Posted on 09/15/2009 12:57:48 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.
Sitting cheek by jowl with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Brokaw joined him to riff on the Internet and the state of journalism today, an opportunity occasioned by the resignation of Van Jones, he of the Truther brigades (and much more) and the Obama White House. Mr. Jones' resignation was prompted by a virtual parade of videos and documents in which Jones, in his own words and deeds, presented himself as an overripe Marxist with a tendency to the nutty paranoia of the extreme left. This material was discovered by Fox commentator Glenn Beck, doubtless with an assist from citizens who had scanned the Internet, easily unearthing Jones' ravings. One in particular was Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I wonder if the OOTMSM(out of the mainstream media) will every get the idea that they are comitting suicide with a thousand cuts?
Go easy on Tom. Old, defeated, and irrelevant can be hard to get used to.
One of the best, perhaps the best, article I’ve seen on this topic. The writing is excellent and contains information I did not know.
"Mr. Friedman then chimed in that the Internet is "an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information."
Remarkable that Mr. Friedman has a problem with direct information. Mr. Friedman, that's exactly the way I like my information; untreated and unfiltered.
“But...but...but I’M FAMOUS!! Why don’t you admire me? I certainly do...”
Wow, what a devastating column. It might do well as a eulogy at the MSM funeral.
Great read! Best portrayal of the MSM I have ever read.
Like this?
Left out in the litany of true stories ignored or untrue/misreported stories foisted on the public by the mainstream press and networks is the story of the false CBS “expose” on Bush’s avoiding National Guard service. That was broken by researchers here on FR but is not mentioned by Lord except a very short sentence at the end of his piece but no information on who did the work or the outcome.
He gave credit to three news guys for breaking that story.
Great Article!!!
and followed by superb comments (prolly FReepers;)
Scott Johnson and Paul Mirengoff at Power Line, where Dan Rather's Bush National Guard story was exposed as a phony.
Awesome.
mumble, mumble, mumble, Obama, mumble, mumble, mumble, Health care, mumble, mumble, mumble, racists, homophobes, mumble, mumble, mumble,
Thanks for your comment. If you hadn’t written it, I wouldn’t have read the article. It was, indeed, the best written article I’ve ever read on this topic. Like you, I also learned things I didn’t know. Thanks.
You're right; I did miss that in my fast reading of the article. However, those names don't ring a bell as I thought FR (Buckhead particularly and helped by a multitude of others) and Little Green Footballs were the main entities that exposed that CBS fraud.
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