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1 posted on 02/17/2005 9:53:28 AM PST by Dont Mention the War
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World-o-Crap will now get a bunch of newbies joining...
2 posted on 02/17/2005 9:56:10 AM PST by Drango (FReepmal me to get on/off the *NPR/PBS* ping list)
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It will be a cold day in hell before I join foces with Dana Milbank on anything. Period.

He is a disgusting weasel who should be fired. He is on my Top Ten list of people I want driven out of journalism.

Pfui!

3 posted on 02/17/2005 9:56:17 AM PST by Miss Marple
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liberals get it from World-o-Crap

That pretty much sums it up for me.

4 posted on 02/17/2005 9:58:14 AM PST by TomServo ("Uh, Donner, party of three please.")
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This is such a non-story that has the left with their panties in a wad. Don't they have anything better to spend their time on? If the DUmmies and the Daily KOS are representative of the Democrat party, they should just give up right now. They are boring everyone to death.


8 posted on 02/17/2005 10:04:55 AM PST by Eva
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“The downside is the web is contributing to the decentralization of information so that people can choose their own news, and facts, based on their ideology. I can see us reaching a point where conservatives get their news exclusively from Free Republic and liberals get it from World-o-Crap, and we're living in parallel universes.”

And then Milbank and Dowd will be out of a job because they cannot compete in real-time with those who can.

10 posted on 02/17/2005 10:06:28 AM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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“The downside is the web is contributing to the decentralization of information so that people can choose their own news,

Noooooooooooooooooo, musn't have that. Must keep the news centalized so people with "journalism" degrees can dole it out to us undeserving peons as they see fit.

12 posted on 02/17/2005 10:08:39 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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The Left is pretty desperate these days to make a scandal. I didn't know who Jeff Ganon was before this story and I've yet to see a reason why anyone should care.


13 posted on 02/17/2005 10:08:56 AM PST by Catphish
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Notice that whether or not a "friendly" reporter had a White House pass is what is supposed to pass for news these days? The leftists in the press corps and otherwise are so damn worked up about those of us on the right that they'll seize on anything to make us out to be bad guys...


16 posted on 02/17/2005 10:12:34 AM PST by mhking (Do not mess with dragons, for thou art crunchy & good with ketchup...)
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Did everyone forget the FR rules today?????

Freeper law 345a section 5 paragraph 3a;
"One must post CZJ pictures when one posts an article by or about Maureen Dowd because Maureen is a self absorbed elitist who does searches on her name to see what people are saying about her, whereas threads by Freerepublic will show up in that search, and when she visits she must be reminded that no matter how liberal she tries to be to get back Michael Douglas, she never will because Michael is married to CZJ who is much hotter than Maureen."

19 posted on 02/17/2005 10:15:22 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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"The white house is too secretive!"

"The white house gives access too easily!"

Make up your minds!


20 posted on 02/17/2005 10:15:42 AM PST by adam_az (UN out of the US! - http://www.moveamericaforward.org/?Page=Petition)
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Maureen Dowd reveals, “I was rejected for a White House press pass at the start of the Bush administration, but someone with an alias, a tax evasion problem and Internet pictures where he posed like the ‘Barberini Faun’ is credentialed....”

Well, Maureen, actually, I know you may find this a bit embarrassing, but his credentials are better than yours. He actually leaves the office from time to time before he writes up a story. You make yours up straight out of your head--or some other part of your body, perhaps.

22 posted on 02/17/2005 10:24:39 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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What I find absolutely stunning is that the WH would offer press credentials to MoDo , but, not someone from FR.
MoDo has a BA in English lit and years of indoctrination at the NYT.
Maybe it was her job as a sports columnist for the defunct Washington Star that gives her the edge on the more educated and better grounded Freepers.
Milbank thinks that FR is static, he has no idea that it is a constantly flowing stream of new information, ideas and links to other outlets of information.
FR is a news portal, in fact, it's The News Portal, not a dead end , like todays's newspapers and evening news broadcasts.

I posted this on another forum last night.

" With an estimated 8 million blogs in the US last year and 32 million readers "

Added to the members and lurkers of conservative forums like FR and the millions of listeners to talk radio, there are an enormous amount of people who get their news from the ascendant media .
But, are not allowed any representation at WH briefings and Presidential press conferences.
Imagine a press conference where people from Rush Limbaugh to Jim Robinson to DFU to Sean Hannity to Hugh Hewitt to Howlin to Miss Marple to Laura Ingraham and reps from Captain's Quarters and Power Line and on and on and on were allowed to ask intelligent, insightful and thought provoking questions of elected officials- in one forum.
I still don't understand why this WH does not conduct separate press briefings with the ascendant media-even on an experimental basis.
It could even be a teleconference type situation where a bunch of citizen journalists were allowed to take turns asking the President and/or McClellan questions.
What is the WH afraid of ?
That Terry Moran and John Roberts and David Gregory and Maureen Dowd might become upset and cease their puff pieces on the President and his policies ? ( sarcasm off )


24 posted on 02/17/2005 10:29:41 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue (Usual Disclaimer-Fox News, Washington Times, NRO, Weekly Standard and NYP exempted)
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..."Maureen Dowd reveals, “I was rejected"...

I think that sums up her situation nicely!

25 posted on 02/17/2005 10:31:02 AM PST by paleocon patriarch ("Never attribute to a conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.")
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Responding to charges “that the mainstream press is lazy and slow,” Milbank declared: “I'd argue to you that it's really a product of our resources (far fewer than you seem to suppose) and our resulting prioritizing (correctly, for the most part). It's not that Gannon, and the CNN guy's remarks in Switzerland, etc. aren't stories, it's that they're not the most important stories.”

Well, if Gannon isn't the most important story, Dana, why don't you devote your attention to something else?

27 posted on 02/17/2005 10:44:11 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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conservatives get their news exclusively from Free Republic and liberals get it from World-o-Crap

Is World-O-Crap an actual site or is he referring to DU?

28 posted on 02/17/2005 10:45:46 AM PST by jmc813 (Fiesta in the making at the Moontower)
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"I can see us reaching a point where conservatives get their news exclusively from Free Republic and liberals get it from World-o-Crap"

.... hmmm, if that "world-o-crap" is a new term for "MSM" and New York Times, I'm cool with it.


37 posted on 02/17/2005 11:42:56 AM PST by WOSG (Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
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Dowd's hissy fit is here where she moans about reporters with an agenda granted WH access but writers like her are not giving a WH press pass.

ROFL

41 posted on 02/17/2005 12:15:00 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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...as early as February 28, 2003. This may be significant, Boehlert argues, because the organization Gannon/Guckert worked for, Talon News, did not exist until March...

Let's see - what is the month after February? Hmmmm, is it March? What is the last day of February? Hmmm, is it the 28th? What is wrong with these people? Do they think we are that stupid?

42 posted on 02/17/2005 12:17:43 PM PST by 7thson (I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
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We do not live in Parallel universes yet. I still hear mainstream news, all I do different now is go to FR and listen to Talk radio and I get the true story.
46 posted on 02/17/2005 12:29:55 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ("Hi I'm Sean Hannity, BUY MY BOOK it's really good, Please someone BUY my BOOK, I'm for sale too")
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Free Republic is a blog??? It's not one in my opinion. It's a collection of news stories, both liberal and conservative in slant (with the appropriate barf alert for the liberal ones), and opportunities for readers to comment.


47 posted on 02/17/2005 12:34:33 PM PST by SueAngel (I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could.)
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