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To: Calvin Locke
There's got to be a some sort of law regarding fraud and deceit in naming it NBC"News".com.

How much "real" news is there really, in any given broadcast?

One minute of non-NBC advertising probably has more truthful statements than an entire program day of NBC "news".

The problem is that not only NBC but all of “objective” journalism is corrupt. the wire services (especially the AP, but any and all wire services inherently operate under the corrupt business model which says that “I am transmitting reports from people I don’t employ and don’t even know, so the only way I can sell my reports is to promote the conceit that all journalism is objective.” But since claiming objectivity is inherently oxymoronic (subjectivity is precisely the taking for granted of one’s own objectivity), belonging to an organization which claims objectivity for you is a faustian bargain. You can only accept that claim for yourself at the expense of the independence which would allow you to point out that some other journalist is not objective. The result is not only not objective, it is uniform suppression of the fact that the emperor has no clothes.
”News” is a suspect category in any event - it does not follow from the fact that a report is new that it is important or even correct. In fact, as SecDef Rumfeld put it, “First reports are always wrong."

56 posted on 07/16/2012 6:01:25 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Emilie Leonia Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC’s weekday morning program Morning Joe, where she provides regular commentary and reads the news headlines for the program.

I watched Morning
Joe for the hell of it this morning
this Brzezinski woman is the worst IMO they need to get her off she offers nothing except oh yeah she can read the news


57 posted on 07/16/2012 6:19:11 AM PDT by LittleMoe
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