I found some card stock, so I'm making cards to send to the media

I cleaned out my desk, and found it..E-mails go unnoticed most of the time, so I'm trying cards :)


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"Obsequious stenography would protect the Washington press corps from cries of "liberal media." There was—and remains—considerable reluctance to invoke what a Times reporter I spoke to called "reportorial authority," which, as he put it, would require that "when the president says the sun rose in the west, we take it upon ourselves to say no."

"http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_402.html"


MotherJones.com / News / Feature

The Great Media Breakdown
The press admits it fell for the administration's line on weapons of mass destruction. But the media's failure goes far beyond Iraq.

Todd Gitlin
November/December 2004 Issue

All governments lie, the muckraker I.F. Stone used to say. They fudge and omit. They bury and muffle inconvenient facts. They do this repeatedly, relentlessly, shamelessly. That's hardly surprising. Why shouldn't they seek— as a Marine Corps public affairs officer, Lt. Colonel Richard Long, told a conference on journalism and the Iraq war—to "dominate the information environment"?

But of late, the government has had plenty of help in its efforts at dominance. To a disgraceful degree, the organs of news have been grinding out its tune. Many are the reasons for deference. Reporters and editors are credulous, fearful, and flatly bamboozled. Timid about getting out ahead of a public they respect more when it is "conservative" (read: rightwardly radical) than when it is liberal, they bend over backward to accommodate spin doctors. They grant officialdom the benefit of the doubt. They fear risking independent judgment, which they have defined as occupational hubris. They are terrified of missing out on the perks of access. They fear that detailing the anatomy of official distortion will turn off readers and viewers. Their proprietors, seeking favor in high places, cool their critical engines. So the media yield to temptation and morph into megaphones, and falsehoods too often and too loudly repeated take on the ring of plausibility........

I'll send a few out, and if they don't come back undeliverable,. I'll send more out :)

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I'm sort of "crafty" so I think I will send out a couple "testers" also. I particularly want to reach, Tim Russert and a few of the other Sunday Morning pundits, who I used to watch as regularly as I breath - but no more. What better way to tell them than with a unique, time-devoted, handcrafted card? I love your verse also. I will try to come up with my own but yours is great!

This is essentially a bomb threat.

I didn't think of that.. I'll just leave the "buh-byeee".:)