posted September 18, 2011 08:54 AM            

Journalism is dead! The pedastal they erected for themselves as "watchdogs of the people's right to know" has burned to the ground because of their lying, propaganda and political activism.

One would think they would have learned their lesson after the full throated support they gave Kommander Korruption..aka Bill Clinton who was voted by historians as the most corrupt President in US history.

One would be wrong!

Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president
Sep 17, 2011

Since 2008, much of the Obama coverage has been nothing more than orchestrated sychophancy

As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.

Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sychophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likeable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.”
The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jermiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.”

The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency.

Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes. As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rotweiler toward the other. If Obama was sacred , classy, intellectual and cosmopolitan, why then Palin must be malevolent, trashy, dumb and pure backwoods-ignorant.

Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.)

As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength.

posted September 18, 2011 07:41 PM            

have you seen what is being reported by al jazeera today and yesterday? bet it's not on FOX or american thinker!
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000914.html

posted September 19, 2011 09:42 AM            

Just because they broadcast their jihadi propaganda in the US doesn't make them part of our broadcast news.

One would have to be both blind and deaf to not know the leftist US press is totally behind O'Bomber and has been from the beginning.

Oh, and there's something else you've got wrong.

The leftist crazies and anarchists are not protesting O'Bomber. They're protesting Wall Street....and, it is being reported.

Social Networking Spurs Wall Street Protest
By: Nicole Ward
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/147351/social-networking-spurs-wall-street-protest

posted September 19, 2011 11:08 AM            

not finding the story on ny1.com, though i know they did mention it. for a minute.

posted September 20, 2011 03:50 PM            

...But last week when Wolf Blitzer and CNN had that debate, the CNN/Tea Party Express debate, and Wolf stood there and called them his partners, I just thought this is amazing isn’t it, because would you ever see the CNN/Nurses debate or the CNN/Teachers Union debate? Cause I think there’s a few more teachers and nurses in this country than there are members of the tea party, but we’ll never see that in the mainstream media and liberal organizations which have many more members, just don’t have, just don’t get the attention.

A thousand people arrested a couple weeks ago on the Tar Sands environmental issue, hardly any coverage of this. Can you imagine if a thousand tea partiers had been arrested in front of the White House? It would be the top of every news story. People are down on Wall Street right now holding a sit in and a camp in down there, virtually no news about this protest. This goes on with liberals and the left all the time, and it gets ignored. Fortunately, there are shows like yours and others who aren’t ignoring it, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening and it will continue to happen.

Moore was right on both counts. The media does ignore protests by liberals and the left with regularity, and they do exaggerate, overrate, and suck up to the tea party on a regular basis. TeaNN is just the latest example of media selling out to the conservative agenda. Moore did raise an interesting question. Why did CNN deem the Tea Party Express a worthy partner instead of any number of organizations that each has more members than the tea party?