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Victor Davis Hanson: The End of Journalism [the rise of advocacy journalism]
NRO ^ | October 31, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/31/2008 5:11:53 AM PDT by Tolik

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To: Tolik

bttt.


41 posted on 10/31/2008 7:03:51 AM PDT by fullchroma
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To: Tolik
the Olympian calm of Obama

The calm of the sociopath, I fear.

42 posted on 10/31/2008 7:06:14 AM PDT by ichabod1 (You won't know communism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: nathanbedford

I think there is more of an attitude among the media elite that they have made, as in created, the Messiah and they can influence (control) all he does in the future. They are owed.


43 posted on 10/31/2008 7:09:09 AM PDT by swift15 (Not enabling the grievance industry or advancing world socialism.)
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To: Alkhin

You may be right, but I think most of it is because he is “one of them”, and he’s half black to boot. To say he is “The One” to them is not an exaggeration. They see him as a symbol, but soon they may find his boot in their fat bottom.


44 posted on 10/31/2008 7:10:25 AM PDT by ichabod1 (You won't know communism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: BigLittle
Jeez, a little warning?

I can't stand to look at that smug mug, with those soulless, evil eyes.

45 posted on 10/31/2008 7:11:13 AM PDT by Malacoda (CO(NH2)2 on OBAMA.)
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To: nina0113

I believe that if this miscreant is elected, we need to boycott the American economy in as many ways as we can. By that I mean STOP SPENDING. Don’t spend on anything we can avoid and bring this economy crashing down. Yes, boycott ourselves.


46 posted on 10/31/2008 7:12:08 AM PDT by ichabod1 (You won't know communism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: BILL_C
Journalism actually ended 45 years ago when the press bought into the lone assassin lie in the assassination of John Kennedy.

The conspiracy theories were first put forward by leftists to deflect the public's attention from the fact that the shooter was a leftist. Since then the media has promoted the theme that the killing of Kennedy was somehow the whole nation's fault, the result of a collective soul sickness -- rather than the fault of a lone doctrinaire Marxist.

Don't let yourself be a dupe of the left.

47 posted on 10/31/2008 7:12:40 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ichabod1
"The calm of the sociopath, I fear."

Maybe so, but I see him as more of a calm, calculating fascist.

Standard commie procedure..recruit someone who can lie to the people with angelic expression and "...offer them all kinds of goodies...never mind that they will never receive them"...Yuri Bezmenov


48 posted on 10/31/2008 7:15:16 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: GOPJ
Good point. That is called corruption and is no better than what occurs in some third world banana republic. It may ultimately lead to our demise.
49 posted on 10/31/2008 7:21:19 AM PDT by Obadiah (Vote for Obama so he can spread your wealth!)
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To: BILL_C
Journalism actually ended 45 years ago...

Actually, it was fatally infected long before that. Ever hear of Walter Duranty? He won a Pulitzer for covering up the Ukrainian starvation massacre, a Pulitzer which still stands today.

Since we now know that there was a conspiracy that was led by Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,

"We" don't know any such thing. What I know is that we now live in a world where cinema has displaced real life experience as a measure of events.

Two things to consider: 1) Real life differs considerably from the movies in that plots such as you imagine are hard to construct, harder to execute without a major hitch, and infinitely harder to conceal; and 2) LHO would never be included in one anyway -- definitely not a team player.

...the insiders have known that if the American public will accept the ridiculous conclusions given by the Warren Commission....

They knew that years before, as well, as they had been feeding us a line of malarkey about Mao and then Castro without any negative consequence to themselves.

50 posted on 10/31/2008 7:24:04 AM PDT by thulldud (All your rumor are mong to us.)
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To: GOPJ

I’d like to follow Obama’s money, but I suspect we’ll never get to. So we’ll never know soros who is funding him soros or why.


51 posted on 10/31/2008 7:32:52 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

Bingo.

...and thats one of the scariest thoughts.


52 posted on 10/31/2008 7:38:33 AM PDT by Sweetwood
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To: Tolik

The entire notion many hold that an unbiased media ever existed, could exist or should exist is flawed. In many ways, I hold more respect for Air America and leftwing rags than the MSM or anyone else that hides behind a lie of impartiality. They make no bones over who they are and what their editorial direction is.

BTW, when someone starts waxing about “journalistic integrity”, for some reason I remember Bill Clinton and Walter Cronkite enjoying a sunny day yachting. Does anyone believe he regrets never having vacationing with President Reagan?


53 posted on 10/31/2008 7:41:28 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Tolik

The Communists said they couldn’t take America by force, so they would do it by gradual infiltration of our institutions with the more acceptable socialist/humanist approach. They have pretty much had control of media and education for some time now. Obama is plucked out of nowhwere to be their new leader. The socialist media is doing all it can to elect him.


54 posted on 10/31/2008 7:46:12 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (If the election were today, Obama would win big.........in Europe.)
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To: Earthdweller

What happened to the Odinga story? That’s one that HAS video footage. Does anyone that has cable see this get coverage? Anybody?


55 posted on 10/31/2008 7:47:28 AM PDT by madameguinot ( Experience matters only when valid conclusions can be drawn. -Fredrick the Great)
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To: Tolik

56 posted on 10/31/2008 7:51:54 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: madameguinot
It's been buried. It was either a fabricated plant or someone thinks it will hurt foreign relations or they are saving it for a special coming out party...who knows.I'm sure Fox knows about it.
57 posted on 10/31/2008 7:53:06 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: A_perfect_lady
I’d like to follow Obama’s money,

He'll cover his tracks for now - and if elected he'll make it impossible to follow the money...

58 posted on 10/31/2008 7:56:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Ayers book: "Prairie Fire" was dedicated cop killers and Sirhan Sirhan -( RFK' assassin.))
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To: Tolik

The case for a biased media can be traced back to the academy, back to post modern thought that believes there is no objectivity and that everything is political. With that reassurance the media can excuse itself from any standards or guidelines and wage a collective war against the right.


59 posted on 10/31/2008 8:01:20 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Tolik
The media has succeeded in shielding Barack Obama from journalistic scrutiny. It thereby irrevocably destroyed its own reputation and forfeited the trust that generations of others had so carefully acquired. And it will never again be trusted to offer candid and nonpartisan coverage of presidential candidates.

Which, when combined with the prosecutorial power of an Obama administration and the zeal of the Obot Brownshirts to silence dissent, means that we are the most propagandized and controlled population since 1930's Germany or 1950's USSR.

60 posted on 10/31/2008 8:36:58 AM PDT by spodefly (Recycling the same posts in multiple threads for seven years!)
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