Conservative "News" outlets offered to spin missing SC governor story

Doug,

You are correct, of course. The article mentioned the first e-mail as occuring on the 22nd, four days after he went missing. As I read through the remainder of the article, I blew right by the mention of the 23rd as the date of the second e-mail. Since his true location was revealed the very next day (24th), my failure to see the reference to the 23rd caught me out.

As to "cztheday...you seem to have no idea what you are talking about." -- THAT conclusion is DEFNITELY not news. You have captured my life in one short phrase...but then, I would hate for that one small detail to keep me from rendering an opinion...I mean, it has never stopped me in the past...

Cz and mark, you both seem to have no idea what you're talking about. These emails were written BEFORE it was revealed that the governor had left the country and was having an affair. So hypocrisy and the politics of affairs have nothing to do with anything. Yes, the governor's hypocrisy makes his actions worse, but we're not talking about that here.

There was a developing story: the governor of SC was missing. What these emails show is that the conservative media was not interested in finding out what was up, but rather were taking the governor's staff at its word and jockeying for the opportunity to help him spin his story.

Yes mark, these are emails and not a reported story, but they clearly show that if it weren't for other more serious journalists, the conservative media would have let the hiking story stand as truth with no questions asked. Sure, this case may not be of utmost importance, but that attitude from journalists should be terrifying to anyone who cares about democracy. Only a blind partisan (looks at mark) could not see a problem with that.

Cztheday, good to hear from you. As far as I can see it was an e-mail, not a news story covered on the TV. A letter from one person to another. Not as a commontator to the public. As far as Fox reporting the Govenors daliances, they gave me as much news and more than I would have wanted on the subject. He is not the first and won't be the last to have a fling or a failed marrage. It was one of the stories on Fox for way too long as far as I'm concerned. Your "condiment" comment is quite amusing. I thought it was rather odd covering such a thing. I could have cared less. On the other hand the over the top addoration the rest of the media has for the President is sickening.

Mark1957, the portion of that e-mail that is objectionable is not at the end where he asks that the Governor be given his best wishes, but at the beginning where he says that he found that the fact that anybody thought this was a story, let alone one deserving of frenzied media coverage, was ridiculous.

THAT is bad reporting for two reasons. The first is, again, the fact that a good-sized bit of this man's self-made political identity was composed of railing against the kind of immoral, anti-family conduct in which he was now discovered to be engaged and 2) Considering the kinds of stories Fox News routinely considers worthy of airing, such as the President's choice of condiments on his burger (CONDIMENTS, for heaven's sake).

The reporter is simply COMPOUNDING the Governor's hypocrisy by treating it as a petty matter when it affects a well-known Conservative Republican, when it would without question have been the lead story for a week or two if the accused had been a Democrat.

I'm a bit confused. If one wishes another person "the best" it's wrong? From reading what has been posted it's not like the guy was reporting anything! Just sending an email. How is that been spun into bad reporting? I think this is reaching.

This is the song that never ends.
It goes on and on my friends.
Someone started singing it not knowing what it was,
and they'll continue singing it forever just because,

Business as usual folks.

If L'il bush lied people die got some Terra would be as 1 By NOW

Testing the waters on how to defend the wicked witch of AK are we!!!!!!!

First, that is slimy journalism. Second, him having sex with someone isn't the point. It's being a hypocrite that is more repulsive. I'm not even going to get into the faux news thing. That dead horse has been beaten to pieces.

Just saw "Outfoxed" DVD recently - more of the same. The mainstream news is corrupt with the very same type of greedy people who put us in this economic position. They are doing their jobs for the money or because they don't want to get fired, not because they believe in what they are doing. There is NO integrity in mainstream media anymore. It is just a smidge of why I feel more and more sick each day as I learn how so many greedy people put the world economy in the position it is in. As citizens, need to wake up, participate and demand integrity. I don't watch TV anymore - keep up with what is going on via internet, thanks to Current and like-minded venues - the internet may save us in the end as the last stand of democracy, that is if the media giants don't get their way (making internet unaffordable to low-income people).

Sensationism and not journalism has been practiced in this country for a very long time... I am for one looking for facts without a spin and investigative reporting without political correctness.

Cripes how many "news" outlets have offered not just an out, but a ride, to the current POTUS? For that matter many of the cretins who presently run the house and senate have received such consideration? When bubba was getting some while on the job in the white house the press had to be dragged to cover that.

Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here

Dereliction of duty. Oof. That's a serious offense.

I think it's interesting to hear the way some Americans are so enamored of the phrase "y'all," that they choose to use it in their business dialogue, but they think that removing the contraction, and saying "You All" instead, makes it sound any less ridiculous. It's glaringly poor English, and most Americans will agree that it sounds embarrassingly unintelligent when coming from someone who works for The Washington Times.

They may as well be injecting the phrase "For Shizzle" into their professional conversations because it's the professional way to say "Fo' Shizznatch." That's how silly it sounds.

So a news outlet offered to have him on & not crucify him for just getting some ass & there's something wrong with that?

cut your mullet

wow....no kidding. The No Spin Zone is spinning. So much for "fair and balanced" reporting. When a journalist stops reporting the facts and starts picking sides, he or she is no longer a real journalist. They become a political operative, creative fiction writer, a propagandist. It's an insult to the craft. There are hundreds of examples of intrepid journalists who gave their lives to get at the truth. These hacks betray their memory. They have successfully redefined what we as a nation call "news".