Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Betrayal of Journalists

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

Hey Larry: In my 40 odd years in the newspaper racket, working in well over a 
dozen newspapers, and working anywhere from a printer, reporter/photographer, 
to director of operations, I found that must of the reporters and editors that 
I worked with were liberal to a fault. I believe it was the 4+ years in 
J-School, when they were molded by the professors, who were, by in large, 
liberal, of not pure socialists?to the extreme.

As far as the publishers go, they had to answer to the owners, who were mostly 
conservative, and only interested in the bottom line. Speaking from my own 
experience, the Gannett Corp. (USA Today) is the worst offender, spewing out 
nothing but liberal/PC garbage. I worked for them the last 10 years of my 
'checkered' career, and I took early retirement just to feel clean again. And, 
of course,?have enough time to really enjoy the Shitbox.

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT 
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Betrayal of Journalists



Hi Tom,
You wrote <<in most cases, the editors and/or publishers of newspapers are 
rather wealthy conservative types>>

Not sure where you got that but I believe the largest, most influential 
papers are very liberal - NYT, Globe and Wa Post as you suggest.

But I think the term Liberal Journalists is intended more to describe the 
news readers on network TV - I saw somewhere that few Americans get their 
news from Newspapers anymore - less than 10% IIRC.  But the Big 3 as they 
are known (NBC/CBS/ABC) reach many more viewers than the cable news outlets 
although that's changing.  But even if it changes, only  one 1 cable news 
channel presents a balanced approach - Fox News.   CNN, MSNBC, etc are one 
sided.

Anyway - I know it's easy to jump from Liberal Journalists to Newspapers but 
who ever wrote it probably intended to include the TV talking heads.  They 
have distorted the news for a long time.  Witness the Tet offensive during 
the Viet Nam war - it was a huge military defeat for the VC but the media 
reported it as a defeat on our side.  IIRC the VC leaders said they lost 
~50,000 fighters during that offensive effectively destroying the backbone 
of experienced fighters for a very long time.  but the media turned it 
around for them and they were able to recover much more quickly - it's 
always easier to recover following a victory than a defeat.

Walter Chronkite - the most trusted man in America at one time, saw the 
carnage and said "the war is lost" - which I suspect he believed  but he 
didn't base his comment on a complete understanding of the situation.

Oh well, that's old news.

Have a nice weekend!
;-)

Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Reynolds" <kjtar [at] cox.net>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Betrayal of Journalists


> The Liberal Media, as you put it, are basically the poor schleps who go 
> out every day and cover the homicides, police blotter, city council 
> meetings, etc.  Now, true, there do seem to be a few Liberal papers out 
> there (the New York Times and Boston Globe might spring to mind) but in 
> most cases, the editors and/or publishers of newspapers are rather wealthy 
> conservative types.
> There was a story on the radio about a week ago, can't remember exactly 
> where or when, now, having to do with the question of "Does it help or 
> hinder for a newspaper to give their endorsement to a candidate?"
>
> Tom Reynolds
> Tulsa, OK
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>  In a message dated 3/6/2008 10:46:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
> zavitar1 [at] yahoo.com writes:
>    "Professional Journalists"
>
>  Isn't that an oxymoron?
>
>  The Liberal media has greatly contributed to the downfall of our country. 
> They can go to hell!
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