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So Fox News' chief political reporter made up a few John Kerry quotes ("'Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!'" and "I'm metrosexual - he's a cowboy!") and put them on the front page of their web site. Fox says he's been "reprimanded." He's still covering the campaign. Oh for the love of....
Are you worried that you need insight or coherent thinking or simple judgement or a stimulus-response reflex to be a newspaper columnist? Well, not only have you not read anywhere I've worked for the last seven years, you've also not read Tim Chavez taking the media to task for not reporting the "good news" from Iraq. When faced with multiple media reports and one conflicting e-mail, Chavez decides the media must be wrong.
Responses to the Chavez column:
Chavez should have checked Marine's claim
You're part of the media, too, Mr. Chavez
"Journalism is broken. And he helped break it."
"Tim, your piece is a disgrace" (my favorite, by an NYT reporter who was at Najaf)
"So when is someone going to fire this guy?"
Chavez contributes a new column which reads of "apology under duress" more than anything else, apologizing for, oh, being wrong but continues to whine that "[s]till, I'd hope the media would find some balance."
This is the kind of trenchant insight we need on the ground in Iraq:
"My day was heading for a real downer what with all those kids blown to bits in Iraq; but lo, along comes Tim Chavez to tell me that its the media that's broken, not Iraq. Like, some Marine sent him an e-mail about Samarra not being a clusterf--- unlike the entire Sunni Triangle. Cool. Just think, for everyone of those 87 attacks per day on U.S. forces that I heard about only cos someone leaked a personal letter from a Wall Street Journalist, there's like 87 positive stories that the media are covering up too. Someone should tell the editor of the Tenessean that Chavez is wasted as a columnist. Imagine the stories he could tell if he was IN IRAQ."
I read "V for Vendetta" this weekend. Its time truly has come again.
Are you worried that you need insight or coherent thinking or simple judgement or a stimulus-response reflex to be a newspaper columnist? Well, not only have you not read anywhere I've worked for the last seven years, you've also not read Tim Chavez taking the media to task for not reporting the "good news" from Iraq. When faced with multiple media reports and one conflicting e-mail, Chavez decides the media must be wrong.
Responses to the Chavez column:
Chavez should have checked Marine's claim
You're part of the media, too, Mr. Chavez
"Journalism is broken. And he helped break it."
"Tim, your piece is a disgrace" (my favorite, by an NYT reporter who was at Najaf)
"So when is someone going to fire this guy?"
Chavez contributes a new column which reads of "apology under duress" more than anything else, apologizing for, oh, being wrong but continues to whine that "[s]till, I'd hope the media would find some balance."
This is the kind of trenchant insight we need on the ground in Iraq:
"My day was heading for a real downer what with all those kids blown to bits in Iraq; but lo, along comes Tim Chavez to tell me that its the media that's broken, not Iraq. Like, some Marine sent him an e-mail about Samarra not being a clusterf--- unlike the entire Sunni Triangle. Cool. Just think, for everyone of those 87 attacks per day on U.S. forces that I heard about only cos someone leaked a personal letter from a Wall Street Journalist, there's like 87 positive stories that the media are covering up too. Someone should tell the editor of the Tenessean that Chavez is wasted as a columnist. Imagine the stories he could tell if he was IN IRAQ."
I read "V for Vendetta" this weekend. Its time truly has come again.
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He's for Whom?
...For a Friday report on this Web site following the first Bush-Kerry debate, a member of Communists for Kerry managed to persuade a FOXNews.com reporter that he was indeed a Kerry supporter. His true feelings subsequently were misrepresented in a story that was published here over the weekend.
FOXNews.com regrets the error. From now on, polygraphs for everybody
From: (Anonymous)
Rather pathetic