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   11B40 says September 30, 2012 at 10:57 am

   Greetings:

   My theory about why the Press is corrupt boils down to “access”. Those Presspersons who obtain and maintain “access” in general flourish while those who can’t pretty much disappear. So, there’s a kind of dance that goes on between interviewer and interviewée, how much to push without ending up in journalistic Siberia. As the economic benefits have increased over time, so have the economic pressures.
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   St. Mack says September 30, 2012 at 11:39 am

   Caddell is dead on with his assessment of the media and the go along to get ours GOP. The Republicans nominated the next safe guy in line because it was his turn. The ONLY reason Newt Gingrich was ever a threat to Milquetoast Romney in the primaries was because he had the balls to go after the media. He called them on their BS and people loved it.

   It is frustrating to watch the continued barrage of lies and unreported truths go unchallenged. For the lack of spine spine Romney seems to have, the GOP should have just nominated Boehner and gotten it over with.
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   geoffb says September 30, 2012 at 11:47 am

   I have a different take on it.

   I believe that the takeover of the academe by the left radicals in the late 60′s and a different sort of radical, as per your link above, a decade later,was the turning point for more than just the media takeover that flowed out of the J-school grads.

   Everything that required an advanced degree and didn’t have rigorous performance standards was fair game to be pounced on by the graduating left-wing ideologues. Foundations, union leadership, and government employment in general. It leads to things like this.

   … aside from basic questions about intelligence failures (failures of common sense, too) before and after the Benghazi attack, there are other questions to ask to understand the motives behind the administration’s apparently baldfaced lying.

   Are Obama officials knowingly engaged in distorting the facts, or are they so wed to ideology, to their belief that the Arab revolutions of the past year and a half are positive developments if not roaring successes that all contradictory evidence is discounted as anathema — blasphemy”?

   Or, through penetration, through influence, or through natural cast of mind, are they so sympathetic to the claims and call of the Islamic narrative, that they now see the world from this perspective and thus accept the purported raison d’etre if not the methods of the rioters and terrorists? Certainly, the language used to denounce the video by Obama officials suggests some significant meeting of the minds.
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   leigh says September 30, 2012 at 12:29 pm

   When did J schools become a requirement for newsreporting? Sometime after Watergate when every cub reporter/ette out there wanted to be the next Woodward and Bernstein? Nevermind, that W&B didn’t break anything wide open, they merely outed an internal investigation that was going to go public very soon.
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   LBascom says September 30, 2012 at 12:39 pm

   The other day I made a comment on how the press changes expectations depending on the political party they’re “reporting” on.

   Remember when we measured the health of the economy by the increase in home ownership and jobs? Now it’s measured by the decrease in lost homes and jobs.

   Here is the real world result:

   National Journal: “A majority of Americans now define success as not falling behind. They worry that fundamental changes in the economy are making it more difficult for them—and their children—to get ahead.”