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Cokie Roberts: The dark side of media democratization [Free Republic dissed]
metrowestdailynews ^ | Oct 19, 2008 | By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts

Posted on 10/18/2008 11:49:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Old Professer

Very poetic. And true.


21 posted on 10/19/2008 12:10:18 AM PDT by berdie
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To: Jim Robinson

Hey Cokie and Steve! Where’s your License????????


22 posted on 10/19/2008 12:10:29 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: Jim Robinson
without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.

Ha ha ha. Who is "Cokie" Roberts?
23 posted on 10/19/2008 12:12:18 AM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: Jim Robinson
The media scum are complaining because they don't have complete control of what gets out to the public. They're incensed about this because according to their agenda, they and they alone should be the ones shaping public opinion.

Reading Cokie's incredibly arrogant and clueless remarks just strengthens my resolve to do my small part in overriding the media's BS whenever the opportunity arises.

Thank goodness for sites like FR where there are so many members knowledgeable in a wide variety of subject matter who can cut through the unmitigated trash we are fed by the major news outlets day in and day out.

24 posted on 10/19/2008 12:13:24 AM PDT by Allegra (NO giving up, NO quitting, NO doom and gloom, NO drama queens...Keep up the faith)
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To: Windcatcher

And what scares me, is if Barry is elected with a full court of legislators, the good ole Fairness Doctrine will shut things down.


25 posted on 10/19/2008 12:13:40 AM PDT by berdie
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Without "media mediation," without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.


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26 posted on 10/19/2008 12:14:08 AM PDT by martin_fierro (I Am Joe)
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To: Jim Robinson

Cokie, you ignorant slut.


27 posted on 10/19/2008 12:14:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Jim Robinson
From the 2004 post...........

"Fiction: Obama was given an 'African' name. Fact: Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion. I am a strong supporter of the Muslim community, and I believe Muslims have been scapegoated. Obama has a great opportunity to be forthright. Instead, he has treated his Muslim heritage as a dark secret. His grandfather was named 'Hussein.' That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name. Hussein was a devout Muslim and named his son, Barack Senior, 'Baraka.' Baraka is an Arabic word meaning 'blessed.' Baraka comes out of the Koran and Arabic, not Africa.

28 posted on 10/19/2008 12:15:15 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Jim Robinson
I think Cokie probably knows Dan Rather well. He can tell her how we operate. We may get some rumors here, but we always get to the bottom of all of it.

"It's scary how much power they do have. They can take down someone single-handedly and I don't think Americans are aware of that." - that dixie chick

Yes, we got it going on.

29 posted on 10/19/2008 12:15:21 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: Jim Robinson
But there's also a dark side to this horizontal system. Without "media mediation," without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.

10 million fact checkers cannot uncover the fact that "well -trained professionals" distort the news by falsely manipulating the selection process.

A few score fact checkers can however expose lies of omission as well as commission.

A properly trained professional need never actually lie, like Dan Rather, to commit his falsehoods. There is a very sinister side to the top-down vertical system.


30 posted on 10/19/2008 12:16:14 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Jim Robinson
Cokie Roberts is a fitting poster girl for the smugly self-important and factually irresponsible side of media monopolization.
31 posted on 10/19/2008 12:16:21 AM PDT by mojito
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Cokie, you ignorant slut."

More like the Communist version of Tokyo Rose. In 1942 she would have a red armband with a swirly-thingly on it and would be telling our troops how great National Socialism was.
32 posted on 10/19/2008 12:16:25 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama's propaganda is being fashioned by COMMUNISTS. That's enough for any American to stop him!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Hey, Cokie, when you start reporting news as a journalist, rather than an arm of the DNC, perhaps we may pay attention again. Until then, you know what you can kiss.


33 posted on 10/19/2008 12:18:02 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of .HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: Jim Robinson

Cokie Roberts, member of the “narrative is right but the facts were wrong” crowd lecturing Free Republic on accountability????

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Who’d a thunk it that Cokie was such a joker!


34 posted on 10/19/2008 12:18:05 AM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: Jim Robinson

Do you have a link to the original?


35 posted on 10/19/2008 12:21:12 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Jim Robinson

36 posted on 10/19/2008 12:22:36 AM PDT by nralife (www.gunbanobama.com)
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To: Jim Robinson
But there's also a dark side to this horizontal system. Without "media mediation," without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.

So I, a poor American slob out here in flyover country, cannot read or hear or see a 'raw' news story and figure it out myself--it's got to go threw the 'blender' of journalistic review and editing before I can truly understand a story?? Journalism=baby food?? Sorry, Cokie, the days of your ilk dumbing down/modifying news stories to YOUR qualifications is over-done-ended-kaput. FR is the future of journalism, welcome to the 21st century!! We don't need no steenking middle-man telling us what happened when we can determine it ourselves! *big raspberry at Cokie*
37 posted on 10/19/2008 12:23:48 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative voting for the McCain/Palin ticket now!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
How can the Web's enormous advantages be reconciled with a greater sense of accountability?"

"Accountability"? Like when Dan Rather and CBS were held "accountable" by "the Web" for trying to pass off a forged memorandum in a brazen attempt to fix a national election? That kind of "accountability", Cokie?

Man, some people just don't know when they're washed up and should simply go away. These "mainstream" Democrat news mice all make me throw up in my mouth a little.

38 posted on 10/19/2008 12:24:34 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: woofie
Columnist Says Barack Obama 'Lied To The American People;' Asks Publisher to Withdraw Obama's Book
39 posted on 10/19/2008 12:24:42 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Jim Robinson
they were picked up by the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com "and spread steadily as others elaborated on its claims over the years in e-mail messages, Web sites, and books

Good Job Jim

40 posted on 10/19/2008 12:25:00 AM PDT by eyedigress ( My first 4 wheeler was on the rocks in Fairbanks)
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