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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BlueCrab who wrote (11163)	3/17/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

This is what makes me laugh when "Journalists" criticize Drudge because he just prints rumors. That's what 90% of them do. A trivial example, Last week ( 2 Weeks ago? ) the AP ran a story that Rush Limbaugh confronted Madonna at the Time Magazine anniversary bash and insulted her. He never attended the function and the AP could have simply called his office and verified that but apparently that is just too hard. ( And it would have spoiled a neat story too ).

To: BlueCrab who wrote (11163)	3/17/1998 2:29:00 PM
From: Triluminary	Respond to of 20981

One of the many appalling spawn of the Clinton Sexcapades is the media's apparently total lack of concern for verification. News (we're not talking opinion) reportage has become rumor central, with no regard for verification. In such an environment, spin is child's play and reporting is controlled by volume and sex appeal. As if the primarily leftist leaning media previously had much credibility. And now they're finally turning on one of their own. It's breakin my heart. Oh, the spinning. I can hear Billy whining now... "Make it stop, make it stop. Send those nasty reporters away." <<Maybe the press is withdrawing the pass>> My concern is that "the pass" is not all that's being withdrawn. Can you spell "credibility"? I thought you could... Billy never had any "credibility" either. Can you say... "Billy can't pass the drug test."? I knew you could.

To: BlueCrab who wrote (11163)	3/17/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

>>One of the many appalling spawn of the Clinton Sexcapades is the media's apparently total lack of concern for verification. Actually many media critics have responded to that charge and found that while there have been some instances of that in this Clinton scandal, it has not been anything out of the ordinary when compared to past scandals. Some have cited Watergate as the point where journalistic standards were loosened. Indeed, many stories cite "unnamed" sources but that does not mean those sources or their stories have not been verified. During that period when the WH was decrying leaks from the IC, the editor of Newsweek was asked about whether those Grand Jury leaks had come from the IC or his office as the WH had claimed and he said that they did not. He also stated that he would not say where they came from. Let's face it, the media has to know where all the leaks are coming from and I'd bet they'd have reported it if the IC or his office were indeed the sources. We later learned that those leaks most likely came from agents of the President just like the leak of his deposition last week - just about every media pundit not connected to the WH has agreed to that. Yet today Clinton was again acting like a martyr saying that he couldn't talk while others did things like illegally leaking his deposition! President as victim. Chutzpah to the max.

To: BlueCrab who wrote (11163)	3/17/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

<<<One of the many appalling spawn of the Clinton Sexcapades is the media's apparently total lack of concern for verification. News (we're not talking opinion) reportage has become rumor central, with no regard for verification. In such an environment, spin is child's play and reporting is controlled by volume and sex appeal. >>> It's only obvious that I am not a Bill Clinton apologist but even I have to agree with you here in some regards. The most spurious accusation to hit so-called respectable newspapers was the Monica "semen dress" discovery that was a complete falsehood.