CBS editorial: We're lazy

[ElHombre]

This (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/15/opinion/meyer/main2182755.shtml) is the sort of thing which pisses me off to no end. The editorial director for CBS news admits that journalists haven't been doing their basic job of informing the public about their leaders for the last 12 years.


This is a story I should have written 12 years ago when the "Contract with America" Republicans captured the House in 1994. I apologize.

Really, it's just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn't call a duck a duck, because that's not something we're supposed to do.

Excuse me, moron, but that's exactly your job description. :bash:


I'm confident that if historians ever spend the time on it, they'll confirm my thesis.

And I'm confident that those same historians will wonder why it took you this long to inform the public of your findings.

[Invisigoth]

Yeah but if the media diggs up stories they are either liberal, unpatriotic or both...go figure.

Inv

[XShipRider]

Yeah. Right.

Prediction: You'll see nary a story of Democratic malfeasance of any kind
between now and the '08 elections. That is, unless one or two stories are
forced upon them by Drudge, the blogosphere, or alternative media. Even
then any such story will receive the kid glove, soft shoe treatment so
prevalent in a two-year run up to the next election. On the other hand,
Republicans will continue to be painted with the brush of bias, as they
always have been, by creating more dirt spoilage than a strip mine.

The same people who said investigating Clinton's perjury was a waste
of millions of taxpayer dollars will demand investigations ad nauseam.
These over the supposed manipulation of pre-war intel' by a so-called
moronic President who managed to hoodwink the entirety of the Congress
(and the world for that matter).

It'll be fun to watch how this all pans out in our unbiased media who can't
seem to call a duck a duck. When it comes to Democrats that's very true.

[Durandal]

Lazy reporters not calling a duck a duck and corrupt politicians?

*gasp*


Say it ain't so...

:cantbeli: