|
BrAiN
Art Fag

Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 6,875
Loc: Chocolate City
Last seen: 2 years, 5 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: wps]
#7580785 - 10/31/07 01:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
wps said: honestly, I think it would be really cool to see an American election where there were 4 or 5 major candidates and the winner got only 27% of the votes.
You mean like a normal country? heh
|
johnm214



Registered: 05/31/07
Posts: 17,582
Loc: Americas
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: BrAiN]
#7581044 - 10/31/07 02:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
I think a run off election would be best, whereby voters choose a first an second choice candidate. If no one recieves majority, the second choice votes are factored in to help choose the winner.
Some variation of this would help people vote their concious, but would surely be insanely difficult to implement until there are serious threats to the two parties.
Perhaps w/ the abortion issue and candidates like ron paul, these pressures might someday reach a critical mass.... who knows
|
wps
Well-PaidScientist


Registered: 09/22/07
Posts: 579
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: johnm214]
#7581293 - 10/31/07 03:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
honestly, I think if having four candidates instead of two were the norm,
the candidates would naturally align themselves into some kind of left to right spectrum,
so even if the majority of people wouldn't see the person they voted for elected,
they still might get 'within range' of their target candiate on the right-left scale.
-------------------- "America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve." - Tom Morello
|
zappaisgod
horrid asshole


Registered: 02/11/04
Posts: 81,741
Loc: Fractallife's gym
Last seen: 7 years, 7 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7581352 - 10/31/07 03:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
lonestar2004 said: I better post a link for Zappa on the immigration issue.
Rudy Giuliani has demanded that the federal government provide Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, and welfare to illegal immigrants.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/98a/lulac.html
At every instance he was quite clearly, pointedly and specifically referring to LEGAL immigrants. Read it. I expected better of you than my little leftard friends here. What's wrong with this?
Quote:
But to make further progress, we must reform the process at the federal level. Immigrants deserve a naturalization process that is fair, efficient and affordable, but also ensures that criminals cannot slip through the system.
Unfortunately, the dream of citizenship is becoming a nightmare for many legal immigrants. The INS is taking steps to raise its naturalization fees from $95 to $255. This is especially troublesome because it comes at a time when 1.7 million immigrants are waiting up to four years to naturalize.
In New York City, the number of people caught in the backlog has increased to almost 300,000 and the average wait is 24 months. This is simply unfair to the vast majority of law-abiding immigrants who have paid their fee, played by the rules, and now find themselves caught in a bureaucratic mess that places citizenship beyond their reach for years.
That's from your link. I like him even more now because he said that when it wasn't a hot button for chickenshits issue. He was on it from the beginning.
--------------------
|
zappaisgod
horrid asshole


Registered: 02/11/04
Posts: 81,741
Loc: Fractallife's gym
Last seen: 7 years, 7 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: zappaisgod]
#7581411 - 10/31/07 03:53 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
To get back on topic, if they have something they should release it and not wait until that person is the nominee and the party he/she is from can't replace him. That was the game with the asshole in Florida, I forget his name, but the group knew he was a perv and waited until after the Republicans couldn't replace him on the ballot. Dirty trick? Not by a political party but it is certainly wrong for a journalist. If they have the goods they have to report them.
--------------------
|
afoaf
CEO DBK?



Registered: 11/08/02
Posts: 32,665
Loc: Ripple's Heart
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7582179 - 10/31/07 07:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: afoaf]
#7583221 - 11/01/07 08:50 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
afoaf said:
come on doncha love gossip??? the latest true?/untrue? rumor is not shocking.
both Bill and Hillary were fucking interns in the White House at the same time.....

Huma Abedin, Muslim 32, became Hillary’s intern in 1996, a year after Monica Lewinsky started working for Bill.
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
BrAiN
Art Fag

Registered: 03/01/01
Posts: 6,875
Loc: Chocolate City
Last seen: 2 years, 5 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7583234 - 11/01/07 08:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Hillary?
Ew! Who' do HER?
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: BrAiN]
#7583299 - 11/01/07 09:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
right
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: gluke bastid]
#7583338 - 11/01/07 09:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
gluke bastid said: If all of this is accurate, it makes me wonder what else gets sat on, and for what reason?
I can only assume that the LAT and all print journals are motivated by increasing readership, so it seems weird that they wouldn't print such a hot story. Could the candidate in question have enough power to keep this covered up?
IMO the MSM protects the Dem's and fucks the Rep's whenever possible.. (although technically the Rep's fucked themselves.)
Do you Remember the DWI charge against Bush and the charges of “groping” by Arnold just before the elections.......
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: BrAiN]
#7583372 - 11/01/07 09:44 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
BrAiN said: Hillary?
Ew! Who' do HER?
Power.
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
Scratcher
Stranger

Registered: 01/05/00
Posts: 2,323
Loc: eH
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7586746 - 11/02/07 07:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 12 days
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: Scratcher]
#7586790 - 11/02/07 07:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Bring her down!
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: fireworks_god]
#7587957 - 11/02/07 01:46 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
http://exurbanleague.com/2007/11/02/you-might-want-to-put-some-ice-on-that.aspx
John Edwards just released this video "politics of parsing” man we are so fucked if she becomes potus
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
Mushmonkey
shiftlesslayabout


Registered: 09/25/03
Posts: 10,867
Last seen: 3 months, 12 days
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7590206 - 11/03/07 05:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
aaahh you beat me to it.
honestly, who here did not have a pretty good idea that hillary was a lesbian. seriously now. this would not shock me one bit, and the LAT would be sitting on it because hillary's a media darling.
-------------------- i finally got around to making a sig revel in its glory and quake in fear at its might grar.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 12 days
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7590293 - 11/03/07 06:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
lonestar2004 said: IMO the MSM protects the Dem's and fucks the Rep's whenever possible.. (although technically the Rep's fucked themselves.)
No one remembers the media hay-day over Bill Clinton?
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


Registered: 10/03/04
Posts: 8,978
Loc: South Texas
Last seen: 12 years, 9 months
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: fireworks_god]
#7590395 - 11/03/07 08:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
fireworks_god said:
Quote:
lonestar2004 said: IMO the MSM protects the Dem's and fucks the Rep's whenever possible.. (although technically the Rep's fucked themselves.)
No one remembers the media hay-day over Bill Clinton?
Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff was probably the first reporter to get the scoop on Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, but his editors wouldn’t print it, even thought he had all the required evidence to support the story.
Then Matt Drudge got a hold of it and offered up two scoops, the Lewinsky affair and the Newsweek coverup..........
-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 12 days
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#7590397 - 11/03/07 08:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
|
|
So when is this thing going to hit already?
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
Gijith
Daisy Chain Eater

Registered: 12/04/03
Posts: 2,400
Loc: New York
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
#8048932 - 02/20/08 07:56 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
I never bought this whole thread, but it looks like it may have been true after all?
NY Times
Not sure what to make of it yet. The Times is pretending to be gentle. Bloggers aren't.
-------------------- what's with neocons and the word 'ilk'?
|
gettinjiggywithit
jiggy


Registered: 07/20/04
Posts: 7,469
Loc: Heart of Laughter
|
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: Gijith]
#8048973 - 02/20/08 08:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
|
|
Larry Flynt said he was going to expose a sex scandal regarding a Republican Presidential candidate months ago. This must be it.
I doubt it will hurt him much. The conservatives who would find it offensive are already Huck supporters.
-------------------- Ahuwale ka nane huna.
|
|