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Laughable whining from the Murdoch press.
There was no there, there. Get over it.
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It is interesting that WSJ’s Strassel and Jenkins are singing the same tune on the Durham story today. Jenkins more directly accuses the press — especially WAPO — of malfeasance.
I think this is helpful. As I noted in my Forum post on Ms. Strassel’s story, too many Americans believe they are immune from propaganda. Among the believers are many who say that the vast resources of the Internet make it impossible for propaganda to be effective.
I’d like to see more attention paid to the opposite possibility: That the vast resources of the Internet actually make propaganda more effective.
In any case, Jenkins is right to suggest that the mainstream press and the intelligence community are in bed together. This has been revealed before, but too many people refuse to believe it.
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“In any case, Jenkins is right to suggest that the mainstream press and the intelligence community are in bed together. ”
Even if true, that has NOTHING to do with the FACT that Mr. Durham came up with ZILCH.
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RE: “that has NOTHING to do with the FACT that Mr. Durham came up with ZILCH.”
I don’t care what Mr. Durham didn’t come up with. I do care about the ideas Ms. Strassel and Mr. Jenkins put forward. That’s the topic.
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Ok, it was a jab at WAPO for not reporting what WSJ wanted.
There are lots of other sources, left and right, not even mentioned in the opinion. Why not?
If Horowitz was so constrained, why hasn’t Durham, after years and millions done any better?
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RE: “There are lots of other sources, left and right, not even mentioned in the opinion. Why not?”
That’s backwards. The piece talks about the press at large, using WAPO as the personifying example.
RE: “If Horowitz was so constrained, why hasn’t Durham, after years and millions done any better?”
Who cares? The point is that media failed to amplify or accurately portray Horowitz’s findings. This is the same as the error of pretending that Durham’s results are trivial.
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So WAPO is the same as Washington Examiner?
WSJ? NR? NY Post? FOX? Sinclair?
You don’t even read WAPO, so how do you know what they wrote or didn’t write? You just believe what right wing media says they did?
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RE: “You don’t even read WAPO, so how do you know what they wrote or didn’t write?”
The article Dr. Tabor posted represents a top journalist describing the state of journalism today. I think it useful to take the article at face value for purposes of discussion. There is no good reason to change the subject to Durham’s alleged failures.
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The article was opinion. His opinion was based on what WAPO did or did not report, then extrapolated that to include all media.
Fine, his opinion. And yours too, evidently.
Also, the opinion was using Durham’s investigation to show bias. Again, his opinion.
There has been a lot of coverage of Durham’s investigation and it’s resultant plea, acquittal and current trial.
Media bashing is a sport of the right wing and yet the right has arguably the largest coverage in market share with FOX and Murdochs empire.
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His opinion but with links to supporting facts. Off to baseball
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RE: “His opinion was based on what WAPO did or did not report, then extrapolated that to include all media.”
Again, that’s backwards. The logic of the opinion starts with the general: “As a news story, alas, all this runs into the blinkeredness, not to mention giant helpings of personal cowardice, of many reporters covering it.” It then moves to the specific: “Telling is a Washington Post scene-setter on the Danchenko trial that began by misrepresenting the three-year-old words of the Justice Department’s Mr. Horowitz…”
RE: “Media bashing is a sport of the right wing…”
I’d say that blindness to propaganda and journalistic malpractice is a persistent infirmity of the left wing, but again the observation is off topic.
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