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By: "Real" Journalism | No Bull. news service.

"Real" Journalism | No Bull. news service. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:48:32 +0000

[...] Anita Dunn, architect of the administration’s “Fox isn’t a real news network” strategy, has singled out one person who does “amazing…journalism.” Who is that? Comedian Jon Stewart. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:56:20 +0000

As if this whole process wasn’t PERFECTED by the CBS/CNN/NBC/ABC guys and dolls decades ago…

they take a poll… skew the questions to get the poll to say a certain thing.. then the anchors go on the air and report on the poll in order to repeat over and over again what their ‘poll’ was destined to say from the beginning.

This is standard mainstream media style, and the white house knows it because people like them invented it.

so they’re upset now that Fox might occasionally get their reporters working on a news item that first came up on an opinion show.. She doesn’t say, of course, whether the ‘item’ is in fact news or not.. and most of the time it IS… but even so, it’s more honest than the old ‘poll dance’ that the MSM has subjected us to for decades.

By: t.johnson

t.johnson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:30:14 +0000

Hey, Driscoll: I’m on your side, generally, and Dunn should have been done a long time ago, and her and Obama’s attack on FOX should be attacked.
But your dismissal of her comment on Stewart, in this case, is fairly callow: I saw the piece and it was a persuasive compilation of the way the talking heads on FOX can raise an issue which then is covered as “news” by the news reporters and anchors who quote their own talking heads.
Now, I can’t answer for the entire fairness and accuracy of Stewart’s little bit. But it was very persuasive and on point and a creative way to take on the issue at hand: does FOX create news by juicing the synergy between the opiniators and the news side?
I assume a similar case could be made about PMSNBC.
While Stewart often is on the wrong side of most major issues, often unfair and smarmy in his bootlicking of leftist icons; he also is really smart and funny and often deft at skewering pretentions and platitudes on all sides. So speak to the bit Dunn cited, don’t just say Stewart’s a clown so you don’t have to…

By: my

my — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:11:18 +0000

Anita Dunn is not only a Mao groupie but she gets her news from Jon Stewart?

By: "Real" Journalism | America Watches Obama

"Real" Journalism | America Watches Obama — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:03:20 +0000

[...] 0 Comments Anita Dunn, architect of the administration’s “Fox isn’t a real news network” strategy, has singled out one person who does “amazing…journalism.” Who is that? Comedian Jon Stewart. [...]

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What Obama calls *real* journalism. | Billoblog ® — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:23:18 +0000

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