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Do you actually know how a news story 'breaks'?
oh well then, I'm supposed to be impressed or what?![]()
No, you're supposed to admit that your implication that I get my news from one leftward-leaning source was incorrect.
Do you actually know how a news story 'breaks'?
Yes, reporters gather information from various sources and put it in a story.
Sometimes stories are gained from press releases, which means no-one "breaks" the story, but sometimes one media source fins the information themselves and does "break" the story, like in this case.
Do you actually know how a news story 'breaks'?
Yes, reporters gather information from various sources and put it in a story.
Sometimes stories are gained from press releases, which means no-one "breaks" the story, but sometimes one media source fins the information themselves and does "break" the story, like in this case.
Actually, that is completely wrong.
When it comes to scandals, and that is what we are talking to about on this thread... it goes something like this.....
Politician does something scandalous.
One of his 'friends', 'colleagues' or enemies hears about it.
They call a media outlet and spill the beans.
Media outlet may - or may not - check for accuracy.
Then they run the story..... it 'breaks'.
Now, if that politician is a Republican, the guy with the dirt will, more than likely, call a left leaning outlet - because they are more likely to run it without being too careful about the 'facts'.
If that politician is a Democrat, the guy with the dirt will, more than likely, call a right leaning outlet - for the exact same reasons.
They take it to the outlet that either they think is most likely to run it, or with which they already have a 'relationship'.... ie that the guy with the dirt already knows a journalist at a particular paper or outlet.
It is not the journalists who go looking for it, it gets handed to them. Democrat sources will usually go to a left leaning outlet. Republicans will usually go to a right leaning one.
End of lesson.
I'll admit that, when you apologize to me for your little put down that I have never read an edition of the NySlimes.
I'll wait.![]()
How odd. LWC finds one instance of the NYT breaking a story, and think that it proves that Fox has never broken a story.
ROFL. You're calling it the "NYSlimes" and I'm supposed to think that you read it?
Seriously?
I'll tell you what, as soon as you call it by the correct name, I'll believe that you've picked up a copy and used it for anything but lining for a hamster cage.
I, on the other hand, often read the Times and the Journal, and watch as much FoxNews as I can stomach on a regular basis before I am forced to shut it off.
another thread fail by vast lwc....
FOXNews.com - Indiana Rep. Mark Souder Resigns After Affair With Staffer
Indiana Rep. Mark Souder Resigns After Affair With Staffer
Fox did not break that story, but ran it long after the affair had already come to light, and only after the Representative resigned.
The story itself states that clearly:
All the way through his election, Souder tried to knock down the affair story, calling it revenge politics at play. But the backroom chatter in Indiana and among the GOP on Capitol Hill became too much to survive. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels was informed as late as Monday night that Souder would give up his post.
Compare the fact that Fox covered that story to the way Juanita Broaddick and Paul Jones were treated. Fox did not presume that Jackson was lying and stalking Souder.
Just one?
Wow.
And easily countered with this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24fri1.html
good lord...foxnews covered it....so fuckign what if they didn't break it...the enquirer broke the edwards scandal....are you now claiming they're a better news source than NY times...![]()
Many rape victims don't report the crime, or cover it up over fear of how they will be treated.
That doesn't mean they weren't raped.
Any proper investigative reporter who handles rape stories would know this.