Posted on 07/13/2008 1:00:55 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
At long last, has the Associated Press lost all sense of decency?
The AP's story (saved here for future reference in case the wire service is embarrassed into revising it; you might consider saving it too as Exhibit A on how far over the cliff the dinosaur media has driven itself) by Douglass K. Daniel, with Jennifer Loven contributing (I might have known), gets in at least three cheap, fundamentally untrue, and totally uncalled-for shots at Tony Snow, who died earlier this morning.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
"Oh yeah? Well when bush dies, I already have my smear news piece ready. I'll have it published in 5 minutes!"
............... That was sarcasm.
These people deserve to go out of business.
Even TMZ (of all people) had the DECENCY to put out the ff:
Classless AP Takes Cheap Shots at Just-Passed Snow
Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 53.
A written statement from President Bush stated, “Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend — America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character.”
Snow died at 2 a.m. Saturday in Washington, D.C.
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Are you listening AP? TMZ (the so-called “classless” paparazzi news service) showed some class yet you don;t.
Don’t make up your own headline. This is a dupe article.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I read the article. Didn’t seem like a big deal. Not worth getting your pants in a knot.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He wasn't one of them - the liberal media elite. I guess that's why he annoyed them to no end - Tony Snow didn't fit their cartoonish caricature of the boorish, overbearing, stuffy conservative. He was a credit to our movement, thoughtful, good natured, with a marvelous sense of humor and an all around gentleman. The kind of person people call in Yiddish a mensch. The MSM isn't fit to shine Snow's shoes.
True. But my own analysis of the issue is that "the media" is far from the best label for that bunch. First because it isn't specific to journalism, which is the true culprit, and second because "media" is a plural noun and Big Journalism is a singular entity. Specifically, Big Journalism actually consists of the Associated Press and the familiar (New York Times et al) names which are in effect fronts for the AP. The AP was declared a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1945.A key to understanding Big Journalism is to reflect that at the time of the founding of the Republic, Hamilton and Jefferson openly sponsored competing newspapers for the purpose of waging their partisan battles with each other - and that did not make those particular newspapers unique. Newspapers were expressions of the opinions of their printers, and understood as such. Prior to the advent of the telegraph and the AP, they didn't even have sources which you in principle could not also have, and therefore the "news" in a newspaper was not necessarily new to all of its readers. That fact made it unnecessary to print that newspaper daily, and most newspapers were weekly and some had no deadline at all.
From that frame of reference we see that the telegraph and the AP created modern journalism, and that modern journalism as the business of telling you the latest news before anyone else does is a different animal entirely than what the framers of the Constitution thought of as "the press." Not that journalism doesn't deserve constitutional protection - but it doesn't deserve unconstitutional protection (such as "shield laws" or credit for "broadcasting in the public intererst" for broadcasting news), either. There is no denying the value of timely propagation of knowledge of such events as the start or the end of a war. But in the absence of such events to report (which is the case on most days) journalism's emphasis on the rapid dissemination of "news" is superficial. And that is why most of the time journalism behaves as a bunch of idle hands which naturally tend to do the Devil's work.
I thank NewBusters for bringing this to our attention. Douglass K. Daniel and Jennifer Loven are pathetic pukes.
Tony snow always had a command of the facts... That's what made Daniel and Loven and and every other White House reporter scared of him. He didn't take any of their crap and corrected them when they asked biased questions aimed at creating news rather than obtaining facts, which is something most of them have no interest in, at all.
BTTT
I LOVED watching Snow at the Whitehouse. He would zing back at those sissys asking their silly questions and just whack them back into place and with a smile on his face and just as cool as a cucumber the whole time. God, I wish there was another like him. Can you imagine what might have been?
It should serve notice on those conservatives who want to "play nice" with the liberal media.
Lost???
Doesn’t that mean they had to have it at one point?
Let’s see. AP is the main news wholesaler to the big newspapers. Those papers are tanking for want of subscribers, ad sales, and sufficient space to print all their retractions/corrections. If you aren’t an AP reporter, you might have the intelligence to see the connection.
I pretty much stuck to the coverage of Snow on Fox much of the day - and the evening programming dedicated in particular to his memory.
Fox picked up on that slur the AP could not resist setting up - being the jackasses they are - and if nothing else - did them no good and much harm by exposing them for their ignorance.
This nation would be far wealthier in mind and spirit were the AP disbarred from operation because they are devoted to the overthrow of the nation itself.
Very few other corporations would be allowed to exist under the conditions AP allows itself to function.
That they have a license to operate here is a travesty.
Exactly!
What you wrote!
AP Media is like School in the Summer no class.
LOL! Snow could have just made sh*t up, like they do at AP. That's why comrades like Daniels and Loven NEVER seem to be short of "facts".
**snicker**
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