Comments on: Secret Media Dinners are really to Serve the Public even Better Journalism – Really

By: penguin

penguin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:43:42 +0000

Journalists have ruined their own profession. However they are too dumb to see it.

By: elizabethrc

elizabethrc — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:00:28 +0000

For years I viewed the papers and the press as the one safeguard we citizens had to protect us from the government and their secrets. I’m still trying to figure out if it is they who have changed, or is it that I have been utterly naive.
Nowadays, the blogs have beaten the print media to a pulp, and rightly so. The NYT and their ilk are no match for the steamroller that has become the blogging community, and for that I am truly grateful. Where else are we to go to find the truth?

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By: Linda Anselmi

Linda Anselmi — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:37:57 +0000

Amazing. Just Amazing. A person doesn’t even know where to start.

Excellent post LisaB!! Well done!!

By: beachnan

beachnan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:26:56 +0000

Thanks for the article Lisa B. These editors’ actions are wrong on so many levels, it is hard to reconcile what these people are doing to America. They are becoming equivalent to Pravda of the Soviet Union. There is no integrity amongst these editors.

By: Jackarooty

Jackarooty — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:41:00 +0000

Hey does anybody know if tomorrow is a Federal holiday considering it’s Barry’s 100 day in office and stuff?

The media is treating it as such…

By: James

James — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:34:04 +0000

This is the reason the press hated the Clintons. They rarely had these secret dinner parties for the Washington elite. That’s why they’re considered white trash by snobs like Sally Quinn and David Brooks.

By: DaddysDarlin

DaddysDarlin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:24:47 +0000

Dining with the devil, a table full of liars, now what good can come from that?
Exactly what they wanted, no serious reporting, no investigative reporting, just filling us with the same shit they were served at dinner.
That’s what I call reporting!
Frauds each and everyone of them. There are no more investigative reporters, or we would know why Obama wont let us see his passport or his birth certificate. Why wont Obama allow anything from his past to be reported about?
Obama fears investigative reporting, it would kill him politically, that’s why all the nice nice with the reporters.
They bought into Obama hook, line and sinker.
Thank God the American public saw through him, and now those who drank the kool aid are beginning to wake up.
Obama wont make it through this four years, we will impeach him for all the fraud he has perpetrated upon the American people.
He is a loser, a liar, a cheat and a fraud, and he will not be rewarded for his behavior toward the American people and our Constitution.
WE WONT HAVE IT.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:55:42 +0000

No kidding, huh? How is it that this is what passes for “journalism” these days? Honestly – does People care that the Atlantic is horning in on their territory?

Great post, LisaB!

By: Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:50:22 +0000

Oops! Sorry for the credit mistake.

Thanks Lisa B. for the essay [it's been a long day :0)].

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:46:53 +0000

no honest reporters any more,they are all bought and paid for.pity too

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:42:28 +0000

Feh, indeed. Spot on, LisaB. Thanks for this post. The list of media elites attending these dinners exlain a lot — if you look ath t list of names mentioned in Kurtz’s article you will see a common thread — namely, they usually bash the same people and soft pedal and/or downright worship the same people or person — coincidence? I think not.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:42:08 +0000

well that splains it.no wonder he gets good press.he wines and dines them.

By: CG

CG — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:40:57 +0000

Thanks LisaB, for bringing this to the attention of NQ readers. I have enjoyed reading Howard Kurtz’ articles of late, maybe the only journalist out there critical of this obscenity, and he is regularly critical of the coverage of the Obamas, to which I find a bit of solace. If the Boy and Girl Scout motto is “Be Prepared” I would argue the motto for Americans should be “Be Skeptical,” especially skeptical of the media and the government (Congress and President).

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:34:57 +0000

Exactly. Woodward and Bernstein lost their street cred because of this also. Access became more important that objectivity. Reporters should worry less about shmoozing with celebrities and high power politicians (often the same thing) and more about reporting on the truth about them.

This is certainly one big indicator of why the press is such a disaster now.