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MEDIA MALPRACTICE
Kurt Brouwer's Fundmastery Blog March 7, 2010, 1:22 AM EST Krugman vs Krugman: The perils of punditry Excerpts: This is either funny or sad, depending on your point of view. Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and he should have plenty of valuable things to tell us in these dark days. Unfortunately, at times he seems to forget his own principles and to simply fall into a very foolish and hypocritical form of punditry. This short post from the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web illustrates perhaps the best — but not the only — example of this unfortunate tendency [emphasis added]: Textbook economics is “a bizarre point of view”–according to the textbook’s author! …Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls “the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties”: Today, Democrats and Republicans live in different universes, both intellectually and morally. Full Article Kurt Brouwer's Fundmastery Blog Full article The Deflationist Larissa Mac Farquhar New Yorker Full article BLAME THE CHILDISH, IDIOTIC, OPINIONATED PEOPLE" Weisberg is a typical Nanny-State Advocate, who apparently has little to no private sector experience and who has been a typical ivy league elitist. No experience in risk. No experience in creating wealth. No tough competitive situations in his life. In other words the typical pencil pushing, policy wonk, weak competitor, no military experience, no background in solving the every day problems that Americans face, yet he knows what's wrong with all of us. February 3, 2010 Nanny-State Media Barely Covered One of the Most Corrupt Scandals by one of the most Corrupt Entities in America--But It is giving front page, distorted coverage to James O'Keefe, the investigative reporter who did the nation a huge favor by exposing ACORN. O'Keefe has not yet been charged with anything. January 3, 2010 Telegraph.Co.UK Toby Harnden Barack Obama is Vulnerable on Terror and He Knows It Excerpts: In his weekly radio address yesterday, President Barack Obama patted himself on the back for having "refocused the fight - bringing to a responsible end the war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks". He then told people to remember that "our adversaries are those who would attack our country, not our fellow Americans", before decrying "fear and cynicism" and "partisanship and division" - the code phrases for horrid Republicans used during his 2008 election campaign Complacency, faux moralising and partisan shots at Republicans. It was a neat summary of where Obama is going wrong after the Christmas Day debacle when the Nigerian knicker bomber managed to waltz onto a Detroit-bound flight. Full article Toby Harnden Telegraph.UK It seems likely that for most of the twentieth century, the Mainstream Media has leaned left in its politics. This would favor voting for and supporting the Democrat Party more than the Republican Party. Why? From our founding, until FDR was inaugurated, the Constitution was enforced, very close to its original intention. FDR, however, initiated legislation and programs which are almost certainly unconstitutional but because the Great Depression created so much fear and misery, set the stage for the nomenclature of that fantastic document, to be altered dramatically. Influence Almost as soon as she began writing for The New Yorker, Kael carried a great deal of influence among fellow critics. In the early seventies, Cinerama distributors "initiate[d] a policy of individual screenings for each critic because her remarks [during the film] were affecting her fellow critics."[43] In the seventies and eighties, Kael cultivated friendships with a group of young, mostly male critics, some of whom emulated her distinctive writing style. Referred to derisively as the "Paulettes," they came to dominate national film criticism in the 1990s. MEDIA MALPRACTICE Critics who have acknowledged Kael's influence include, among many, A. O. Scott of The New York Times,[44] David Denby and Anthony Lane of The New Yorker,[45][46] David Edelstein of New York Magazine,[47] Greil Marcus,[47] Elvis Mitchell,[48] Michael Sragow,[47] Armond White, and Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com.[49] It was repeatedly alleged that, after her retirement, Kael's "most ardent devotees deliberate[d] with each other [to] forge a common School of Pauline position" before their reviews were written.[50] MEDIA MALPRACTICE When confronted with the rumor that she ran "a conspiratorial network of young critics," Kael said she believed that critics imitated her style rather than her actual opinions, stating, "A number of critics take phrases and attitudes from me, and those takings stick out—they’re not integral to the writer’s temperament or approach."[51] MEDIA MALPRACTICE When asked in 1998 if she thought her criticism had affected the way films were made, Kael deflected the question, stating, "If I say yes, I’m an egotist, and if I say no, I’ve wasted my life."[22] Several directors' careers were indisputably affected by her, though, most notably Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, who was accepted at UCLA Film School's graduate program on Kael's recommendation. Under her mentoring, Schrader worked as a film critic before taking up screenwriting and directing full-time. MEDIA MALPRACTICE Also, film critic Derek Malcolm claimed that, "If a director was praised by Kael, he or she was generally allowed to work, since the money-men knew there would be similar approbation across a wide field of publications."[11] Alternately, Kael was said to be able to prevent filmmakers from working; David Lean claimed that her criticism of his work "kept him from making a movie for 14 years."[52] (He was most likely referring to the break between Ryan's Daughter in 1970 and A Passage to India in 1984.) MEDIA MALPRACTICE Though he began directing movies after she retired, Quentin Tarantino was also influenced by Kael. He read her criticism voraciously growing up and said that Kael was "as influential as any director was in helping me develop my aesthetic."[29] Wes Anderson recounted his efforts to screen his film Rushmore for Kael in a 1999 The New York Times article titled "My Private Screening With Pauline Kael".[53] He later wrote Kael that "your thoughts and writing about the movies [have] been a very important source of inspiration for me and my movies, and I hope you don't regret that."[5] MEDIA MALPRACTICE Pauline Kael Kael is frequently quoted as having said, in the wake of Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election, that she "couldn't believe Nixon had won", since no one she knew had voted for him. MEDIA MALPRACTICE Media Malpractice To Editorials
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