Thursday, January 19, 2012

Limbaugh Speculates About ABC Gaming the Primaries

SEE HERE Many years ago I was the first page editor of my high school newspaper. We were taught that good journalism tried to be objective and that our job was to report the news not influence it. Sometime in the 1960s all that changed and the journalists got infected with the idea that they should interpret the news for we poor benighted ignorant imbeciles that they wrote newspapers for. Shortly after that it was no longer interpretation but spin and advocacy and "news making" somehow not only couldn't we interpret the news, we didn't even need to know what really happened only what we were supposed to think. Newspapers are hardly even useful to wrap fish in anymore and the broadcast media are worse. The best you can do these days is try to integrate the spin in the hopes that the average will be something approximating the truth.

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