Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago

[jaysunb]

To anyone who lived through the media feeding frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation's leading news organizations spent the better part of a decade destroying their own credibility by relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals, the past few days, in which the media have tried to shoehorn Barack Obama into the Rod Blagojevich scandal, have been sickeningly familiar. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer announced yesterday that “some are calling this Obama's first presidential scandal.” It isn’t. There is no evidence he has done anything wrong. This is not Obama’s first presidential scandal – but it shows signs of becoming the first media scandal of the Obama presidency.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200812120015?f=h_top

Long article, but well worth the read, especially for those that were not around back in the 90's ( age wise or politically aware)

Sorry if this has already been posted, but like I said, " it's well worth the read."

[DerekJ]

1. Thanks n/t

[Acadia Blue]

2. Write emails to Wolfe via the CNN site. Go to contact at the bottom

of the home page, then to TV, then to anchors and to Wolfe and tell the rePIG what you think. I did.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R

[Metric System]

4. That article links to another interesting article from 2006:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200606030001#20081212

[jaysunb]

7. Good catch !

I hope all progressives will take heed as to who the third rail is in this destruction of America.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Nothard to understand the lack of credibility that most people feel about the media.

[TankLV]

6. Mark my words: These media WHORES are trying to create Whitewater II...

This is EXACTLY they way Clinton's term began - from the moment he was elected on...

But yet the WAR CRIMINAL bush*es are allowed a comfortable "retirement"...

[kath]

8. See also "The hunting of the president resumes", by Joe Conason, on Salon yesterday:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/12/12/obama/index.html

Yep, it's starting. For those who've read "The Hunting of the President" by Conason and Gene Lyons (a very excellent book, BTW), it's "deja vu all over again".

[jaysunb]

9. Another good catch

Maybe this can be preempted.

[judasdisney]

10. Two words: Jeff Gannon

I don't recall the media being interested in the most salacious tabloid story of all time. Why not?