The Washington Free Beacon Is Unapologetically Conservative. It's Also Kind of Good. | Mother Jones
Unbelievable, but apparently true!
Unbelievable, but apparently true!
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Miracle of Miracles! A Decent Conservative News Source!
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The WFB would fall out of favor as soon as they criticize a MJ icon.
dust1n
Zindīq
Who is a MJ icon?
Most people left of center.
tytlyf
Not Religious
Most media out there is center or center-left. I wouldn't say it's only right or left. RW media demonizes all media that is outside the echo chamber. They are far right, I'd say CNN is pretty center.
dust1n
Zindīq
Any specific example?
If the WFB went after Robert Reich or Paul Krugman, MJ's love affair would be over.
dust1n
Zindīq
So when MJ wrote this piece for March/April 2015, were they simply unaware of:
April 2014:
Poor Paul Krugman | Washington Free Beacon
Jan 2015:
Paul Krugman’s War on Facts | Washington Free Beacon
March 2014:
Source: Paul Krugman Has Never Given Money to Charity | Washington Free Beacon
Oct 2014:
Paul Krugman Conspiracy Theory: Koch Brothers May Be Colluding with Amazon to Suppress Anti-Koch Book Sales | Washington Free Beacon
Dec 2014:
Science Proves Economists Are Arrogant Jerks | Washington Free Beacon
Sept 2014:
Paul Krugman Is Annoyed that More People Aren’t Listening to Paul Krugman | Washington Free Beacon
Sept 2014:
Meet the Left-Wing Demagogues Who Earn Significantly More Than the Average CEO | Washington Free Beacon
Plus many more for Paul Krugman
Or
Aug 2014:
Do-Nothing Millionaire Laments that Millionaires Do Nothing | Washington Free Beacon
Dec 2013:
Cokie Roberts Smacks Down Robert Reich’s Obamacare Defense | Washington Free Beacon
Or do you suspect Mother Jones employees are incapable of using a search engine?
dust1n
Zindīq
"A shadowy club of ultra-rich liberal donors assured contributors at a recent closed-door meeting that it will not disclose their involvement if they wish it to remain secret."
Democracy Alliance Pledges to Keep Donors Secret | Washington Free Beacon
Wowser.. what a lead. So, this example of journalism fails to even write the first paragraph correctly... unless you are not interested in news, and more interested in emotionally charged jargon.
Democracy Alliance Pledges to Keep Donors Secret | Washington Free Beacon
Wowser.. what a lead. So, this example of journalism fails to even write the first paragraph correctly... unless you are not interested in news, and more interested in emotionally charged jargon.
I never heard of it. And I'm a conservative.
The days of "getting the news" on TV at 5pm or 6pm are over. Conservatives, but it doesn't matter, most everyne, uses internet, cable, radio has made a come back, SMS and other types of feeds, are signed up for certain types of alerts, anytime and 24 by 7. I am on top of financial news, Wall Street, investment news, alerts, I use computer programs that search and alert me on the dime, and I get news from about 30 or more sources but keyed to certain top "headlines" and then hit about 6 sources daily throughout the day all from the internet.
I do not subscribe to any newspapers, though I do buy magazines from the big chain book store every week an dsubscribe to two.
CNN hates Israel and I don't bother with it. I couldn't even name one host from MSNBC except "blondie" (the guy with chills up his legs routine, forgot his name) since like most Americans I don't watch CNN.
Just for clarification as to huw this works, one does not need to go to 60 different news websites one at a time anymore. The top headline from each is probed and the displayed by the headline name as a link from a web portal front end.
Now your eye can see each of these headlines as a link FROM A SINGLE WEBPAGE sort of like a TOC, a list, you scan and open up selectively - literally from over 100 sources for example.
When you open one to view the article, you are now on the source website and can also see the OTHER stories theg feature in some pane next to the article, so you may hope to one of those from the direct source at that juncture.
I also visit specific source sites in the US, UK, India.
The days of "getting the news" on TV at 5pm or 6pm are over. Conservatives, but it doesn't matter, most everyne, uses internet, cable, radio has made a come back, SMS and other types of feeds, are signed up for certain types of alerts, anytime and 24 by 7. I am on top of financial news, Wall Street, investment news, alerts, I use computer programs that search and alert me on the dime, and I get news from about 30 or more sources but keyed to certain top "headlines" and then hit about 6 sources daily throughout the day all from the internet.
I do not subscribe to any newspapers, though I do buy magazines from the big chain book store every week an dsubscribe to two.
CNN hates Israel and I don't bother with it. I couldn't even name one host from MSNBC except "blondie" (the guy with chills up his legs routine, forgot his name) since like most Americans I don't watch CNN.
Just for clarification as to huw this works, one does not need to go to 60 different news websites one at a time anymore. The top headline from each is probed and the displayed by the headline name as a link from a web portal front end.
Now your eye can see each of these headlines as a link FROM A SINGLE WEBPAGE sort of like a TOC, a list, you scan and open up selectively - literally from over 100 sources for example.
When you open one to view the article, you are now on the source website and can also see the OTHER stories theg feature in some pane next to the article, so you may hope to one of those from the direct source at that juncture.
I also visit specific source sites in the US, UK, India.
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Maybe by what passes in America for center or center-left. But by European standards, most American media would seem to be more right leaning than center or left leaning.
I apologize for inspiring so much work on your part to debunk what was a joke, ie, that very left of center MJ was happy to see WFB challenge Rand Paul (someone they appear to dislike...a poorly dressed conspiracy theorist).
FTR: I don't support Rand Paul.
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dust1n
Zindīq
It didn't take much work, silly.
Google search:
Mother Jones Paul Krugman (1 published story)
Mother Jones Robert Reich (3 published stories)
Washington Free Beacon Paul Krugman (more results than I cared to publish)
Washington Free Beacon Robert Reich (only referrenced in the two provided stories)
Took about five minutes. Didn't realize it was a joke though.
A jest for BSM it was, cuz I do think MJ's favorable article about WSB was related to poking Rand (in particular) with a stick.
Btw, WSB isn't a source I read often, so I don't have an opinion about'm.
dust1n
Zindīq
Me neither. MJ isn't really my go to either. But, it's hard to take WSB seriously, looking around it. There are far better right-wing based publications out there, American Conservative, The Economist... etc.
I prefer The Onion.
dust1n
Zindīq
You'd like it here then. There are published paper versions of the Onion all around this place.
tytlyf
Not Religious
But that's what you're programmed to say. "CNN hates Israel?" Your media says a lot of stuff, I'd fact check it to make sure it's true. I could say Fox hates Israel, by supporting Bibi.