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Carrick, I’m shocked!

How dare you use things like “facts” and “reality” to smear the fine, truth-seeking journalists at Time?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Guilty as charged.

I had to leave that snarky comment by the AP reporter in though: “He has eaten ice cream with a candidate who admitted to marital infidelity.”

I suppose the reason Bush ate ice cream with the candidate was because the candidate screws around, right?  Otherwise, why is it pertinent to the story?

There are times that I think reporters are dumber than flies.

You only feel that way at times?

I actually shouldn’t say that though, as a few friends of mine who happen to be reporters read this blog.  They’re all pretty good, but as a whole journalists suck.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob, I generally don’t go around thinking that reporters are stupid, though I do think they’re dumb for claiming an imperviousness to bias not possible in any other field.

But it says something very negative about the profession when they run as a front-cover article something as poorly reasoned through as this Time magazine article was.  For once, the AP story was much closer to truth, even if it couldn’t avoid asshat comments about unfaithful Republican congressmen.

Carrick,

I generally don’t go around thinking that reporters are stupid

You are a better man than I in that department.  I just get so frustrated some times…

I think some major changes in the media are in the works, though.  I just cannot fathom how they can continue as they are now, hemorrhaging readership/viewership and trust from their readers/viewers, without a change.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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