[excon]

C'mon now. Don't poke the bear!

Hello J:

My poll - my rules.

excon

[paraclete]

A study I saw that showed where most murders occur. Like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago etc. If you combined the total area (red zone) its less then 100 square miles. But the total United States is around 3,717,792 square miles. But all the screaming in the media you would think that murder and crime are rampant.

Sorry I also saw a study which indicated DC, originally known as the 100 square miles, was where it all happened. There is one murder per square mile in DC, twice the rate of anywhere else. I thought you were making some oblique reference to that

[Just_Another_Lemming]

Hello J:

My poll - my rules.

excon

LOL! Were you stomping your feet when you wrote that? Are you going to tell me to pick up all my marbles and go home? :p

[tomder55]

Dan Rather the anchor (arguably the heir to the legacy of Cronkite )tried to use his position in the network to influence the 2004 election hyping forged documents about President Bush.

The Washington Compost kept a minor rhetorical blunder by Senator George Allen and his use of the word 'macaca' alive for weeks ensuring his defeat.

One can only imagine how many days the NY Slimes would lead with the Charlie Rangel corruption story if he was a Republican Congressman.

But believe all you want that the media doesn't shape the news.

[Kitkat22]

Hello steve:

Ceptin me...

Having been somewhat politically aware since I was elected den chief, I've HEARD that the media was liberal... So, I listened to the nightly news very carefully, and I couldn't for the life of me, detect a bias. To me, it was just the news.... Yeah, I'm talking about Huntly-Brinkly, and Cronkite, and Ed Murrow kinda guys...

Then, in 1989, for the first time, I heard Rush Limbaugh. He was the first libertarian I'd ever heard on the radio, and I loved him. Then he went from being a good libertarian that I could get behind, into a hypocritical drug using, lock the OTHER drug user up - but not me, right wing neocon bastard...

All the other right wingers and FOX News owe their existence to the drugster...

So, my stance on my question is thus: The media shapes the news if you LET it. So, it doesn't shape the news for me. Does it for you? I guess so. That ain't good.

Then again, FOX News and it's minions, are the ones who ginned up this phony mosque controversy, and it's involved me... So, maybe it DOES shape my news.

excon

You're right Exy

[Just_Another_Lemming]

KK, do you think that the liberal media doesn't do what "Fox news and it's minions" (as excon puts it) does?

Excon knows I am only teasing him. We are friends.

I do feel Tom is right regarding Dan Rather & the Washington Post.

I think both sides. Liberal and conservative, have had a huge impact shaping the news and both have done damage to our country with their lack of integrity.

[Catsmine]

Dan Rather the anchor (arguably the heir to the legacy of Cronkite )tried to use his position in the network to influence the 2004 election hyping forged documents about President Bush.

And thereby disinherited himself.

Every eulogy and tribute piece done when Cronkite passed said one thing: no one could determine his politics from seeing his work. He and David Brinkley were the last ones to achieve the goal of objective reporting that I can think of. Since the Journalism Schools canonized Bob Woodward every reporter is trained to editorialize.

[smoothy]

People that believe Katie Curric reports anything that actually happens as she comments are either duped or delusional.

Dan Rather getting caught in his biased bash that to this day he isn't man enough to admit proves the lefts agenda in spreading propaganda rather than reporting on news.

After all, the Lefts Motto is " Never let the facts get in the way of a good story".