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Pinekatz
07/17/09

In reply to CNBC's Probing Porn Journalism
CNBC could be a distributor of dispassionate business news. Information only. Instead, its like watching Wall Street fellate journalism and worse, watching the return. Ugliness. It makes perfect sense that porn scores on that network. Everyone just screwing someone else. Life goes on. Where's my bonus? Where's my 401k?
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i'm a bottle
07/17/09

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I'm sorry, which one is the porn star?
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Pinekatz
07/17/09

@i'm a bottle: Hah! Exactly.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
07/17/09

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the porn industry has regular cycles of expanding and contracting, and regular bursts of creativity, and it swells and billows and ... i have to go now
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ChillbearLatrigue
07/16/09

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The problem is that this is were Darwinism normally kicks in. Another financial news network is supposed to come in and beat the living crap out of CNBC because we don't need a business network covering porn. We have plenty of alternate avenues for that.

However, for some reason the other networks haven't been successful. I have no idea why, unless they are being propped up by the parent network. I still can glean some good information from the money peacock, but I am getting less bang for my buck.
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Glib and Bitchy
07/17/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Wouldn't special reports on porn translate into more bang for your buck?
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The Cajun Boy
07/17/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: You would think so, right?
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Pinekatz
07/17/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: They hire personalities. There are those we love and always will, those we want to cut, some we wish would stop being so shrill but still admire and those, like Larry Kudlow, we believe should be fired for not seeing what was so obvious late in 2008 and has now lost all credibility forever.

Chill, I really think its the great casting (because that's all it is) and maybe its the great music played by their on-line advertisers' commercials...

In any event, I would loathe them less if they just reported business news. Instead, they actively engage in trying to manipulate perception of the economy and business environment. Larry Kudlow is the loudest worm in that shit pile. And this guy contemplates a life in politics? That is just rich.
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ValfridGuanaco
12/19/08

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Let's not forget Felt ordered raids on suspected radicals without search warrantsl. I'm glad he helped Woodward and Bernstein out, but the man was no saint.
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MrInBetween
12/19/08

@ValfridGuanaco: Mark Felt did a bit more than just "help out" Woodstein. He made them both millions and millions of dollars.
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GuyBitchy
12/19/08

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God bless and keep you, genuine American hero.

Could have used a lot more like you over these last ten years or so, heaven knows...

Equal measure guts, smarts, and integrity is a hard combo to come by, although I guess the real legacy of Watergate is how the system amended itself to make successfully pulling an emergency break that much harder... if not impossible.

Just ask Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer.
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naugahydeinplainsight
12/19/08

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Ryan, thanks for the thoughtful note (at 2 a.m. yet!) about the changes in journalism -- not all for the better -- since Watergate. Unfortunately, the two-source rule died long before Mark Felt.

(You could call that Sourcegate, but then we'd have to suggest the practice of adding "-gate" to every minor misdeed be buried along with Deep Throat.)
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shanesongs
12/19/08

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Wouldn't it be good to live in a world where whistleblowers didn't have to be disgruntled to do the right thing?
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CumaeanSibyl
12/19/08

@shanesongs: I don't know, I'm content with the knowledge that wrongdoers will always manage to piss someone off.
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blix
12/19/08

@shanesongs: Why doesn't anyone ever say anything about gruntled employees? There must be at least one. Somewhere..
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VoxPopuli
12/19/08

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Would it be disrespectful to suggest that he now be referred to as Six-Feet-Deep Throat? Probably, but I have a sick sense of humor.
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naugahydeinplainsight
12/19/08

@VoxPopuli: Go with it. Perhaps Woodward can mix some of Felt's ashes in with the potted plant on his balcony.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
12/19/08

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Oh if I was a cat-a-lyst, a-daydl daydl daydl daydl daydl daydl daydl die o/`
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Shelwood
12/19/08

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Gawker posts a still from All the Presidents Men, and the very same day Deep Throat dies. Very curious.

(I'd like to dedicate this conspiracy theory to Mark Felt.)
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nystar2000
12/19/08

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How refreshing for a president to actually have to resign for his (zero body count) crimes. Man, was I born in the wrong decade.
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Weegee's bored
12/19/08

@nystar2000: Zero body count? In that part of the Vietnam War that Nixon promised to end and instead escalated?
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ifstone
12/21/08

@Weegee's bored: Yeah, Nixon makes Bush/Cheney look like footnotes in the annals of state-sponsored killing. Vietnamese and Cambodian dead that Nixon and Kissinger bear responsibility for easily number in the millions, with 50,000 Americans.

Watergate wasn't directly about the war, but there's a clear line from the war to Watergate.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/19/08

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I can see the Post headline in my Ambien induced sleep:

DEATH BE-CUMS DEEP THROAT
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metroville
12/19/08

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Hal Holbrook can't be taking this news well.
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