mmmm mmmm mmmm let me think . . . a steaming pile?
Posted on 11/14/2009 2:15:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In his column in Monday's paper, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz observes that Fox News personality Glenn Beck is dominating the media conversation -- even to the point of forcing a White House official to resign -- without a bit of help from newspapers, television or other mainstream news sources. "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," Kurtz writes. "But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no longer be necessary."
Kurtz notes that White House green jobs advisor Van Jones, who Beck had relentlessly attacked for his profane comments and conspiracy-theorist past, resigned before the New York Times had run a single story on the conflict. Neither had there been any mention of the story on any of the network newscasts. Beck's ratings have soared to 2.25 million viewers for his 5 p.m. weekday slot in the Fox News lineup, despite losing multiple advertisers over his routinely over-the-top commentary. He deflects criticism by describing himself as a former "dirtbag" and a "clown," but at least this time, he beat the mainstream press to a serious story.
New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson said her newspaper was "a beat behind" on the Van Jones story, and that "we should have been paying closer attention."
They’re more than a beat behind. And it’s not just one story.
They are completely dark on the greatest story of our age:
The destruction of the American Constitution and the American Way of Life.
Now if only Beck could help expose the other Poser in the WH and cause him to resign.
Last I heard, that phone ain’t rung.
What do you get when you mix equal parts shameless partisanship, customer disdain, “info-tainment”, lack of professionalism, arrogance, meanness, fawning adoration of the unworthy, and intense focus on the grotesque, perverse, and pernicious?
Well, it certainly isn’t good network news ratings.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
“The journalistic gatekeepers of yore,” are definitely a thing of the past. But it has nothing the do with Beck. He is just doing the job they should be doing but are afraid to do.
Beck didn’t beat them to the story. They were never going to tell it.
I thought that was now a Fringe Media that consisted of
NYT, Wash crimes, Newsweak. etc....
some unfortunate soul ..
Van JONES??? (loud guffaw)
Then berating MSlimeMedia for not following up on Becks/FOX's stories to defend - ah, when the WH warned - publicly - MSM NOT to follow up on FOX stories, you don't really think that was the first orders from headquarters?
What a bumbling bunch of idiots, the liberals.
I fear that the state-owned media, will in fact become just that, with state bail-outs.
They’re doing rotten because people are no longer buying into their drivel hence their product suffers. Let them fall...
Go Beck!
I haven’t watched since he died. And won’t. For the most part I only watch Fox but I did like Tim Russert. The man did his homework.
Howie: Please resign immediately! Your only salvation may be that you resign before EVERYONE realizes what a bad “journalist” you have been,...are...and will be. Even you family must be embarrassed by you.
Gee, Howard did you forget that Obama has costs millions of jobs; not one in America; the government takeover of private businesses?
Besides Beck is right.
mmmm mmmm mmmm let me think . . . a steaming pile?
mmmm mmmm mmmm let me think . . . a steaming pile?
Glenn needs a board with pictures that he takes out like terrorists playing cards.
Unless it is a conservative! Then they can tell you what he/she did when they were thirteen, true or not.
Hallelujah! From your lips to God's ears.
Yeah. Kinda the way my wife always beats me to the brussels sprouts.
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