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If you were going to make a list of the Top Ten Media Failings In 2004, regardless of your political affiliation, don't you think the Rathergate affair would be on it?
The "progressive research" specialists at Media Matters must not have been watching the same media coverage as the rest of the nation, as they failed to rank it, and darn near failed to mention it...
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Comments (17)
- Kevin... A thourogh readi... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Hunter | November 18, 2004 2:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
- Kevin... A thourogh reading of both the links show them to be no much more than DNC media arms...I won't even take the time to bother refuting anything on either site... They repeat ALL of the lies and distortions of the Kerry camp....From their point of view the failures of the MSM all stem from not lying and pushing the distortions ENOUGH.....Totally a waste of time to even respond to them....
1. Posted by Hunter | November 18, 2004 2:43 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 02:43
2. Posted by DEagle | November 18, 2004 3:14 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
After reading the comments regarding the Swift Boat Vetrans, there was no need to continue. This group is too left-leaning to bother with.
2. Posted by DEagle | November 18, 2004 3:14 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 03:14
3. Posted by austin mls | November 18, 2004 5:58 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow. Rathergate doesn't make it, but yet "Media repeated GOP spin that Kerry is weak and terrorists wanted him to win."
Wow.
3. Posted by austin mls | November 18, 2004 5:58 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 05:58
4. Posted by VA Jim | November 18, 2004 6:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Media Mutters is ... dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda.
Sounds 'noble', until you realize that anything not socialist is conservative agenda to these people. Writers come from the Alliance for Justice, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Violence Policy Center, National Partnership for Women and Families, General Clark, and Howard Dean's campaign. It's actually a retirement home, a place where the castoffs from losing LLL agendas can be pastured.
In the end, Media Mutters is just another scam to extract money from Soros and other koolaid guzzlers.
4. Posted by VA Jim | November 18, 2004 6:56 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 06:56
5. Posted by Steve L. | November 18, 2004 7:09 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Did this yahoo ever watch the news at all?
5. Posted by Steve L. | November 18, 2004 7:09 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 07:09
6. Posted by LJD | November 18, 2004 7:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It proves once and for all the ill effects of the ovewhelming conservative media bias...
(laughing to myself)
6. Posted by LJD | November 18, 2004 7:54 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 07:54
7. Posted by Gizmo | November 18, 2004 8:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They repeat the bogus claim of "That means more Americans cast their vote against Bush than against any other presidential candidate in U.S. history."
The votes cast against Clinton in 1992 totaled 58,845,539... that's more than Kerry and Nader (the "Anti-Bush Vote") received this time around.
7. Posted by Gizmo | November 18, 2004 8:35 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 08:35
8. Posted by Steve L. | November 18, 2004 8:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gizmo,
There you go. Introducing facts into a discussion. How are the Dems going to ever convince people that they are right if you keep doing that?
8. Posted by Steve L. | November 18, 2004 8:43 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 08:43
9. Posted by Crank | November 18, 2004 10:03 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've long described Media Matters as cargo-cult media criticism: they have taken the form of conservative critics of the media and totally misunderstood the point.
Rathergate was the most egregious, but really the most significant media failing by far this year was the failure of the MSM to investigate the Oil-for-Food scam, which is bigger than Enron and Abu Ghraib all rolled into one.
9. Posted by Crank | November 18, 2004 10:03 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 10:03
10. Posted by Paul | November 18, 2004 10:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You what I genuinely don't get...
How can anyone with a brain type that?
I mean really. Anyone who can write that well surely has enough on the ball to realize that what they are saying is bogus.
Are they knowing lying?
Do they really believe it?
I have a pretty big bully pulpit here at Wizbang and I'll be damned if I could get that many facts wrong and still be proud of my work.... I dunno- Major disconnect.
10. Posted by Paul | November 18, 2004 10:05 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 10:05
11. Posted by The Old Coot | November 18, 2004 10:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Paul: When you do (rarely) have a glitch, your fans are commenting all over you, unlike those lefty-blogs. I'm sure glad you're there...hope you never lose your edge.
11. Posted by The Old Coot | November 18, 2004 10:13 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 10:13
12. Posted by Oyster | November 18, 2004 10:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
All I had to do is read #1 and decided I didn't need my intelligence insulted beyond that point. "...nor did Iraq provide Al Qaeda with training, funding, or any other assistance worthy of note,..." Huh?
Can anyone say "Salman Pak"?
Can't get anymore blatantly ignorant than that.
The above quote from #1 proves that they're simply upset at not lying well enough, or early enough.
12. Posted by Oyster | November 18, 2004 10:20 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 10:20
13. Posted by FreakyBoy | November 18, 2004 10:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That article is an out of body experience; like drfiting in space with no point of reference.
13. Posted by FreakyBoy | November 18, 2004 10:56 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 10:56
14. Posted by Hunter | November 18, 2004 11:02 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
- Paul, its a "check your brain at the door" online asshat screed journal....I'm convinced they offer "Crap journalism 301" in some of the libtard institutes of higher lunacy....
14. Posted by Hunter | November 18, 2004 11:02 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 11:02
15. Posted by TC-LeatherPenguin | November 18, 2004 11:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Media Matters" reads like the student newspaper at "Moonbat U."
15. Posted by TC-LeatherPenguin | November 18, 2004 11:41 AM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 11:41
16. Posted by Dustin | November 18, 2004 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It does reference rathergate, its number 7. Of course it says that too much attention was paid to the evidence and not enough to the charges. Haha that funny
16. Posted by Dustin | November 18, 2004 2:23 PM |
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Posted on November 18, 2004 14:23
17. Posted by NED | November 19, 2004 12:04 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
After reading their article, I have come to the conclusion that there is really only one Media Failing in 2004; that the media failed to boot dubya outta the white house and move Kerry in.
In other words, not only has the media failed to accurately provide the news, but they have also failed to properly disseminate propaganda.
I never thought I'd be so glad that journalists were incompetent.
But truthfully I give them too much credit. The truth is that the American people are far wiser than the punditry gives them credit for.
NED
17. Posted by NED | November 19, 2004 12:04 AM |
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Posted on November 19, 2004 00:04