Comments on: Dennis Miller Turns Way Left

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:51:38 +0000

Perhaps Paul Weaver’s point explain why fathers point on government VAWA,
Title IX, Commissions for Women etc no counterarguments are not reported.

“Weaver’s claim is that journalists and public officials combine to fabricate artificial crises of public policy that end up being “covered in the media, reacted to by the public, and dealt with by government” as if they were real. In short: officials tell lies by inflating the urgency of things, and journalists compound the fraud by passing them along in supposedly objective–but inherently uncritical–ways.

The result, he argues, is both bad government and a journalism that is “stupid and dysfunctional,” practiced by reporters who are little more than “dependent, submissive, narcissistic courtiers” to the officials they”

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:24:33 +0000

Doug Powers (6)
I don’t know if you meant to be sarcastic or satirical with reference to NYT,
But after reading Paul Weaver’s boook “News and the Culture of Lying” , I cas NYT logo “All the news that is fit to print” someone decides what is news.
Link to review of Paul Weaver’s book.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174

By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:17:58 +0000

Somebody needs to send a link to DailyKos and see how many of them scream with glee before they get to the ’satire’ part.

By: Menck

Menck — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:46:58 +0000

Doug, you out-Millered Miller. Nothing wrong with a good long haw haw first thing in the a.m. Gets the synapses firing. Keeps you on your toes, too.

By: Doug Powers

Doug Powers — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:11:52 +0000

Mike, could you label on front page which is “satire” or “reporting”. Otherewise the readers get confused and don’t know who to belive or not.

If it’s good enough for The New York Times….

By: antonio

antonio — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:58:09 +0000

Miller, I concluded some time ago, is nuts. But in this case I wonder if he is trying to make a point about how morally and intellectually bankrupt and just plain rotten the two major parties in the USA are today. Are the Republicats so reprehensible to him (as they are to many of us) that Marx looks good in comparison?

By: Dittohd

Dittohd — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:23:43 +0000

Satire? Where?

This seems to me to be as satirical as a comedian is funny when he tells a so-called joke that he thinks is funny and nobody laughs. I looked up satire in the dictionary and I just don’t see it. But I did feel like I wasted a decent chunk of my time on an article that suckered me in based on a fraudulent title.

What a waste of time! Does the author have a regular job where he actually does something constructive?

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:07:28 +0000

Addendum,
Several years ago The New Yok Post reported (alleged) survey of people’s opinions about different professions. They only reported 2 categories
Rank downwards
Lawyers and journalist,
Politicians and prostitutes
What surprsed me that prostitutes ranked below lawyers and journalist. Prostitutes only sell their bodies (legal in rural counties in Nevada.) Politicians sell public trust.
But lawyers and journalist sell their souls to highest bidder in the ” freedom of expression” and lawyers control most legislatures and can change hats from prosecutor, defense attorney and judge with generous 2/3 pension of their salary.
AP wire service (arrogant) and local reporters kowtowing to editorial policy report what the boss wants. I saw poster “The freedom of the press belongs to those who own the presses.”

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:23:42 +0000

Mike La Salle,
Earlier there was a story that only in the end said “satire”. I glanced Coug Powers story and did not read it.
Then I saw your commentary on the front and was really baffled. Since I respect you enourmously, I didn’t know if it was for real, so I went back to Powers piece. Only at the end it said “This is obviously satire”.
Mike, could you label on front page which is “satire” or “reporting”. Otherewise the readers get confused and don’t know who to belive or not.

By: Mike LaSalle

Mike LaSalle — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:04:38 +0000

Holy shite, Doug, I’m on the floor, doubled over tighter than the crotch of a French nun on her first unchaperoned confession with Father Nimbledigit.