When will they learn?
MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE
If the nation’s top magazines have the pulse of the country — get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage!
This just in… Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney for newsstands starting tomorrow, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.
NEWSWEEK’s Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney’s ways and means.
TIME headlines a poll: DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29%
NEWSWEEK editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: “The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times.”
…Or what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the Click Age of news cycles.
Alter’s comment is telling of just how out of touch the elite media has become.
Of course, keeping the story alive just means that bloggers will have another productive week with lots of opportunities to ridicule and denigrate the MSM. Bring it on.
It is so predictable how the Main Stream so called
Elite Media go to such great lengths to denigrate
any story about Bush or Cheney. They have done it
so much (Yawn) that no one with an ounce of sense
pays any attention to them anymore – no matter how
often they repeat their bias/slanted views. And
especially whey you have the likes of little Jonathan Alter (what a sissy wimp he is) criticizing anyone. What the hell has he ever done to command respect for anything? All I have
seen him do is bash conservatives. My advice to you is to keep it up – you liberals – and pretty soon – NO ONE – repeat NO ONE will be paying any
attention to anything you have to say. To be taken seriously and believed you must have at least a modicum of fairness and objectivity – but
when everyone knows in advance the position that you are going to take on any subject – it’s over for you. Keep up the bashing little Jonathan – I’m loving every minute that you’re Bush bashing
because it erodes what little of your crediablity
you guys in the liberal media have left.
Ken Edge