Wash Times editor John Solomon claims ‘Conservatives’ site won’t be a ‘blurring of the lines’ of objectivity.
Wash Times editor John Solomon claims ‘Conservatives’ site won’t be a ‘blurring of the lines’ of objectivity.
In his Media Notes column today, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz previews the Washington Times’ newest project, The Conservatives.com, which is aimed “reinventing the right.” In an interview with Kurtz, Washington Times executive editor John Solomon claimed that the new site wasn’t a “blurring of the lines” for the newspaper’s objectivity:
Executive Editor John Solomon sees no “blurring of the lines” with the paper’s news coverage, saying that only Times editorials and columns will be included. “Obviously our opinion pages are center-right, so this will be a center-right site packaged for people who enjoy that type of opinion,” he says. Solomon says TheConservatives.com (slogan: Reinventing the Right) will include video and a daily blog by Amanda Carpenter, formerly of Townhall.com, once it is fully developed this spring.
In a memo he issued soon after becoming the Times’ editor, Solomon said he would maintain “a bright line between news coverage and the advocacy of the editorial and opinion pages.” But as FishBowlDC points out, “it’s not the content, it’s the contributors that are blurring the line between opinion and news.” For instance, when the site’s top contributor, Amanda Carpenter, announced that she was taking the job, she indicated that she would be working on the news side of the paper. “I am very excited about this opportunity to work in a news room under the helm of Jeff Birnbaum and John Solomon,” wrote Carpenter.
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Um, if the Right is so right, why does it have to be
March 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm“Reinvented”?
What’s in a name? Slander by any other name is still as libelous.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:52 pmWhat do you think would happen if The New YorkTimes started a website called The Progressives.com or The Liberal.com. The conservative media would have a field day with that.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:55 pmUmmm, shouldnt the people of the right, not the media, be in charge of reinventing [Sounds like a new shade of lipstick] the right?
March 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pm.
T.P. Wrote:
… There. Fixed it!
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March 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pmWatch, the Washington Times will be apologizing to Limbaugh for “reinventing” the right instead of applying more of the same as before.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:58 pmamanda carpenter,
classic mor:
Bless the beasts and the children
For in this world they have no voice
They have no choice
Bless the beasts and the children
For the world can never be
The world they see
Light their way
When the darkness surrounds them
Give them love
Let it shine all around them
Bless the beasts and the children
Give them shelter from a storm
Keep them safe
Keep them warm
Light their way
When the darkness surrounds them
Give them love
Let it shine all around them
Bless the beasts and the children
Give them shelter from a storm
Keep them safe
Keep them warm
The children
The children
**
amanda, baby.
..
March 16th, 2009 at 4:00 pmkscitydude,
If the NYTimes did that, it would be because they’re an agent of that “Librul Media”!
(/snark)
March 16th, 2009 at 4:00 pmXisithrus,
March 16th, 2009 at 4:02 pmWhat if the media is owned by the Right?
Who’s the messenger and who’s the audience?
Solomon said he would maintain “a bright line between news coverage and the advocacy of the editorial and opinion pages.”
How did the chicken journalist cross the line to propoganda?
March 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pmWith a bright line to light the way, of course.
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Opinions…
… Of the Right?
I remember some people on the Right authored some “OPINIONS” that reinvented the Right of NOT being humanely treated.
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March 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmThe Moonie Times thinks it is CENTER RIGHT? The delusion is laughable.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmMax-1 Said: Xisithrus,
What if the media is owned by the Right?
Who’s the messenger and who’s the audience?
I think the media, such as Washington Times are centrist and USE conservatism to promote the Washington consensus.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pmXisithrus Says:
That crazy owner Sun Myung Moon has ADMITTED he uses the Moonie Times to push his agenda and the guy is a nut. He had a coronation to proclaim himself messiah and true ruler of the world. A couple of Republican Congressmen showed up at it. He loses tens of millions a year on the rag of a paper and it is seen as a joke in political circles.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:15 pmEugeneDebs
March 16th, 2009 at 4:20 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f08clPMODw8
… in the Dirkson Senate Building no less.
Yea, “blurring” is probably too tepid a word.
Smothering is more like it.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:24 pmUh yeah. No conflict of interest there. No arriving at a pre-ordained conclusion. Nope, not at all.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm“Reinventing” means more than just SAYING they’re going to reinvent themselves, then doing something DIFFERENT.
Not going to happen. I’m beginning to think they’re just here for our amusement, now.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pmNot to worry, John. You can’t blur what never existed.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:47 pmExecutive Editor John Solomon sees no “blurring of the lines” with the paper’s news coverage, saying that only Times editorials and columns will be included. “Obviously our opinion pages are center-right, so this will be a center-right site packaged for people who enjoy that type of opinion,” he says.
Well, I guess “center-right” does make some sense, in particular considering the complete froot-loops (the Moonies) who own the Wash. Times…. But even “center-right” from an objective standpoint is way out in La-la-land. Just look at the Republican House members….
Cheers,
March 16th, 2009 at 4:48 pmOT
Did you read about this?
Now a Florida legislator has proposed that random drug-testing also be applied to those receiving unemployment insurance.
Florida State Senator Michael S. Bennett told Fox News host Steve Doocy that he worries that the Unemployment Trust Fund might be exhausted….
Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance, which is dedicated to ending the “war on drugs,” responded that “to require someone to pass a drug test to get their unemployment insurance after they’ve been laid off is pretty cruel — and to require them to pay for the test themselves is even more cruel.”
March 16th, 2009 at 4:55 pmMarie,
March 16th, 2009 at 4:57 pmWhen I was unemployed, I couldn’t afford drugs, prescribbed or not. I was too busy worring about how to afford food.
Some of you guys scare me
March 16th, 2009 at 4:57 pm.
Dear simpleton,
Yet guilty without charges does not?
Kangaroo courts don’t?
Indefinite detention without a trial doesn’t?
Accused by the President without substantiated evidence?
What then, describes TYRANNY in your book?
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March 16th, 2009 at 5:08 pmA simple man Says:
Some of you guys scare me
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We are even. I pity morons like you
March 16th, 2009 at 5:09 pmMax-1 — Of course.
The republiscum idiot from Florida would have the unemployed person PAY for the test he would require.
I am continually astonished at the tone-deaf cruelty of the right wing.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:19 pmMoonies.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:21 pmSun Myung Moon heard there was a void in Repug leadership and thought, “I’ll lead them out of the wilderness!”. He’s very upset about the way they right keeps calling Obama The Messiah. He thought everyone knew that HE was The Messiah!
(snark off, sort of)
March 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pmIn the 70’s, the Moonies were the weirdest cult around (and back then, there were a lot of them).
They were always handing out these very naughty-looking fliers of what appeared to be drawings of naked people all getting together in what was billed as “love” fests. Very strange to see them now trying to be all ‘Conservative’!
March 16th, 2009 at 5:34 pmThere wouldn’t be a righty movement or a republican party today if it weren’t for True Father’s ongoing support.
March 16th, 2009 at 5:58 pmIs “content” some kind of journalistic technical term in this context that makes it separate from the material that is contributed?
March 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pmThere are a lot more moonies around now. There’s a list of front groups at this link
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/front_groups.htm
Did you see this a couple of years ago:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E0D81638F934A15755C0A9629C8B63
Unfortunately, the man has serious influence.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:08 pm“Obviously our opinion pages are center-right[1], so this will be a center-right site packaged for people who enjoy [2]that type of opinion,” he says.
1.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:11 pmSurely the Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times isn’t center-right, but off the center of the ‘firm right’ (exemplified by the editorial boards of the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal).
2.
Their opinion page is intended for entertainment purposes only, and no guarantee of probity, veracity, intellectual honesty or rational validity is expressed or implied.
Mary says:
In the 70’s, the Moonies were the weirdest cult around (and back then, there were a lot of them).
Remember those group weddings? They have always been the subject of mockery — when did they gain prominence sufficient to have gotten the Republican Senate in Bush’s first term to allow them to have meetings in the White House.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pmI don’t know Marie. I laughed at the group weddings. But since then, a lot of baseball games have been the sites of mass weddings.
Admittedly, the baseball games are usually traditional Justice of the Peace or Protestant minister.
Never say an idea is too crazy for the American Public.
March 16th, 2009 at 6:59 pm35. Wiley
Thanks for the link to organizational fronts to the Unification Church.
Under Bands it had:
Re education Band Berkeley, CA
Re Education Band ?????? Considering the brainwashing implications of “Re-education” you’re kidding me – right ?
BTW – I almost liked the front group “Camp Pizza”. I could deal with that. Now if they introduce a “Camp Chocolate” I’ll be the first person in line.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pmConservative crap in a newspaper is still conservative crap, when it is put on the internet.
March 16th, 2009 at 7:50 pmHow could Mr. Solomon blur a line he can’t even see?
March 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm22. Marie – what about random drug tests for senators and radio pundits ?
March 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pmMaplestreet, you’d get “love-bombed” at Pizza camp. Check out this former moonie’s story. Moon is a shrewd manipulator.
http://www.caic.org.au/biblebase/moonies/fwddiary.htm
March 16th, 2009 at 9:36 pmI think Solomon’s statement can be seen as a clear one that, a) the lines are clear, and b) they’ll be on the far side of the farthest right line. Next!!
March 17th, 2009 at 4:33 pm