Obviously his editors are blissfully unaware
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The Media Cheese Mass Production Line |
Does not today's Grover Jeffers, Jr., headline, and following pseudo-analysis, in the esteemed Dallas daily, the Morning News:
Platform may reverse GOP's Hispanic gains
... seem remarkably similar to the May 6th, 2006 header, and subsequent ramblings, of one Gromer Jeffers, Jr.:
GOP risking Latino voters - Immigration proposals could reverse party's gains with Hispanics
... that we summarily dismantled at the time of the initial ridiculousness?
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Mister Jeffers, Jr., Above the Rest of Us, Quilling Another Bit of Press Freshness |
Why, indeed it does.
Once again, the practiced Media art of wishful thinking posited as reporting is in full effect, with the baneful hope that repetition is the sincerest form of battery, and we the Sheep will be eventually bludgeoned into believing that A is Not A.
If at first you do not succeed, file, file again.
That they could not be bothered to at the very least find a second scribe for this duplicitous uncogency amongst the Many Bodies-One Mini-Mind cacophany that is their newsroom exhibits another calling card of the National Press Corps, their pronounced laziness, both in the checking of facts and the review of bad work already done.
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Not Much Better Back Across the Pond, Eh? |
As Winston Churchill, at the tender age of twenty and enjoying his first landing upon our fair shores, adroitly observed, "The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth".
Mister Prime Minister was brilliant and exactly right on very much more than merely Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.