And That’s Not the Way It Is
| By Mike Collins - Jul 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am EDT |
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Categories: Economic Fairness & Security, Environment / Conservation, Effective & Ethical Government, Education, Separation of Powers / Federalism, Media Accountability, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Crime & Penal Reform, Religion
The problem is not and never has been a "liberal" media, it is, was and ever shall be, the lack of a "liberal" media. "Liberal" meaning "open-minded" and "truthful". "Conservative" meaning "narrow-minded" and "clandestine"
OPENED-MINDED:
Synonyms: unbiased, progressive, unprejudiced, liberal, flexible, tolerant, easygoing, impartial, broad-minded
TRUTH:
Synonyms: reality, fact, accuracy, genuineness, precision, exactness, legitimacy, veracity, truthfulness.
An antonym for "Liberal" is "narrow-minded":
NARROW-MINDED:
Synonyms: bigoted, prejudiced, biased, insular, intolerant, reactionary, blinkered, parochial, provincial, pigheaded
CLANDESTINE:
Synonyms: secret, underground, covert, concealed, stealthy, furtive, undercover, surreptitious, illegal, sneaky, sly, underhanded, shifty
Good read from Frank Rich regarding the prostitutes that dominate the 4th Estate. MC
NY Times
July 26, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
And That’s Not the Way It Is
By FRANK RICH
WHO exactly was the competition in the race to be the most trusted man in America? Lyndon Johnson? Richard Nixon?
Not to take anything away from Walter Cronkite, but he beat out Henry Kissinger by only four percentage points when a 1974 Roper poll asked Americans whom they most respected. The successive blows of Vietnam and Watergate during the Cronkite ’60s and ’70s shattered the nation’s faith in most of its institutions, public and private, and toppled many of the men who led them. Such was the dearth of trustworthy figures who survived that an unindicted official in a disgraced White House could make the cut....................
Continued:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1
OPENED-MINDED:
Synonyms: unbiased, progressive, unprejudiced, liberal, flexible, tolerant, easygoing, impartial, broad-minded
TRUTH:
Synonyms: reality, fact, accuracy, genuineness, precision, exactness, legitimacy, veracity, truthfulness.
An antonym for "Liberal" is "narrow-minded":
NARROW-MINDED:
Synonyms: bigoted, prejudiced, biased, insular, intolerant, reactionary, blinkered, parochial, provincial, pigheaded
CLANDESTINE:
Synonyms: secret, underground, covert, concealed, stealthy, furtive, undercover, surreptitious, illegal, sneaky, sly, underhanded, shifty
Good read from Frank Rich regarding the prostitutes that dominate the 4th Estate. MC
NY Times
July 26, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
And That’s Not the Way It Is
By FRANK RICH
WHO exactly was the competition in the race to be the most trusted man in America? Lyndon Johnson? Richard Nixon?
Not to take anything away from Walter Cronkite, but he beat out Henry Kissinger by only four percentage points when a 1974 Roper poll asked Americans whom they most respected. The successive blows of Vietnam and Watergate during the Cronkite ’60s and ’70s shattered the nation’s faith in most of its institutions, public and private, and toppled many of the men who led them. Such was the dearth of trustworthy figures who survived that an unindicted official in a disgraced White House could make the cut....................
Continued:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1
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