Posted on 02/19/2003 4:11:43 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Absolutely right! You're supposed to take it from them (the new illuminati), then go forth to 'question authority'.
The biggest conservative fear is not the snobs but the mobs.
As in the mob at the gate.
The mob must be fed just enough crumbs to keep them off the streets.
But not a crumb more.
BUMP
Is Ann Coulter the greatest or what.
I am all in favor of the libs wasting the bucks that they could be spending on defeating Republicans on a wild goose chase like this. The longer they hang on, the more it will drain liberal pockets. This is the best news I've heard since election night 2002.
IMO, she's just reaffirms who she is just about everyday. Thesis, smeshis. Spots haven't changed.
. . . and the audience hears it--and changes the station to Rush Limbaugh.The deadline makes journalism ineluctably superficial; even the most topical book imaginable will have more fact checking, and more perspective, than the reporter on deadline can possibly do. And in contrast to the news report, the book will not be written unless the topic still seems important a month after the event!
So the journalist has a built-in "out" to explain the superficiality of the news--but we-the-people are catching on to the obvious fact that the short-deadline superficiality of journalism runs as cross purposes to serious discussion of serious issues.
Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate
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