Comments on: it’s like that, and that’s the way it is http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/ You trying to get all up in the Kool-Aid, but you don't even know the flavor. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jonathan Walton http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-818 Jonathan Walton Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:48:35 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-818 PPS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayXgQFlAZs PPS.

]]> By: Professor Coldheart http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-817 Professor Coldheart Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:48:05 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-817 Communism: Come for the Gulags, Stay for the Line Dancing! Communism: Come for the Gulags, Stay for the Line Dancing!

]]> By: Jonathan Walton http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-816 Jonathan Walton Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:47:03 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-816 PS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWpXGOgiFc PS.

]]> By: Jonathan Walton http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-815 Jonathan Walton Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:44:36 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-815 Dude, it's too bad we don't get Chinese television here. There are dancing soldiers ALL THE TIME. Dude, it’s too bad we don’t get Chinese television here. There are dancing soldiers ALL THE TIME.

]]> By: Professor Coldheart http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-727 Professor Coldheart Wed, 21 May 2008 20:18:36 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-727 Vickie - So the era of "press release as journalism" is lately upon us? When did we start to suffer under it? Who can I properly blame it on? Vickie – So the era of “press release as journalism” is lately upon us? When did we start to suffer under it? Who can I properly blame it on?

]]> By: Victoria http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-726 Victoria Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:55 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-726 "Was there some mythical era of American journalism when obviously bogus news stories like this one would have been caught at the editor’s desk? Or is that wishful thinking?" Such stories wouldn't have reached the editor's desk because most of them wouldn't have been written. In this magical time, newsrooms were given enough staffing and resources to really dive in and dig up stories. Cut budgets, reduce reporting staff in the manner that that has been taking place as of late and this is what you're going to get. Reporters don't have time to do anything in-depth and still produce the copy the copy desk needs for the following day's paper. “Was there some mythical era of American journalism when obviously bogus news stories like this one would have been caught at the editor’s desk? Or is that wishful thinking?”

Such stories wouldn’t have reached the editor’s desk because most of them wouldn’t have been written. In this magical time, newsrooms were given enough staffing and resources to really dive in and dig up stories. Cut budgets, reduce reporting staff in the manner that that has been taking place as of late and this is what you’re going to get. Reporters don’t have time to do anything in-depth and still produce the copy the copy desk needs for the following day’s paper.

]]> By: Professor Coldheart http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-725 Professor Coldheart Wed, 21 May 2008 17:13:38 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-725 <i>Britain’s gone from this to this.</i> 30 Rock parodied that sentiment to the best effect I've seen yet: "If You Suspect Anything, Do Everything." Britain’s gone from this to this.

30 Rock parodied that sentiment to the best effect I’ve seen yet: “If You Suspect Anything, Do Everything.”

]]> By: Phanatic http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-724 Phanatic Wed, 21 May 2008 17:06:07 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-724 Oh, I see. The October Surprise conspiracy theory turns out to have originated with Lyndon LaRouche. Okay, but since when is he a historian? Oh, I see. The October Surprise conspiracy theory turns out to have originated with Lyndon LaRouche. Okay, but since when is he a historian?

]]> By: Phanatic http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-723 Phanatic Wed, 21 May 2008 17:04:15 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-723 <i>It’s generally accepted by historians that Reagan contacted the regime and cut a few deals </i> Which historians would those be? I dimly recall an article in Playboy to that extent back in the late 80s, but I'm not sure that counts. It’s generally accepted by historians that Reagan contacted the regime and cut a few deals

Which historians would those be? I dimly recall an article in Playboy to that extent back in the late 80s, but I’m not sure that counts.

]]> By: Phanatic http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/its-like-that-and-thats-the-way-it-is/#comment-722 Phanatic Wed, 21 May 2008 17:01:49 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-722 <i>social cost of terrorism:</i> I like the world "autoterrorism" to describe this. If there's any succor, it's that it's not just us. Britain's gone from <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/399112544_d5fd7ce70b.jpg?v=0" rel="nofollow">this</a> to <a href="http://craphound.com/images/2311166742_7e71c2f9e5.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>. social cost of terrorism:

I like the world “autoterrorism” to describe this.

If there’s any succor, it’s that it’s not just us. Britain’s gone from this to this.

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