Chicken littles, neocons...LOL.

It has been well documented in the last few elections that the media gives more "postive" coverage for democrats than they do democrats.  Do you seriously believe that the media will give repbulicans the same treatment as democrats.

your theory assumes here assumes that all things are equal and the only determinent is the coverage. that is not so, necessarily. to believe that, you would have to have the predisposition that both parties do an equal number of things right and wrong. judging from your previous work, i'm confident that you don't believe that. please don't waste our time with a bunch of selective stats that both liberal and conservative pundits like to throw around, i've seen them.

if you want to locate the real biases in the media, look at their lazy bias. look at the "6 year olds playing soccer" mentality of the press at times. look at the commercials on the news channels (very few of which are for the "average american" unless it's to sell you insurance or some new pill) and then watch the "walking on eggshells" approach the news channels take with big business.

they retracted it. and unlike you, i am not as sure that it is justifiable to go thru the expense of redoing the entire sunday magazine and possibly missing a deadline for the error made.

Let me tell ya something folks, this is a sixteen page article, detailing the tragic stories of several women in the military, Ms. Randall's contribution was not necessary for them to make their case

so why redo the entire magazine for an error which doesn't make or break the case? you said it yourself.

besides, you certainly prove my point by bringing this up...everyything that is wrong with the iraq war is the media's (in this case, the times) fault for making an error with 1 person.

Not necessarily. It, quite realistically, wouldn't be economically feasible to do an emergency reprint of the entire magazine. That wasn't LW's entire point though. It WAS feasible (and also the ethically responsible thing) to print a retraction/modification in the SAME edition where the magazine was to appear. They knew in plenty of time to have the clarification ready to go on that Sunday. Did they? Hmmm....

Other than trying to get as much play out of knowingly false information as they could, why wait a week after publication, when it puts at almost TWO weeks knowing about it, to correct the problem?

In my business, it could quite easily cost me my job, and my company some serious money (fines and lost business) to have KNOWINGLY false information publicized as true and not correcting the issue.

Used to be that the NYT held themselves to this standard. It's what gave them the credibility to hold everyone one else accountable.

Now? They're lack of being able to keep a handle on their own accuracy/truth has diminished, if not destroyed utterly, any credibility that they used as a base for keeping others accountable.

It's gotten to the point where ANY news source is suspect. CNN, MSNBC, NYT, FoxNews, WP, and especially the Richmond Times-Disgrace, er Times-Dispatch. You have to sort through 10 paragraphs of spin to get the one fact that they actually include.

facts, opinions or speculation? i've done some work in the publishing business and know that some of that can be easier said than done. maybe they could have, maybe they couldn't. i don't know. in the end, they did the responsible thing. they may not have done what you or whip wanted them to do, but i see nothing but a continued nitpick of the NYT from the same people and pundits over and over. and here, like in most, they target in on something minor, in this case, so minor that it didn't really affect the story or it's credibility, and make a non existant federal case out of it.

the problem in that story wasn't the new york times getting 1 thing wrong. getting 1 thing wrong in a 16 page article that didn't depend on those "facts" to be included doesn't give license to write off everything. throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't usually a genuine strategy. it is good political theater and posturing however.

'Reporting' outright lies is not bias. It's lying

yep lil girl, it is. and you have proven yourself to be just that.


(Citizen)little-whipMarch 29, 2007 11:08:57

btw, Sean, since you've seen fit to delete my posts on your threads, expect the same treatment here.

In other words, don't bother. Just go write another long sob story about how badly misunderstood you are, how unfair JU Admin is, and what meanies me and my 'cronies' are.

but on Tex's thread she says this...

little-whipMarch 29, 2007 11:51:49
I wonder where he is this morning? Do ya think he is pulling a DoN on us? You know, disappearing for a few days until all this sinks below the radar? Of course, anyone then questioning his sudden lack of participation will be accused of 'having no life' because obviously he's got far more important things to do than blog.

Except when he's on here blathering, that is. And that's damn near all day, every day.


notice the times of the posts. at 11:08 she is responding to a post i made this morning correcting her on again misrepresenting my position and setting the record straight. then at 11:51, over a 1/2 hour later, she acts like "i am MIA" and she has "scared me out of here" or something.


you are a liar and you are busted whip.

the first post of yours is a RESPONSE to my post in the morning (the one that you rushed and deleted minutes after i posted it)

the 2nd, you claim "you haven't seen me all day" which is an intentional lie because you replied to me not 1 hour before.

you are a liar, again.

and one that can't shut her lying mouth, now adding lies upon lies. keep diggin whip...

now you've proven yourself to be a liar and a hypocrite on 2 fronts. you just can't shut up , can you? convenient that he posted that lil piece of evidence after i busted you. and as far as the times go, i know when you posted both of those, and the times are accurate. i don't need all this posturing. circling the wagons doesn't impress me 1 iota. i know the truth, lil girl. and this b.s. is typical and predictable stuff from your lil clique..

the past 2 days i have left everyone alone here. just writing what i write for my own satisfaction on my own blog. the only person i responded to was gideon, because i did actually give a damn about what he thought (notice the past tense there). and i did it on my own blog since i am not welcome to respond to any of the "pile-ons" elsewhere. oh, and i did wish someone a happy birthday. (i hope they weren't offended). you, on the other hand have played little juvenile games and continued to insult me at every opportunity. writing whatever you can to feed your own ego and somehow justify everything to yourself. and where that may entertain and impress the flock, i honestly could care less.

i have never sought anyone's approval or endorsement here or anywhere else, and that isn't about to change lil girl.

people will read my stuff, or they won't. people will choose to discuss the issues raised in my articles with me, or they won't. it is their choice. and where i enjoy a good discussion as much as anyone, i am certainly not here to offend by my mere presence. as soon as it was evident that i wasn't going to get a fair say with tex, i have left ya'll to your own devices. the 1 thing i have written concerning this petty matter was merely stating my viewpoint. and doing my best not to use it as some sort of "battle cry" and in fact downplaying any attention or further disturbance by at least trying to disable comments. you have done the opposite. and where the JU court of popular opinion may have it's own non binding verdict, the only one that matters to me is my own. and there, my actions have spoken louder than your endless blathering of words ever could.

but don't let that stop ya'll from patting each other on the back.

i've been writing for a long time, and have never suffered for an audience. nor have i ever pandered for one. i hope that is clear enough.

have a nice day:)

you are now boiled down to having a typo be your big "piece" of evidence...wow...the impressive displays never stop with you i guess.