We still don't know for sure whether the documents weren't authentic.

This was fake but accurate anger!

Boo!

Where's the bloody scotch?

This already got bumped once by mu.nu's ##$%ing spam filter. I'll try again.

From David Bauder, writing for the AP:

NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power....

The mute button seemingly in place since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been turned off.

One would almost begin to suspect that the media is a group of like-minded liberals looking out for each other's interests.

I.Am.Shocked.

"[I]ts spokescreatures have been too polite.

Sure. That's the same thinking that got the Democratic Party Howard Dean as chairman.

Sorry, that should be "chaircreature."

Think it will work any better?

The tone I'm sensing is they feel it's time to shut up and move on to the next issue... politicians and media figures who were screaming last week about investigations and recriminations are back pedaling now that some facts are challenging their accusations.

Sunday morning shows seemed to begin this trend.

It feels to me like if they move on now, they'll have scored the political damage they wanted without having to deal with any nasty facts that prove them wrong.

Journalism was one of my many college majors

It fell between my stints as an Art Major and TV/Film, circa 1977-78.

We talked about the liberal/conservative aspect of reporting. As I recall, the concensus was that conservatives tend to write stories that support the status quo while liberals tend to look for the truth, no matter who gets hurt. Pravda was cited as an example of a conservative paper.

Another aspect was that while good journalists tend to be liberals, publishers (being rich) tend to be conservative.

http://www.classicmarvel.com/phorum/read.php?3,12010,12304#msg-12304

while liberals tend to look for the truth, no matter who gets hurt.

Bwaaahhh ha ha ha. That is sooo funny and patently absurd it hurts laughing.

liberals tend to look for the truth

Yeah, if I posted brain-dead shit like that, I'd do it anonymously, too. And the rich publisher thing: priceless. Allah knows there are no rich liberals.

Oh, shoot. Come to think of it, that's so over the top it smells of troll. Troll hunting isn't fun. It's like kissing Auntie. :(

Conservative publishers try to rein in stories that would upset their status quo but cannot do too much lest they end up with a blank sheet of paper and an empty newsroom. The Washington Post was a good example, where publisher Martha Graham originally impeded efforts to print the stories of the Nixon Gang.

When the Reagan Reich began, his backers undertook the politicization of journalism. Firts news services were gutted. We were told "the American people are tired of political scandals" as an explanation on why Reagan perpetually got a free ride from the press (for example, warning signs of Alzheimers appeared as early as 1981 but were dismissed or derided as inconsequential foibles). News organizations were being bought by conglomerates with strong ties to the military.

By the Clinton administration, the network news divisions were obviously leaning right. Major stories by the dozens (if not hundreds) were tossed aside in favor of a cheap "continuing White House Scandal" story.

The ultra-right started creating their own news services during the Reich, when Korean nutcase Sun Yung Moon created The Washington Star. The paper was declared a "counterbalance" to the Post. In truth, the paper was actively Republican and extremely conservative.

The pattern was then followed by Rupert Murdoch, who decided CNN was ultra liberal and ordered his nascent organization to skip any pretext of moderation. GOP legislators rewarded Murdoch by passing a wide variety of laws that benefited either him directly or his business interests.

Far from being a liberal front, CNN is a great example of a moderate news alignment. In truth, they tend to be moderate leaning toward lightly conservative. Remember, they gave regular airplay to some extremely conservative demoagogues.

And as for Ted Turner's politics, remember he is responsible for a series of mega-budget Confederate apologist flicks. GETTYSBURG, GODS AND GENERALS, THE HUNLEY, and his other flicks parrot the cherished lies Conservatives and Southerners tend to tell about the great treason.

http://www.classicmarvel.com/phorum/read.php?3,12010,12304#msg-12304

Conservative publishers try to rein...[screed continues]

Further supporting my BlogTheory™ that only moonbats post coma inducing, content-free screeds in blog comment postings.

I think you for supporting my continued research into the moonbat psyche.

Wow. I think I lost some brain cells reading that.

Parody of the Left is increasingly difficult to distinquish from reality these days.

uhm... this thread IS parody of the Left, right?