Not Waiting For The Asteroid

suicide is so painless, they don't even know its happening.

When you structure articles around embedded agendas you will lose everytime to readers that now have the ability to vett the story for you.

The irony is that no one really cares about their problems anymore. Elvis has left the building.

Corrections?
What corrections?
From my personal perspective there are no corrections worth to see and I'm paid well to do my job to the best of my abilities and have done so, um well anyways compared to the trivia of corrections overlooked from a couple of years ago. phff so?
Not that it matters now.

Hey where's my desk and why was my parking spot name plate removed?

/any current MSM newsprint editor.

But if the newspapers disappear, who will take over as the nations truth tellers and lie exposers?

Anyone?

I struggled with this whole media thing for quite a while back in the 1990's, because it seemed to me that there was only one story being printed about guns. Which was, guns are bad.

I was under the impression that newspapers were impartial. I would write and call reporters to explain why their latest story was incorrect, with the full expectation that a correction would be issued, and the truth would come out.

I kept doing that for several years, still stubbornly thinking that basic honesty would assert itself once the facts became apparent.

Then I began digging into the medical journal articles on gun control. That was when the light finally went on. When you see the same lie reprinted over and over hundreds of times in refereed journals, in spite of letters from learned gentlemen with credentials out the wazoo patiently explaining why the lie is a lie and how to find out the actual truth of the matter... let's just say you can't avoid coming to the conclusion that once may be an accident, twice is a coincidence, a hundred times is enemy action.

How about this poll question, in the Globe and Mail today? It's an example of 'begging the question', a fallacy, where you FIRST have to accept an internal-to-the-question opinion, before you can answer the question.

Here's the question:

"Will President Obama convince Americans to make the hard choices necessary to change the Bush administration's often-failed foreign policies?"

Heh. There are actually multiple fallacies in this esteemed, impartial, unbiased, truth-seeking newspaper's question.

First, there's the basic begging, where you have to accept as truth 'the Bush administration's often-failed foreign policies'. Notice that the question didn't FIRST ask you if you thought these policies were failures. No way. Truth is, according to the G&M, theirs and theirs alone.

Then, how about 'alleged certainty', where it is accepted as beyond question that Obama's actions will be 'necessary'? Oh? This assumes that any of his foreign policy actions will not be subject to criticism because they are already correct and are thus deemed 'necessary'.

Notice also yet another unquestioned assumption; the descriptive evaluation of Obama, i.e. that Obama KNOWS what is necessary and correct.

All of these fallacies, all in one G&M question.

By the way, not a mention of Obama's naive hug-a-terrorist actions, in his letter to Iran, suggesting that all is needed is to 'get along';=.

How about his administration's change of definition of a terrorist action to a 'man-caused disaster', which removes all intentionality of that uh, terrorist, to uh, terrorize and reduces the action to pure accident.

How about his insults to the UK PM, to Sarkozy of France, to the Italian PM?

His Afghanistan agenda? Straight out of Bush's agenda in Iraq, which saw, after the surge had gained control of the country, the new agenda of empowering the local population to themselves fight back against Al Qaeda. The G&M seems to have forgotten this Bush strategy of creating a democracy and then empowering the people.

The Dumbing-Down is intentional. Period. There is no other explanation.

The Media has no interest in making corrections. Why would they ? They make, yes MAKE the mistakes in the first place.

There's one telling line in the WaPo piece: "That basic ethic has since become enshrined in journalism."

The basic ethic they're referring to is publishing corrections when they know a mistake has been made.

Sorry, but for some time now I've laughed whenever the words "journalism" and "ethics" have been used in the same sentence. I simply don't believe that most journalists follow any ethics.

I remember a year or so ago there was a vicious attack against Michelle Malkin by a writer of Newsweek. I reviewed the Newsweek Code of Conduct and it was clear that this fellow had violated it. So I wrote him & his editor. I did get a response but they essentially laughed off my objection, citing something about "leeway".

I'm convinced that most mainstream newspapers have devolved into the mindset of a high school newspaper. Back at my school the newspaper was run by an elite group of English majors. They weren't really the "In" crowd but so sucked up to the Jocks and others, providing flattering stories about them to buy favour.

Think about the media's love affair with Barack Obama and the Democrats. Is it any different?

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but a few years ago didn't the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association or some such organization quietly vote to abandon its own code of ethics since it was an endless source of embarrassment in libel suits?

ummm, er . . . and what is the corrections policy here @ sda? anyone? hello? (hellohellohello . . . . )?

in a related matter, seems the head count of bushite traitors has increased by 1 according to that stalwart MSM source AP. one Vijay Padmanabhan (google it) fessed up about torture committed by CIA types during dubya's tenure.

"I think guanotanamo was one of the worst overreactions of the bushist admin?istration".

and what do we get with torture children? that's right, we get the answers the victim thinks we want to hear especially from that great swirling mass of bystanders caught up in the 21st century version of the spanish inquisition.

chicken little sky-is-falling bunch the lot of them.

dubya, by denying the torture reaffirms he is either the most uninformed commander-in-shyt or a liar.

ta for now, do have a nice torture-free weekend.

Dear inquisitive d1ckweed. The corrections policy is you post a comment containing something other than utter nonsense. Then we go look up the links and say "gee, that could be true."

I'll just get back to my lunch of small kittens in cheese sauce, shall I?

The cult of O, Narcissist: nihilism = Death.

Cults = Death? Jonestown, Guyana; Waco, Texas; Islam, Mao, Stalin, Adolf, etc.

"Mr. Obama tolerates no dissent among the believers."

The MSM is "now trapped in culthood.".
...-

"... we are beginning to see that the media is about to add humiliation to its moral failure, as it grasps that once you worship a Messiah, you cannot leave the cult. Mr. Obama tolerates no dissent among the believers. The recent Obama press conference showed what happens to the shunned New York Times or Washington Post once you even consider climbing over the fence of the compound. What were these sycophants thinking as they watched Obama produce all sorts of bogus figures in assuring that tripling the deficit, then halving it will translate into lessening the present red-ink? Again, imagine a sequel to the Wizard of Oz, where everyone goes on thinking that the floating image on the screen with the smoke really is Oz, despite seeing the tiny man behind the curtain with his hands busy with the levers. The media knows what they’ve become, and already have seen the flip side of their one-eye Jack—and is now trapped in culthood."

"The Ugly—Part Two"
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/771/

and what do we get with torture children? that's right, we get the answers the victim thinks we want to hear especially from that great swirling mass of bystanders caught up in the 21st century version of the spanish inquisition

Anyone want to grapple with that lame boilerplate hyperbole, cognitive and grammatical illiteracy, and sheer, hey, moonbatiness?

Why do I suspect that "inquisitive" has relationship problems of the tortured-soul-not-understood where weekends are a bummer variety?

allan:

Look in the mirror. Where all citizen recorders now. Than look at the site your typing at. Than there are the real Reporters who actually have talent unlike the many false prophets that pass as experts. They have their own sites. Trust me, every comment we make if wrong, someone will know. The MSM have lost the right to be the Chroniclers of record. They have deceived their readership, if not held contempt for them. Not warned us of the follies set upon us, by their buddies the politicians or Ngo‘s.
Have buried stories of import for ideological doctrine. Finally the last election exposed some as just political mercenaries. I ascribe journalist schools & neo-socialism as Journalism’s religion, for the eventual down fall of them through pride. Arrogance knows no shame. It will recover, but only after the dross has been purged.
JMO

Dear Revnant ... far be it from ME of the fat fingers and too fast typing to make habit of bitching about other's spelling and such.

Your intentions are quite clear BUT PLEASE try to understand the difference between the words T-H-E-N and T-H-A-N !

Also W-H-E-R-E and W-E-apostrophe-R-E as in We Are!
Once is a typo maybe?

Repetition just makes us wonder if you don't know any better.

Thanks for saying it OMMAG. I've also been slightly bothered by the repetitive occurences, albeit I generally stand squarely behind Revnant in his views. No offence RD. Onward....