The sweetest irony in all this is the fact that the Washington Post has made it "name" leaking classified intelligence (Pentagon Papers anyone?). Now, that very same principle - an insider leaking "confidential" information to the outside - is being exercised in the media world, with the Washington Post up to their collective asses in it.
What's good for the goose, is great fro the gander, WaPo.
To: OldDeckHand
WAPO needs to stick with what the know - MACACA.
To: OldDeckHand; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; ...
All the news that’s FIT to print.
3 posted on
07/21/2010 1:17:46 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
To: OldDeckHand
I still want to unravel the mystery of how the content of the text from the list wound up in the hands of Tucker Carlson. It was Andrew Breitbart who offered up the $100,000 for access to the Journolist.
5 posted on
07/21/2010 1:19:15 PM PDT by
ScoopAmma
(We are led by the Resident -in Chief; aka part-time member of Webelo Troop 44)
To: OldDeckHand
Are we surprised about the silence??
6 posted on
07/21/2010 1:19:54 PM PDT by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: OldDeckHand
They should be giving us who, what, when, etc. I would really like to know if there is anything about the BC or his meager past history. Leak some of the posts/emails. We need a good scandal at this point to really put a dent in the credibility(snort) of the LSM right before the elections.
8 posted on
07/21/2010 1:23:19 PM PDT by
MarineMom613
(Thank a Military Person this holiday! If not for them, where would we be? God Bless them ALL!)
To: OldDeckHand; All
14 posted on
07/21/2010 1:35:10 PM PDT by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
To: OldDeckHand
As the proprietor, they know who was on the board and who was not. But that is not the limit of the influence of this sort of thing - when a certain number of even mid-range journalists suddenly start writing about a single issue - Rove as a racist, for example - the others pick up on the refrain because it's news in and of itself. And if it's agreeable to their own biases, to repeat it - by then the story need not have evidence, because they're reporting on the buzz.
I do not get the sense that the Post is so much interested in their own staff's practices and abuses as it is concerned about validating the "extreme, right-wing" complaint that they exist in the first place. That's part of the problem.
To: OldDeckHand
They’re too busy exposing our Nations security infrastructure.
17 posted on
07/21/2010 1:43:01 PM PDT by
Gene Eric
(Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
To: OldDeckHand
Its gonna be real fun to answer every left-wing article with, “So, you must be on JournoList”. Can’t wait.
20 posted on
07/21/2010 1:46:40 PM PDT by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: OldDeckHand
“Now, that very same principle - an insider leaking “confidential” information to the outside - is being exercised in the media world, with the Washington Post up to their collective asses in it.”
Well stated. Thanks for posting. Finally seeing a little satisfaction that some of the proverbial chickens are coming back to roost.
21 posted on
07/21/2010 1:48:06 PM PDT by
corvus
To: OldDeckHand
23 posted on
07/21/2010 1:51:31 PM PDT by
Mears
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