The Media, Losing Their Way - David Broder

[WillyT]

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We don't yet know who will win the 2004 election, but we know who has lost it. The American news media have been clobbered.

In a year when war in Iraq, the threat of terrorism and looming problems with the federal budget and the nation's health care system cry out for serious debate, the news organizations on which people should be able to depend have been diverted into chasing sham events: a scurrilous and largely inaccurate attack on the Vietnam service of John Kerry and a forged document charging President Bush with disobeying an order for an Air National Guard physical.

With these events coming after the editors of two respected national newspapers, the New York Times and USA Today, were forced to resign because their organizations were duped by lying staff reporters, it is hard to overcome the sense that the professional practices and code of responsibility in journalism have suffered a body blow.

After almost a half-century in this business, I certainly feel a sense of shame and embarrassment at our performance. The feeling is not relieved by the awareness that others in journalism not only did fine work on other stories but took the lead in exposing these instances of gross malpractice.

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Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49279-2004Sep25.html

David... I think y'all have LOST your way.

:shrug:

[Nite Owl]

1. I got a little theory on this.

Could the sudden self examination by the media mean that they are planning for Kerry to win and will be making up for the last four years by imvestigating every damned move he makes?

[WillyT]

2. Great Question !!! - I Think, If We All Stay On The Job...

and I mean DU, BuzzFlash, MoveOn... EVERYBODY ON THE LEFT, and don't let our guard down after the election, we can fight the 'Right-wing Clintonizing' of Kerry.

Remember, we have the intelligence, the humanity, and the truth on our side.

They are criminal, christian zealotted, capitalist whores over there. And when they lose this time, their party is gonna implode on itself. And when they kick the moderates out, they're gonna come walkin over to our side.

Just my little pet theory, LOL!!!

:hi:

[Skittles]

10. it's the thousand+ dead soldiers

these media bastards know they have blood on their hands because they didn't do their f***ing jobs, and they STILL are not doing their jobs

[The Zanti Regent]

3. If Mr. Asskisser wants to know what is wrong with the media...

...Mr Asskisser Broder should look at himself in the bathroom mirror. Liars like Mr. Asskisser are the problem.

[Moderator]

4. Kick

:kick:

[tom_paine]

5. NOW he notices?!?

The Media 'lost it's way' a long time ago.

Perhaps not so much lost as stuffed in a sack and driven into the country...

[vinnievin777]

6. The media is pro-Bush thanks to influence and inbedwith reporting

Dan Rather apologized, Now how about the networks apologizing for inundating us with false information that smeared a war hero for the whole month of August?

Vinnie Vin

http://www.vinnievin.com

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[Catfight]

7. Would you explain the picture of the soldier crying and the woman

behind him? I'm not familiar with that picture.

[WillyT]

8. Here Ya Go...

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x704023

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[Catfight]

9. That's really sad, thanks for the explanation. n/t