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Damning with faint praise (con't)

December 28, 2009 10:04 am ET by Jamison Foser

Another gem from Howard Kurtz's decade-in-review:

It was complicated and dull, yes -- much like the year-long effort at health-care reform that finally passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. I would credit the media with a valiant attempt to explain and examine this legislative morass, even to the point of declaring that the high-decibel charges about death panels were bogus.

Ohmygod!  The media "even" went so far as to tell readers that right-wing claims about "death panels" that they were hyping weren't true?  Well, then, let's give them a medal!  

This is the state of modern political journalism: The nation's most prominent media critic thinks that when reporters note the falsity of "high-decibel charges" they report, they deserve praise for their extraordinary work.

Tags: The Washington Post, Howard Kurtz

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (December 28, 2009 10:13 am ET)
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      The death panels was about the only lie the main stream media tried to debunk, and not with any real zeal. How about all the other ones, where they stood by and let the right wing blowhards keep repeating over and over. Hell, Jon Stewart did a better job and got some good laughs along the way too.
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    • Author by DellDolly (December 28, 2009 11:37 am ET)
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      How Howard Kurtz doesn't recognize that many reporters and newspapers and TV networks have become transcriptionists instead of reporters is beyond me.

      And how they can't make themselves admit that they became those transcriptionists because they were threatened and scared of the Bush Administration is beyond me too.
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      • Author by MickD (December 28, 2009 12:18 pm ET)
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        They don't want to admit they were p*ssies when it came to BushieCo, Darth Cheney and Herr Rove, it would go against their Woodward/Bernstein fantasy.
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    • Author by almaevans6781 (December 28, 2009 5:22 pm ET)
         
      As Howie would respond -- it's hard work. Journalists don't like to work hard. He is not a media critic. Howie is a media apologist.
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