W.] Bush, say – didn’t like Bush?” Telushkin asked.

Gregory responded by saying that knowledge, not the journalist’s ideology, would “slant their coverage” and people should be assured journalists abide by governing principles, even if they’re not explicitly stated.

...Bill Clinton was in attendance and was photographed with Wright. However, Gregory declined to use it.

“I stopped,” Gregory said. “I had just come from my study session and said, ‘No, that would be oppressive to remind Bill Clinton of his past on my program. And so, I elected not to play that sound byte because I wanted to, you know, try to take a little high ground.”

According to Jewish Law, it is a sin discredit or say negative thing about a person, even if they are true, a sin called lashon ha-ra. Gregory said using that for his show would have compromised those religious and moral guidelines.

Gregory also discussed the rise of other competing media. He told the audience the expansion of the new media – talk radio, 24-hour cable news channels and the Internet – had been bad for society.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessandmedia.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: gregory; propagandawingofdnc
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

and he violated the hin-bin-shin or whatever in the same sentence.


21 posted on 06/13/2008 8:34:46 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (DemocRATS....the party of Slavery, Segregation, Secularism, and Sedition)
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To: Doc Savage
Everyone of these dimwit telepromter readers should have to announce their party affiliation and voting record everytime they go on TV.

Actually, they do, and they do so exactly in the same way that Rush does, or Mark Levin does, to use your examples. Every time they speak, every time they report, they betray their allegiances. Everyone does; it's only human---Robert Heinlein's professional witnesses were only fiction creations, after all.

The real way the mainstream media buffaloed America is by convincing them---i.e., us---that they were objective in the first place. When we bought into this fantasy, the die was cast.


22 posted on 06/13/2008 8:35:17 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“A lie is not a lie until you get caught.”


23 posted on 06/13/2008 8:35:54 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Berlin_Freeper

But doesn’t the public have the right to know? What hypocritical BS!


24 posted on 06/13/2008 8:37:54 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
He noted that people are clinging to their own “point-of-view” instead of exploring for others.

“So many people among us are seeking out their point-of-view, they’re not seeking out different points-of-view,” Gregory said. “They’re seeking out their own point-of-view and that leads to more judgment.”

What an asshole...

25 posted on 06/13/2008 8:39:05 AM PDT by johnny7 (Don't mess with my tag-lines!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
“That's David Gregory reporting from Pakistan.

Clearly drunk.”

- Imus

26 posted on 06/13/2008 8:42:19 AM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: johnny7
"What an asshole..."

Now...Now....THAT's JUDGEMENTAL!

27 posted on 06/13/2008 9:13:14 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Liberals learning curves are pretty flat,)
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To: Oldpuppymax
How these people voted??? You mean, as if we didn’t already know???

The amazing part is that they think "we" don't know!

28 posted on 06/13/2008 11:14:59 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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