Home | Community | Message Board

Avalon Magic Plants
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3  [ show all ]
Invisiblekake
The answer to1984 is 1776.
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 05/06/99
Posts: 2,782
Loc: The 66th harmonic
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
    #8049201 - 02/20/08 08:55 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

honestly, who cares?

probably the conservative christian voters, and that's about it.

i hope this just dismantles their whole fucked agenda.


--------------------
The answer to 1984 is 1776.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibleafoaf
CEO DBK?
 User Gallery


Registered: 11/08/02
Posts: 32,665
Loc: Ripple's Heart
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: Gijith]
    #8049403 - 02/20/08 09:28 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

withheld for maximum impact.


--------------------
All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblegettinjiggywithit
jiggy
Female User Gallery

Registered: 07/20/04
Posts: 7,469
Loc: Heart of Laughter
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: afoaf]
    #8049444 - 02/20/08 09:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

afoaf said:
withheld for maximum impact.




They will sell more papers now then they would have months ago. Drudge is saying that the NYT's has been sitting on it and that McCain has been in a behind the scenes battle trying to keep it from going to print.

The screwed up thing is that the NYTs endorsed McCain, at the time they had this story. They help McCain become the front runner, then they tear him down, so Huck can rise and get creamed by the Dem's.

Politics!:tongue:


--------------------
Ahuwale ka nane huna.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblekake
The answer to1984 is 1776.
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 05/06/99
Posts: 2,782
Loc: The 66th harmonic
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: gettinjiggywithit]
    #8049543 - 02/20/08 09:47 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

or they endorse him, so he'll be in the spotlight and will sell more newspapers for them when they run smear stories.


the media is so disgusting.


--------------------
The answer to 1984 is 1776.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblejohnm214
Male User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 05/31/07
Posts: 17,582
Loc: Americas
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: kake]
    #8049824 - 02/20/08 10:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

aren't endorsements typically made by the editorial staff, and news decisions made by the newspeople?

Aren't these two sepperate groups?

Is it not convievable that they weren't in cahoots?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleSlashOZ
:D
Male


Registered: 10/20/06
Posts: 3,557
Loc: Following the water cycle
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: lonestar2004]
    #8050021 - 02/20/08 11:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

you know bush hasn't cheated on his wife as far as we know so i guess fidelity isn't all it is cracked up to be. it isn't like if we elect this person they will spend a weekend in Fiji running their government or something hilarious.


--------------------
"Life sucks but in this really beautiful way" - Axl Rose
"Life's a bitch and then you die that's why we get high cuz you never know when you're gonna go." - NAS
"When people don't know what you're about they put you down and shut you out" - Black Sabbath
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi
"Look up at me I am God, look down on me and I am evil, look at me I am you." - Charles Manson.
"Don't question my reality." - Me (as far as I know)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinefireworks_godS
Sexy.Butt.McDanger
Male


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: gettinjiggywithit]
    #8050470 - 02/21/08 03:27 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

gettinjiggywithit said:
They help McCain become the front runner, then they tear him down, so Huck can rise and get creamed by the Dem's.





McCain needs 364 delegates to get the necessary 1,191 to receive the Republican nomination. McCain currently has four times the amount of delegates as Huckabee. Huckabee needs 986 delegates to receive the nomination, and he has 205 right now. There is only 741 delegates left to be awarded. If McCain won zero delegates going forward and Huckabee took them all, Huckabee still wouldn't have enough (numbers from NYTimes election guide), and it'd be a brokered convention...

The idea that this story is going to hurt McCain too signfigantly in the Republican primaries is pretty baseless. Even if it would, it is pretty damned impossible that it will help Huckabee enough to keep McCain from winning 364 more delegates.

The notion that this story was designed to help Huckabee win the Republican nomination is ludicrous nonsense. :nut:

It seems pretty clear its an advance to help Obama on the whole "reforming Washington" front. :thumbup:


--------------------
:redpanda:
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

:heartpump: :bunnyhug: :yinyang:

:yinyang: :levitate: :earth: :levitate: :yinyang:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinezappaisgod
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: fireworks_god]
    #8051826 - 02/21/08 01:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I don't think that's the notion here. The notion is that the NY Times wants the Reps to nominate a candidate they think they can take out. Not likely with this weak ass shit, all they've managed to do is beclown themselves yet again.

A few months back there was an editorial in the Times about John Podhoretz being named editor of Commentary, a magazine his father, Norman Podhoretz, founded. John Podhoretz has had his own highly successful career in journalism and yet the NY Times went all "nepotism" on his ass. Which made me laugh out loud because what Pinch Sulzburger has done to this once great paper is the strongest argument for abortion ever made.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinelonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.
 User Gallery

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: zappaisgod]
    #8051856 - 02/21/08 01:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

i wonder how long the paper has been sitting on this weak ass story....


--------------------
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


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinezappaisgod
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]
    #8051864 - 02/21/08 01:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Apparently since December. Or 8 years, depending on how you look at it.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleGijith
Daisy Chain Eater

Registered: 12/04/03
Posts: 2,400
Loc: New York
Re: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma [Re: zappaisgod]
    #8052242 - 02/21/08 02:59 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Here's how it seems to me so far.

The Times began writing the story back in the fall. They researched it like crazy. They interviewed everyone they could pin down. I'm sure they thought they were gonna nail down something concrete. 3 months later, they hadn't. And the story in other news organizations was starting to turn from "the NY Times is about to bury McCain" to "the NY Times can't get its shit together." That second quote is a headline the Times didn't want to start seeing at the top of articles and blogs, so they went to press with the mess they had.

They really fucked up. They should have ditched the whole thing or maybe put it on page 47 or something.


--------------------
what's with neocons and the word 'ilk'?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: < Back | 1 | 2 | 3  [ show all ]


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Dean and the Corporate Media FrankieJustTrypt 976 5 02/15/04 12:51 PM
by silversoul7
* The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies
( 1 2 3 all )
RonoS 4,986 49 06/12/02 07:15 PM
by Jammer
* Torture and Rumors of Torture LSDempire 340 0 06/23/05 05:02 AM
by LSDempire
* No media bias? luvdemshrooms 1,223 7 02/18/04 06:56 PM
by zappaisgod
* "9-11 In Plane Site" Video Shocks Sacramento Citizens
( 1 2 3 4 5 all )
Revelation 8,367 90 09/30/04 08:13 AM
by A3eyedfish
* Know Thy Enemy -- The Mainstream Media Phred 568 1 09/30/04 08:39 PM
by Worf
* Top 10 censored media stories of the year... JonnyOnTheSpot 1,221 7 09/22/03 05:11 AM
by GazzBut
* It's driving me crazy that the UN scandal is exploding all over the papers and no-one here has click
( 1 2 all )
zappaisgod 2,331 36 11/18/04 03:57 AM
by luvdemshrooms

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Enlil, ballsalsa
3,446 topic views. 2 members, 6 guests and 3 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 14 queries.