Inadvertently, I am sure. It should have read:

…journalists’ impulse to quickly impose a LIBERAL frame on a story…

I have long believed that people who read the NYTimes are congenital idiots.

But, on a more serious note, wasn’t there some researcher not long ago that claimed that there was a genetic predisposition for conservative and liberal thinking? My Memory is not the best.

If there is, I might just be persuaded in this single case to support genetic alteration.

(Sigh!)

I agree that the rush to “frame” an article and do it quickly is automatic.

But when I think back to the Fort Hood shootings a little over a year ago, the media cautioned against a rush to judgment after it learned that the alleged shooter, Nidal Hassan, was a Muslim.

So my question to the NYT is, where was that “automatic” framing then? Why was the Tucson shooting automatically framed around Right-wing rhetoric but the Fort Hood shooting was not framed around Muslim extremism?

I don’t know if the two examples, taken together, provide evidence of media bias, but it’s hard for me to think of a another reason for the difference in treatment.

because back when nidal hasan jumped on a table in fort hood crying, “ali aklbar”, and then shooting and killing as many infidels as he could, the press was oh so careful NOT to leap to any gross misjudgememts or erroneous assumptions, cautioning ALL of us not to JUMP to any conclusions about the murdering muslim dog hasan!

Isn’t that belief prima facie evidence of racist attitudes, according to liberal “thinking”?

Of course it’s buried in the story, but Loughner, like so many on the Left, is a Bush-hater.

<blockquote}He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were perpetrated by the government and that the country’s central banking system was enslaving its citizens. His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush, or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.

Sounds more like Loughner fit right in with some of the Lef…well…never mind.

http://nyti.ms/eUPCjd

So I’ve been reading the rhetoric and it seems to me that most people who comment are wishing and hoping for a past that is long gone. Abortion is not illegal (I don’t agree with it personally), nor is homosexuality. This WILL NOT CHANGE. I think there are more substantive issues here people. I don’t mind paying higher taxes and providing money to assist the mentally ill via government proven programs. Limited government, limits growth. I’m not a socialist, however without Government I shudder to think what this nation would be like. There is a happy common ground, we just need to find it. When Bush was President, there were quite a few Republicans who were unhappy with him as well, so stop the naming and blaming and offer solutions.

is the demoralization of the libs. Add a ‘rally’ memorial service….. and more and more libs are EMBARASSED to admit they support the dems. I find it wonderful that we don’t have to do a thing……. the libs continue to shoot themselves in the foot quite nicely.
My lib friends are depressed. Ever hear about “aversion theraphy” to break a bad habit? The dems are getting regular doses.

its not their fault, because unlike us average joes with regular jobs, they have a product to produce and deadlines to meet. We just cant understand the pressure they are under, so if they make mistakes who are we to call them out?

Although a short lived one. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=138144 In their minds, an attack against a Democrat could only come from a conservative Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin-loving bitter clinger. Plus, it’s what all their friends were telling them. So, most MFM “journalists,” craving social acceptance, went with it (to their everlasting shame).

I just wandered over to Daily Kos to see what they were saying about this article (don’t worry, I put on my waders and took lots of disinfectant with me) .

Those people are unbelievably unhinged while professing complete innocence.

A sampling

they knew it was coming (5+ / 0-)

and they knew they’d be blamed, at least indirectly. So they engaged in pre-emptive whining. Until they start inciting again. Rinse, reload.

by Karl Rover on Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 03:15:59 PM PST

“Out, out, damn spot.” (6+ / 0-)

Usually when someone yells out “Why is everyone blaming me?” when no one is blaming them, it is because they know they deserve the blame.

“Don’t bring that horse in here!” — Cassandra

by tc59 on Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 03:16:06 PM PST

They doth protest too much (5+ / 0-)

These folks are washing their hands in public like some latter day Lady Macbeth without realizing what they are showing.

by ProduceMan on Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 03:18:18 PM PST

Um, MOST (1+ / 0-)

online were smart enough to not say the right was directly responsible. What MOST of us “dumb” bloggers were saying was exactly what the sainted MSM was saying: “rhetoric has consequences”, wherein we would list any number of incidents involving RW activists acting out violently at the behest of right wing suggestion.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have laid my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. — Yeats

by Bill O Rights on Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 03:19:18 PM PST

Of course there isn’t blame of the right (2+ / 0-)

for the shooting.

And well there shouldn’t be.

The right is guilty of their own rhetoric and for that they should be blamed. It’s theirs. They own it.

Free Speech isn’t free. It comes with the heaviest of prices… the price of responsibility for owning your own words.

I believe completely in free speech. I also believe in personal responsibility. The right is free to talk hatred and violence all they want. It defines them. It is who they are. By their own words… it is who they are.

What they cannot do… what they cannot be allowed to do… is to not take responsibility for the words they speak. They can say them all they want. They cannot disown them unless they truly do disown them and that can only be shown by new words, new actions, and new ideas on their part.

Clearly… they are not disowning their words.

Peace,

Andrew

“Do what you can with what you have where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt

by Andrew C White on Mon Jan 17, 2011 at 03:31:01 PM PST

Completely ignored that Markos fired the first salvo with his Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin tweet.

An entire category of academics and “journalists” have forgotten Wilson (WW I) was a Dem., FDR (WW II) was a Dem., Truman (Korea) was a Dem., Vietnam (JFK and Johnson), both were Dems., but somehow Vietnam has turned into Nixon’s war (he wasn’t elected until1968, and Johnson sent 400,000 troops to Vietnam in 1964), and the world’s response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait (a UN sanctioned expedition, even endorse by China and Russia) was NOT Bush’ war, tho’ doubtless the US provided the heaviest number of troops.
Only the excursions into Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003 could possibly be construed as Bush W’s wars, even though they were supported by 41 other nations to start.
The NYTimes and other liberal shills (someone should sue them for being an undeclared arm of the Dem. Party that provides unreported campaign support) have become a Goebbels who said if a lie was told often enough, it became the truth.

…Newspaper Editors’ list of “Key Initiatives” is topped for the th year in a row by …………………(if you said diversity, you looked it up).

Sadly enough it isn’t in their genes but they’ve convinced themselves of it: that’s right! They talked themselves into it!

The most amazing thing I find about normally-responsible (and putatively intelligent) human beings is their enormous capacity to believe what they tell themselves. In a lot of ways, it’s the majority of how our world works; we kind of convince ourselves of one mistaken thing or another, hit the wall, bounce off, and then go on to the next mistake. No matter how hard we try or how well-educated we imagine ourselves to be, this is what happens.

I myself am not immune, but at least I try to recognize it as a flaw in my otherwise perfect reasoning about the world.

I’m really impressed… I never saw that one coming.

This should qualify them for some kind of special government subsidies or treatmen…. uhhh…. never mind.

The all got it when their journalism professors screwed their minds.

in the National Review

But the Left’s modus operandi was never as apparent as it was this past week when it took a tragic mass killing of innocents by a violent, mentally ill individual and transformed it — within hours — into an attack on the decency of the Right — specifically Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, FoxNews, and talk radio.

The same Left, led by the New York Times, that warned against making any quick assumptions that Islam had played any role in Maj. Nidal Hassan’s murder of 13 people and wounding of 30 others at Fort Hood, immediately declared that the Arizona murders were largely a result of a “climate of hate” induced by Sarah Palin and other conservatives.

It wasn’t true. They knew it wasn’t true. And, yes, it was a libel.

But when you control all the major news media, Hollywood, much of rest of the culture, and most of the high schools and colleges, how are most people supposed to realize that?

What makes last week different is this: The Left, for the first time, does not have the same monopoly over mass information and the Republican Party is no longer emasculated. There is talk radio, there is the internet, there is FoxNews, and there is a vigorous, conservative Republican Party. So, when the Left unleashed its libel against the Right, claiming that it was responsible for a “climate of hate” that produced Jared Loughner, to its shock, America did not lie down and believe it. Many millions did, as usual. But for those with eyes to see, it was a false accusation, and for many, for the first time, it provided a clear view into how the Left operates.

The very few remaining insane subscribers. They need to survive.

when it’s so much easier to deny it ever happened?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/business/media/17media.html?ref=politics

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/17/936949/-NYT:-No-widespread-blame-of-the-right-for-Arizona-shooting

Eugene Robinson over at the WaPo certainly doesn’t. He is still frothing at the mouth over Sarah Palin’s video presentation re Tucson. See here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/17/AR2011011702851.html?hpid=opinionsbox1.

It is beyond bizarre that anyone would be allowed to write such nonsense in a nationally recognized “news” source.
Unacceptable or abnormal behavior has been excused by leftist since the progressive movement began.It is a product of collectivist thought process and the absence of individual accountability. To the extent that individual accountability has been deleted from the journalistic elite the dilution of truth is the ultimate goal and the means to achive this the absence of ethical journalistic effort.
It is much akin to normalizing the abnormal behavior of homosexuality and the distortion of language to equate gay with that abnormal behavior. Yellow journalism is neither gay or genetic.

In blaming today’s deadline-driven journalism for journalists’ tendencies to grab for “templates,” Dean Ceppos (of the world-renowned school of Journalism at the U of Nevada-Reno… huh?) exposes a problem that he doesn’t even see as a problem: the move away from just reporting FACTS, rather than interpreting them through some opinion-prism.

The line between reporting and editorializing has been demolished. It needs to be rebuilt.

that it is genetic is the progressive way to say that when you are up on their pedestal that they are blameless when they fabricate blame. George Soros has deep pockets that have throughly corrupted the MSM.

It’s simple, you call the NYT what it is… Propaganda.

(I was gonna go with “Evil” but I went squish.)

you have awaken the American people from a deep sleep