tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959604697711704200.post5652858107150480030..comments2024-03-22T09:41:04.083-07:00Comments on Media culpa: Margaret Wente “should appall us all”Just the facts, pleasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00984043529982056425noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959604697711704200.post-50926981255281765652023-12-24T20:54:10.607-08:002023-12-24T20:54:10.607-08:00We use high-quality equipment from top brands and ...We use high-quality equipment from top brands and customize solutions while working efficiently to minimize disruption. 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You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.<br /><br />Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.<br /><br />The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.<br /><br />We are intellectual prostitutes."<br /><br />[It's worth noting Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]:<br /><br />Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959604697711704200.post-70489513443260224912012-09-25T16:26:55.368-07:002012-09-25T16:26:55.368-07:00There are a few columnists out there who seem to b...There are a few columnists out there who seem to be well read, and who have lived long enough to see trends come and go, and who have loads of deep knowledge of subjects I'm familiar with, as well loads of obscure stuff. For example, Rex Murphy, Robert Fulford, and Russell Smith, these folks only as examples.<br /><br />But with Margaret, I'm always baffled as to the source of her knowledge base, where do these opinions and policy positions come from? Well, now I know.Theodore Streethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16918444204175569482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959604697711704200.post-82041828265689998152012-09-23T15:17:26.962-07:002012-09-23T15:17:26.962-07:00I wish Wente had chosen to use this for research i...I wish Wente had chosen to use this for research instead:<br />http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html Antonia Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265192250250664131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7959604697711704200.post-84795396156882010862012-09-17T16:03:29.358-07:002012-09-17T16:03:29.358-07:00Margaret Wente is a menace to polite society, cohe...Margaret Wente is a menace to polite society, coherent logic, and the meaning of life. It strains credulity to believe that the G&M editors are unaware of her routine plagiarism, false or misleading attribution and weak English. That it always serves to promulgate false notions of class, such as her pet belief in a "meritocracy" in which she occupies a leading role, simply makes it all unbearable.<br /><br />A post which has made the rounds characterizes Fox News modus operandi as "rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people that poor people are the problem." Not only does this apply (surprisingly often) to Wente's columns, but I'd go so far as to say they represent a more generalized "elitist people with privileges whining about normal people without privilege that normal people are the elitist people with privileges who need to stop whining".<br /><br />Thanks for trying to keep Wente and the G&M honest.Thingamabobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06258705700929765085noreply@blogger.com