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What is a journalist? « Homepaddock — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:05:17 +0000

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By: jafapete

jafapete — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:39:28 +0000

Sorry, BDTR, but the US mainstream media has been quite hard on Obama. More coverage, yes, but that’s because there’s more to cover. That many people believe otherwise shows how impressionable they are to suggestions from McCain of favouritism.

And, sadly, I am no longer an impressionable youth. Ruth has long since retired. Her colleague Joe Atkinson, who also taught media politics, was a former press gallery journo. Is that more to your satisfaction?

By: Better Dead Than Red

Better Dead Than Red — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:59:40 +0000

“and (2) the “mainstream media” props up the capitalist system and the political elite every hour of the day, every day of the week.”

One word gives the lie to this- “Obama”.

Ruth sounds like one of the same old insufferable elitist commies. They never relent on the propaganda, and they never shrink from expressing their contempt for the intellectual capabilities of the prols. She’s a lecturer and giving “courses”??? Courses where she presumes to instruct on “objectivity??? What a sick joke. She’s a partisan advocate for communism and shouldn’t be within a light year of instructing anybody. Let alone an impressionable youth like you Jafa.

By: macdoctor01

macdoctor01 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:28:03 +0000

YEAH! Sod objectivity! let anarchy rule! Down with media!
Wow! this blogging stuff really goes to your head, doesn’t it?

Let the market rule!
What a thoroughly un-lefty thing to say, JP