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Quote of the Day
QUOTE OF THE DAY....From George Bush, explaining why he settled on a surge strength of five brigades:
"Okay, I don't know this. I'm not in these meetings, you'll be happy to hear, because I got other things to do."
There's more interesting stuff at the link. I'll have more to say about it after the Republican convention is (blessedly, finally) over.
hm, the masthead says "Smart, fearless journalism", but all we're getting is lazy partisan inanities such as this one.
It must be nice having a ten-minute-a-day job.
My Palin Follies Day 6 roundup includes on her affair allegations and more. Steve Schmidt may threaten to sue, but as with the Bristol-Trig rumors, nobody's officially denied this.
Oh, "am," here's something smart and fearless...
STFU.
Kevin, I think Woodward got punked again, after showing signs in his previous book that his 30-year post-Watergate self-induced coma was finally over.
I mean, per the review, the book sounds OK, but it also sounds like it still has plenty of Woody's fawning breathlessness for BushCo, too.
And, that all said, it's a WaPost in-house review. I'd like to hear what other folks say in terms of reviews.
am said it. Smart fearless journalism. I had hoped but in truth it is just bias slander like always. Fearless journalism would do this: screw ratings and tell it like it is. Not take half baked quotes out of context to catch an eye and ear. America needs true journalism. Not left or right wing bs. Everyone is so AFRAID to let the american people decide for themselves by just supplying the FACTS. Afraid of the people not deciding what they believe in.
YOu want what america needs: SMart fearless Journalism:
Source-confirmed ratingsless minded fact displayers without a care to how they feel or their viewers feel. Cold hard facts and let the people decide. Scary...but the truth is scary.
The bit in Woodward's book about McCain saying that the Bushies were nothing but f-ing spin might give that quote a run for the money.
Wow. He admits he's the lousiest president we've ever had? Just like that?
On a brighter note, we've been spared his relentless smirking lately. With this quote, I think I know why. Even he gets it - he's so incompetent as to have become irrelevant.
"Everyone is so AFRAID to let the american people decide for themselves by just supplying the FACTS. Afraid of the people not deciding what they believe in." Posted by: Josh
Wasn't it exactly that kind of journalism that so frightened the media industry when blogging first arrived on the scene; the disturbing possibility of uncensored and fact-filled information passing between individuals without filters or intervention by high-level controls?
Ever wonder why their concerns abated and the fruition of such promise did not happen?
There is no such thing as unbias or neutral or impartial passing of information. There never was. It was a romantic notion that passed out of fashion along with chastity and cowboys.
Information is passed, not in spite of agendas but because of them, at all levels of human communication, lowest to highest. Yes, the higher arenas use sensationalism packaging to keep ratings, but its still agenda driven underneath. Blogs may not have the ratings pressure but blogs are no more or less impartial because of that freedom. We are in the Age of Identity Media. People listen to that with which they can identify and it is extremely difficult to identify with a string of facts.
Its busted, this myth of an impartial fact-filled news outlet and, unlike cowboys, will not come back into fashion...