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The Spectacle Blog
This is one absolutely wonderful column by Rich Lowry.
The press can say, like it or not, it simply played its role. Which is true — if it’s supposed to be querulous, unfair and self-obsessed. …The reporters were said to be boiling over with frustration from lack to access to Romney. But Romney did interviews with Brian Williams and Matt Lauer of NBC, David Muir of ABC, Jan Crawford of CBS, Greta Van Susteren and Carl Cameron of Fox, and Wolf Blitzer and Piers Morgan of CNN…
Meanwhile, back here at home, where no journalists were mistreated by the Romney campaign, Newsweek ran a cover calling the former Massachusetts governor a “wimp.” A publicity stunt with a stitched-together excuse for an article attached, the cover nonetheless made “NBC Nightly News” on Sunday — one of the few segments on the broadcast not related to beach volleyball.
Despite all the conservative energy devoted to monitoring and critiquing media bias, it may be worse than ever.
Read the whole thing. Lowry really lays into the self-important popinjays who claim to be merely “reporting” the “news.”
One day, we can hope, there will be a reckoning.
Tom Kyba| 8.2.12 @ 3:54PM
The media whining about lack of access reminds me of the silly complaints about being muzzled by James Hanson of NASA when he was doing interviews by the hundreds.
soljerblue| 8.2.12 @ 4:24PM
After 40-plus years in journalism, now happily retired, Rich Lowry's article, and Quin Hilyer's take on it are smack on target. What was once an honorable craft followed by working stiffs who wanted to get the story straight has is something totally foreign to its ideals and principles. The craft has become a collection of scandal sheets in print, and, in broadcasting, a detestable collection of grossly overpaid, self-important clowns masquerading as serious journalists. I see them, instead, as the towel bearers in the huge bordello known as the mainstream media.
Jake| 8.2.12 @ 10:22PM
Couldn't have said it better.
Any remaining shreds of dignity and ethics were shamefully jettisoned by the media's appalling behavior at the Warsaw Tomb of The Unknown Soldier this week.
Don't insult clowns by comparing them to today's media.
Unlike journalists , clowns have a code of professional conduct and a standard of ethics.
We can trust clowns to be honest .
We cannot trust the media to be honest.
JD| 8.2.12 @ 5:39PM
Today's liberals are whining about "whining". CNN published an editorial complaining that Romney keeps "whining" about the media's treatment of him.
What a clever gambit! Now they can abuse him to no end, and any response from him will just be "whining!" Will Obama ever be accused of whining when he complains that stubborn realities keep making him look bad? Never!
Based on this neo-liberal definition of "whining", Martin Luther King was nothing but a whiner.
Conservative Bob| 8.2.12 @ 6:19PM
A reckoning is due to be sure.
We can only hope if fits the crimes.
What price should they pay for their ongoing effort to steal our liberty, for working tirelessly to shade, misreport, fabricate, or not report stories so as to put in power or keep in power people intent on overthrowing our constitution and enslaving our children and grand children to the state.
I would set the toll very high indeed.
Maybe they should be treated as the collaborators were treated after the war in France.
Our forefathers made interesting use of tar feathers and fence rails.
For them there is no consequence for their dishonest behavior. In fact they have gotten away with it for so long they can look at you in bewilderment when called on it.
A reckoning is due and hopefully they will receive it in full measure, for their treachery and dishonesty.
Americanpatriot| 8.2.12 @ 7:05PM
These people are at the bottom of the food chain. They have no morals, no honesty and will gladly sell our country down the river with no thought. Their day of reckoning is coming. Call it what you want, Karma or chickens come home to roost.
Americanpatriot| 8.2.12 @ 6:54PM
The media is giving Obama free ads by not vetting him, lying for him and basicalloy being his sycophants.
Oldefarte| 8.2.12 @ 7:31PM
Oh there will be a reckoning alright, when Americans get their heads out of their rears and realize that they have leverage over this situation, that they can shut down these idiots with pen-computer that think they're God-like, and that they can do so by simply obtaining their news from alternative sources. There is no intelligent reason why these politically controlled writers-reporters from MSM sources should be read or viewed other than supidity. News can now be obtained by multiple sources if not from the sides of city busses, and its only due to the publics laziness and stupidity that they allow themselves to be constantly brainwashed/propagandized by these opinionated political promoters disguised as independent writers/reporters/editors!!!!!
PCPSmokerII| 8.2.12 @ 9:47PM
Who has the energy to read anything that wimp has to write?
Paul McGrath| 8.2.12 @ 10:50PM
I happened to stumble upon Romney's speech in Israel on Saturday morning. (It might have been Sunday.) It was on Fox News, and to their credit, also CNN. It was a great speech. It was a brilliant speech, and it reminded me very much of Ronald Reagan at his best.
The next day in the papers? Nothing. Then Romney went to Poland, where he was endorsed by one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, Lech Walesa. The next day in the papers? Nothing.
Today in both the Sac. Bee and the S. F. Chronicle, I learn that Romney's European visit was "gaffe-filled." I sometimes think I am going to lose my mind.
spike59| 8.3.12 @ 5:47AM
i'm STILL waiting for anyone to explain ANY gaffes...
Truncheon| 8.3.12 @ 9:44AM
It's all the misdirected venom of spoiled children.
Obama delivers the gaffe of the millenium, "You didn't build that, somebody else made that happen." The children didn't realize what a gaffe that was until after they'd cheered and fainted over it repeatedly.
Now they are mad. They wish to provoke some similar item, from Mitt Romney. They are digging for it, fantasizing about it, in full, petulant, tantrum mode.
greaterji | 8.3.12 @ 4:50AM
media is showing no improvement
http://www.google.com
Occam's Tool| 8.3.12 @ 10:47AM
Liberal journalists=child molestors as ethical creatures. My experience with them has been appalling.
Quartermaster| 8.3.12 @ 3:23PM
Lowry proved himself a coward over the Derbyshire affair. He needs to shove it himself before he tells his fellow squishes and libtards to shove it.
Penelope| 8.3.12 @ 9:17PM
And by then they had already lost many readers and subscribers by their incessant fawning over MR. The tactics used by those who Lowry now wishes to admonish, are the same ones his rag used against the other Republican Presidential candidates, and with Newt and Bachmann bordered on the obsessive. The Derbyshire affair was wimpdom personified, that is, moral cowardice and disloyalty.