Is the NYT clever enough to run their McCain story in order to benefit McCain? We know... we’re treading into Ollie Stone territory but honestly, how does that story benefit the Times?
And this would assume they actually want a McCain victory in the general election. One may scoff at the notion but McCain-Feingold is Big Media’s blank check come election time.
Running a lead story “documenting” a handful of past gray-area lobbyist incidents and hi-lited by rumoring a completely unsubstantiated extra-marital affair only solidifies in the minds of many the overt bias displayed by the paper.
Even the more astute operatives within Clinton Inc. and Camp Obama had to slap their foreheads in disgust knowing that the inevitable backlash would manifest itself as sympathy and thus support for McCain. Again, what were they thinking?
Editor Bill Keller appears to be genuinely taken aback regarding the across-the-political-spectrum and overwhelming negative reaction to the article. His response, here. Do these people really live in that insular and hermetically-sealed of a bubble? The Hudson and East Rivers – not just bodies of water but socio-psychological moats.
Running a lead story “documenting” a handful of past gray-area lobbyist incidents and hi-lited by rumoring a completely unsubstantiated extra-marital affair only solidifies in the minds of many the overt bias displayed by the paper.
Even the more astute operatives within Clinton Inc. and Camp Obama had to slap their foreheads in disgust knowing that the inevitable backlash would manifest itself as sympathy and thus support for McCain. Again, what were they thinking?
Editor Bill Keller appears to be genuinely taken aback regarding the across-the-political-spectrum and overwhelming negative reaction to the article. His response, here. Do these people really live in that insular and hermetically-sealed of a bubble? The Hudson and East Rivers – not just bodies of water but socio-psychological moats.
KT, with his thoughts here which includes a link to one of our journalistic guiding lights.
And piece here from Power Line reminds us that as bad as the McCain article is, it pales in comparison to their reporting on the Duke lacrosse rape case for which “shameful” is too charitable and for which the old gray whore should’ve been taken out at the knees.
… and speaking of which… The gang of four from East Coast Bias do an outstanding job breaking down the details of the lawsuit brought against Duke University by those former members of the Duke lacrosse team accused of rape. Read here.
H/T: Little Green Footballs
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As much as I absolutely hate to defend the Duke case, they did have a *slightly* better basis-- there WAS an actual, named (although they wouldn't name her, or mention this wasn't the first accusation) accuser who said that something had actually happened with herself as a witness*.
This is some anon twits saying that they *suspected* that something MIGHT be seen as improper.
Both are too flimsy for the type of stories they generated, but the latter is *slightly* more steady than the first.
*((By the way, I'm all for criminal charges on those pathetic females who make false accusations-- one of my room-mates in the Navy accused her entire shop of sexual harassment, and would've gotten away with destroying their careers if the sole woman in the group hadn't defied her, and prodded the female into also accusing the woman's boyfriend...who was in Reno in front of several multi-stars at the time of the supposed assault. Nothing happened to the female.))
NYT editor Bill Keller thinks the cause of the backlash are his slow witted readers? Aren't the Times readers mostly liberal? Aren't liberals smarter than everyone else, according to scientific studies? What gives here? Oh the cognitive dissonance! (You conservatives can look that up by clicking the link. I know my lib friends already have the meaning down pat, since they are both so much smarter and they live with cognitive dissonance every day.)
Nothing good usually comes from combining young men, booze and strippers and while, "something" may have happened, "something" was not going to pass legal muster.
I hope these men get their pound of flesh. With the hiring of a publicist it would appear that its NOT just about the money.
The behavior of the university and the faculty during and in the aftermath of this riot demonstrates that there are serious institutional biases regarding race, gender and social standing that still exist and need to be exposed and publicised.
Foxfier, Thanks for the link. I noticed it when I was over at your place just now. I might try something similar with my template.
The little blog-reader thing?
It's insanely handy so I don't do a lot of "read this, this and this" posts.
Yes, that would be the one.
btw, unable to comment to your eugenics post. Just wanted you to know I'm glad the culture of death is alive and well on the other side of the Atlantic as well.
Scary, isn't it?
Check out http://johncwright.livejournal.com/ if you don't already read him-- covers a lot of the modern philosophy stuff.
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