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"The
media love to wrap themselves in the
mantle of 'the public's right to
know' but there is no such dedication
to that right when it goes against the
journalists' own prejudices."
-- Thomas Sowell
"I would not be fooled by the old
myth that reporting is about
objectivity. Deciding what is news is the
most subjective of acts and it is
probably the most important thing that
we do." -- Carl Bernstein
"... we live now in the
Age of Post-Journalism. All that was
before is now over, as this
generation of journalists voluntarily
destroyed the hallowed notion of
objectivity and they will have no idea
quite how to put Humpty-Dumpty back
together again." -- Victor Davis Hansen
"Journalism is printing what someone
else does not want printed.
Everything else is public relations." -
Eric Blair, AKA George Orwell
"When I was in school
journalists investigated the
government. Now they just worship
it." -- Robert Ditmer
"Jay Carney is the pimp and
mainstream media are the
"The single
most failed institution in America
today is the press." - Dick Armey
"'The Newsroom': A show
about journalists so self-absorbed and
self-righteous you can't believe it
wasn't written by a journalist."- Jeff
Salamon
See: How
the Mainstream Media Misses the
News HERE
Find "The
word journalist has a distinct smell to
it." -- Alicia Colon,
HERE
"...one of
Taranto's Laws of Journalism: When it
appears in a news story, the word some is a first-person
pronoun." -- James Taranto, 6-3-2009
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Would the Last
Honest Reporter Please Turn On
the Lights?
This [financial
crisis] was completely
foreseeable and in fact many
people did foresee it. One
political party, in Congress and
in the executive branch, tried
repeatedly to tighten up the
rules. The other party
blocked every such attempt and
tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae were making
political contributions to the
very members of Congress who
were allowing them to make
irresponsible loans.
(Though why quasi-federal
agencies were allowed to do so
baffles me. It's as if
the Pentagon were allowed to
contribute to the political
campaigns of Congressmen who
support increasing their
budget.) ...
If you who produce
our local daily paper actually
had any principles, you would
be pounding this story,
because the prosperity of all
Americans was put at risk by
the foolish, short-sighted,
politically selfish, and
possibly corrupt actions of
leading Democrats, including
Obama.
If you who produce
our local daily paper had any
personal honor, you would find
it unbearable to let the
American people believe that
somehow Republicans were to
blame for this crisis.
...
So I ask you now: Do
you have any standards at
all? Do you even know
what honesty means?
Is getting people to
vote for Barack Obama so
important that you will throw
away everything that
journalism is supposed to
stand for? ...
... tell the truth
about John McCain: that he
tried, as a Senator, to do
what it took to prevent this
crisis. You will tell
the truth about President
Bush: that his administration
tried more than once to get
Congress to regulate lending
in a responsible way.
This was a
Congress-caused crisis,
beginning during the Clinton
administration, with Democrats
leading the way into the
crisis and blocking every
effort to get out of it in a
timely fashion.
If you at our local
daily newspaper continue to
let Americans believe — and
vote as if — President Bush
and the Republicans caused the
crisis, then you are joining
in that lie.
-- Novelist Orson
Scott Card, a Democrat, HERE
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"In the past, in the days of ink-stained
wretches and typesetting, it was the editors
and publishers who set the news agenda. A
small coterie of journalists decided what
was most important, what went on page one,
what was to be emphasized day after day." --
David S. Hirschman, Editor & Publisher
"It is not just bias -- the vast majority of
media people are truly ignorant about
economics (as well as history, the military,
etc. etc.) They are mostly privileged
white libs who went to liberal arts colleges,
where they majored in English and were
indoctrinated by left-wing professors.
They then went off to J-school for further
polishing into the little gems we see
today. They have rarely had to engage in
critical thinking or the use of logic to
support their positions. The MSM is a
hive, with a hive mentality. The swarm is
dangerous, but the individual worker bee ain’t
that bright." -- Phineas Gage
Check
out THIS example of
"economics reporting" which goes beyond
embarrassing to the incredibly bizarre.
"It's hard for the media to ignore a
good 'racism' story, even when the definitions don't
fit." -- Neal Boortz
"Many Western
journalists, in contrast to revolutionaries, do
not treat ideas seriously, and
therefore fail to recognize the
power of ideas in action. They don't
realize that chaos and brutality
must accompany a determined effort
to implement ... thorough-going
socialism." --
Prof. Morgan O. Reynolds
.
"Anything other than free enterprise
always means a society of compulsion and
lower living standards, and any form of
socialism strictly enforced means
dictatorship and the total state. That
this statement is still widely disputed only
illustrates the degree to which malignant
fantasy can capture the imagination of
intellectuals." -- Lew Rockwell
"Journalists,
being simplistic by nature and trained to
seek melodrama, almost always screw up
science stories. They simply hate to add
all the qualifiers, conditions and
uncertainties because it detracts from the
drama."-- Charley Reese 6-19-2001
"When covering what scientists say,
reporters are particularly prone to getting
the story wrong. Most of us have
little training in science, little
understanding of how it works, and too much
faith in any one given scientist. ...
Businesses often twist science to make
money. Lawyers do it to win cases.
Political activists distort science to fit
their agenda, bureaucrats to protect their
turf. Reporters keep falling for it."
-- John Stossel, Give Me
a Break.
"The Global
Warming alarmists are the anti-science
religion that is trying to forcibly
indoctrinate and convert everyone while
suppressing dissent. And the news media
are their patsies, their stooges, their
puppets. Right now, let's start
demanding that whenever the local
newspaper or TV stations say anything
about Global Warming, they back it up
with actual data that takes into account
the solar oscillations, the real climate
history of the earth, and the facts
about what CO2 actually does in the
atmosphere. ... It's time to stop
letting them pass along other people's
lies. It's time for the news media to
stop doing cocktail party 'research' and
dig down into the science and get it
right." -- Orson Scott Card
"Journalists
are no better than other liberal-arts
majors at doing regression analysis with
infinite variables." -- P.J.
O'Rourke, Wall Street Journal,
4-16-02
"As the
twentieth century drew to a close, the
connection between hard scientific fact and
public policy became increasingly elastic
... in great part because of the decline of
the media as an independent assessor of
fact." -- Dr. Michael Crichton
"...America's news media and largest
periodicals don't have it [that tiny grain
of knowledge]. They work by the T&P
(trust and parrot) method. They may differ
in whom to trust and parrot; but they
share a common inability to evaluate. They
will find two opposing viewpoints and
manufacture a 'controversy;' for
they think objectivity lies halfway
between the truth and a lie (or worse,
between two lies)."-- introduction to
the Access
to
Energy Newsletter
"I operate under the
assumption that the mass media will never
be accurate. ... It operates with the
objective to simplify and exaggerate,
which is exactly what Walt Disney told his
cartoonists." -- Dr. Michael Crichton,
1-28-05
"The case we made is: with most
reporters, the understanding they have of
most issues has the depth of floor
wax." -- Cal Thomas, 9-18-04
“Framing
is
a process whereby communicators,
consciously or unconsciously, act
to construct a point of view that
encourages the facts of a given
situation to be interpreted by
others in a particular manner.”
-- Jim Kuypers, Assistant Professor
of Communications, Virginia Tech
"...
political reporters love to write
about politics as if they are
merely disinterested observers of
political events and the public's
perceptions of them, when in fact
they play a very key role in
shaping those events and
perceptions." -- Greg
Sargent, a liberal columnist for the
Los Angeles Times
"This is what
passes for journalism today. Participate
in contriving a story and then report it
contrary to the facts." -- Jed Babbin
"Some folks in the media are quite
willing to lie to you." -- D. J. Drummond
It turns out
that the entire Valerie Plame scandal
was a hoax from the beginning, blown
up and perpetuated by the
agenda-driven mainstream media.
Check it out HERE
"Deborah Solomon's
weekly short interviews in the New
York Times Magazine are the most
irritating possible example of the snotty,
smarmy, smug and holier-than-thou attitude
that pervades the entire enterprise that
is the Times." -- Don Luskin
"What a difference
three days make. 72 little hours. In
that time, a New York Times
reporter went from tolling the death knell
of real wage growth to reporting a
7-percent wage jump over last year after
inflation." -- Ken Shepherd
“The
traditional media are playing a
very, very dangerous game -- with
their readers, with the
Constitution and with their own
fates. The sheer bias in the
print and television coverage of
this election campaign is not just
bewildering, but appalling.” -- Michael S. Malone
"... press conferences
... [have] become a customary courtesy over
the years, but courtesy is a two-way street,
except for those in the media who act like
spoiled brats, as if they have some inherent
right to whatever serves their
institutional, career, or ideological
purposes. ... The media love to wrap
themselves in the mantle of 'the
public's right to know' but there is no such
dedication to that right when it goes
against the journalists' own prejudices."
-- Thomas Sowell
See::How to "report" a
phony civilian body count:HERE
"There once was a time
when reporters took pride in their courage.
Now, however, they take pride in their
'political correctness.' That's one
reason why people don't trust the press any
more." -- Tony Snow, 3-30-2000
See
how students at a "prestigious" J-School cheated
on an ETHICS test HERE.
Public Evaluations of the
News Media: 1985-2009
"I’m no longer surprised that journalists
lack an internal regulatory mechanism
(sometimes called 'ethics' or another quaint
old-fashioned term that no longer applies,
'patriotism') to prevent the release of
information that could damage their own
country. On the contrary, they actively
search for that information and release it
with great relish." -- Charles Johnson,
in "The Media are the Enemy," HERE
> How the Media Enable
Terrorism
"A strict
observance of the written laws is
doubtless one of the high duties of a
good citizen, but it is not the
highest. The laws of necessity, of
self- preservation, of saving our
country when in danger, are of higher
obligation. To lose our country by
a scrupulous adherence to written law
would be to lose the law itself, with
life, liberty, property, and all those
who are enjoying them with us; thus
absurdly sacrificing the end to the
means." -- Thomas Jefferson to John
Colvin, 1810
"We are now, my
friends, in a situation where the majority
of Americans get their news and
information about what is going on with
their government from entities that are
licensed by and subject to punishment at
the hands of that very government.
Nobody can truly believe that this is what
our founding fathers had in mind." -- Neal
Boortz
"In
politics, the truth is strictly optional
and that also seems to be true in parts
of the media." -- Thomas Sowell
"America's free press is supposed to be one
of the guardians of our freedom. But
while the press is free it must also be
responsible, and in this it fails
comprehensively. ... If a free press is not
responsible, it cannot be a defender of
freedom. It can become the enemy of all
who fight in defense of our way of life." -- Jed
Babbin
"The
New York Times is now reeling from so many huge
mistakes by reporters and management
that people are saying it's one of the worst
newspapers in America." -- Donald Trump,
10-28-2005
"What is this morbid
obsession that liberals
have with Fox? It's as if
Democrats, pampered and
spoiled by so many decades
of the mainstream media
trumpeting the liberal
agenda, are so shaky in
their convictions that
they cannot risk an
encounter with opposing
views. Democrats have ABC,
NBC, CBS, CNN, the New
York Times, Newsweek, Time
and 98 percent of American
humanities professors to
do their bidding. But no,
that's not enough -- every
spark of dissent has to be
extinguished with buckets
of bile."
-- Democrat Camille
Paglia
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"Bigheaded lectures for the umpteenth
time about the 'century-old standards' at The
New York Times, the 'legacy' of Edward
R. Murrow or the 'prestige' of the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism do
not cut it anymore in a world of Jayson Blair,
Eason Jordan and Dan Rather." -- Victor Davis Hanson
"Not only
is the media biased, but it's biased in
the way it even covers itself." -- Neal Boortz
"...there's a
difference, even in publishing, between
the lies we tell about ourselves and the
lies we tell about others. It is a
rare publisher that troubles to fact-check
an author's claims, especially in times
when proofreading can seem like too much
trouble." -- New York Times
Editorial, 1-13-06
"Recently two highly
respected journalists -- one on the left
and one towards the righht -- tried to
make a case for saving the business that
has been their bread and butter:
newspapers. They both failed. ...
'... people in the newspaper business try
to make me feel better about working in
the newspaper business,' Pitts wrote." -- Paul Chesser
TimesWatch
presents the Top 10 Lowlights of the
New York Times of 2005
"We certainly don't view government
with the same awe we felt before Watergate
broke, or journalism with the same respect
it had before Dan Rather struck, but all
available evidence suggests that it was
our earlier attitudes that were
misinformed." -- Glenn Reynolds
"All is woe and
darkness in the house of media. If you were
measuring journalists' public standing on a
scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, right
now we're in less-than-zero territory ...
The great flaw of media-scandal coverage is
that it's so intramural: journalists
covering other journalists in trouble ...
this is a bit like assigning a second cousin
of the Gambinos to cover The Family's latest
criminal trial. ... The real lesson of the Times
scandal is ... that the Age of Media
Arrogance is over." -- William Powers
"But I
stopped watching [CBS]
some time ago. The unremitting liberal
orientation finally became too much
for me. ... A large swath of the
society doesn't trust the news media.
And for many, it's even stronger than
that: They abhor the media and
perceive it as an escalating threat to
the society."-- Van
Gordon Sauter, former
President of CBS News, in
the Los Angeles Times,
1-13-2005
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| "The MSM [mainstream media]
is very defensive of its
credibility, and is loathe to
point out serious errors no
matter who points them out.
It’s all the worse when
upstart media competitors like
bloggers point out the
errors." -- Don Luskin |
| "Newspapers
do
have a few things going
for them....you can't line
the bird cage with the
Internet or wrap fish in a
cable news channel." --
Neal Boortz |
| "It is
kind of ironic when you think
about it. I mean the internet
was begat by the old Arpanet
which was created to keep the
flow of important data moving
through alternative nodes when
one or more of them became
disabled or nonfunctional. ...
Not just ironic. Delicious."
-- Jessica's Well |
| "The
Internet interprets
censorship as damage and
routes around it." --
John Gilmore |
| "Decades
of state censorship have
yielded a mastery of euphemism
and allegory so subtle the
Chinese government ends up
promoting films meant to mock
its rule. If any culture
will find a way to discuss
freedom while routing around
[the censorship of] the word
freedom, it's China's." -- Kerry
Howley |
| "What's even
more laughable is those in the
press (like the amazingly
pompous and inane New York
Times) who are now
tut-tutting about how awful it
is that these independently
funded groups are allowed to
be heard. Oh, what is it
you're afraid of, Mr. News
Editor Man? That you don't get
to be the gatekeeper of what
people are allowed to hear
about any more? ... The
Internet has detected the
mainstream media as a form of
censorship and simply routed
around them." -- Dean Esmay |
| "A sudden loss of status and
influence is a profound shock
to most people who have spent
their lives aimed at the
acquisition and enjoyment of
socio- political standing.
Relieved of the ability to
shape the consciousness and
behavior of others, a certain
number unburden themselves of
the inner restraints which
kept them from openly voicing
the condescension and scorn
they have for those whom they
regard as their social,
intellectual, and moral
inferiors." -- Thomas Lifson |
| "The real luxury [of the
internet in general and the
blogosphere in particular] is
not having someone like you
[MSM people] misrepresent what
people are, do and mean by
your selective 'fact-sifting',
out of context quoting, and
sloppy reporting. ...
I am targeting the entire
profession here. I am an equal
opportunity ranter." -- Adriana Lukas |
"A bunch
of amateurs, no matter how
smart and enthusiastic, could
never outperform professional
neurosurgeons, because they
lack the specialized training
and experience necessary for
that field. But what
qualifications, exactly, does
it take to be a
journalist? What can
they do that we can't?
Nothing. Generally
speaking, they don't know any
more about primary data and
raw sources of information
than we do -- often
less. Their general
knowledge is often
inadequate. Their
superior resources should
allow them to carry out
investigations far beyond what
we amateurs can do. But
the reality is that the
mainstream media rarely use
those resources. Too
many journalists are bored,
biased and lazy." -- John Hinderaker
"Journalists
are no better than other
liberal-arts majors at doing
regression analysis with
infinite variables." -- P.J.
O'Rourke,WSJ, 4-16-02
Guerilla Media
on the rise |
| "Question:
What does the stock market
know that the mainstream
media [MSM] do not?
Answer: almost everything."
-- Larry Kudlow |
| "The power
of the blogosphere (more
properly, the internet) does
not lie in a handful of
bloggers with well-read sites.
It resides in the hundreds of
thousands, or millions, of
smart, well-informed, engaged
readers who, collectively,
have amazing knowledge and
expertise in just about any
area you can think of. What is
new is the ability to bring
together these disparate
sources of knowledge, analyze
them, and disseminate them in
real time. We help to do this,
but on a big, fast-breaking
story like this one, the real
impetus comes from our
readers--a point we make in
every interview we give." -- John
Hinderaker |
"The
people in the MSM don't
think of themselves as
liberal. They're just
in favor of
collectivism and against
individualism
in general -- without
using many labels (or mucch
thought) of any
kind. They go out of
their way only to mention a
minority group if they
can. Groupism is what
they believe in." -- Rick
Gaber
"World
Ends;
Women,
Minorities
Hardest
Hit"
-- headline parody by James
Taranto, HERE.,
6-6-03
"Report:
Tsunami Hit Women Hardest"
- headline, CNN.com, 3-26-05
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| "The
MSM's avoidance of the individualist
perspective is now
routed-around." -- Rick
Gaber |
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"Look Bernie, of course there's a
liberal bias in the news. All the networks
tilt left." -- CBS
NEWS President Andrew Heyward,
to six-time EMMY award winner Bernard
Goldberg
.
See how "editors and policy wonks on the
left are so obviously up to their old tricks
already" HERE.
SHAME on the media for burying this story about
Louisiana authorities preventing the Red
Cross and Salvation Army from delivering
food, water, medicine, and care to the
people trapped in the Superdome,
Convention Center and all of New Orleans.
.
"Remember how CBS News spiked a poll
showing 67 percent of Americans supported
George W. Bush's tax cut plan? It
didn't stop there. Now ABC News has
poll results it doesn't want to
handle. An ABC News/ Washington Post
poll found that 58 percent think Bush's tax
cut is 'about right' or 'too small.'
Only 36 percent said it was 'too big.'
Did these results make it to air? Of
course not!" -- Neal
Boortz,
3-29-01
"The media seem to have come up
with a formula that would make any war in
history unwinnable and unbearable: They
simply emphasize the enemy's victories and
our losses." -- Thomas Sowell
.
"Headlines
from
Afghanistan always read 'Five Soldiers
Killed and Wounded,' not '150
Taliban Killed.' If today's
journalists reported the Battle of Midway,
we'd read 'U.S. Aircraft Shot From
Skies,' with a brief mention of the
destruction of the Japanese carrier fleet
buried at the bottom." -- Ralph Peters
Domestic spying?
The Clinton administration spied
domestically on the Conference of
Catholic Bishops, Jerry Falwell, the
NRA, Cardinal O’Connor and others, none
exactly international terrorists.
You remember the unrelenting uproar
about it in the nation's press and
airwaves, don't you? You
don't? Oh, yeah,
right. Never
mind.
"I’m no longer surprised that
journalists lack an internal regulatory
mechanism (sometimes called 'ethics' or
another quaint old-fashioned term that no
longer applies, 'patriotism') to prevent
the release of information that could
damage their own country. On the contrary,
they actively search for that information
and release it with great relish." --
Charles Johnson, in "The Media are the
Enemy," HERE
"Sometimes
the
fourth estate seems more like a fifth
column."-- Dr. Thomas Sowell, HERE
and HERE
"It's the enemedia." -- Fred Nerks
"Suppose that American
media were really funded and supported
by the Muslim Brotherhood, and openly
opposed to the United States. How would
the coverage differ? Answer: not
at all." -- Charles Johnson
"Why do 'they' [the editors of The New
York Times] hate us?"
-- Michael Barone
Journalists invite
terrorist to a party, yuk it up with him,
and now The Guardian
actually hires a supporter of
terrorism. (How chic. Vomit.)
“Muslim Community Leaders Warn
of Backlash from Tomorrow Morning’s
Terrorist Attack.”-- parody
of a Guardian headline written by a
commenter on Tim Blair’s website in
Australia
"Moral relativism has set in so deeply
that the gilded classes have become
incapable of discerning right from wrong.
Everything can be explained away, especially
by journalists. Life is one great moral mush
-- sophistry washed down with Chardonnay."
-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
"Caught up in
the hidden marxist agenda of their
postmodern rhetoric, ... the graduates
of these journalism schools march in
lockstep with ... the poor victimized
terrorists and all the helpless and
persecuted dictators and tyrants ..." --
Pat Santy
“Islamists who
murder non-Muslims in pursuit of
explicitly Islamic goals are airbrushed
into vague, generic 'rebel forces.'
You can't tell the players without a
scorecard, and that's just the way the
Western media intend to keep it.” -- Mark Steyn
.
The AP calls
terrorist mastermind bin Laden a
"dissident" here.
Outrageous.
"Sheridan’s omissions are part of a
larger problem of journalists who have
wittingly or unwittingly become defacto
public relations representatives for
extremist Islamist groups. Taking their
press releases at face value, journalists
have helped effectively to cover up the
larger, serious issue of the growing secret
network of the Muslim Brotherhood in the
US." --Andrew Cochran
See how "the
last five years of relentless
dishonesty and fecklessness in the American media" have made nuclear war a
near-certainty here.
"The courts have given the news media
carte blanche, in the name of the First
Amendment -- but the media are no better
than government at exercising unchecked
power. When it's known that no one can
punish you, a certain kind of person stops
caring whether he hurts anybody. And such
people tend to rise within any organization
that doesn't work hard to have a
conscience." -- Orson Scott Card
"... all of the major news outlets in
this country, at this very moment in fact,
have been ... scurrilous and malevolent." --
Kowalski
"There is corruption in our business [of
journalism]," he said. "We need to get back
to basics. This war should be studied and
talked about. In the run up to this war, to
my mind, there was a gross abdication of
responsibility." -- John Burns HERE
.
"After rioters have been christened
'demonstrators' by the media, it was perhaps
inevitable that terrorists would be
christened 'militants'." -- Dr.
Thomas
Sowell
“Kidnap and behead
Westerners, or bomb schools, and the
Associated Press will call you an
'insurgent.' At worst, a militant. ... But
attack a dictatorial Ba’athist regime and
suddenly you’re a terrorist, sans scare
quotes...” -- Charles Johnson
"... how the Reuters 'news'
service
described its effort to treat terrorists
and their victims 'on a level playing
field'."--
James Taranto
."Is there any
more cowardly class of Americans than
journalists? ... the nation’s media
professionals have lately demonstrated a
kind of courage rarely seen outside a
hamster cage." -- Tim Cavanaugh
"When our media has the testicular
fortitude to report on terrorists honestly,
then they will have gained the moral
authority to lecture any White House on
censorship and the responsibility of fully
informing the public. Until then, such
demonstrations as we saw this week by the
White House press corps only stands as a
perverse monument to the media's hypocrisy
and venality." -- Ed Morrissey, 2-19-2006
"Refusing to
even acknowledge the Santorum-Hoekstra
announcement is another black eye for
American journalism, and further
evidence that the MSM is (thankfully) on
its last legs." -- Spook86
The New York Times
disorts Rep. Hoekstra's letter
.
"This cult of murderers [Iraq's terrorists]
will kill some of their own women and
children and then try to make it look like
they were killed by American forces. The
media, of course, will fall right in line
with this anti-American game." -- Neal
Boortz
"I'm not so old as the Gray Lady, but it
seems to me the working motto of the
New York Times has always
been 'All the news that fits our
agenda,' not just since its
various story-fabrication scandals came to
light." -- Rick Gaber
.
“Anything negative, no matter how
commonplace, can make the front page of
the New York Times, while even remarkable acts of
bravery or compassion are passed over in
silence." -- Thomas Sowell
"The Times' new motto: 'all
the news that others find unfit to
print'."-- Don Luskin
The New York Times is
being sued over its motto.
Check out The Fat Lady's Comical
Self-Importance as well.
"Like the activist who loves The People
but despises every actual person he meets,
the Times’ editorial page takes
liberal stands when the issue is safely
abstract -- but when it comes to the paper’s
profits and political battles, the Little
Guy can get bent." -- Matt Welch
"The New York Times: It Just Can’t Stop
Hating Success and the American Way of Life"
-- Dr. George Reisman
.
"The press is hostile
to the idea of liberty. Most people
in the press are for big government ...
[they] think that the solution to
anything, whether it's health care
problems, education, whatever it is --
it's got to be more government." --
Harry Browne, July 4, 2002
"When your response to everything
that is wrong with the world is to say,
'there ought to be a law,' you are saying
that you hold freedom very cheap." --
Dr. Thomas Sowell
"It seems as though you can't go a week
without some idiotic myrmidon yelling,
'there oughta be a federal law!' " -- Neal Boortz
"It's gotten to
the point where relying on journalists
to be government watchdogs (to
protect liberty against demagogues), is
like relying on pedophiles to be
inspectors of daycare centers (to
protect toddlers against abuse)." --
Rick Gaber
"The purpose of the government is to
provide the service, and the purpose of the
media is to provide the vaseline." -- old
libertarian joke
"The time is
long overdue for schools of journalism
to start teaching economics. It
would eliminate much of the nonsense
and hysteria in the media, and with it
perhaps some of the demagoguery in
politics." -- Thomas Sowell
"It is no crime to be ignorant of
economics, which is, after all, a
specialized discipline and one that most
people consider to be a 'dismal
science.' But it is totally
irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous
opinion on economic subjects while remaining
in this state of ignorance." – Murray N. Rothbard
"Never --
and I mean never -- blindly trust the
statistics you read [or hear] about
the economy." -- Don
Luskin, HERE
“Americans are fed a steady diet of
idiotic commentary and specious 'analyses'
most of which flow smoothly down the gullets
of unsuspecting nightly-news, viewers,
newspaper readers, and National Public Radio
devotees. But for those of us vexed with
some comprehension of supply and demand,
comparative advantage, the role of prices,
the nature of money, and other economic
insights, most of what is uttered or written
by the news media on economic topics is so
ignorant that it hurts to hear it.” --
by Donald J. Boudreaux
"Well, of
course capitalism is the
cause of prosperity. Given the
overwhelming evidence of the 20th
century, only a New York Times
reporter would regard this as a
surprising or controversial conclusion."
-- Robert Tracinski
"As a leap of faith, let us assume that
the New York Times is telling the
truth about the facts. What does this one
woman's story prove in a country of more
than a quarter of a billion people? ... The
Timesstory gets around that problem
by simply declaring her to be like 'millions
at the bottom of the labor force' who are
part of 'the hidden America.' This
unsubstantiated assertion is crucial to the
point that they are trying to make.
But what if your faith can't leap that far?"
-- Thomas Sowell
See "how
the process of straining political
events through the standard
journalistic narrative templates -
especially the right-vs.-left
narrative -- can simplify a
story so greatly that it emerges as a
different story, perhaps even the
wrong story" HERE.
"What chiefly distinguishes the daily
press is its incurable fear of ideas, its
constant effort to evade the discussion of
fundamentals by translating all issues into
a few elemental fears, its incessant
reduction of all reflection to mere
emotion."-- H.L. Mencken
"The mainstream
media is to information what American
Idol is to real talent and ability."
-- Mike Hu
"It used to make me incredibly angry anytime
I saw a story like this reported in such a
sloppy and dishonest fashion. It still makes
me angry, but it comes as absolutely no
surprise anymore. I have come to expect this
kind of crap from the mainstream media. The
only nice thing I can say is that at least
they are consistent ... just imagine that your
local newspaper, read by everyone you know,
wrote a story saying that you were accused of
some horrible act -- let’s say rape for the
men, child beating for the women. Imagine that
the headline and opening dozen paragraphs of
the story herald the accusations made against
you. Then in the thirteenth paragraph of the
story they say that DNA tests have cleared you
of the rape (for the men) or that an
investigation had found no evidence of child
abuse (for the women). Let’s say that your
local television news picks up the story, and
reports the accusations, but doesn’t bother to
report the DNA or investigation
results." -- Lorie Byrd
"If you haven't been under a rock the last
few weeks, or relying on the mainstream
media as your sole source of news [which
is even worse], you are likely aware of
some of the questionable circumstances
surrounding the organization Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN)." -- Jeff Poor
Journalists conceal Julian Bond's crazy
talk here.
"Large
sections of the international media are
not only misreporting the current
conflict in Lebanon. They are actively
fanning the flames." -- Tom Gross, National Post
"Following a precision strike
by bloggers from around the world, the
mainstream media's reputation can be seen
going up in photoshopped smoke in
Lebanon." -- Perry de Havilland
"Now that the
wire services and their photographers
have been called out on it, they're all
dancing on the head of a pin trying to
explain away the discrepancy.
They've been nailed as willing
participants in the Islamic terror
propaganda efforts." -- Neal Boortz, HERE
"An analysis by David Boaz of
the Cato Institute found that major
newspapers used the phrase 'shift the
court' 36 times in covering the
Alito nomination. They referred to changes
in the 'balance of the court'
32 times and 'the court's balance'
another 15 and used the phrase 'shift to
the right' 18 times. ... By way of
contrast, not a single major newspaper used
anything like those phrases when the Senate
considered the Ginsburg nomination, though
her appointment would clearly change the
ideological makeup of the Court." -- Wall
Street Journal Political Diary 1-24-06
"I was a liberal from a family of
liberals, until I compared the media reports
on the Clarence Thomas hearings with the
actual hearings." -- hippoetry
"Accurate
reporting loses out to sensationalistic
reporting every time. Thus we like to
say that, at least when it comes to long
term accuracy, no pundit survives
contact with a historian. ... Editors
also rely on the fact that most
consumers of mass media news do not
revisit old stories to see how accurate
they were. Historians, however, do that
all the time." -- Jim Dunnigan
"British PM Stanley Baldwin once dismissed a
similar abuse of media power as 'power
without responsibility, the prerogative of
the harlot throughout the ages'. In fact,
the performance by much of the media is
probably a slur on most sex workers, who,
one presumes, don't generally dismiss the
wishes of 40 to 50 per cent of their
customers. Many journalists are certainly
living down to their standing as one of the
least-respected occupations." -- Michael Warby
THIS study by the
Election Science Institute says exit polls
in Ohio put John Kerry
ahead of George Bush because those who
voted for the President were more
reluctant to respond to the
pollsters. (Well, duh! WHO in
their right minds expect Republican voters
to trust ANYbody who might work for the MSM? Oh, I
forgot -- the MSM!)
"One media observer noted that in fact,
'there was a time in this country when
psychopaths, simpletons and political hacks
were not allowed to report the news.' ” - Media
Giants Fail To Deny Diversity Programs
(Associative Press) [satire by Lewis
Napper]
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