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rainy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-04 04:30 PM
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As much as we may wish, our media will never do their job
There are so many stories that will remain never told because it is not hype enough for high ratings and fast reporting. If money and time has to be spent to get to the truth it is not cost effective. Take the issue of Perle, Wolfie, et.al. We know that years back they had written a paper on how to defend Israel. Later, put PNAC together, which called for the end of Saddam's regime. They tried to convince Clinton to attack Iraq or remove Saddam. This should be common knowledge around the country. We know who the neo-cons are and what their mission is. I wish the media would tell all of the untold stories.
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fearnobush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-04 04:34 PM
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1. Keep sending
those emails to the networks. The problem is that the FREEPERS send a lot more than we do. Yes they are mass duped - but our emails are not mass duped. Even still, ours are not too far behind their mass duped load.
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DUreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-04 05:27 PM
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2. I no longer believe ratings have anything to do with it
If the media truly love a scandal because of the ratings it generates, why have so many W* scandals been ignored ?
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-16-04 05:34 PM
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3. Something strange happened on Scarborough's show yesterday
I watched Scarborough after the WI debates and he had Peggy Nunan on as part of the panel discussing the debate. The first time she said anything she was propagandizing about Bush and not much about the debates. The next time just before she spoke Scarborough said that Peggy had to go so he called on her to get in what ever she had to say.

I watched the rerun of the debates and of Scarborough again but Peggy Nunan wasn't on the rerun! She was edited out!

Also tweety is pushing the Bush AWOL story and Lou Dobs is pushing the exporting of American jobs story. I see a trend toward more objective reporting and away from blindly supporting Bush.

I think the media knows that Bush's days are numbered and that a majority of people dislike him and that could transfer to disliking talking heads that support him.
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