Comments on: Eason Jordan – Full Disclosure Needed

By: Old Gunny

Old Gunny — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:21:38 +0000

And yet the MSM does not understand why the military doesn’t:

A. like them

B. trust them

C. restpct them

D. all of the above.

By: windowlicker

windowlicker — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:32:41 +0000

randall g, Remember that Google News only goes back 30 days.

By: Bostonian

Bostonian — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:05:06 +0000

Randall g,

I have heard that news companies keep themselves out of Google, so such a search might turn up empty no matter what. You might have to search the news company’s own web site (or use Lexis-Nexus if you have access).

(I did this already on some sites like NYT, and turned up the same deafening silence, though.)

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Wyok, I want a congressional hearing. I’m tired of news execs getting away with defamatory statements and suffering no consequences. And this is quite a lot more severe, in what’s said, than the CBS forgery scandal. There should be consequences.

By: Dishman

Dishman — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:35:18 +0000

She too is noticing things that the MSM treats as non-events. Once you start noticing them, they're easy to spot. Fnord

By: wyok

wyok — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:32:25 +0000

Looked at another way, if the story were covered by the MSM, would you like it? It is unsubstantiated vitriol…something I don’t like to see given credibility. If it were reported, would the MSM report that “a bigwig of a major ‘news’ network is saying crazy things, what a nut” — or would they say “a bigwig is saying appalling things, and because of his position, we may have reason to believe they are true.” And it’s difficult to believe that any subsequent exculpatory facts would make Page 1. There are worse things than ignoring him. In a perfect world, it would be nice that everyone see his stripes but, alas, it is not.

By: randall g

randall g — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:47:20 +0000

This is interesting. Type “Eason Jordan” into Google news and up comes a bunch of blogs and magazines, including Power Line, PoliPundit, National Review, Front Page and others. Nothing at all from the MSM.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:31:25 +0000

“I suppose those events are simply not interesting to the MSM. They don’t fit anywhere into the conventional narrative, so they are just noise.”

It’s more than mere disinterest.

These types of stories are either threatening, embarrassing, or both to the MSM.

After years of monopolistic control over the flow of information they have cultivated the singular strategy of suppressing the stories that fly in the face of the message they wish to inculcate the benighted with.

This strategy is no longer sufficient in the face of repeated unmaskings by the watchdogs of the new media but it’s the only one they’ve got, so expect then to continue to lie, cover up, and dissemble, and expect the new media to continue to expose and discredit them.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:21:15 +0000

What do these people have to do to get fired? Get naked and speak in tongues or what?

By: windowlicker

windowlicker — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:13:37 +0000

Knowing of the high ethical standards for which journalists are rightly famed, I expected Rathergate to be a once in a generation event. Now it seems we can look forward to two per year. Who'll be left by 2008?

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:57:46 +0000

Bostonian: She too is noticing things that the MSM treats as non-events. Once you start noticing them, they're easy to spot. I suppose those events are simply not interesting to the MSM. They don't fit anywhere into the conventional narrative, so they are just noise. They are like the purloined letter, hidden in plain site. WichitaBoy: From the Purloined Letter, ... as mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, Guess that puts us in our place!