The stench of mainstream media narcissism

Townhall.com ^ | 29 March 2003 | David Limbaugh

[txradioguy]

"You know something I would truly like to see is an enforced IQ test. Let's say that the US Marshals pick a random classroom at the United States Military Academy and at the Columbia School of Journalism, chain the doors shut and administer an identical IQ exam.
Gee, who would return the highest average score?"


I'd place my (biased) bet on the West Pointers. But I tell you what, there is a J-School that's turning out broadcasters and pring journalists that are every bit as good as those snooty grads from Columbia and the other schools of "higher learning". That's the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Ft. Meade, MD. That's my "college" degree. That place teaches every broadcast and print journalist in the military. And I'd put my skills up against any civilian journalist out there mucking around in the sand today. (Sorry about the vanity).

[bert]

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[Tall_Texan]

Question: How can youtell if the war is going well for the U.S.?

Answer: By the depressed looks on the news anchor's faces.

BINGO! They see the 2004 elections slipping away if they can't trip Bush up somewhere and their best chance is to somehow portray this as a debacle.

I think Damn Blather is on antidepressants. He acts like he is either not getting any sleep or he is just so disappointed that this war is not getting worse. He's almost catatonic.

I haven't watched a second of ABC's coverage and extremely little of NBC's so I can't comment on them except that they must be even worse than Blather.

But seeing Aaron Brown on CNN is making me steer clear of sharp objects. I'm wondering if the military has decided to take out Baghdad's propaganda tools before flying in loudspeakers that would blare Aaron Brown's nauseating voice into Baghdad 24/7 until Saddam and his henchmen either surrender, commit suicide or drift off to sleep. This could even be the reason why we are flooding the region with more troops so that we can limit the exposure to our own men to this deadly toxin by having them rotate in short shifts, making them de-tox by watching video segments of Laurie Dhue and Ann Coulter.

Bush might not be a cruel enough man to do this but I'm beginning to suspect Aaron Brown is America's secret weapon of mass destruction.

[txradioguy]

"I haven't watched a second of ABC's coverage and extremely little of NBC's so I can't comment on them except that they must be even worse than Blather."


The studio people are just as bad. I'm beginning to gains some measure of respect for their embedded reporters. They're getting a dose of what it's like and they are seeing first hand how we're putting our butts on the line to try and save the Iraqi people. Since I've been here I've died a slow death. I have no FNC (except when the local Fox Channel switches to them) so I'm stuck with the Lamestream channels.

[Tall_Texan]

Wars are career vehicles for journalists. Dan Rather built his name in Vietnam. Wolf Blitzer and Peter Arnett both were nobodies until Gulf I. Every two-bit mannequin is in Kuwait or Iraq these days, trying to be THE face of the war.

So why then is "Scud Stud" Arthur Kent doing stand-ups for the History Channel? And why is "War Slut" Christianne Amanpour still doing the same schtick a decade later?

Rather actually built his name during the Kennedy Assassination. He was southern states bureau chief at CBS News in November, 1963, fielding reports on the building civil rights movement in the south when Kennedy was gunned down.

[arasina]

Ah, but you know, blacks in positions of power aren't really black-- just look at Colin Powell and Condi Rice. Just two more cogs in the white "establishment."

It seems to me that people like those in, say, the Black Caucus, think that the only "real" black is a ghetto black. They don't even seem to see themselves as "really" black and won't be happy until Puff Daddy is president.

[IronJack]

"Scud Stud" Arthur Kent ... [and] ..."War Slut" Christianne Amanpour

Nobody said the people who BUILT their names during war could KEEP their names during peacetime. Neither of these folks is a particularly good journalist, which may explain why they are in such ... obscure ... positions, even after making headlines during Gulf I.

As to Dan Rather, I had never heard of him until Vietnam. Any role he played in reporting the Kennedy assassination has been lost to me.

[mountainfolk]

One does get the impression that the journalists believe and act as tho this war is all about them. I get a kick out of BG Vincent Brooks answers. I am fascinated at how he couches his replies. I would never be able to deliver the answers in such a manner that is factual and devoid of the disgust I would feel at the self-serving reporter who tried to trip me up. He is quick and smart and seriously outmatches those reporters who encase their questions in anti-Bush/anti war venom.

[Rockpile]

The West Pointers would average what 125 or more as opposed to the urinalism majors' 85IQ or so?

BTW, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER apologize for "vanity" postings. Much of the very best stuff I've seen in 5 years on this site was done by individuals. The gibbering sreechers who protote "vanities are taking up bandwidth" complaints are the types you can bet are jacking off to Helen Thomas posters tacked up over their beds.

[CyberAnt]

I have a theory - I think the media who have become "embedded" with the military are going to spawn a new generation of media which will demolish the old media and show it up for what it is - biased and totally out of touch with America.

Maybe I'm expecting too much, but I don't think so.

Lately I've notice several of the FOX guys saying "we" did this, and "we" experienced that. I've also noticed the word "us" used a great deal. These guys have bonded with the military. They have found out what "flyover country" is all about. There isn't anything which changes your perspective than a BIG FAT DOSE OF REALITY.

[an amused spectator]

Their reasoning -- in the case of American reporters, at least -- must be that they serve the unique function of safeguarding the First Amendment, which is the highest patriotic calling.

A number of major American newspapers and American networks have proven irrefutably that they have no respect for the First Amendment.

Period.

[an amused spectator]

I was watching FOX News tonight and one of the FOX regulars came on.

He said, and this is almost an exact quote: "...We're going to surround Baghdad and choke them off, or we're going to go in after the Fedayeen and kill them like the dogs that they are."

Made my day. :-)

[an amused spectator]

Quit holding back, Rockpile. Tell us how you really feel.

I'll be using that "urinalism" line in the future, BTW. ;-)

[an amused spectator]

Read my post #52.

[CyberAnt]

I think this is "bonding" ... right?

[stands2reason]

Amen!!! RJJ, #30 is my vote for QOTD.

[IronJack]

Thanks for the vote.

[Rockpile]

I should not have written things like that-------I should have spell checked :}

Between the antics of pinko reporters and academics it's hard to keep the blood pressure down isn't it?

Came up with "urinalist" myself but I wasn't the only one to see the uhhh, analogy. Wish that I could take credit for "presstitutes"---love that word--- but at least I can claim "proftitute".

[RJayneJ]

Thanks for the nomination! };^D)