Comments on: Burying the Lede http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Burying The Lede, Part II « Mercury Rising http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-605453 Burying The Lede, Part II « Mercury Rising Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:31:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-605453 <p>[…] Posted by Phoenix Woman on April 5th, 2007 This follows up on a post I made over at FireDogLake yesterday. […]</p> […] Posted by Phoenix Woman on April 5th, 2007 This follows up on a post I made over at FireDogLake yesterday. […]

]]> By: Bob Schacht http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-605194 Bob Schacht Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:48:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-605194 <p>We’re probably in EPU territory here, but I wanted to recommend a place to <a href="http://beta.newstrust.net/politics/election08.htm">recommend the best blogs on the politics of 2008</a></p> <p>This site allows you to review news articles or news blogs and assess the degree to which they really are “fair and balanced” in the true sense of those words. The best articles get circulated widely.</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> We’re probably in EPU territory here, but I wanted to recommend a place to recommend the best blogs on the politics of 2008

This site allows you to review news articles or news blogs and assess the degree to which they really are “fair and balanced” in the true sense of those words. The best articles get circulated widely.

Bob in HI

]]> By: The Oracle http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604742 The Oracle Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:09:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604742 <p>“Burying the lede” is the equivalent of burying a news article on an inside page, say A13. </p> <p>In fact, the “culture of corruption” Republican media hacks have made a Spin Art of often doing both at the same time, having only the Republican side presented on the front page, while the “buried lede” not only appears at the end of the article, but appears on a deeply-buried inside page, which any diligent reader must hunt down to finish reading the article. Aaah, there’s the Democratic response.</p> <p>It’s both interesting and disgusting to see Republican media hacks resorting to Communist-style tactics, isn’t it? Thank God for the internet and progressive bloggers who cut through the right-wing crap. Kudoes to FDL.</p> “Burying the lede” is the equivalent of burying a news article on an inside page, say A13.

In fact, the “culture of corruption” Republican media hacks have made a Spin Art of often doing both at the same time, having only the Republican side presented on the front page, while the “buried lede” not only appears at the end of the article, but appears on a deeply-buried inside page, which any diligent reader must hunt down to finish reading the article. Aaah, there’s the Democratic response.

It’s both interesting and disgusting to see Republican media hacks resorting to Communist-style tactics, isn’t it? Thank God for the internet and progressive bloggers who cut through the right-wing crap. Kudoes to FDL.

]]> By: Stus http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604392 Stus Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:08:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604392 <p>See, George, this is how it works when we use our WORDS first.</p> See, George, this is how it works when we use our WORDS first.

]]> By: Fionnbarr http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604385 Fionnbarr Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:06:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604385 <p>Speaking of burying the lede, I was working at a hotel a number of years ago, and there was this massive pro-life conference, over 50,000 people went through the place in one weekend, politicians, journalists, academics, doctors, lawyers, assorted religious leaders, even a couple of celebrities. The closing banquet had over 2500 people, many of the weekend’s luminaries.<br /> There was no news coverage of the conference other than that a group of about a dozen GLAD protestors had gathered outside. The conference was newsworthy, and had a special detachment of detectives attending, protecting dignitaries, several bomb threats had apparently be made by ACT-UP.<br /> At another large conference some months later, a larger group of protestors gathered, and had been flinging condoms filled with blood and feces and shards of glass at the conference attendees, on child was struck but not injured.<br /> Neither conference made any headlines, but a small article buried deeper in the paper made a brief mention that there was a protest against the pro-life conference.<br /> Burying the lede is not something the GOP invented, but they sure have become adept at it.<br /> This is not hearsay, I was working hotel security, and saw first hand, I remember the news coverage at the time, watching to see if there was going to be any reporting, since some impressive people had rolled through town for this event.<br /> If you want to criticize the Republics for being unprofessional dirty tricksters, go ahead, they certainly deserve it, but suborning the media is a practice that is well established in other circles also, yes Bush is a hypocritical spoiled brat psychopath, and the GOP-NeoCons are bad bad people, but their dirty tricks media methods are also evident in the debate surround reproductive ‘freedom’. Failing to recognize that is similarly hypocritical.</p> Speaking of burying the lede, I was working at a hotel a number of years ago, and there was this massive pro-life conference, over 50,000 people went through the place in one weekend, politicians, journalists, academics, doctors, lawyers, assorted religious leaders, even a couple of celebrities. The closing banquet had over 2500 people, many of the weekend’s luminaries.
There was no news coverage of the conference other than that a group of about a dozen GLAD protestors had gathered outside. The conference was newsworthy, and had a special detachment of detectives attending, protecting dignitaries, several bomb threats had apparently be made by ACT-UP.
At another large conference some months later, a larger group of protestors gathered, and had been flinging condoms filled with blood and feces and shards of glass at the conference attendees, on child was struck but not injured.
Neither conference made any headlines, but a small article buried deeper in the paper made a brief mention that there was a protest against the pro-life conference.
Burying the lede is not something the GOP invented, but they sure have become adept at it.
This is not hearsay, I was working hotel security, and saw first hand, I remember the news coverage at the time, watching to see if there was going to be any reporting, since some impressive people had rolled through town for this event.
If you want to criticize the Republics for being unprofessional dirty tricksters, go ahead, they certainly deserve it, but suborning the media is a practice that is well established in other circles also, yes Bush is a hypocritical spoiled brat psychopath, and the GOP-NeoCons are bad bad people, but their dirty tricks media methods are also evident in the debate surround reproductive ‘freedom’. Failing to recognize that is similarly hypocritical.

]]> By: Dan Hartung http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604368 Dan Hartung Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:59:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604368 <p>Hafez Assad has been dead a few years now. *cough*</p> Hafez Assad has been dead a few years now. *cough*

]]> By: kady http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604264 kady Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:17:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604264 <p>Today’s “Poll Question of the Day” at c-span.org is: “Do you approve or disapprove of Speaker’s Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria?”</p> <p>I emailed them asking if tomorrow’s question will be: Do you approve or disapprove of the Republican representatives who visited Syria April 1st?”</p> <p>Maybed that was the question yesterday and I missed it. Anyone got the numbers on that poll?</p> Today’s “Poll Question of the Day” at c-span.org is: “Do you approve or disapprove of Speaker’s Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria?”

I emailed them asking if tomorrow’s question will be: Do you approve or disapprove of the Republican representatives who visited Syria April 1st?”

Maybed that was the question yesterday and I missed it. Anyone got the numbers on that poll?

]]> By: Chetnolian http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604252 Chetnolian Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:11:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604252 <p>Been away but I’m back. A thought, raised by George Bush’s extremely unhelpful comments last week on the plight of our sailors. During their whole time of captivity I couldn’t help thinking all moral authority the US or UK might have had about taking prisoners in doubtful circumstances was negatived by extraordinary rendition and GITMO. Remember when we always used to say that one man’s terrorist was another’s freedom fighter? Now, is one man’s hostage another’s enemy combatant?</p> Been away but I’m back. A thought, raised by George Bush’s extremely unhelpful comments last week on the plight of our sailors. During their whole time of captivity I couldn’t help thinking all moral authority the US or UK might have had about taking prisoners in doubtful circumstances was negatived by extraordinary rendition and GITMO. Remember when we always used to say that one man’s terrorist was another’s freedom fighter? Now, is one man’s hostage another’s enemy combatant?

]]> By: angie http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604249 angie Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:11:03 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604249 <p>whoops– my 93 was for the next thread, sorry.</p> whoops– my 93 was for the next thread, sorry.

]]> By: angie http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604241 angie Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:07:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/04/burying-the-lede/#comment-604241 <p>the full presser in 2 parts and Michael Ware’s rebuke and more can be viewed here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MyLeftNutmegger">http://www.youtube.com/profile.....tNutmegger</a></p> <p>just scroll down a bit for all the videos.</p> the full presser in 2 parts and Michael Ware’s rebuke and more can be viewed here.

http://www.youtube.com/profile…..tNutmegger

just scroll down a bit for all the videos.

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