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Calling Captain Obvious!
1 posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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30 posted on 05/11/2013 10:11:09 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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"These have been a bad few months for journalism," he added."

"These have been a bad few months DECADES for journalism," he added.

31 posted on 05/11/2013 10:11:11 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
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"America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in."

Wow! What a condemnation of America -- tying Her to MSM employees.

MSM employees are skid marks on Journalism's shorts.

We need to have the way it was before TV when cities had multiple newspapers.

We're getting there with talk radio, the alternate media and the Internet.. lets clear the air of the foul odor caused by MSM employees.

32 posted on 05/11/2013 10:11:59 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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"These have been a bad few months for journalism,"

And you are still getting it wrong, try the last five years!

33 posted on 05/11/2013 10:12:46 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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I find it telling that they don’t seem to be interested in why they’re getting it wrong (it’s obvious to us, probably to them too). It sounds like they’re whining about the fact that they’re required to get it wrong and are trying, in the process, to salvage a shred of self-respect.

& “wrong” isn’t the right word to use anyway - that implies an intent to get it “right.” The correct word is, “lie.”


35 posted on 05/11/2013 10:15:04 AM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (#include <std.disclaimers>)
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And Pelley said the republic relies on the quality of the news business. “Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism,” said Pelley. “America is strong because its journalism is strong. That’s how democracies work. They’re only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.”


Uh, well said Scott. Now please explain why you’re not doing your F#*$ing job. Maybe because you and your ilk want the Republic, in its current form, to fail?


36 posted on 05/11/2013 10:15:27 AM PDT by rbg81
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CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'

Is that good or bad??? Are you patting yourself on the back or kicking yourself in the butt???

37 posted on 05/11/2013 10:15:36 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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The problem is no so much that the MSM can't get their facts straight.

The bigger problem is, they don't look for the facts to begin with.

38 posted on 05/11/2013 10:16:06 AM PDT by GVnana
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“We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again.”

(but who the heck cares as long as the public continues to believe then) is what he doesn’t say.


39 posted on 05/11/2013 10:16:15 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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The CBS newsreader was quick to take at least partial blame. "Let me take the first arrow: During our coverage of Newtown, I sat on my set and I reported that Nancy Lanza was a teacher at the school. And that her son had attacked her classroom. It's a hell of a story, but it was dead wrong.

Those kinds of 'mistakes' happen in a breaking crisis. That's not why the press is losing credibility. If Lanza's shirt had been blue, if his mother was a waitress or a teacher or he played video games or was a democrat IS NOT of great national concern.

Pattern recognition matters.

Was Lanza - like all the other young mass murderers - on psychoactive drugs? Are antidepressants a factor?

And Benghazi - did our government choose to allow Americans to die? That issue matters to all Americans. It's not a crazy lone wolf when the whole Administration is in on it... Is our government been lying? And if this is a lie, what else?

Those are the types of issues that destroy credibility - not if some killer's mother worked at a school or not. Breaking stories have mistakes... happens. Bengahazi lies have been here for months...

Years ago newspapers were concerned they were losing trust because of simple spelling and punctuation errors. It was a totally self-serving and shallow excuse for the larger issue: that credibility was lost because of bias. CBS is doing the same. It's not small mistakes in breaking stories that's the problem. It's bias. It's getting stories that are fed to them by liberal sources. It's NOT having a diverse newsroom ( diversity of ideas not diversity of what people do in bed - or pigmentation.)

40 posted on 05/11/2013 10:19:33 AM PDT by GOPJ ( A gang rape by Eight isn't 'immigration reform'... Send the millions of illegals home.)
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Years ago newspapers were concerned they were losing trust because of simple spelling and punctuation errors. It was a totally self-serving and shallow excuse for the larger issue: that credibility was lost because of bias. CBS is doing the same.

It's not small mistakes in breaking stories that's the problem. It's bias. It's getting stories that are fed to them by liberal sources. It's NOT having a diverse newsroom ( diversity of ideas not diversity of what people do in bed - or pigmentation.)

41 posted on 05/11/2013 10:20:08 AM PDT by GOPJ ( A gang rape by Eight isn't 'immigration reform'... Send the millions of illegals home.)
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Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism

The term, in Ebonics, is: We be F@#%ed.

42 posted on 05/11/2013 10:22:12 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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"America is strong because its journalism is strong.

He got that wrong, too. Journalism is bad and is polluting America.

43 posted on 05/11/2013 10:22:45 AM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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So let me just take the first arrow here.

So resign you elitist, it's-all-about-me, treasonous, POS propagandist.

44 posted on 05/11/2013 10:24:37 AM PDT by PGalt
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They are constantly wrong because their premise is wrong...


45 posted on 05/11/2013 10:27:13 AM PDT by Popman (Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)
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The fact he still has his job and was invited to speak tells the whole story.


46 posted on 05/11/2013 10:28:01 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'

When only a Presidential "Face Palm" will suffice.


47 posted on 05/11/2013 10:30:02 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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Maybe they should try reporting facts instead of promoting propaganda.


48 posted on 05/11/2013 10:31:06 AM PDT by henkster (I have one more cow than my neighbor. I am a kulak.)
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Who cares? Their credibility is ZERO.

The MSM is about as relevant as spinning wheels.

(Although they spin very well.)


49 posted on 05/11/2013 10:35:42 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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“Let’s get it nailed down...somebody...let’s find out! Let’s get it straight so we can report this thing accurately!,” Frank Reynolds (ABC, 1981).


50 posted on 05/11/2013 10:35:58 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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