the Truth about Conservative "journalism" - Eric Alterman - good article on conservative paranoia

[JohnWxy]

a very good article on the Conservative Paranoia and Nanomentality;

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/02/ta020410.html




......... here is MSNBC.com's post on ACORN employees being cleared of all charges. NOte the reference to Okeefe's arrest:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652899/ns/politics-more_politics/


"Since then, O'Keefe has been arrested after visiting Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans."

no mention of impersonating telecommunications company personnel, or trying to bug the office phones .. that is WHY they were arrested. ..who care WHY they were arrested. I couldn't find anything on MSNBC about O'keefe's arrest.

[Igel]

1. I found MSNBC's search interface to be user-hostile.

First, it searches the web, not MSNBC. Second, it ranks them somehow and you have to say, again, "Please show me the results of the search so I can choose what I want." Eh. The "MS-" says it all.


My first search was simple minded. "MSNBC O'Keefe." Too big a net, but it turned up this:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/msnbc-spent-more-time-than-any-news-outlet-on-james-okeefe-last-week/ reports on a Pew survey. Pew just tallied up minutes, and this site--reliable or not--is just the first one I went to. On the O'Keefe/Landrieu incident, MSNBC had more than all, significantly more than most. A few other sites (as well as the Pew survey linked to) say the exactly same thing, so ad hominem "I refuse to believe it because I think the site's lying" don't fly.

So I searched on "O'Keefe MSNBC Landrieu news"--to avoid looking at all kinds of MSNBC that's not news. Some pages had been changed to reflect later versions of events--a practice that's abominable on the web, but pervasive.

Here's something, so it's untrue that there's not anything.
Wiretap:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35083861/ns/politics-more_politics/ Act
ivist filmmaker arrested in senator’s office

Tamper with:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/01/27/2187074.aspx Why tamper with Landrieu's phones?

[JohnWxy]

2. NIce work. But I didn't say "there's nothing on" the MSNBC site on this, just that I couldn't find

anything.