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Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago

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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 06:50 PM
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Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago
To anyone who lived through the media feeding frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation's leading news organizations spent the better part of a decade destroying their own credibility by relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals, the past few days, in which the media have tried to shoehorn Barack Obama into the Rod Blagojevich scandal, have been sickeningly familiar. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer announced yesterday that “some are calling this Obama's first presidential scandal.” It isn’t. There is no evidence he has done anything wrong. This is not Obama’s first presidential scandal – but it shows signs of becoming the first media scandal of the Obama presidency.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812120015?f=h_top

Long article, but well worth the read, especially for those that were not around back in the 90's ( age wise or politically aware)

Sorry if this has already been posted, but like I said, " it's well worth the read."
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   Thanks n/t  DerekJ   Dec-13-08 07:05 PM   #1 
   Write emails to Wolfe via the CNN site. Go to contact at the bottom  Acadia Blue   Dec-13-08 07:07 PM   #2 
   K&R  uponit7771   Dec-13-08 08:33 PM   #3 
   That article links to another interesting article from 2006:  MetricSystem   Dec-13-08 08:46 PM   #4 
   Good catch !  jaysunb   Dec-13-08 09:43 PM   #7 
   Nothard to understand the lack of credibility that most people feel about the media.  BrklynLiberal   Dec-13-08 09:17 PM   #5 
   Mark my words: These media WHORES are trying to create Whitewater II...  TankLV   Dec-13-08 09:28 PM   #6 
   See also "The hunting of the president resumes", by Joe Conason, on Salon yesterday:  kath   Dec-13-08 11:24 PM   #8 
   Another good catch  jaysunb   Dec-14-08 12:18 AM   #9 
   Two words: Jeff Gannon  judasdisney   Dec-14-08 03:36 PM   #10 
 
DerekJ (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 07:05 PM
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1. Thanks n/t
Edited on Sat Dec-13-08 07:05 PM by DerekJ
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 07:07 PM
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2. Write emails to Wolfe via the CNN site. Go to contact at the bottom
of the home page, then to TV, then to anchors and to Wolfe and tell the rePIG what you think. I did.
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uponit7771 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Dec-13-08 08:33 PM
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3. K&R
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Metric System (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 08:46 PM
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4. That article links to another interesting article from 2006:
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 09:43 PM
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7. Good catch !
I hope all progressives will take heed as to who the third rail is in this destruction of America.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 09:17 PM
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5. Nothard to understand the lack of credibility that most people feel about the media.
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 09:28 PM
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6. Mark my words: These media WHORES are trying to create Whitewater II...
This is EXACTLY they way Clinton's term began - from the moment he was elected on...

But yet the WAR CRIMINAL bush*es are allowed a comfortable "retirement"...
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Dec-13-08 11:24 PM
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8. See also "The hunting of the president resumes", by Joe Conason, on Salon yesterday:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/12/12/obama/i...

Yep, it's starting. For those who've read "The Hunting of the President" by Conason and Gene Lyons (a very excellent book, BTW), it's "deja vu all over again".
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Dec-14-08 12:18 AM
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9. Another good catch
Maybe this can be preempted.
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10. Two words: Jeff Gannon
I don't recall the media being interested in the most salacious tabloid story of all time. Why not?
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