What really burns me up MOST about all of the last 5 or 10 years......

... is the press. The republicans HATE the press - always have. In fact, republicans hate the press ESPECIALLY because of their freedoms. And the republicans have been working overtime to destroy the press' freedoms. To the point today where the govt freely spies on the press, and Gonzales is happy to talk publically about prosecuting the press for reporting the truth.

Now one might THINK that the press would be somewhat inclined to be tough on the group of people who are fighting OH SO HARD to take away their freedoms.

You'd be wrong.

Instead all we get is more of the media shilling for republicans - the latest this time is the "anger narrative" against Gore being put out by the press.

No matter how much republicans smack em, the press still comes running back.

It's as if the press gets a sense of WORTH from being smacked by republicans.

What a bunch of jackasses.

It's the same for republican voters generally.

What a bunch of fucking jackasses.

Going right back to the Nixon era. What a long strange trip it's been since.

have been shoved out of the way, like Bill Press, ridiculed like Dan Rather, or retired far away like Bill Moyers.

I hope one of these days they all come back with a vengeance and with a public forum to show the stenographers how real journalism and reporting is done.

God I miss Moyers...

you talk about the press. Reporters have to answer to their editors, who have to answer to the publisher. The right turn the press has taken has been directed from the top. Remember the old saying, that freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. And in this era, the owners are siding with the power in this administration instead of being adversarial to it.

... I hold the Judith Millers, et al, every bit as responsible as their masters, even if you don't.

That's ok though - we don't all have to be the same :)


EDIT: And in any case, they're ALL, COLLECTIVELY what I'm referring to when I say "the media".

an example. Is she the same as Dan Froomkin, or Paul Krugman, or the two Knight-Ridder writers in the Washington bureau who have done such excellent work? Or Murray Waas or Sy Hersch? Of course not. You are generalizing to the point of meaninglessness.


You used the word "press" all throughout your post, and the word "media" once. I think you should straighten out in your own mind what entity you are thinking of so that you can better convey to others what you mean to say.

I can live with that.