vickie
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 Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:59 am Post subject: FLASH! MSM Kerry lied about Cambodia... |
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Why is it taking so long for MSM to get it. The OpinionJournal is barely in the fringes of the MSM and is just now getting it!
This slow pace is maddening! MSM Get off your ____ and investigate this story!
Do you remember how quick the LA Times jumped on Arnold's woman fondling? They had five full time reporters on it. They were flying to Paris to talk to a "victim". Any woman who ever met Arnold could become an instant celebrity just by making the charge. Never mind that these women may have invited and enjoyed a little celebrity attention at the time.
[Personal Note] I have been to several parties with big time celebrities, the habit of wandering hands is not just an Arnold trait.
For a truly momentous scandal of deceit and dishonor. They can't read a book, make a phone call or spend an hour on the web.
FULL STORY (Click Here)
Godzilla vs. the Blogosphere
The Kerry campaign counted on Big Media to help it win. Oops. BY GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
Saturday, September 4, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
| Quote: | That has played hob with the Kerry campaign's strategy. It's been apparent for quite a while that Mr. Kerry's Vietnam record would be a centerpiece of his campaign, and it's also been apparent that he has stretched the truth more than a little where parts of it were concerned. In a Boston Herald piece inspired by "Apocalypse Now," Mr. Kerry wrote: "On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in 'Apocalypse Now,' took my patrol boat into Cambodia.
"In fact, I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese Allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real." Mr. Kerry made similar claims on the Senate floor in 1986, adding that the memory was "seared--seared--in me." He also peddled variations on this story during press interviews over the years.
But the story isn't true. And the Kerry campaign eventually admitted that, but only after prodding from the media. Not from the newspapers and TV networks--which studiously ignored the story for nearly two weeks--but from blogs and talk radio. Bloggers researched the story on Google, on Factiva and Nexis, and in libraries. Talk-radio hosts, including some like Neal Boortz and Hugh Hewitt who are bloggers themselves, retailed the findings to the wider world. Eventually the Kerry campaign was forced to respond, which then forced the New York Times and the LA Times, grudgingly, to admit that the story existed and to start their own coverage.
As blogger Ed Driscoll noted, the Kerry media strategy was geared to the media environment of 1972, where the refusal to carry the story of a few big outlets chummy with the campaign would have been enough to keep things quiet. That didn't work, as the new media were enough to neutralize the media advantage that Kerry's strategy was built around. And that's quite a feat: Unlike the blogosphere's role in toppling Trent Lott, the Cambodia revelations happened not in the face of big media laziness, but in the face of active big-media opposition. (Even now, newspapermen like the Star Tribune's Jim Boyd are criticizing bloggers for covering the story, though without admitting that the bloggers had the facts on their side.) |
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