Just in case you haven’t had your fill of year-end roundups, here’s the Media Resource Council, with their annual slew of self-damning media quotes, in this handy .pdf file, and in this page of links to incriminating video.ÂÂ
Actually, with the advent of talk radio, and as the internet age has progressed, the annual roundup of these quotes has become less interesting. The MRC is becoming a victim of its own success in exposing liberal media bias. The MSM has adapted to being scrutinized for slant, nowadays. Many of these quotes are from opinion shows and such, rather than from straight news.  I personally don’t get too aggravated at finding a liberal opinion in a liberal’s column. I mean, we don’t get mad at George Will for having an opinion, do we? Why get mad at Bill Maher, then? So go ahead and enjoy these, and be grateful that you young whippersnappers never had to throw your remote at Walter Cronkite, and feel like you were the only one in the world who felt the same way.
And speaking of best of the year quotes, keep an eye on Blair’s place. His annual collection of Aussie groaners has appeared more sporadically in recent years–I think he’s gradually phasing it out, unless he’s publishing it elsewhere–but it’s worth the suspense once it does appear. So far, all he’s offered up is this and this.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 4:09 pm #
Why do they ignore teh NPR? Maybe they hate barrel-fishing.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 4:36 pm #
Actually I think “The MRC is becoming a victim of its own success…” is being really kind, having paged through that. They could raise the level of their game a lot I think. Was it just me or did they really not look at economic reportage as a category?
Comment by happyfeet on 1/5 @ 7:44 pm #
oh hey. Myself I didn’t think your post needed going, I had just remembered that snippy guy is all. Maybe it would have been better if the old one had been sticky, but that guy should be front and center all weekend ask me.
Comment by Enoch_Root on 1/5 @ 7:50 pm #
“…and then I’m like, ‘Bill… I mean President Clinton… will you come on my face?’ I mean that’s how awesome he is when he speaks… it’s like I just become gay or something – really wild… a-ha ha ha…”
Chris Mathews
Hardball
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 1/5 @ 8:49 pm #
happyfeet:
Nah, I blame myself. As often as I’ve been scooped on posts, I should have searched the archives first.
Comment by jmflynny on 1/5 @ 9:30 pm #
You say that you had a remote during the Cronkite years?
You were way ahead of the curve. I still remember my Grandparents’ 1-ton console t.v./stereo with dials. When my Granddad wanted to change channels, he made me get up and do it.
If I remember correctly, they loved Walt. I wonder what my poor JFK democrat Grandparents would say about things today.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/6 @ 1:49 am #
Someone should just say that Enoch is spot-on and way way funny but also kind of not cause it’s a perfectly serviceable metaphor really.
Comment by B Moe on 1/6 @ 3:00 am #
““[High ratings for Fox’s American Idol] cannot solely be explained by technological advances or a regression in human nature. It cannot be a coincidence that television voting rights arose so soon after the 2000 election left slightly more than half the voting population feeling cheated. Those who didn’t go to the polls and fear that their abstention inadvertently made possible the invasion of Iraq may feel even worse. Idol could be a displacement ritual: a psychological release that allows people to vote  and even vote often  in a contest that has no dangerous or even lasting consequences.â€Â
 New York Times TV reporter Alessandra Stanley”
Television voting rights? Arose? What the fuck?
Comment by Sean M. on 1/6 @ 4:42 am #
I’ve never watched American Idol. And, hey, now that I think of it, that means I’ve never voted for American Idol, too. It’s like my television voting rights have been violated.
BECAUSE OF THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN BU$HITLER’S AMERIKKKA!!!
Comment by McGehee on 1/6 @ 8:37 am #
If being able to vote means I have to watch “American Idol,” it gives whole new meaning to the word “suffrage.”
Comment by happyfeet on 1/6 @ 10:47 am #
I like Idol’s opening, not really credits but just the first 2 minutes whatever. Really brilliant usually. The rest is way better to just let YouTube filter and click when there’s actually something to see.
Comment by happyfeet on 1/6 @ 10:49 am #
Mostly cause I like all the excitement and flash cause you’re about to see something “American” and it’s kind of comforting to know that that can still work when people actually try to do that.
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Comment by Big Dan on 1/7 @ 5:30 pm #
I have a quote that I collected just this morning, whilst eating my eggs and gold-dust omelet: a Twin Cities MN (channel 5) newscaster said, “Gas prices continue to soar” and not 3 seconds later the infographic showed that the prices were DOWN 1 cent per gallon.
So “prices down $.01″ = “continue to soar”. Beyotch.
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