On February 26th, 2009 at 9:01 am, conservativesRus said:
I feel sorry for a “journalism” major. They apparently don’t learn much. Journalism used to be something akin to “getting the facts and reporting them”. Now journalism apparently is the “art of using words to craft an opinion”.
Somewhere along the line, we went from telling the audience the details, and the audience figuring out what to think about it, to the present mode of not even bothering to tell us the details, only telling us what to think.
Just watch any major speech. Almost every program will spend more time playing the talking heads telling us what to think compared to re-playing the actual speech.

Now, when it is very important that the WH occupant’s authoritarian grab of power (abetted by Congress) get exposed for what it is, the “journalists” are just regurgitating his talking points!

On February 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am, lgm said:

…Op/Ed by George Will stating that a large study had found no retreat of sea ice. That group then put out a statement saying their study had found huge retreats of sea ice.

Are you aware that the satellite sensor run by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) which measures ice was degraded and underestimated the total arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles?

Where is the NYTimes story on that?

Of course, missing these stories is not all that unusual considering that while they were harping on arctic ice in ‘07, they “missed” the fact that Antarctic ice was at its highest point recorded.

To use an OP/ED piece to prove that the NYTimes “news” is better is a joke, right?

On February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, happyscrapper said:
Yeah, even Helen Thomas has more credibility.

Yeah, let’s not exaggerate too much…

On February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pm, happyscrapper said:
Yeah, even Helen Thomas has more credibility.

I think I might question that extreme position.
Two times zero is still zero.

Spongebob Squarepants has more credibility regarding current news than the NYT.

Yeah, even Helen Thomas has more credibility.

The Onion has more credibility regarding current news than the NYT. Pathetic!

Spongebob Squarepants has more credibility regarding current news than the NYT.

No retraction or correction yet from the Post.

None required – the group merely issued a disclaimer; also, although both publications are on borrowed time, the Post will outlast the NYT by a decade or so.

Isn’t global warming more important than bankers’ girlfriends?

No. The latter is fact, the former fiction.

The credentialed professionals at the Fishwrap of Record fall for a blindingly obvious hoax.

The writer of the NY Times piece sees all things as a good liberal should, so naturally the editors would love him and give him a pass. Here’s an article he wrote praising Obama’s loose-living, free-wheeling style as something that will be good for the country– while comparing Bush to Hitler because he tried to “live clean.”

Amen!

On February 26th, 2009 at 9:09 am, iamsaved said:

In the words of Margaret Hamilton in the Wizard of Oz – “I’m melting, I’m melting, Oh what a world, what a world”

Don’t you mean, “In the words of Helen Thomas?”

On February 26th, 2009 at 10:33 am, jangar said:
*Batteries not included.

That’s because they are only solar- and/or wind-powered. Or, in the case of the Goreacle, fed by heat from the hot air he spews forth.

*Batteries not included.

On February 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am, lgm said:

Are you not curious enough about global warming to do some independent research on your own rather than believe every liberal point of view on the topic?

Point being…you don’t value any other point of view that does not fit your own.