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Remind you of a certain German group?

That the MSM has a source of common talking points has been painfully obvious when the same words or phrases appear in “news stories” from almost all of the MSM outlets. Remember when “gravitas” was the word of the day? Rush has done a great job of piecing together montages of “journalists” repeating the same particular phrase in their reports on a story and of course the spin has always been leftward. Just how much White House operatives have been involved in this blog would be a very interesting question to have answered.

Is there a list or partial list of the members of “Journolist”, other than those mentioned in this article?

Think there really is a free and independent press anymore?

There never was one. If you think there ever was, you have fallen into a marketing trap.

JournoListers Conspired To Destroy Sarah Palin Day McCain Picked Her

JournoLsters have already been identified here :

The "Progressive" Propaganda Snake List

1. Ezra Klein
2. Dave Weigel
3. Matthew Yglesias
4. David Dayen
5. Spencer Ackerman
6. Jeffrey Toobin
7. Eric Alterman
8. Paul Krugman
9. John Judis
10. Eve Fairbanks
11. Mike Allen
12. Ben Smith
13. Lisa Lerer
14. Joe Klein
15. Brad DeLong
16. Chris Hayes
17. Matt Duss
18. Jonathan Chait
19. Jesse Singal
20. Michael Cohen
21. Isaac Chotiner
22. Katha Pollitt
23. Alyssa Rosenberg
24. Rick Perlstein
25. Alex Rossmiller
26. Ed Kilgore
27. Walter Shapiro
28. Noam Scheiber
29. Michael Tomasky
30. Rich Yesels
31. Tim Fernholz
32. Dana Goldstein
33. Jonathan Cohn
34. Scott Winship
35. David Roberts
36. Luke Mitchell
37. John Blevins
38. Moira Whelan
39. Henry Farrell
40. Josh Bearman
41. Alec McGillis
42. Greg Anrig
43. Adele Stan
44. Steven Teles
45. Harold Pollack
46. Adam Serwer
47. Ryan Donmoyer
48. Seth Michaels
49. Kate Steadman
50. Matt Duss
51.Laura Rozen
52. Jesse Taylor
53. Michael Hirsh
54. Daniel Davies
55. Jonathan Zasloff
56. Richard Kim
57. Thomas Schaller
58. Jared Bernstein
59. Holly Yeager
60. Joe Conason
61. David Greenberg
62. Todd Gitlin
63. Mark Schmitt
64. Kevin Drum
65. Sarah Spitz

My only comment, with a chuckle, is They failed!

Conspiracy? RICO statutes?

Propaganda Idiots are entitled to their opinions, but not when disguised and fed to us as "pseudo news..."

ROTFL at the comments and strategies to destroy Palin since 2008.

All your urnalist think-tanks belong to us.

Think there really is a free and independent press anymore?

They are pawns of satan. And only THE SON can set anyone free. Good vs. evil - all the time, every time.

MSM did more investigating of Joe the Plumber in 24 hours than they did of Baraq Obama in 24 months.

"a coordinated effort by the JournoList's members to destroy Sarah Palin the moment she was named John McCain's running mate on August 29, 2008. "

Pigs. Absolute pigs.

Between the Communists and Team Romney, did America have a chance?

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

I worked in the print media for 20 years.

Everything you’ve read here is an understatement.

This Journo-list is media sluts trying to impress each other. Also functioned as an old (lefty) boy network and union hiring hall.

I don't know why someone doesn't go after them for tax code violations. They are using a stockholder owned business for their own political reasons with out registering as a political outfit.

Making official what was obvious to anybody who was paying attention.

BTTT!

Japan is formally a democracy, but in fact it’s an iron triangle ruled by bureaucrats, industrialists, and SOME politicians. Is there some debate in the system? More like a debate CARTEL —journalists are organized into a “kisshya kai”, a reporter pool, who all together cover some organization, sort of like the White House Press Pool we’re outwardly famliar with.

The distinguishing feature of the Japanese system is that after a news event the members all MEET and privately decide in a conference-like setting what the news will be, how it will be covered, etc.

None of this is hidden, ok? There are many such Kisshya Kai, each covering a ministry or large company, etc. They do their reporting as a GROUP, not as individuals.

Sort of like what we see in the JournoList scandal, which in my opinion is the biggest scandal in years.

The upshot is that in Japan, “respectable” dailies and magazines rarely break big scandals —they are married tightly to the organizations they cover, and so the long-term stability of the relationship is important.

They don’t want to lose their access, and they derive very great professional pride in their “legitimacy”.

The huge scandals in Japan are broken by what are regarded there as “mediaWhores” —illegitimate magazines and gossip mongers who are NOT members of the pools —they are excluded as unpredictable bums to be shunned, sort of like the, “Elvis Pumpkin Alien Baby!”-type rags we see near the grocery store check-out line.

If a political observer never reads such rags, he will never really know what’s really going on —a more and more accurate description of the US situation.

I remember for a short time during the Monica Mess, the National Enquirer was —really, really was— more truthful about what was going on than ANY major US newspaper daily.

We’re headed there again, but on a much bigger scale this time.