Reply #36: Actually, you've missed the point completely. [View All]

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You can't describe the media as stupid, lazy, cowardly and corrupt because you cannot justify such a generalization. It is without meaning. I'm not stupid, certainly not corrupt and a lazy person could never make it in my business.

The New Yorker is every bit as much a part of the media as is the New York Times. They differ in their circulation and audience, deliberately. Surely you understand that Fox news is trying to attract people not likely to read Rolling Stone.

Your simplistic view of the media is too common. The right wing screams bias! The left wing screams bias! Bullshit! Most of the screamers, you included I think, wouldn't understand objectivity. You want some General who says something stupid to be taken to task. And, because the officer was allowed to express his stupid opinion, the entire American media is populated by right wing sell outs.

Well, it just isn't true fella. And that general has the right to say stupid things. We are obligated to report his statement, I think, but not obligated to analyze it.