It takes Bernie Goldberg a while to get to his point here, but it’s a good one. Whether or not you think O’Keefe actually did what he’s been convicted in the press of doing, it is a bit odd that the New York Times didn’t find him worthy of front-page coverage until he failed at the sort of work they didn’t cover when he was successful at it.
The sports section couldn’t get away with only covering the home team when they win one, yet it’s fine on the front page.
“see if there are any good, young-sounding names that aren’t being used? Something that suggests long, flowing locks of wavy blonde hair to go along with my convertible?”
DavidLeeRothCirca1978? Nah, too subtle. I got nothin’.
“Hypocracy” I can live with. It’s a hard word, isn’t it? But “loosing” for “losing” . . . well, I just loose all respect after that.
When O’Keefe’s ACORN co-investigator Hannah Giles
gets a traffic ticket,
I expect the NY Times to break out the
Second Coming font size for the headline.
Well, yeah, but as long as there are a lot of photos in the story, I’ll read it again and again.
There’s something to be said about people who leave comments longer than the blog itself, especially when most of it’s about their sick dog. Do you have a wallet full of baby pictures or slides from your vacation to South Dakota? (It doesn’t have to be YOUR baby or anything) What did you have for lunch? How’s your mom? Did you get your test results back? Does this look infected to you? Did Susan Sarandon trade Tim Robbins in for yet another younger model?
I seriously know a guy, an MD, who takes it as a point of pride that he only gets his news from the New York Times. What a strange universe he must live in.
Alpaca: When a llama just won’t do.
I found out about this from Fox. They covered it as soon as the story broke just like every other channel. The level of enthusiasm might have been somewhat less, but do remember that ACORN has direct ties to the President, where James O’Keefe is just an individual.
The NYT, on the other hand, refused to cover the ACORN story at all for two weeks, allowing them to be scooped by the even the lowliest of blogs. Fox has far more credibility in that regard. And that is certainly cause for query into the journalistic integrity of the Times since ACORN has direct links to the election of the President. James O’Keefe is small-time by comparison, yet he’s the one that receives their outsize coverage?
And what of this incident? It doesn’t change the facts of the ACORN scandal, which the Times didn’t bother to cover, so why is this a story (for them) now?
The Times has been the standard bearer for all media, but that time is over. They need to drop their pretense of impartiality before they have no credibility left whatsoever.
zelda
“…remember that ACORN has direct ties to the President, where James O’Keefe is just an individual.”
Direct ties? Heck, they’re subsidized with federal tax dollars, making it somewhat more important for a supposed ‘watchdog’ media to ascertain accountability.
PUUUULEEEEEZE……might be an ounce of credibility here if there was equal whining and outrage in noting that Fox had WALL TO WALL coverage…hours upon hours, weeks upon weeks, when this yahoo managed to trip up some minimum wage part time workers at Acorn. But who would like to take a guess at how much coverage Fox has devoted to the same (what was it hanity called him while making out with him on national tv? a budding investigative reporter or something) dude, when he can’t outwit the FBI with his sophmoric antics? Fox has covered about 4 minutes total on it so far. But I suppose that’s different, huh? And LMAO at the snark that he’s been ‘convicted by the press’. This 3 stooges operation is a shoe in to win one of those stupidest criminal contest. Oh he’ll have a trial of course, but like those guys that like, leave their drivers license at the scene of a crime that was caught on video…sometimes an ameture criminal is just to stupid to waste taxpayer money on a trial…yet we do. But in the meantime, ya’ll dont need to cry up a river of crocodile tears for him…I’m sure Tucker will be offering him a job soon as he serves his time.
It may help you to understand that Fox fulfills a niche in media. That niche happens to be appealing to about 50% of this country’s viewers, while the vast majority of other media outlets compete for the other 50% of viewers. This is why Fox dominates viewership while other companies fight for a decreasing market share.
So why would it be in Fox’s interest to spend more than 4 minutes on a story that has hours of coverage and hundreds of pages written by dozens other media companies who have 1) already gotten the story wrong (wiretapping was never a charge); and 2) for which beyond an arrest report, there isn’t that much information as of yet? Considering how many corrections that Retracto the Correction Alpaca has had to request, it’s readily apparent that most other media outlets are just parroting each other without actually doing any actual, you know, journalism.
Hannity’s going to have O’Keefe on this week to discuss his side of the story, if that makes you happier.
hmmm. lemee make sure i got this straight. So, it’s totally logical for Fox to totally overplay the angle of this story that appeals to their viewership…and also perfectly logical to be nonexistant on the other angle, the one that their viewership wants to go away. OK got it. I didn’t just discover Fox has a particular audience yesterday, but thanks for pointing out the obvious, always handy. My comment was pointing out the hypocracy. e.g – when any other media who…according to you, are fighting it out for the non-fox viewers, offer coverage more skewed in the reverse…then, all of a sudden, it’s oh my! look at the bias in those other guys coverage!! You wont hear me trying to convince anyone that NYT has a different audience than WashTimes or WSJ. Or that Olberman is any more of a journalist than Glen Beck. Those 2 are the ying and yang of the fringes of sanity. So what? who cares…watch which ever one ammuses you more. Frankly I think they’d look cute together…should totally start dating. I just get so freakin bored with all the hypocracy. It’s a polarized country. The 2 major parties have some sane people, a few crazy people, a moderate base, and loonie fringies. And they’re both loosing ground to independents who are sick of the loonie tunes of both parties getting being the squeeky wheels that get all the media coverage. That’s real world. What’s not real world….is some notion that one side of the polical spectrum is any less or more guilty of anything distasteful than the other.
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It’s spelled hypocrisy. It also has a different meaning than the one you seem to be using. You’re welcome.
When you have the tech guys fix it so we don’t have to read from the bottom up, mayhaps you could suggest they add a spell check feature? Just asking for the spelling challenged among us, as I believe that is a syndrome covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act. If it isn’t, surely as soon as the ACLU sees this, they will run to the nearest courthouse to file the paperwork.
I think he means “hypocracy.” It is street slang for the almost crack like addiction some get to stories and figurines of hypogriffs.
sorry treach…life’s too short to spell ck blog comments, but i dispute your dictionary.
The left says James O’Keefe is irrelevant and a total dum-dum. That’s why they can’t rest until his professional and private life are completely destroyed. See, because he doesn’t matter. He’s doesn’t scare the crap out of them at all.
Life is too short? You just spent your Sunday afternoon commenting on a blog.
good god breathe people. life’s too short…wasn’t offered as an observation in high minded philosphy….just a tad of snark, clearly treacher is the only one with a sense of humor around here. But yes, cabin fever with a very sick dog today so wastin a little time in between forced meds and messy things you dont want to know about. definitely didn’t intend to induce anyerisums. But the little one finally sleeps, so guess i should try to go be productive. But i’ll try offer a final thought to all my fans: Zelda – ‘where James O’Keefe is just an individual.’…yes, he is indeed an individual. And Mary Landrieu is a United States Senator. And her office is located in a Federal Building. This would be why that individual and his partners, are facing federal charges. Sure that was just an oversight on your part, as I’m sure Fox would dedicate less minutes than you can count on one hand, if the exact same circumstances happened, except it was Michael Moore….and say, Mitch McConnel’s office. We should ponder all this over some bourbon and branch. Anybody with the fake name Zelda and an eyepatch, I totally want to hang out with. Dear Professor (or is it Dr perhaps?) slightlyaboveaverage – I realize that this crew was not charged with wiretapping, and that Shuester and others jumped the shark incorrectly reporting the charges eventually filed in early part of the story. Shame on him and them. They’re nothing but shameless hacks. My comment you might not have noticed, was not on the particular dirty deeds. Which I have to say, I’ll be just dying to hear the explanation about why these guys needed to dress up in fake uniforms, and present themselves as workers for the telephone company, and lied and disguised they’re way all the way into phone closet (according to the FBI indictment), just to, what was it? Oh yea, confirm if her phones were….wait for it….broken. Maybe it will be some version of a Good Samaritan defense. All I know is the trial is shaping up to be some good ol fashioned Perry Mason courtoom drama. But I digress. My comment professor, was simply on all this OUTRAGE!!! over percieved skewed coverage by certain media outlets on the story in general…and I guess I had the nerve to point out a rather ironic lack of outrage over the exact same phenomenon by Fox, on the ’sister story’ about this bubbleboy of politics. And I’d rethink your fake blog commenter name…not nearly as cool as zelda’s..brings to mind those bald dudes in the red convertibles. I’ll check in tomorrow for all spelling corrections. Treacher, love the blog…ur funny as heck, most of the time anyway. But i’d look for some funnier friends if i were you.
Right on. I hate it when the criminal justice system prosecutes amateur criminals! I long for the day we just kill the amateurs; bullet to the head a soon at we can pass the threshold of probable cause. And we can then spend our money crafting clever prosecutions for the pros. They deserve it, I think. Great thought man. What do you think we should do to ameture spellers?
What a well thought-out and concise comment.
I have no problem overlooking the run-on sentences, as well as the numerous spelling and punctuation errors.
Truly open-minded readers won’t judge your content based solely on the unorthodox prose style.
Your enthusiasm adequately explains the occasional oversight.
You courageously ignored the FBI’s own admissions that the individuals involved in this matter were not attempting to bug the Senator’s phone lines http://www.politico.com/static/PPM145_new_012610.html. Many commenters would be discouraged by such a setback, but you negotiated that obstacle easily by reminding readers that ’sophmoric’ (sic) antics failed to outwit the FBI.
But bias is bias, and you are right to call Fox out on this. You virtually slammed the door shut on your argument when you accuse ‘hanity’ of describing O’keefe as a “budding investigative reporter.” Boom!
I guess my favorite part would be where you provide specific references for the facts you cite (hours and hours, weeks and weeks, etc.,…). That made it a simple task to verify the examples you provided in support of your assertions. This use of corroboration leads the reader to the obvious conclusion where you “L(Y)AO” about ‘convicted by the press’ snark http://bigjournalism.com/retracto/2010/01/31/correction-request-ny-daily-news/.
Please continue your contributions to the ongoing dialogue here. I’ll be a more-informed reader because of it.
It is this type of response that has taken The Times from a respected newspaper-of-record status, to just another voice in the wind.
What is astounding, is that the Publisher and Editors of The Time are proud of this development.
If you read Times Ombudsman Hoyt’s remarks regularly, he points out the transgressions, issues a tsk, tsk, and then lauds the editors and writers for their professionalism.
They are fast becoming a caricature.
The Times, and its psycho sisters in the MSM, are locked into their narrative (what we used to call “stuck on stupid”). Conservatives are dumb angry neanderthals, so young conservatives are even that much more crazy. Being young and all (because they really ought better to be anti-war activists or something).
When James and Hannah counted their coups last summer, they were obviously very clever and totally successful with their missions. Therefore, underplay it. When James and his friends were caught on this one, it looked like a fail. Therefore, overplay it to the max. How many outlets have already had to issue corrections? Quite a few. And how many still have their corrections pending? Quite a few more.
It’s almost as if stinging the media was the plan all along. I trust everyone is enjoying the adventures of ‘Retracto, the Correction Alpaca’ on Big Journalism lately. That is one very busy alpaca!
A panda could never do that, bloody communists.
I’ll be here if anyone needs lame alpaca-ku.
Frankly, there hasn’t been that much demand for the stuff lately.
I heard alpacas taste like panda.
We’ve got a flippin’ menagerie in here, what with the manatees, the alpacas, the pandas, horses, chickens and Michael Moore!
Tell me: What other blog offers all that?
Hot Air? I don’t think so.
Iowahawk? Give a break to me!
HuffPo? DailyKos? I don’t know. I don’t go near those places for fear of catching something ’socially contagious.’
As Napoleon Dynamite famously said, “Tina, eat some ham!”
Spell check, I’ll get right to wrok on that.
There is no such word as “hypocracy.” Have a good one.
Jim,
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Apparently I should look into a name change, as suggested by luckyinkentucky (an ‘underblogger’?). I had no idea my user name betrayed my baldness so clearly. Has everyone noticed this? Why didn’t anyone tell me about this sooner? It’s like Senior Picture day at high school, when everyone knew except me until the yearbook came out and I saw that big, entire leaf of kale on my right upper incisor. Up until now I thought I was looking teh bomb!
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So anyway, could you look over the roster and see if there are any good, young-sounding names that aren’t being used? Something that suggests long, flowing locks of wavy blonde hair to go along with my convertible? Perhaps a variant from the manatee collection? Yes, a blonde manatee. Could happen. I’d given thought to ‘Ohthe2manatees,’ but it seems too derivative. And since I would then be the third I would be defeating my own objective. KY’s suggestion of Professordoctor has a nice ring to it, but I think if accuracy is our goal a modification to ’slightlybelowaverage’ or ‘unbelievablybelowaverage’ would better meet our needs.
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Thanks,
Bald dude with panda-like SAT scores