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Cokie Roberts: The dark side of media democratization [Free Republic dissed]
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| 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: ItsForTheChildren
the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals...
My, they think highly of themselves.
Individual media companies may have hiring requirements, but Journalism is one of the few "professions" that has no standard entry-level requirement, no licensing requirement, no level of educational attainment as a requirement.
If one looks at the "credentials" of some of the prominent names in journalims, one finds that many of them were college or high school or elementary school drop-outs.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:24:15 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: FlingWingFlyer
I read a liberal piece the other day that said Obamas father was an Arab. Does anyone REALLY know who the hell Obama is?
Libya's Qaddafi claims that Obama is Kenyan and Arab.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:27:08 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Jim Robinson
Ain't journalism grand?
The "he's an Arab" smear reached so widely that the New York Times devoted a front-page story to its origins.
Notice they fail to mention who is an "Arab"..
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:30:26 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: Old Professer
So She and steve (dont you just love the intimacy?) now hold the gatekeys to the mysteries of spin in a world suddenly brought flat again at light speed times keyboard angst
Hold the gatekeys:
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it, because most of the MSM news rooms (broadcast and print) are having to lay off so many people -- because fewer and fewer of the sheeple are watching/reading their tripe.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:33:06 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Jim Robinson
The article reflects elitism and snobbery built upon a big lie.
It defends the concept of "professional journalists" as if they are not propaganda-spewing leftists.
One newspaper editor made a speech the other day and proclaimed it was his newspaper's duty to get Obama elected.
That's "professional journalism" in late 2008.
Thank God for the Internet and talk radio.
To: ccmay
In very few places can we find arrogance and ignorance so finely mixed as to defy separation.
The Steve and Cokie Show has amnesia but I recall the “media mediation” in the Alar apple fraud, The Audi automobiles that accelerated on their own as 60 Minutes had an air compressor attached to the transmission, The Great Global Cooling That Wasn't, just to net a few rotten fish from the mainstream.
I would call it A Hall of Shame but the “well-trained professionals” have none.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:43:45 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Nateman
Sorry Cokie but I'm done with watching channel one
Over the years in various areas where I have lived, the local broadcast stations (NBC, CBS, ABC) have put the evening news on at different times, usually 5 or 5:30.
I sometimes would watch one network at 5 and turn to another at 5:30.
I began to notice a pattern:
Many nights, the networks ran exactly the same set of stories, just slightly varying the order. Some of those stories were almost word-for-word on both news casts.
I was amazed (sarcasm) that, out of the whole wide world, night after night, those 3 networks could only find almost exactly the same stories to run. [The local news had more variety than the national news did.] That was over 20 years ago. I realized they were all the same, just different letters for identification purposes.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:48:22 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Tublecane
How many articles are based purely on speculation?
On a slow news day, they just commission a poll, with probative questions slanted toward a desired result.
Then, they headline the poll and its result as major news.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:56:33 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Jim Robinson
Cokie was the one who said on ABC, “based on the tourists I see, there is a definite mirror shortage in America”. How dare average citizens dress comfortably to view Cokie’s town?
Blighted elite bitch.
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posted on
10/19/2008 3:59:08 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: ccmay
"Mediation" is a leftist code word they use to promote pacifism.
To: ItsForTheChildren
"Mediation" is just a leftist code word they use to promote pacifism.
To: Jim Robinson; 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; ...
Pinging the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch list. Y’all need to see this one.
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posted on
10/19/2008 4:06:59 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: count-your-change
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posted on
10/19/2008 4:18:53 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Jim Robinson
...We the people...!!!!!!!
There is no dark side of "Freedom of Speech".
To: Jim Robinson; All
Cokie Roberts = Media Whore.
Just feed her whatever she wants to know. She'll do whatever you want in return.
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posted on
10/19/2008 4:36:52 AM PDT
by
60Gunner
(ALL bleeding stops... eventually.)
To: Jim Robinson
nice rebuttal
btw, your link redirects to something else, can’t find the original article
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posted on
10/19/2008 4:46:09 AM PDT
by
fnord
(If gun owners, pot smokers, and poker players start a political party, they'd never lose an election)
To: Jim Robinson
"Since the Internet will only expand as a source of information, a key question facing democracy is this: How can the Web's enormous advantages be reconciled with a greater sense of accountability?"
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . .It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity,
and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam Smith
Thus, we the people desperately need to pool our skepticism. And when we found FreeRepublic.com, we knew we had found the way to do it.
Thanks, Jim!
To: Jim Robinson
...without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish...Oh, and they do. But what does that say about the current crop of "professionals"? Are they poorly trained, or is it that they are just unprofessional?
The reason to ask is that we can see BS from the cheapseats. We have a broader knowledge base in aggregate than any network. And we can freely rely on people whose professionalism in fields other than journalism demands that they get the facts straight. Via forums like this one, we are interconnected.
Pity that all those "professionals" are so busy sucking up to their Socialist overlords they have wasted fine opportunities for Pulitzer Prizes uncovering the dirt on the very ones they protect.
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posted on
10/19/2008 5:04:50 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: ccmay
Dan Rather is a good point. We can even go back to Walter C. falsely stating that the communist NVA and their VC allies won TET 68. There is no doubt our nation’s media is bought and paid for, and; these clowns were some of the most liberal college sudents many years ago. There is no doubt in my mind that a conservative professor applying for a job at the majority of our colleges would not be hired.
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posted on
10/19/2008 5:08:13 AM PDT
by
Lumper20
To: Jim Robinson
Yes, Cokie, I see your point. We private citizens should just sit down and shut up and let the truth telling professionals of the left stream media decide what's fit to print.
By the way, Free Republic is not a newspaper. We did not write the story in question, nor did we "pick it up," or vouch for its accuracy. We are a noncommercial discussion forum open to the general public. Apparently, the story in question was a press release that a member of the general public posted to FR in 1994 for discussion purposes. And it languished in the backwater archives of FR until some dimwitted, but sharp-eyed left stream reporter "discovered" it via google. Doubt it had any influence on the raging Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim rumor whatsoever.
However, as it turns out, our young Barak Hussein really was born to a Muslim and raised in his early years as a Muslim. It's in all the papers. Must be true.
BAH! HA HA HA HA!!!
That is going to leave a mark on her psyche!
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posted on
10/19/2008 5:47:38 AM PDT
by
Islander7
(This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
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