Comments on: A Culture of Corruption: The News Media

By: amfortas

amfortas — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:13:20 +0000

Corrupt? The media? Get away.

Just add them to the Politicians themselves.

And the Courts.

And the Lawyers, who at least have the confouned cheek to try to expalin themselves as ‘combative advocates’.

And the legions of pseudo-professional rent-seeking scum that feed off the Family Court, who have no understandable excuse at all in their argot-filled mouths.

And the Ivory Tower Rapunzels who need defenestrating from the top floor windows and left handing by their pony-tails as a real lesson to the student bodies.

Bias, lies, mendacities, intellectual dishonesty, plain old theft from the public purse, the Nation (along with most) is sinking in a moral morass.

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:31:59 +0000

A brief excerpt from a review of Paul Weaver’s book “News and the Culture of Lying.
“I.F. Stone warned that all governments are run by liars, and that nothing they say should be believed.

Now comes Paul Weaver to warn that the same is true of all newspapers and, with the possible exception of C-SPAN and a few openly partisan journals of opinion, pretty much “

By: anti armchair generals

anti armchair generals — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:28:38 +0000

Jim Kouri,
I’m not familiar with your allegations, but you are right, the media is corrupt. Whether they are ambushing a candidate or overlooking the flaws of their favorites, the reporters and editors spin the stories.
Similar thing with the feminist agenda. Most news the advance the feminist are printed, while critical reports get very little coverage
Paul Weaver has written a book “News and the Culture of Lying”. His credentials are good so it’s not someone with an ax to grind.
Link to review,
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174