Unamplified, Beck's Voice Still Carries (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

Washington Post ^ | September 14, 2009 | Howard Kurtz

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It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job.

But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no longer be necessary.

By the time White House environmental adviser Van Jones resigned over Labor Day weekend, the New York Times had not run a single story. Neither had USA Today, which also didn't cover the resignation. The Washington Post had done one piece, on the day before he quit. The Los Angeles Times had carried a short article the previous week questioning Glenn Beck's assault on the White House aide. There had been nothing on the network newscasts.

"Where is the press on this?" Beck asked in late August during one of several rants against Jones. But it turned out the Fox News host didn't need the big news organizations to claim his scalp.

Beck's rhetoric may have been over the top as he denounced Jones as a "black nationalist" and "avowed communist" (Jones embraced communism in the 1990s but said he later changed his views). Yet Beck also trumpeted information that forced Jones to issue two public apologies within days. The first was for calling Republicans "a--holes" in a February speech, video of which was posted online by Beck backers. The second, more serious offense was that he had signed a 2004 petition charging "that people within the current administration may indeed have allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext to war." Jones said he didn't agree with that view, but his signature was on the "truther" document.

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Monday morning good news.

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ping

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/media/14carr.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/FineOnMedia/archives/2009/09/what_we_know_ab.html
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[Da Coyote]

You’ve gotta love all those “buts” in the WaPo article.

Sorta like, “...even though he killed 1,000 folks last week,m he said he was sorry and wouldn’t do it again....”

And they wonder why we simply don’t believe them any more.

[Condor51]

... it turned out the Fox News host didn't need the big news organizations to claim his scalp.

Now that is top notch *journalism*.

[abb]

Kurtz went out on a limb here, at least compared to what he normally writes. He’s dissed his Buds in the Dinosaur Media.

Check out yesterday’s Reliable Sources.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/13/rs.01.html

[paudio]

The author also works for CNN, another MIA in Jones case.

[concerned about politics]

Beck's rhetoric may have been over the top as he denounced Jones as a "black nationalist" and "avowed communist"

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and admits its a communist......

Beck was right to point it out. Why lie about it? Political correctness was designed to silence any and all opposition to the left wing special interest groups, but liberty loving Americans don't have to play the democrats game. In fact, liberty loving Americans should be encouraged to speak up about anything they disagree with, or they'll forever be holding their tongues.

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And that is the story. Increasingly, we don’t need the Dinosaur Media and it will only get better for our side.

[bray]

Establishment media, sounds alot like establishmedia? Bottom line is, we don’t need them anymore. We have the internet.

Pray for America

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/13/rs.01.html
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[Lucas McCain]

I hadn’t realized that Jones had repudiated his conversion to communism.

[Senator Goldwater]

New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson told readers online that the paper was "a beat behind on this story" and that while the Washington bureau was short-staffed during a holiday week, "we should have been paying closer attention."

The New York Times should watch Fox if they want to know what's going on.

When they aren't willfully ignoring information that damages liberals, of course.

[abb]

I suggest that the NY Times task someone to follow FRee Republic. If it ain’t posted here, it ain’t news...

[qwertypie]

I’m not going to read the linked story to find out whether Kurtz said anything about the newspaper he works for suckerpunching the GOPer in the VA gov race. They went well beyond Beck.

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http://online.barrons.com/article/SB125270804484304695.html
Glad Men

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0921/outfront-television-cbs-best-house-bad-neighborhood.html
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/times_ponders_online_fee_VvZriCGVJIInoTl2oA9NPJ
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[Senator Goldwater]

I suspect the amount of state-run media lurking that goes on here would boggle the mind.

[ladyL]

I’m all for using the term Communist. It was put on the shelf after McCarthy was demonized but it’s time now to get it out and let it spotlight these “Progressives” or “Socialists” These guys are all Communists and are COWARDS for not identifying themselves and their ideology.

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http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
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[Dr. Ursus]

That depends on what you mean IS a communist means.