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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Department | |||
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Can we finally blow off the corporate agenda driven mainstream media as virtually useless to people wanting to formulate rational opinions?
It's Stewart By A Landslide!
This comes right after his more than delicious smack down of Mr. Williams on TDS a couple of days back. The Time artile itself is here: Mr. Williams was a distant second place with 29%. Time tries to slough it off but I have other ideas as to why he won. After all, he did no worse than second in any of the states he didn't win. It's time to read the eulogy for the M$M folks. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject: | |
| Just wondering what happened with williams? I don't find him to be that bad. | |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject: | |
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I just think the "real" journalists in our corporate media have come to be recognized for what they are... whores for the corporations that pay them the big bucks.
Being "not that bad" isn't good enough when we're talking about journalistic integrity and being really "fair and balanced". |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:04 pm Post subject: | |
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Couple oddities. The poll gave Kentucky to Couric but the numbers show Stewart and Williams ahead and tied. And Stewart leading in Texas seems a lottle (sic) oxmorn_ish. It would be good news but, really?
Here's hoping the polls reflect people's views of news reach and content v. who delivers it. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject: | |
| It pretty much reflected mine. | |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: | |
I had to look up a pic of Jon Stewart to know who he is.  Not kidding.
IF I watch national news, I stick with Charlie. I like him. 
Obviously, I missed the poll takers here in Florida. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: | |
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Both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report will give you more of the straight scoop on who's doing what to whom than any so called "real" news show with the icing being that they'll make you laugh while doing it.
Stewart had Williams on his show a few days before this poll came out and Williams was going through the usual spiel about how much he always looked up to Walter Cronkite and aspired to be like him. Without blinking or missing a beat Stewart asks him how it feels to have fallen so short. It was a whole damned hurricane of fresh air after a week of all the so called TV "journalists" going on and on about the integrity and honesty of Mr. Cronkite... a man whose shoes none of them are fit to shine, much less try to wear. Maybe if they had spent more time trying to live up to the example he set for them then in selling their souls to Wall Street, we wouldn't have six or seven networks and network news departments full of nothing but but mediocre talking heads whoring for a buck. And yeah, Brian Williams is just as big a whore as the rest of them. |
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