Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Journalists - Getting It Wrong

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

Ooops!  And the correction/retraction will be buried, let me guess,  behind 
the obituaries?
 
 
In a message dated 3/14/2008 8:24:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
rentiers [at] mac.com writes:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080312/img/ppl-us-politics-newyork-gov-1-4e48f9
b2ad981.html


On  Mar 14, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Michael James wrote:

>
>    Most of the News organizations you mentioned had already  
>  'informed' us
>   that Spitzer had formally endorsed Hillary  Clinton's candidacy for
>   President, making the general  public well-aware of Spitzer's  
> political
>    party affiliation.  We-the-people didn't need 'Democrat'  Spitzer
>   mentioned ad-nauseum, because we already knew  in-spades (unless more
>   Repubs like Ann Coultier are now  endorsing Hillary....I hear Satan
>   just turned up the A/C a  tizz) - hence, all the media's interest in
>   trying to tie  Clinton in with the story, drawing parallels regarding
>    Spitzer's marriage with Bill/Hillary, the in-depth, psycho- 
> analysis  of
>   Hillary's comments regarding Spitzer's fall, etc. etc.  etc.  I  
> gather
>   you're not accutely  following the actions of the Democratic ticket
>   race, read  Newsweek, Time, MSNBC, SLATE, or, well anything BUT
>    FarceNews, so you 'might' have missed all of this.....but the rest   
> of
>   us are already saturated/tired of  it.
>
>
>   Thank God my Ferrari need some work, I  can retreat to the garage  
> this
>    weekend....
>
>
>   --- On Fri, 3/14/08,  JAshburne [at] aol.com <JAshburne [at] aol.com> wrote:
>
>   From: JAshburne [at] aol.com <JAshburne [at] aol.com>
>   Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Betrayal of Journalists
>   To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
>   Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
>     Date:  Friday, March 14, 2008, 8:50 AM
> Last time I looked, Spitzer was  solidly Democratic.  Not something   
> that the
>  liberal media is anxious to include in their news reports,  
>  certainly  not as
> often as tying the word "Republican" to what  ever transgressions done
> on  that
> side of the  aisle.
>
> Look, whether we are talking Jim McGreevy (Gay  American), Ted the  
> Cape Cod
> Orca Kennedy, William  Jefferson BJ Clinton, Barney Frank, Jerry  
> Studds (a   name
>
> perfect for male porn movies) etc. etc or any of the  Republicans you
> mentioned, there is no exclusivity of either party in  sexual  
> escapades.  In
> fact
> there is more  in common as politicians being power hungry, ego  
> feeding   sexual
> predators rather than one party being more active than the  other.    
> They have
> more in common than  differences.
>
> The original comment was more on the manner in  which the media
> differentiates its news coverage between the two  parties. The slant  
> in the
> reporting by
> the NY  Times, MSNBC, USA Today, Time Magazine, the Washington Post    
> et al is
> much more likely to downplay the Democrat  affiliation than the   
> Republican
>  affiliation.
>
> John
>
>


 



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