Comments on: Leonard Pitts Jr.: We Still Need Journalists

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:24:00 +0000

Biden is the brains behind this WH. Lots more good men have died since barak initiated his rules of engagement, setting a record each year for casualties because he value moooslim live more than our troops.
Even Bill Clinton believed their were WMD’s and said so. W inherited a recession, a hollow military and an almost nonexistent CIA thanks to Billy boy.
Barak will always be a junior to W, W is a man and barak is a boy. Who put us further into debt??Obama he’s added $10 Trillion to the debt in just 3+ years.
W bailed out the banks but rather than pick his own man to handle the bailout he let Barak pick his man, that was a mistake Geithner is a light weight and was in bed with the banks when he ran the NY Fed.
In DEC 2008 there were still more Americans working than at anytime in barak’s 3+ years.
Barak has 2 years with a filibuster majority ad all he produced was more debt more unemployment and obamacare. Don’t blame this disaster on McConnel and Boehner this was caused by Peeloisi and harry

By: jarheadgene

jarheadgene — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:11:00 +0000

Biden…really….he is VP….does anyone care what the VP does, other than Cheney who was the Wizard behind the Curtain. Dubya was just the Floating Face. Cheney took us to war with Iraq…..lot’s of good men and women dead, but Haliburton/KBR made record profits. NO BID Contracts set up by Cheney(who has been a board member for years). And what did we go to war in IRAQ for …according to Palin (when asked in 2008), to get Saddam because he knocked down the Twin Towers in NYC. WRONG….it was to get WMD’s …WMD’s that were non-existant. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. We went to war without increasing taxes to fund it. The war was costing us billions a month….AT THAT TIME …..President Obama was just a junior Senator out of Illinois. So who put us further in debt….??? Then gave a gift of Trillions to the Banks….this before Jan of 2009……OBAMA was still a Senator (President Elect)…..Think REAL HARD ONEDONEWRONG….who was still in office in Oct-Dec 2008, when the country was tanking? As to your comment re: Dem’s in congress…I can’t defend them all, many are also guilty of corporate and lobbyist corruption. But I was talking about Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, they are leading the defiant charge against ANYTHING OBAMA. THEY HAVE NO…….NONE……NOT ONE BIT of concern for YOU and definitely not me. And as for statistics on working you better re-check the true facts…not the FOX facts.

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Joe Biteeme went from HS to Congress and in the interim damaged his brain with hair implants. You know the same guy who said at a high school commencement that sustainable crops are just around the corner that don’t need soil or water…. Obama has 1 years of experience 4 times he has learned nothing and still thinks he’s a community organizer. I do agree with you that the Dem’s in congress are contemptible and have no morals and could care less about this country.
Yea Obama’s your messiah, $10 trillion in new debt, unemployment at 10%, fewer Americans working than at any time during W’s 2nd term. And a foreign policy that is a disaster with every tin pot dictator thumbing their noses at us

By: MHO7505

MHO7505 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:57:00 +0000

OOHRAH … JARHEADgene !!!

By: jarheadgene

jarheadgene — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:48:00 +0000

Sarah Palin smarter than Don B? Based on the fact that he can string a few coherent thoughts together, I doubt that. Sarah Palin went from High School Cheerleading to GOP Cheerleading……that is about the extent of her political savvy. She was the reason I almost voted for Obama in ’08; however, when it comes to President, I vote on the person themselves, not their party, not their color, not their running mate. John McCain is an honorable man and he earned and deserved a chance at the helm. Now President Obama has 4 years of experience, with the MOST UNCOOPERATIVE corrupt scum fighting him on EVERY issue (In spite of what is good for America) and he has done very little, if any, wavering on his issues. Again I will vote the person. How does he stack up against a money grubbing, greedy, say anything candidate? OBAMA in ’12, that’s how. OOORAH. Osama is dead, long live Obama.

By: ralphkr

ralphkr — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:40:00 +0000

What I find most interesting about “citizen reporting” is that their greatest strength is also their greatest weakness. Generally speaking, there is no fact checking being done before a “citizen report” is posted on the Internet which means that everything must be taking with an extremely unhealthy dose of salt. At the same time, “citizen reporters” are not being constrained by fact checkers being careful not to upset any untouchable corporations or the legal department of the publishers making sure no powerful ox is being gored.

By: 1436

1436 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:21:00 +0000

I am a regular reader of the times Picayune and was especially impressed by it coverage of Katrina ( after the few days I was away from my home due to flooding). Over the years it has flattered me by printing some of my letters. I hope they will reverse their decision to publish on only a few days per week because many people will then get out of the habit of regular reading it and hasten its decline even more.

As Mr Pitts described its reporters can be depended on to ferret out truths that would otherwise lie hidden. T.V. and internet reporting have their places but we do need a printed source, up to date enough, with facts and figures one can mull over and take time to digest.

I have a suspicion that newspaper reporters are more intested in presenting the facts whereas the T.V presenters like to have themselves in view(I speak in some ignorence here becaause I have only met a couple personally). I do know that the TP reporters have worked on assignments where they are given time to record and verify. e.g that excellent series recently about Louisianas prison industry and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

I also appreciate the columnists in the T.P like Mr Pitts their work is thought provoking. Again I can read slowly if I like and take time to digest the material and appreciate the fact that I don’t have to read or listen to Sarah Palins rubbish.
Thank you

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:34:00 +0000

Lets see thay have no idea about what they are reporting on and shoot from the hip

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:33:00 +0000

As opposed to the State run Media that meets every morning with the Obama administration press secretary to go over what should be covered and the spin??

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:32:00 +0000

she is certainly much smarter than you..but you already knew that