It says tabloid "journalism" has more standards and the desire to actually research a story.

Isn't this the same crummy cable network that dried-up husk Andrea Mitchell claimed was supremely important to keeping alive the NBC News brand? They may want to re-think their staffing and give Shuster a job selling t-shirts in the gift shop.

That's just really cold.  ROFL

The standards of the MSM have dropped below that of the NE and he has the nerve to look down his nose?  Now had the MSM refused to cover the sleazy stories regarding Mark Foley, Craig, and many many others for political gain, he could rightfully take such a position. The manner in which they covered the Hurricane Katrina was absolutely disgraceful and totally partisan. Why did the MSM withhold information from the public regarding Nagin's incompetence in not following the city's disaster plan stranding thousands of poor people, the MSM withheld statements by the LADHS they blocked emergency supplies to the superdome, the MSM withheld info from the public regarding the LA Governor Blanco comments saying she didn't know she had to declare a disaster. The MSM broadcast the blatant lie of a Parish President accusing President Bush of drowning his mother by FEMA's lack of response. The MSM was protecting their favorite political party, plain and simple.  The MSM is not about unbiased positions.

The truly sad state of journalism is that the standards of the MSM have dropped so low that the NE in effect is now a higher standard and therefore more credible. People are tired of this foolishness and the MSM should realize that they can no longer foist the lie that they are unbiased.  If they want to get back to that place where the public can actually trust what they say or not feel they are being snookered due to an agenda by omission of the facts.  

Here's a challenge to MSNBC, if you want to pull ahead of FNC in the ratings do the following:  

1. Apologize to the public for your crappy biased reporting and displaying poor judgement by editors allowing agenda based reporting of the news.  

2. Pledge to report the facts, all the facts on a story.

3. Do not report a story unless you have more than one side of it, if it exists, represented fairly and reasonably.  

4. Appoint an Omnibudsman editor to review all stories before they are published, including any stories you purchase from the AP, Reuters, UPI, etc. the Omnibudsman will have the responsibility to cancel any story that in their opinion does not meet the standard of journalism cited in #2 & 3 or any other standards.  And demand said information be added before the story is released.  

5. You will attribute properly immediately after the name of any politician what their party affiliation is, without exception. 

6. You will promptly make corrections of factual errors when they are pointed out and then rerun the story with the  correction in it's entirety in order to counteract the false or misleading conclusions due to said factual errors whether intentional or not. 

7. You will give equal coverage of all candidates running for office during an election.  No more excuses of popularity as determined by your arbitrary standards. You may chose not to cover any and that's fine but you will not show favoritism to any candidate using air time or political party.  Your job is not to chose our candidates overtly or via deselection.

8. As more standards are articulated you will adopt them and pledge to the public your job is to report the news, not make the news, not spin the news, period. 

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

MSNBC has journalistic standards worse than the Enquirer on its sleaziest day.  At least the Enquirer sometimes gets it right.  I still believe in Batboy!

Can anybody really differentiate the vile spewage from Olbermann's cavernous mug with the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer.  I'd put the Enquirer way ahead.

Jeff Lebowski

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