[Am-info] Re: Journalism is dead, long live "the media"

[Joe Barr]

I wish you guys would lay off the tres duh press.  Picking
on them (oops, us?) is MY JOB.  And I've been doing it with
gusto since, well, for a long time.  To wit:

http://www.pjprimer.com/worst.95.html

See ya,
Joe Barr






On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:00:16 -0500
"John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> "Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D." wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Now, now, "journalists" paid to skew their prose toward their patron?
> > I'm shocked. Since when?
> 
> Perhaps my naivete is showing, Glenn, but I was actually surprised to
hear> that journalists accepted money from those they were supposed to
cover.> 
> Favors, leaks, parties, yes, but I *am* surprised that they got flat-out
> payments.  And that the practice was so prevalent.
> 
> 
> > The only difference between the bad old days
> > and now is that no one seems to think they need to hide their evil
> > ways anymore. Corporate does as Corporate is. When the 'media'
> > (so few deserve more than the generic title anymore) are wholly owned
> > subsidiaries of MEGABUCKS, Inc., unLTD, AND the 'justice' department
> > is nothing more than an outsourced legal consultant for the largest
> > campaign contributors of the current administration, what do you
> > expect? Enron is only different from Microsoft in 3 ways: they are
> > in a different phase of the sham 'investigation', the top executives
> > may actually have outdone even Bill Gates in pure greed and hubris,
> > and Lay & company actually DID "innovate" a new business model,
> > complete with extensive rewriting of the law before, during and after
> > the crime, as opposed to Gates ignoring the law until after his
> > conviction and having it reinterpreted to make him forever immune.
> >
> > Funny how "W" didn't mention that the "honor" he swore to restore
> > to the White House was the "honor" among thieves.
> 
> Well, Mr. Clinton did promise "the most ethical administration in
> history."  It was Anne Bingaman in 1996(?) who let MS off the hook back
> then with the infamous "integrated" clause.
> 
> John
> 
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