[libstripper]

Just as good as Rathergate and the coverup of the Sewiftvets' entirely accurate charges. The DBM takes it here even worse than Edwards.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is Rutten a reporter at the LAT ?

[TomGuy]

he certainly ratified an end to the era in which traditional media set the agenda for national political journalism.

No he hasn't.

It was the National Enquirer that brought the Clinton affair to the public. Drudge may have had it online, but the Interenet was still new and had comparatively few users. It was the NE with 11 million paid circulation and front page racks at nearly every grocery and convenience story that brought the Clinton affair to the public. The old media had sat on it, had known about it, but had refused to report on it. The NE forced it into the pubic and that forced the old media to being reporting on it.

The NE has done the same with the Edwards affair. You can bet the old media knew (or at least highly suspected) Edwards had extra-curricular things going on. They just chose not to report it.

[Recall nearly a year ago the stories that the LA Times was sitting on 'a sex scandal' involving 'one of the major candidates'? Was this it, or is there another scandal out there waiting to hit? Only the NE knows for sure. lol]

[csmusaret]

The Enquirer is “new” media?

[kellynla]

“With that admission, the illusion that traditional print and broadcast news organizations can establish the limits of acceptable political journalism joined the passenger pigeon on the roster of extinct Americana.”

Great piece!

And in the...Gasp!...Los Angeles Times, no less! LOL

Thanks for posting it!

[dr_who]

Yep, the NYT, WashPo, Knight Ridder, AP, etc make the National Enquirer look like a respectable news publication. Remember the mainstream coverage of the Gennifer Flowers episode?

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the..................HA ha!!!

[mewzilla]

The eighth paragraph of the column says it all.

[ExTexasRedhead]

The Muslim Messiah’s dirty laundry including corruption needs to be exposed next.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"Hey! Where's our 'Fairness Doctrine'?" cry the MSM employees.

"We could squash a story like swatting a fly in the good old days. It's not fair! Everything today is so.. so divisive. It's bad for our democracy."

[The_Victor]

..., reporting that turns out to be largely correct, ...

Reporting that turned out to be completely correct. They still can't give full credit.

[Erik Latranyi]

National Enquirier:

Gennifer Flowers
Paula Jones
Monica Lewinsky
Jesse Jackson
John Edwards

MSM:

(crickets)

[Erik Latranyi]

Let us not forget that MSNBC broke into regular programming to report the allegation that John McCain had an affair with a campaign worker even though the evidence was flawed and turned out to be false.

Bias, incompetence and the abandonment of journalistic integrity are the norm for today’s MSM.

[Uncledave]

pinging the vultures

[IronJack]

Thank you, O steadfast Guardians of Truth. Thank you for your endless, selfless service in the employ of the manipulators and social engineers who would recreate the world after their own image. Thank you for betraying the high ideals that your craft could embody, in favor of paltry, elitist visions unworthy of a minor estate.

Die a well-deserved death, you has-beens. No more are you the media of record.

[goldstategop]

Tim Rutten hasn't said anything we haven't known for a long time. The MSM allowed its bias to get in the way of a good story. They knew but they didn't want to let the public know and it wasn't out of respect for Edwards' wife.

"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

[Texas Songwriter]

Every comment of excoriation ever made on Free Republic regarding the MSM has been verified from the inside in this piece. I wonder if the MSM is going to punish Mr.Edwards by doing some truthful, indepth reporting now that he has crapped in their punch bowl, on the 50 yard line, at the Superbowl, and then said to them,.."Yea, what of it." He is still lying to the MSM and they are just gossiping about it, not reporting on it. Why are we not seeing an army of journalists camped out in the front yard of Mr.Edwards. Edwards is hunkered down and the feckless, soulless, antiAmerican MSM is hunkered down waiting for their own personal Katrina passes, and they are sitting in a geological lowland, in a van, beneath the bridge, down by the river.

They are finished. They were given a place of prominence in the Constitution and went the way of the courts in the land. The resolved to forsake their august position in the Constitution for temporal, political perceived gains, and now their heads are on a pike and their offspring are being ravaged by people with electronic pitchforks. The people will have to do this themselves. They cannot rely on honesty of the MSM. They have devolved, and that gene no longer resides in the MSM genetic makeup. They have lost entire honesty chromosomes in a frenetic attempt swim through the fermented waters of political correctness. They lie, when the truth fits, and then tell the people they are too unsophistocated to understand "nuances of the issue". Free Republic has become the solar flare which disrupts their lies and sophistry. People. Just reasonable people, who the MSM think are to be politically euthenized by their barrels of ink. Well, here we are and don't give a damn about their barrels of ink. We have tens of thousands of computers, Mr. Robinson, and the desire to know the truth. We will not be denied by the New York Times, LA TImes, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or any other organization of liars who have now been proved to be just that,...then have the nutsac, like Mr.Schuster of MSNBC, to interview the Enquirer representative and show palpable disrespect, when it is he who refused the truth, time and time again.

The revelations are near completion. Dan Rather was just the first of their generals to fall. The war continued and now, like a MOAB detonated by one of their own, Edwards has killed the rest of them. It is a new day dawning. I hope we take back our country.

[PGalt]

Great FReeper comments BUMP! LOL!