"...stodgy old-fashioned virtues like facts..."

We had a thread up a day or so ago with this same idiot statement about facts. The Lame Stream Media keeps thowing anything negative they get about conservatives on the front page and burying anything about lefties until the entire planet knows. If a terrorist says the military slaughtered civilians it goes front page. If upon fact finding it turns out to be not true it just fades away. Etc., etc., etc. If Tom Delay is accused of something it's a fact. If a Democrat goes to jail, "there's nothing to see here, move along now." If a Democrat gets caught with $90,000 in his freezer then once again there's nothing to print because they haven't been able to check the facts. I call BS.

Just last week we had to go through the media's promotion of Ron Suskind's book, which alleged that unnamed sources in the White House instructed George Tenant to fake evidence against Iraq. Tenant flatly denied that. Suskind based his report on two officials that Suskind claimed saw or took part in creating the memo, but both sources flatly denied it. Yet, despite the fact that his own sources denied his story, Suskind's accusations were treated as pure fact, and congressional liberals warned of investigations. So much for facts.

Keep Suskind in mind when you hear "It appears most of us in the MSM tend to be hung up on stodgy old-fashioned virtues like facts."

No you aren't. 

The Trib along with all other Lame Stream Media outlets got caught with their pants down trying to cover for Edwards, but, but, but, they are trying to come up with an excuse. Time to be big boys and girls and fess up to the fact you were covering for Silky/Democrats and got caught. That's an embarassmen, not a death sentence. Well considering the condition of the Lame Stream Media it just might be a death sentence for several outlets and the unemployment line for a lot of employee's who will have  suck it up and learn to say, 'do you want fries with that'. The liberal education came with no other qualifications.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

ROFL, Clarence you slay me... LOL, sides hurts, ROFL.

So I guess manipulating the story line to support your candidate is a good old fashioned virtue???  For Tammany Hall maybe.  No Clarence, you, the MSM got caught with your pants down for all to see.  The story is not Edwards sleazy behavior, the story is how you, the MSM did battle with the Clintonites.  You're right, someone tipped off the NE (owned by a Clinton supporter) about Edwards, hmmmm, whom might that be...?  You, the MSM foiled the Clintons dirty tricks plot by keeping Edwards in the race.  Edwards siphoning votes from Clinton as Wolfson claims is irrelevant and debatable. In fact Wolfson's claim is nothing more than a ruse to justify the August Surprise.  Both of you, the MSM and the Clintonites are guilty of an extreme lack of ethics.  The public now sees both of you as equally corrupt.

And Clarence, you might want to start thinking about a new career since the Tribune Cos are in financial trouble.

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

"In fact, major media did try to confirm the story without using the Enquirer as a source."

You’re not getting off that easily. If the “major media” did spend a year investigating this, as you claim, and they were STILL unable to "confirm" anything until John made his "confession" jus a few days ago, even though the evidence was readily available to anyone who actually looked (I mean, really, how hard can it be? After all, the National Enquirer didn't have much of a problem now, did they), then you are TERRIBLE investigators and you DESERVE our criticism. It’s ether that or you really DIDN’T investigate the story like you claim, in which case you are BIASED and you STILL deserve our criticism.

Ether way, you screwed up. That ALWAYS deserves criticism.

Hmm, Clarence Page. Let me see if my memory is correct.

Oh, yes. He's the lefty reporter who, for years, rampaged in his column against privately owned handguns. Nobody should have them. No one needed them.

Then, as luck would have it, he was caught with carrying his very own unlicensed handgun. For protection, you see.

What a dolt.

The major media report only half the news. Why are they surprised they have only half the potential audience?

"The Edwards bombshell became problematic when none of the main parties in the story would go on the record to confirm the allegation."

So they were just waiting around for a year or so for Silky to get tired of lying and just admit it?

Think of all the investigative money/effort that could have been saved if John Gotti has just admitted he was guilty of all those crimes they charged him with. (Not equating Silky & Gotti here, but that seems to me the 'logic' Clarence is using here)

If the EN is a just supermarket tabloid, then what the hell is the NYT?

The "facts" angle is a typical deception the MSM uses to cover up their propagandistic purposes.

These people are experts at twisting facts, ignoring facts, strategically juxtaposing facts with other facts, etc. in order to create a desired perception in the minds of the readers.