Had T-giving dinner with a very high-up fellow from the NYT

PCIntern

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Fri Nov-23-07 11:29 AM
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Had T-giving dinner with a very high-up fellow from the NYT

Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 11:29 AM by PCIntern

Hoping for some insights...

Extreme Extended family...guy said absolutely nothing about anything at all whatsoever, despite my proddings, both serious and humorous. Practiced responses, he's all the way at the tippy-top and I mean he said NOTHING.

You have to give these guys credit...I guess.

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Fri Nov-23-07 12:07 PM
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1. That's what they do with their "investigative reporting": Nothing.

If our crack media had done the LEAST possible reporting on Shrub's record in a Weak-Governor-system in 2000, he wouldn't be squatting in the WH tody. All they had to do was crib from Molly IVINS's books and columns and pretend they did some reporting.

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PCIntern

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Fri Nov-23-07 12:38 PM
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2. You're right...

they haven't done shit since Wtergate as far as I'm concerned and even then, the Times had relegated it to 3rd tier status until the Post started getting somewhere.

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Fri Nov-23-07 04:44 PM
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8. Mi esposo works for a large newsgroup and I can tell you firsthand that

there are subjects they consider forbidden.

After 9-11 it became worse.....A younger reporter from the Boston Globe told me he tried for months to get Globe to focus on BCCI and Kerry's work and they shut him down EVERY TIME until he gave up, and they STILL wouldn't refer to it during the presidential race except as a sentence in a bio story.

I suggested he check if Globe owners lost alot of money when BCCI was shut down.

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Bozita

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Fri Nov-23-07 12:49 PM
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3. Today is the 3rd straight day without mention of Scottie McClellan in the print edition

disappointing!

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Lord Wortherington

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Fri Nov-23-07 12:56 PM
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4. Damn! So what you're saying is...

nothing happened. Thanks for the update.

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PCIntern

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Fri Nov-23-07 02:08 PM
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5. that's the point...

these guys are on complete shutdown. As Harry Stack Sullivan stated, you often learn more from what someone doesn't say than what they do say.

this guy used to be somewhat talkative...now, nothing.

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Fri Nov-23-07 05:35 PM
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11. The NYT whimps out repeatedly - like republicon propaganda organ

They have Assumed the Position -- and lost their honor.

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Fri Nov-23-07 02:18 PM
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6. Credit for what?

Why should people be endlessly pestered about professional information @ a private function?
Would you like to be grilled about everything you know about your job in front of other people, for free?

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PCIntern

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Fri Nov-23-07 05:11 PM
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9. It was a statement of facetiousness...

the context should have been self-explanatory to you. And I don't do smilies unless you like this:

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Fri Nov-23-07 02:24 PM
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7. Maybe talking about politics would ruin his/her appetite.

Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 02:25 PM by PBass

Also, it's doubtful that they don't talk politics... maybe they just don't talk politics with you.

Also, everybody in America has pretty much made up their mind. 70 percent of Americans realize that Bush is a disaster, and 30 percent are willing to support Bush no matter what, because Bush talks to Jesus every day, or because he is killing a lot of "them A-Rabs" (or both)

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PCIntern

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Fri Nov-23-07 05:13 PM
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10. He used to...

that's the point. Again.

As I said, he was 'shut down'. Completely.

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