tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066523326381482793.post3031464295847884992..comments2024-03-25T02:02:15.771-04:00Comments on It's Not a Lecture: Governor Palin, It's Not a Lecture Anymore.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066523326381482793.post-87590456157270484302008-10-07T14:50:00.000-04:002008-10-07T14:50:00.000-04:00David you're right about the media orientation but...David you're right about the media orientation but as a former reporter (for most of my life) I prefer the term "vested interest in chaos." The fact is that if you cultivate reporters, talk with them, remember their names, especially during a campaign, it often keeps the wolves at bay. That was what McCain used to do. The Kennedys- all of them - were brilliant at it. So that's another thing.<BR/>Finally, most reporters, at least from the middle to the top of the totem pole, believe they are serving their country by their trade. YES they can get waaaay too full of themselves and preoccupied with their own (Don't they know who I AM") positions but I know personally that in all my years covering politics my favorite sentence was from Jefferson: ""If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Good reporters believe that's what they're there for- and they ARE! When candidates forget that - or forget that reporters - and JEFFERSON - thought that - they get into trouble.<BR/>Finally, as you have noted, we have never, since FDR, needed a candid leader who respects the American people and a press that relays the facts of both the candor and the respect, no matter what the position of the candidate. McCain used to be like that - he lost his soul somewhere and wants to drag us all down with him in what I see as a true Faustian bargain with hatemongers and purposefully ignorant people like Governor Palin.<BR/>More than you wanted to know, probably.Cynthia Samuelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246114204964806957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066523326381482793.post-7797783849610648762008-10-06T11:32:00.000-04:002008-10-06T11:32:00.000-04:00Absolutely outstanding David, really amazing. Let'...Absolutely outstanding David, really amazing. <BR/><BR/>Let's not forget that McCain used to refer to the media as his base. The media didn't change - McCain changed. The more he strayed from his "straight talk" and centrist positions, the more newsworthy he became.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile the NYT has published a <A HREF="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810040004" REL="nofollow">minimum of 18 articles</A> referencing Obama and Ayres, and not one referencing McCain and his good buddy, convicted terrorist G Gordon Liddy.Mom101https://www.blogger.com/profile/15468524489744839899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066523326381482793.post-25750865349609218202008-10-06T10:41:00.000-04:002008-10-06T10:41:00.000-04:00That's all McCain/Palin can do because they don't ...That's all McCain/Palin can do because they don't have a grasp of the actual issues and can't discuss them in any real way. As they say in the law, if you don't have the facts, pound the table.PunditMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12919969826505761593noreply@blogger.com