Letters to the Editor
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Advice For Jeff Schneider
This is why we don't trust you media whores.
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Paul
Did you watch the video?
I did. If you saw it, well then, once again we disagree.
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They fixed it on the website...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3015492&page=1
On one particularly memorable trip, the Clintons, just prior to news of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the president's subsequent impeachment trial, escaped to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
During the six-day trip, a French photographer shot candid images of the presidential couple dancing on the beach.
In her autobiography "Living History," Clinton described the incident: "One afternoon midway through the trip, Bill and I put on our bathing suits and ventured down the beach for a swim. Unbeknownst to us, a photographer from Agence France-Presse, the French wire service, was hiding in the bushes on a public beach across the bay. He must have had a powerful telephoto lens, because the next day a photo of us slow-dancing on the beach appeared in newspapers around the world."
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BVI?
Paul -
"Care to write back to ABC and explain to them that St. Thomas is in the US Virgin Islands!"
Ah, but then they would need to travel to Yost Van Dyke and pay a visit to either Harris' Place or Sidney's Peace and Love to verify and round out their story and your paradise would be tarnished by their mere presence.
Oh, how I envy you.
Daily....
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Tom Jo..
When, exacly, was this period of liberal media bias
When Common Sense was a best seller.
I"m on fire!
Soze your face. That's stupid. Soze your face.
HIYO!
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IOKIYAD as usual.
So what do we have here? A closed eye to the Legislative branch usurping function of the Executive? Where is the clarion call of denouncing crimes(Logan Act)committed outside Constitutional limits? I call for investigations, impeachments, trials, and exposure of heinous actions.
Like Senators of yore visiting soulmate Sandinistas, the Capitulation Caucus rides again.
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Give Pelosi a chance
Considering they have accused her of committing a felony, improperly inserting herself into US foreign policy, and wet kissing terrorists, do you think the media will give Pelosi ample opportunity to defend herself? You know, long interviews on the Today show, op-ed space in the WSJ, and/or a prime time press conference?
I didn't think so.
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Have I Forgotten Examples of Media Stampedes Favoring Liberalism?
Yes, there are lots of arguments that I know and respect (though I do not find them sufficiently explanatory) that the major news media have neither a liberal nor a right wing bias, but a ______ bias. (Insert phrase -- scandal, flashy storry, gossipy...)
But, if there's no systematic pattern of the news media favoring the politics of the general elite & right wing (you know, the opposite at least of old-fashioned definitions of 'the left'), let's see those counter-examples.
Let's see those huge, major examples of the news media coverage which following their not-conservative but ______ bias demonstrated in huge coverage errors or wrong analysis & punditry which ended up backing a liberal or leftist perspective.
Where are they?
Surely if there are not-conservative problems of ______ bias, there should be equal numbers of troubling coverage which favored liberal or leftist principles as they have conservative principles.
Maybe I just forgot them.
Maybe there are lots of examples where the news media overwhelmingly followed an unjustified story line and all ended up opposing some proposed US hawkish foreign policy, and I forgot it. Or where they all stampeded together using hacked up data and statistics to endorse greater equity in tax or assistance policies for poor and working folk. Or where the news media all mindlessly repeated union talking points unsupported by facts to oppose some proposed international trade agreement.
I could just have a bad memory. I know that there are some people who interpret this solely as a question of favoring Republicans or Democrats, but that's certainly not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for evidence of when these giant news media mistakes we're complaining about happened to favor actual liberal or leftist causes.
A random error falls in different directions with equal probability.
All my life I've watched the major news media overwhelmingly side with the strong, the wealthy, the hawkish (especially in foreign policy), with occasional and admirable examples where the good journalists in their midst were actually highlighted.
Or so I think. Maybe I forget all the examples where those stampeding herd media mentalities favored the weak, the ordinary working folks, the doves...
I read the press from other countries. There are conservative papers, there are socialist party papers, there are anti-government papers, there are pro-government papers; the readers and population understand this.
The readers seem pretty clear that the different sources have different perspectives & emphases, and few people miss the fact that there can be both great and awful journalism in any of those. But then, in other countries the idea that news media might have noticeable (though non-simplistic) differences in outlook based on their owners & controllers is not seen as some sort of failure of sophisticated analysis. It's a simple reality.
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Bravo, El Cid
I do not know how it could be made any clearer than what you have laid out. It IS a matter of the ideology and profit bias of corporate controllers, no matter the exceptions that so infrequently come along.
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shooter
You must be losing your touch, quoting the Logan Act after Glenn had posted information about Newt Gingrich and his 1998 trip to the Middle East. Here's more for you to digest, Dennis Hastert and his trip to Colombia in 1997:
In 1997, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) led a delegation to Colombia at a time when U.S. officials were trying to attach human rights conditions to U.S. security assistance programs. Hastert specifically encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass” President Clinton and “communicate directly with Congress.”
…a congressional delegation led by Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) which met with Colombian military officials, promising to “remove conditions on assistance” and complaining about “leftist-dominated” U.S. congresses of years past that “used human rights as an excuse to aid the left in other countries.” Hastert said he would to correct this situation and expedite aid to countries allied in the war on drugs and also encouraged Colombian military officials to “bypass the U.S. executive branch and communicate directly with Congress.”
Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Myles Frechette sent a cable complaining that Hastert’s actions had undermined his leverage with the Colombian military leadership.
In other instances, Hastert actually guided congressional staff to unilaterally reach deals with Colombian officials. The full article is here:
http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/4/2858873.html
I seem to remember Tom DeLay taking numerous trips abroad during the 90's, I'll get back to you with more info after I research that aspect. You know as well as I do, that with DeLay's big fat ego he wouldn't have been able to keep his nose out of foreign policy. These are genuine Logan act violations, are you sure you want to talk prosecution? Where is your evidence that Nancy Pelosi even brought up foreign policy issues?