That Librul Media
Feb 26th, 2006 at 10:35 am by Susie
The Philadelphia Inquirer is so darned adept at the equivalency game. After Will Bunch’s attention-getting piece on Rick Santorum’s unusual financial arrangements, the Inky broke the “story” that, EXACTLY LIKE RICK SANTORUM, NO, REALLY! Bob Casey (who’s favored to win the Democratic nomination to run against him) also got a mortgage from a bank whose board members were campaign contributors.
Never mind that this is a classic apples-and-oranges case. There wasn’t one single suspicious element to Casey’s mortgage - it was a bank that accepted applications from anyone who walked in, and it was a 30-year mortgage.
The Inquirer, through their determination to find protective coloring for virtually any story that attacks a Republican, has given casual readers the illusion that it’s the same. It’s not.
Notice, please, that when the paper covered the recent City Hall “pay for play” Democratic scandal, they did not go as far as their own archives to pair it with the information of the extensive “pay for play” apparatus of the state and suburban Republican parties.
Because pairing Republican corruption with that story would have been wrong. That would be implying two wrongs make a right. Right?
And that’s why no one really cares about the Inky anymore.
Geez Louise.
C’mon, Inky, just fucking let the truth chips fall where they may and stop cowering in fear of the Republicans. Quit trying to shoot for “balance” and try for the truth, OK?
If it were Hitler and Goering in the White House, would you be writing pieces pretending that Churchill was just as guilty of war crimes as is ol’ Schickelgruber?
Of course you would, if Hitler was a Republican. You’d do anything for a Republican, wouldn’t you?
Of course.
i been a inquirer subsciber for 25 years.I seen this paper turn to the right,more or less for the last 6to9 months,maybe because thy are for sale!I plan to cancel my subsciption,when its up for renewal I’ll stick to the internet.
I stopped reading the Inquirer years ago, during the whole stink over their running Joseph Sobran in the opeds.
The Daily News, as simplified as their coverage often is, at least tries to present actual balance when there is some– for all of their coverage of the pay-for-play, they’ve done a hell of a lot of coverage of the PPA, which is all Republican corruption.
was the inquirer the paper that
had reporters who wrote america:
what went wrong? and who really pays the taxes?
do they still work there?
Over hte past few months,. the inky’s editorials have become unreadable. Prominent space for nutbags like Victor Davis Hanson, Doughy Pantsload, and not so much for the left.
And the unsigned editorials, by so-called “centrist” Satullo, are just awful Really stupid, intellectually shallow, and offensive to anyone with common sense.
that said, the daily news is, and always has been, a pleasure to read. the Inky goes for this pseudo New York Times “paper of record” shit, and after a couple of articles, I feel like someone’s pontificating to me. Blagh.
The Daily News kind of revels in its low-rentl, low-brow style, and for that I love it. No pretensions there…
Bartlett and Steele haven’t worked at the Inquirer for years-the idea of today’s newspaper paying actual investigative reporters is sadly laughable.
And they’ve admitted that they are trying to be more accommodating to conservatives. You now see Kevin Ferris’s face on the page regularly, and they hired Jonathan Last.
And their comics section sux now too! Ten years ago it was great, but they got rid of most of the best ones over time. Most of their sports columnists suck too.
I like the Daily News, but its a little too city-centric for this South Jersey boy. I’ll keep reading read the Inky, cos its still better than the courier-post or burlington county times.
The Bulletin was and still is the best paper in Philly. It’s too bad it’s gone and the INKY is left. From a 50 year reader…
In 2002, I exchanged e-mails with a reporter at the INKY. I asked him why his newspaper was leaving out information about how many “hoax anthrax attacks” were occurring around the country in the months following the “real anthrax attacks” against two Democratic senators in Washington.
You see, I had seen a blurb in Dec. 2001 on the CNN scroll-bar stating that the Feds were conducting “15,000+ investigations” into “hoax anthrax attacks.” Several months later, I e-mailed the INKY over an article this reporter wrote about the Army of God, escaped-convict, religious fanatic who was terrorizing mid-western family planning centers in late 2001 while on the lam. This religious fanatic apparently had twice sent out “hoax anthrax” mailings of about 250 powder-filled, terrorist envelopes.
So, I asked the reporter, did these two terrorist mailings count as 1) only one investigation (as per CNN) since one person was behind it, 2) two investigations since two “bulk” mailings were involved or 3) approx. 500 investigations, as viewed from the recipient side.
So, I was curious. Was the CNN blurb about 15,000+ people receiving these terror letters or was it about 15,000+ investigations into people who had sent “bulk” terror mailings. If the latter, then hundreds, if not millions, of U.S. citizens had been, and were being, terrorized through the mail by people like this Army of God fanatic.
The INKY reporters response: top officials at the newspaper had decided to not cause a panic. They had decided to put a lid on reporting about the huge volume of copycat terrorist letter mailings.
But, wait, if they were putting a lid on it, then all major newspapers and news outlets across America were also putting a lid on this information.
Why? So American citizens wouldn’t panic? And who “got” to all the news media?
So, yes, there is a conspiracy at the top levels of the major, conglomeratized news media.
The “War on Terror” Bush administration got them all to censor their reports on the widespread anthrax mailings inside the United States. At the same time, the “War on Terror” Bush administratin pumped-up the volume in 2002 about the terror threat from overseas. linking Iraq to this threat.
Information control.
And the major news outlets, like the INKY, are part of this “War on Terror” propaganda machine. Maybe the Chimp-in-Chief signed an executive order to this effect? Maybe the fat-cats at BushCo met the fat-cats running our nation’s newspapers/television/radio outlets with the largest subscription or listener bases, at one of their fat-cat retreats, and enlisted them, making them all lieutenants under Karl Rove’s slimy directions?
For instance, several years ago, Al Gore’s office in Tennessee received one of these hoax anthrax mailings. The local news channel’s website I linked to reported a comment from one of the first-responders…that this terrorist attack was just one of 400 similar terrorist attacks by mail in that town. 400? And that’s just one town in America?
It was during this time that I realized that our nation is beset by two radical, religious terrorist groups. The al Qaeda religious nuts who attacked us on 9/11…and the Christian evangelical religious nuts who mailed out hundreds of thousands of terrorist letters following the initial “real anthrax” letter attacks.
But the Bush administration, along with their collaborators in the MSM, locked-down news about the latter, right-wing terrorist attacks via the post office inside our country. Why?
Odds are these terrorist letter attacks were primarily against any supporters of Roe vs. Wade. And the Bush administration, and the Republicans, didn’t want U.S. citizens to realize that many of the right-wings most ardent supporters were nothing more than al Qaeda-like religious terrorists.
Blogicized: God bless the Internet…
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