News Media Showed Tendency To Misfire During Early Phase of War in Afghanistan

Wall Street Journal | Dec. 24, 2001 | Matthew Rose

[tom paine 2]

More evidence of a media with the attitude that " My mind is made up don't confuse me with facts" Daniel Schorr is the leader of the hate America first crowd. and RW Johnny Apple is a sodden drunk who should be retired permanently to the Food and Wine section of the NY Times until he eats or drinks himself to death.

[JohnHuang2]

Excellent analysis, excerpts of which have been recited this morning on C-Span.

[ken5050]

Myth #6..Maureen Dowd has something, anything, intelligent to say.....

It's hard to put into words just how thoroughly meaningless and irrelevant she has become...

[JohnHuang2]

It's hard to put into words just how thoroughly meaningless and irrelevant she has become...

Hear, hear, ken5050!

[Rays_Dad]

hey yall help me out what does op-ed mean? Thanks chip

[tom paine 2]

Thanks. I'll have to turn it on.

[JohnHuang2]

It was mostly during the opening hour, so you'll have for the rerun at 10 AM EST.

Though Charlotte Hays of Women's Independent Forum is doing a fabulous job right about now.

[JohnHuang2]

so you'll have [TO WAIT] for the rerun at 10 AM EST.

[JohnHuang2]

Mega Ping!

[jimtorr]

"Nobody knew anything about Afghanistan, myself included," Mr. von Hoffman says. "It turns out there really wasn't an army there. Turns out we probably still are clueless."

Speak for yourself, bub. A minimal amount of research, simply reading about the country in the popular press and watching the discovery channel, showed this correspondent how poorly equiped the Taliban army was.

Mr. Schorr says in an interview. "I have never been in Afghanistan and know nothing about Pashtuns and the rest of it.

He never bothered to learn anything before he started writing. Both of the "reporters" quoted here are basically saying, "I can't be bothered to do any research! I need to find out what my opinion should be."

[lmr]

Yeah, the News media also had us all really worried about Y2K as well. I laughed when everyone was purchasing bottles of water before the turn of millenium just because the media said to do so. Sheeple do realize they've been duped sooner or later, though and this commentary shows that. The Media needs to get on the right side of things if they wish to have any credibility at all.

[mgc1122]

Thank you for posting. The underlying question "Did the lamestream learn anything?" sadly remains a rock solid "no".

[JohnHuang2]

Charlotte Hays is also Editor-in-Chief of The Women's Quarterly magazine.

[jimtorr]

Op-ed means opinion/editorial. An op-ed piece is a column, usually in the editorial section, that gives the opinion of one of the editors. Sometimes they use an outsiders column. A good newspaper will label it as opinion. Others, the Baltimore Sun, for instance, won't always do so.

[tom paine 2]

I really enjoyed her response to some moron who referred to her as being a cl;oset right winger. She said " I not hiding anything, I'm an admitted conservative.

[JohnHuang2]

Indeed -- I caught that exchange! The caller pretty much discredited himself by his hateful, vile, vicious, ugly, outlandish remarks.

[JohnHuang2]

The DNC must be running several phone banks to flood C-Span's lines. The calls seem to be completely one-sided, anti-American.

[CIB-173RDABN]

When you hear a prediction, think of it as a "wish".

Whenever a member of the media make a prediction, what you are really hearing is what they hope will happen.

"The media" are not our friends.

[gulfcoast6]

The media, they do not have a clue what the real world is all about, what the truth is (always trying to slant it), are left wing with the real word and always, always, putting their views out to the public in an attempt to changed the thinking of a stright thinking man. They have no clue of what truth means and is.

[Rays_Dad]

Thanks a bunch, I have been curious for sometime. Chip