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Offline Furball

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« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2007, 05:05:13 PM »
Ron Burgundy is the greatest.

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« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2007, 05:12:25 PM »
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The closest thing to the news that I watch on TV are the Daily Show and the the Colbert Report.


the daily show and colbert report are not news shows, they are comedy shows, they tell you that at the start of the shows, you might as well get your "news" from saturday night live.
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« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2007, 05:19:28 PM »
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cronkite? yeah right, he's the one that said the viet cong won the tet offensive when the viet cong were almost wiped out during that ill-advised attack.

you probably think the "daily show" is a real news program.




Cite your source.  Your critique of Cronkite is ridiculous.  As for the daily show, sorry, not a liberal hippie.
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« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2007, 05:22:00 PM »
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the daily show and colbert report are not news shows, they are comedy shows, they tell you that at the start of the shows, you might as well get your "news" from saturday night live.


Ehh John.

I think Eskimo was saying just that, he doesn't watch the news. You may need to clean your sarcasm sensor bud.;)
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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2007, 06:18:38 PM »
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the daily show and colbert report are not news shows, they are comedy shows, they tell you that at the start of the shows, you might as well get your "news" from saturday night live.


EVERYTHING on those two shows is 100% true!  (Except for a few obvious jokes)
Go ahead and point out what they have said that is not true.  (Except for the few obvious jokes)
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« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2007, 07:45:46 PM »
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cronkite? yeah right, he's the one that said the viet cong won the tet offensive when the viet cong were almost wiped out during that ill-advised attack.

you probably think the "daily show" is a real news program.



But he was right, while it wasn't a military victory for the North or the VC, it was a definite political and propoganda victory for them.


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« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2007, 07:55:22 PM »
When a news program turned a profit (in the 70's? I know Nielsen ratings didn't even keep track of news till the 80's) it ended the idea of broadcast "journalism."
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« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2007, 08:48:36 PM »
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It is a shame that Bill Moyers was never an anchor...but he mainly does investigative peices.
 He could never BE an anchor now, he is such DNC shill even liberals would be hard-pressed to defend him (pthh..who am kidding:( )
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« Reply #23 on: May 09, 2007, 09:37:37 PM »
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But he was right, while it wasn't a military victory for the North or the VC, it was a definite political and propoganda victory for them.


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Well, it became one after their buddies in the US news media kept saying it was over and over and over and over.

Once again, for those with an open mind:

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« Reply #24 on: May 09, 2007, 09:40:18 PM »
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EVERYTHING on those two shows is 100% true!  (Except for a few obvious jokes)
Go ahead and point out what they have said that is not true.  (Except for the few obvious jokes)


If anything, Stewart and Colbert will keep you up to speed on current events.

There's also this:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319

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« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2007, 05:24:44 AM »
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But he was right, while it wasn't a military victory for the North or the VC, it was a definite political and propoganda victory for them.


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Think about it, maybe it can only be declared a propoganda victory because guys like Cronkite said it was.  What if they had just reported it as a major military defeat for the VC and NVA?  What would it have been then?  Were the the reporters actually the cause of it being a political victory?  Could they, with a little wisdom and judgement have caused it to be differant?
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« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2007, 08:12:53 AM »
Toad... great book.  Anyone who is interested in vietnam should read it.

sandie..  what were the questions?   "do you believe man is responsible for global warming?"  "Is bush a poo poo head?"

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