Letters to the Editor
steve_e
Published Letters: 9
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Credibility isn't handed down from god
[Read the article: National journalists believe you should trust them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, and O'Reilly (via Inside Edition) won a Peabody.....er, Polk award.
People distrust the media for a variety of reasons. The people on this blog distrust the media because we want the truth. We're skeptical of news agencies' ability to assess the credibility of their sources. People with purely political agendas want the media to conform to their views (ahem, wingnuts). People who don't want anyone to question the wisdom of the exalted leader think journalists have an agenda (harass the supreme ruler). In addition to wanting the whole truth and just the truth, I don't like stuffed shirts lecturing me about how great they are.
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If you want to see some insanity
[Read the article: National journalists believe you should trust them]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go read some right-wing blogs that talk about the media. I don't think they believe in objective truth. They attack journalists as individuals (which is fine, we do it too), but they also say the whole system is biased against them. The thing is, they don't attack journalists that display a "bias". They attack nobodies who don't seem to have any personal investment in their stories. They have everything backwards. They have no proof at all, just vague feelings that the eggheads are laughing at them and deceiving them somehow. Of course, they don't realize that their leaders are intentionally deceiving them.
When an genuinely biased movement conservative spins a false tale on TV, the wingnuts cheer. When some run-of-the-mill, possibly conservative, anchor corrects the movement conservative's spin, they get angry at the anchor. And it was the anchor who (reluctantly) told the truth!
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DataShade:
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You certainly won't analyses of Redstate commenter's D&D alter-egos in the MSM. I learn something new every day.
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correction...
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You certainly won't find analyses of Redstate...
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Well, the Surge certainly has become CW
[Read the article: Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bush, the Republicans, the media and the wingnuts finally did it. They turned an idea that the public and the military thought was stupid into a "viable" option for addressing a problem. This is definitely an example of them creating their own reality, at least for the time being. We witnessed the creation of the Surge and watched it turn into conventional wisdom. Amazing. Yes, the "surge" will fail. The military knew it, the public knew it, but the president and the Neocons will never recognize it. The Neocons fail because their ideas are preposterous. They seem to think that if they can keep up the ruse, they will never face the consequences. It's not going to work. People are dying for nothing. The failure of this occupation and the deaths of 3,300 American soldiers will be blamed on the Neocons and their followers. Their treading water now. Eventually, they'll sink.
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Good thinking, blindfish
[Read the article: Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Redstate mad lib:
General Sheehan, just like Gens. Zinni, Odom, etc are just disgruntled rejects who got passed over for a [hysterectomy]. Sheehan even voted for a Democrat in [27 BC]. We're better off without them. According to Drudge, Sheehan was forced to [poop] because he was caught Internet chatting with a fourteen year old [unicorn].
Tee-hee, what fun. Now, as a neoconservative, I require more death and destruction. For freedom!
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I don't bet
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I bet...
you all wouldn't have a problem with a national database that tracked everyone who bought a gun.
Well, I can only speak for myself, but I would have a problem with that.
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Uh oh, tiberius gave away the neocon game plan
[Read the article: The Bill Moyers documentary on our failed and barren press]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"just start regulating the press. Then we can insure that they tell the facts that we believe."
Tiberius, you keep trying. We'll keep fighting back.
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Guh? Fuh? Zuh?
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whoa. Thanks for finding that, dantediscourses.
“Greenwald asks who are "they"? Well, they're the bad guys, the people who are killing civilians and soldiers alike in a struggle to prevent Iraq from becoming a stable and peaceful society. And when "they lose," all those who were able to see clearly the difference between us and them, between right and wrong, without letting petulant and defeatist nuance blind them to the truth--they'll have been on the right side of history.”
Why would someone type this? He's admitting he cannot answer the question. His tone is so sure, but the words...they mean nothing.
We're fighting invincible phantoms. Great idea, neocons!