tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post8108132391257857190..comments2023-09-29T06:57:06.991-07:00Comments on Anglachel's Journal: Darling is as Darling DoesAnglachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110546252851760414noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-25781793131109311402008-09-10T01:05:00.000-07:002008-09-10T01:05:00.000-07:00I suggest that while 90% of your analysis is spot-...I suggest that while 90% of your analysis is spot-on, but 10% of it is awry. You seem to attribute the Big Bloggerz behaviour to be on the right side of the media, but I suggest another motivation wrt the Clintons: the feeling that, under the Clintons, they would have lower influence and lower priority of access.<BR/><BR/>Now whether they'll *actually* get that under Obama is another matter; but the motivation was that the bridges had been burned with the Clinton faction long before the primary.NĂ¡mo Mandoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04876501353961485728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-81466204015549171702008-09-09T13:22:00.000-07:002008-09-09T13:22:00.000-07:00This was a tough one for me. The fact that journal...This was a tough one for me. The fact that journalist "like candidates who make them feel like they are on the cusp of history. They worshipped Ronald Reagan because he was a spectacle, the visual personification of their own fantasies about themselves" is really not surprising nor exceptional. <BR/><BR/>Any group controlling major social resource will feel superior and indispensible. What is different about our media is the corruption and deception they employ. Surgeons believe that they are the source of life. They, however, don't claim that they performed a brain surgery when it's only an oral one. Lawyers also suffer from a vastly inflated egos. They feel smarter and better than most of us. Individual lawyers, however, try to do the best job they can rather than spend most of their time promoting their importance.<BR/><BR/>So our complaint is about the lies, e.g. Gore said that he invented the Internet, or their corruption, as in MSNBC attacking Hillary in the debates.<BR/><BR/>When you see a bunch of pundits, typically journalists, talk about politics they look utterly ridiculous. In most cases, their level of understanding of events is infantile. Still, like W Bush, they are full of self importance and their contribution to the country is pure damage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-50563344694199431782008-09-09T11:41:00.000-07:002008-09-09T11:41:00.000-07:00I'm dense. Who is WKJM??I'm dense. Who is WKJM??DancingOpossumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921571838267780848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-22350906339247877852008-09-09T08:07:00.000-07:002008-09-09T08:07:00.000-07:00It is the nature of the main steam press to eithe...It is the nature of the main steam press to either grovel or attack. And even though the word has gone out to be nice to Barry, they are trained to heel when the GOP barks.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-39812661978005266132008-09-09T01:10:00.000-07:002008-09-09T01:10:00.000-07:00Great post anglachel.Clearly demonstrated yesterda...Great post anglachel.<BR/><BR/>Clearly demonstrated yesterday when NBC dumped Matthews and Olbermann as election coverage anchors based on GOP complaints.<BR/><BR/>When both were egregiously assaulting Hillary Clinton the Dem leadership was silent. In part because they must have felt that joining the press in trashing the Clintons would somehow gain them favor.<BR/><BR/>I never agreed with Big Tent's basis for supporting Obama, that pacifying the press was the principle strategy. Just for starters I felt it was just plain wrong and an all too vulnerable foundation for support.<BR/><BR/>For me the proof was that after February Hillary piled up victory after victory in spite of ever increasing assaults by the media.<BR/><BR/>By the way, did your cat ever return?cal1942https://www.blogger.com/profile/00911824399959688680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4119943.post-84585481108110981132008-09-09T00:24:00.000-07:002008-09-09T00:24:00.000-07:00I have assumed for years that most members of the ...I have assumed for years that most members of the media do what they are told by their employers. That includes what stories they cover, and how they spin those stories.<BR/><BR/>The reason I believe this is A) they can't really be that stupid and B) no one would pay them the huge salaries they get for the crap they produce unless that crap was exactly what their employers want.<BR/><BR/>Don't look at the media, look at who owns the media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com