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No Consequences for Reporters Caught Colluding with Hillary...

MickeyW

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Decades before social media and email, a remarkable but unsung Bronx housewife named Ruth Goldstock told her grandson, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want on the front page of The New York Times.”

These days, that wise advice applies to private communications by everybody in the entire country except elite journalists and news executives.

Elsewhere in America, when emails that the author assumed would never see the light of day became public he suffers some form of consequences—you know, stuff like plummeting poll numbers, possible jail time or forced resignation. This goes for everybody from Hillary Clinton and the former head of Sony Pictures on down.

No Consequences for Reporters Caught Colluding with Hillary | Observer
 
MickeyW said:
Decades before social media and email, a remarkable but unsung Bronx housewife named Ruth Goldstock told her grandson, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want on the front page of The New York Times.”

These days, that wise advice applies to private communications by everybody in the entire country except elite journalists and news executives.

Elsewhere in America, when emails that the author assumed would never see the light of day became public he suffers some form of consequences—you know, stuff like plummeting poll numbers, possible jail time or forced resignation. This goes for everybody from Hillary Clinton and the former head of Sony Pictures on down.

No Consequences for Reporters Caught Colluding with Hillary | Observer
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Quite frankly I'm glad to see some media personalities abandoning the cult of neutrality. If ever there was an election to play favorites and tank one candidate this is it.
 
Sherman123 said:
Quite frankly I'm glad to see some media personalities abandoning the cult of neutrality. If ever there was an election to play favorites and tank one candidate this is it.
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They are entitled to their opinions, but privately, not publicly under the color of journalistic integrity. An openly biased journalist is a person with corrupted integrity. Of course, I see it every day and they try and dress it up as thou they are neutral, but they aren't. It's revolting and pathetic.

The definition of journalism to me is to find the truth and report that truth w/o bias. Chris Wallace was the only moderator to ask Hillary some tough, hardball questions.....the rest of them give her softball questions.
Allowing them access to the WH Press Room and to fly on AF1, is based totally on them shirking their duties as neutral journalist....and they are compromised. Today.............. A corrupt political system and a corrupt media, go arm in arm.
 
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MickeyW said:
Decades before social media and email, a remarkable but unsung Bronx housewife named Ruth Goldstock told her grandson, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want on the front page of The New York Times.”

These days, that wise advice applies to private communications by everybody in the entire country except elite journalists and news executives.

Elsewhere in America, when emails that the author assumed would never see the light of day became public he suffers some form of consequences—you know, stuff like plummeting poll numbers, possible jail time or forced resignation. This goes for everybody from Hillary Clinton and the former head of Sony Pictures on down.

No Consequences for Reporters Caught Colluding with Hillary | Observer
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Heh!

I had an uncle telling me the bolded decades ago, when I was a kid - too!

He was old-school Sicilian, and deeply involved in politics and things Italian - which were essentially the same thing back then in his ward. He told me this as a young kid, only not referencing the NYT. He also admonished to never commit a crime on paper.

He was unbelievably wise for a man of little formal education, and I miss him badly.
 
Chomsky said:
Heh!

I had an uncle telling me the bolded decades ago, when I was a kid - too!

He was old-school Sicilian, and deeply involved in politics and things Italian - which were essentially the same thing back then in his ward. He told me this as a young kid, only not referencing the NYT. He also admonished to never commit a crime on paper.

He was unbelievably wise for a man of little formal education, and I miss him badly.
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So was my father.
 
Chomsky said:
Heh!

I had an uncle telling me the bolded decades ago, when I was a kid - too!

He was old-school Sicilian, and deeply involved in politics and things Italian - which were essentially the same thing back then in his ward. He told me this as a young kid, only not referencing the NYT. He also admonished to never commit a crime on paper.

He was unbelievably wise for a man of little formal education, and I miss him badly.
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I had a grandpa exactly the same, left school in the 7th grade because he did not like it much and the farm needed him, but he was one of the smartest best men I have ever met. He married a whip smart hell raiser, a woman who was working in the world of men doing a job that had never been before done by a woman by 1963. She had only ever gone to typing school, never stepped onto a university.

These people today who can only measure smarts by University ticket punches annoy me.

I miss them both.
 
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So was my father.
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Yep.

They survived and prospered by the knowledge and values handed down to them by their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers. The stuff that makes you a real man, and things that are not often taught in secular schools.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I had a grandpa exactly the same, left school in the 7th grade because he did not like it much and the farm needed him, but he was one of the smartest best men I have ever met. He married a whip smart hell raiser, a woman who was working in the world of men doing a job that had never been before done by a woman by 1963. She had only ever gone to typing school, never stepped onto a university.

These people today who can only measure smarts by University ticket punches annoy me.

I miss them both.
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I greatly respect that.

Check-out my post #7.
 
Chomsky said:
Heh!

I had an uncle telling me the bolded decades ago, when I was a kid - too!

He was old-school Sicilian, and deeply involved in politics and things Italian - which were essentially the same thing back then in his ward. He told me this as a young kid, only not referencing the NYT. He also admonished to never commit a crime on paper.

He was unbelievably wise for a man of little formal education, and I miss him badly.
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The Paraphrase "Don't say anything you don't want known near an open mike"


It was my motto
 
Fearandloathing said:
The Paraphrase "Don't say anything you don't want known near an open mike"

It was my motto
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I always liked, "Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it."

Sherman123 said:
Quite frankly I'm glad to see some media personalities abandoning the cult of neutrality. If ever there was an election to play favorites and tank one candidate this is it.
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There is nothing cultish about objectivity or integrity. The only kind of person who thinks that way about a bias is when it favors them. People like you deserve the likes of Hillary Clinton.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I had a grandpa exactly the same, left school in the 7th grade because he did not like it much and the farm needed him, but he was one of the smartest best men I have ever met. He married a whip smart hell raiser, a woman who was working in the world of men doing a job that had never been before done by a woman by 1963. She had only ever gone to typing school, never stepped onto a university.

These people today who can only measure smarts by University ticket punches annoy me.

I miss them both.
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They annoy me too. These Millennials and Gen Xers seem to think that a person w/o a college education is a lesser human. Some of the smartest, richest and most successful men and women in the world, never set foot on a college campus.

Chomsky said:
Yep.

They survived and prospered by the knowledge and values handed down to them by their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers. The stuff that makes you a real man, and things that are not often taught in secular schools.
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Amen to that.

Lachean said:
I always liked, "Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it."

There is nothing cultish about objectivity or integrity. The only kind of person who thinks that way about a bias is when it favors them. People like you deserve the likes of Hillary Clinton.
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Mega dittos on that! :thumbs:
 
MickeyW said:
They annoy me too. These Millennials and Gen Xers seem to think that a person w/o a college education is a lesser human. Some of the smartest, richest and most successful men and women in the world, never set foot on a college campus.
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Well you know Mickey when you completely fail at raising a generation of adults that is what you get. These young people tend to be so shallow and so dumb and so clueless about themselves and so unable to manage life with out excessive aid....ya, the most many can manage is to take a look at tickets, see what punches are on it, and go by that. Expecting them to take their own independent evaluation is way beyond most of their abilities. It is almost downright cruel to expect that out of them with as poorly as they have been raised.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Well you know Mickey when you completely fail at raising a generation of adults that is what you get. These young people tend to be so shallow and so dumb and so clueless about themselves and so unable to manage life with out excessive aid....ya, the most many can manage is to take a look at tickets, see what punches are on it, and go by that. Expecting them to take their own independent evaluation is way beyond most of their abilities. It is almost downright cruel to expect that out of them with as poorly as they have been raised.
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I agree. The hippy dopes from the 1960s, the anything goes, Dr. Spock crowd, that surrounded me in college, became parents and professors and politicians. And a sad state of affairs is what we have in this country now.

The number of people who have to be told how to behave or how to survive these days, show cases the Dumbing Down of Americans.

The PSA messages on TV and radio, the child like instructions that the talking heads on the news seem to think people don't know, is mind boggling.
So when a tray of ballot boxes goes missing and it just hapens to be a Republican tray...no biggy. Journalist today have little integrity and are whores for the Left.
Brian Williams got his pee-pee slapped for lying about himself. Had he lied about Trump, he'd get a bump in pay.
 
For reporters and other journalists for the NYT, NBC, PBS, WashPo, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, CNN, AP, and, of course, most of the others, colluding with liberal Democrats is their job. It's what they're expected to do. It's what they're paid for. If they get caught in an exceedingly slimy scandal they'll be fired from one and hired by another. If all else fails, there's always MSNBC.
 
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