Disgust for the media

[JackDodge]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ken Cooper @ Feb 12 2007, 12:51 PM) [snapback]388945[/snapback]</div>

Remembering how the media sucked into the administration's Iraq WMD stories and then, through propagation, their getting much of the public sucked in as well, I'm concerned about this same media jumping on these new charges against Iran.

Bush has already made clear his feelings on Iran. Are we now being set up to be accepting of an attack on that country?

It's not that I'm leery of the media, I'm leery of what the administration spoon feeds to the media, and then the media's blind acceptance without follow-up on their own.
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Today's journalists are basically just professional gossips, nothing more. Oh sure, they ask the really tough questions but the person they ask it of could say 'booga booga booga' and the "journalist" would act as if they got a real answer and go on to the next question. The "journalists" are all afraid of getting on someone's bad side and not getting invited to the big parties so they keep their mouths shut. The only time that they really attack is when the person has just about everyone angry at him or her and they're digraced. Then they have an easy kill while doing no real work. As Bill Maher put it so well last season, 'in order to keep the public stupid, they make the people who allegedly report the news to them even stupider" Truly pathetic shadows of the journalists of the Watergate era.

[Ken Cooper]

I often wonder about the political bent of this site's administrators. For instance, has anyone noticed that when there is a topic of this type that is in any way critical of the Bush administration, suddenly the list of postings is cut off (I used the search mode to find and bring this topic from earlier today back to life).

I'm probably being a little paranoid here but I become disappointed when, at least on my viewing of this site, the whole earlier part of the day (prior to 6:54 pm) is truncated away. Note, the post prior to this one occurred at 5:41 p.m.

[Beryl Octet]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ken Cooper @ Feb 12 2007, 11:38 PM) [snapback]389329[/snapback]</div>

I often wonder about the political bent of this site's administrators. For instance, has anyone noticed that when there is a topic of this type that is in any way critical of the Bush administration, suddenly the list of postings is cut off (I used the search mode to find and bring this topic from earlier today back to life).
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I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying the topic was deleted or locked? Sure doesn't look like it from here.