Presidential adviser Karl Rove said Saturday that journalists often criticize political professionals because they want to draw attention away from the "corrosive role" their own coverage plays in politics and government. "Some decry the professional role of politics, they would like to see it disappear," Rove told graduating students at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. "Some argue political professionals are ruining American politics _ trapping candidates in daily competition for the news cycle instead of long-term strategic thinking in the best interest of the country." But Rove turned that criticism on journalists."It's odd to me that most of these critics are journalists and columnists," he said. "Perhaps they don't like sharing the field of play. Perhaps they want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their coverage has played focusing attention on process and not substance." Rove told about 100 graduates trained to be political operatives that they should respect the instincts of the American voter. "There are some in politics who hold that voters are dumb, ill informed and easily misled, that voters can be manipulated by a clever ad or a smart line," said Rove, who is credited with President Bush's victories in the 2000 and 2004 elections. "I've seen this cynicism over the years from political professionals and journalists. American people are not policy wonks, but they have great instincts and try to do the right thing." . . . read more |
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The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology. AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” In the interest of full disclosure, the AP should release the names of the “more than 100 top climate researchers” they attempted to contact to review “An Inconvenient Truth.” AP should also name all 19 scientists who gave Gore “five stars for accuracy.” AP claims 19 scientists viewed Gore’s movie, but it only quotes five of them in its article. AP should also release the names of the so-called scientific “skeptics” they claim to have contacted. The AP article quotes Robert Correll, the chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group. It appears from the article that Correll has a personal relationship with Gore, having viewed the film at a private screening at the invitation of the former Vice President. In addition, Correll’s reported links as an “affiliate” of a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm that provides “expert testimony” in trials and his reported sponsorship by the left-leaning Packard Foundation, were not disclosed by AP . . . read more
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"The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled 'Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy' by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology. AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' "
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We also learn that Saddam is "resolute," while we are to infer that he is brave in the face of death and loyal to his countrymen. He's ready to die, he said, and he'd stand firm again were his country to be invaded. Fortunately, I was all out of hankies as this story hit the wires. Also, providentially, I happened to be reading a book that allowed me to maintain perspective even as others apparently were wilting in the presence of lunatic grandiosity. The book is called "Mayada, Daughter of Iraq," by Jean Sasson, and tells the story of a woman journalist, Mayada Al-Askari, who was arrested and tortured in 1999 along with the other "shadow women" of cell 52 in Baladiyat prison. I might have missed Mayada's story, published three years ago, if a friend of mine, Salley Lesley, hadn't written a song inspired by the book, which in turn inspired me to read it. You, too, may have missed it. Sasson says many newspapers and networks (Fox was one exception) declined to interview Mayada when she visited the United States. The French refused to publish the book, in which Mayada speaks briefly of her appreciation for President George W. Bush and the liberation of Iraq . . . read more |
After reading an excerpt from the columnist on the left side, why is the Fox News Channel the only one that always says, "We report, you decide."
Keep this in mind. When the media in rank step suppresses a news story, like the one mentioned on the left, three things are happening.
1.) they don't trust you to make the right decision when all the truth is known.
2.) they're treating you like a child, as if they are mommy and daddy.
3.) their news reporting has become propaganda.
This should scare the hell out of you, therefore always turning to many sources before making a decision, and we don't mean different newspaper. We mean different kinds of sources.
Contact your local newspaper and ask if they know of the book "Mayada Daughter of Iraq" and if not, why don't they? |
The gaffe lasted for only 16 seconds but, said media magpie Matt Drudge on his Web site, it "captured the president starting and stopping his message, then looking at the White House media advisor for direction." An embarrassed Blitzer materialized and told viewers the mistake had been made by "the network pool," though there were no reports of it appearing on other networks.
Another Web site said that an NBC producer, in charge of the pool for the night, erred in removing the presidential seal from the screen too early; it was supposed to remain there until just before the speech began. When CNN technicians saw the shield vanish, they assumed the speech was about to start.
Whatever, the mistake probably boosted circulation of the president's appearance, since the goof had been captured on tape and was soon playing on media-watchdog Web sites.
CNN may be in for criticism, in addition, for using Dobbs to anchor the post-speech show (a "special edition" of "Lou Dobbs Tonight") because Dobbs regularly and vehemently attacks U.S. immigration policy on his nightly CNN program. Although he called the speech "a bold attempt," he also complained that it was "long on rhetoric and short on specifics." |
CNN does it . . . again! These are no accidents out of CNN's control room.
Remember when they put a large black X over Cheney's image in the control room? How the hell did all their newscasts get into all our airports, their domestic ratings so small and biased, a news organization that seems to need to merge with the BBC and off our soil - Webmaster
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Bob Schieffer led Tuesday's CBS Evening News by heralding "bad news for the Republicans" in a new CBS News/New York Times poll and suggesting the new poll portends "a dramatic shift in the political landscape" with approval of Congress at only 23 percent, its lowest since 20 percent in 1994. But reporting on that low number 12 years ago, just six days before Republicans took control of the House and Senate, Bob Schieffer didn't see disaster ahead for Democrats. Back then he maintained: "It's hard to gauge who'll be helped or hurt by all this gloom come Election Day." |
CBS Jumps on "Bad News" for GOP & Hope for Dems . . . But Not So Excited in 1994
Read our letter to the old fart, Bob Schieffer, leaving the values taught to him from the 1950s when America was strong, turning into an wealthy elitist and spitting on the rest of us who grew up in those good times.
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Today's journalists, while free to report the news as it happens for the sole purpose of giving Americans unbiased information that will allow them to make useful decisions for what they believe is best for their democracy, have discovered it's better for them if they just don't report or give little attention to the stories they don't want their readers to know about.
Here is one example. Do a search on the Web for Patrick Kennedy and an incident he had at a US. airport in 2000 with a African-American airport screener after the federal employee wanted to search his bag, it not fitting into the X-Ray machine. (Just remember as you read this, you or I would have gone to jail.)
Using Google, we only found the original story on Newsmax along with a recent reference from the Fox News Channel because of Patrick Kennedy's most recent run-in with Capital Hill police in May of 2006, six years after the airport incident.
With virtually every mainstream newspaper out to lunch on this story as seen in this Internet search, it simply proves our point about the continued bias of the manipulative managing editors that run today's mainstream press.
While journalists seem to have given Patrick Kennedy as much pass as they could without looking as if they were on the payroll, they know it can also help by pushing any negative stories about him quickly off the front page and out of view of the voters.
Of course, there is the opposite effect if you work for the political party journalists don't like. Then they keep stories up as long as they can, for example with Cheney's hunting accident. It's not about how you report the news, but how you play the game with the people's right to know.
While the Kennedys' always seem to get elected anyway, even when a helpless women is left to drown or a minority worker is grabbed while doing her job in airport security, it says the Kennedys' are really either very smart or the voting public is really very stupid. I vote for the latter.
Finally, note in the story on the right that the African American worker was later fired from her job. Gee, where is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when you need them? "Off on vacation," . . . that is when the Kennedys' need them to stay out of the picture? |
Copy from the Newsmax story, January 24, 2005:
A clip in "Taking on the Kennedys," filmed by director Josh Seftel, captures Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., getting physical with security guard Della Patton as Patton was loading his luggage into a scanner.
Kennedy, who insisted he was in a rush to catch a flight back to Boston, allegedly pushed Patton and grabbed her by the arm when she informed him that she would have to inspect his carry-on bag because it wouldn't fit through the X-ray machine.
A video surveillance tape captured the March 26, 2000 incident but was never released.
The New York Post, however, reports that Seftel's documentary includes video of "Kennedy getting into a 'physical altercation' with a female airport security guard."
Rep. Kennedy, who wasn't charged in the incident, denied he had manhandled Patton. But in July 2000 he offered her $25,000 to settle the dispute. On the advice of her attorney, Greg Mallory, Patton rejected the offer.
She was later fired from her job, with Mallory claiming Rep. Kennedy was responsible.
Read More - Newsmax, January 24, 2005
"And the voters of Rhode Island just keep putting Kennedy back into office. People, no matter how intelligent and sophisticated they think they are, in the end always get the government they deserve."
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| The real story is the social irresponsibility of the New York Times, the Indonesian government, and scores of NGOs in Indonesia still fighting Newmont. The whole trial fiasco has cost the average Indonesian dearly. A few years ago, investment in mining topped U.S.$2.6 billion. Today the figure is less than $177 million. The loss in investment means that many more babies, not unlike the little baby girl that died in Buyat, will die of malaria or malnutrition, or grow up without an education. Far from being the boogeyman, Western investment offers the greatest hope for the future of Indonesia. Thanks to Jane Perlez and her confederacy of dunces, that hope shines less brightly. |
"Oh, never mind . . . again!"
The New York Times has done it again. They’ve gotten the story wrong. Unfortunately, instead of reprimand and public scorn for their efforts in sloppy journalism, the Times has seen one of its journalists granted an Overseas Press Club Award. Now an innocent man stands to lose 10 years of his life, and a nation faces dramatic losses in foreign investment, thanks in no small part to irresponsible journalism. |
Mr. Stern also cited the example of Joe Francis, the creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, who Mr. Stern said had offered to fly much of the staff of Page Six to a place Mr. Francis owns in Mexico on his private jet for Mr. Johnson's bachelor party.
In the March 31 meeting, Mr. Burkle mainly haggled with Mr. Stern over how his payments should be made: in cash, as Mr. Stern wanted, or by wire transfer, as the authorities had pressed Mr. Burkle to insist, according to a person involved in the investigation. In that meeting, the person involved in the investigation said, Mr. Stern spoke of Page Six's power. "We know how to destroy people," Mr. Stern said, according to a person reading a transcript of the meeting. "It's what we do. We do it without creating liability. That's our specialty." - Drudge - TimesOnline |
Reporter caught on tape: 'WE KNOW HOW TO DESTROY PEOPLE . . . IT'S WHAT WE DO' - Source, Drudge - New York Times |
| "I'm still so upset about this war and I'm so proud I live in a country where you can protest." She showed a photo of herself marching with her pre-teen daughter and her husband, Richard, who was the senior political producer at CBS News for most of the 1980s. Behind her in the photo: A protest sign featuring a "W," for George W. Bush, with a slash through it." . . . read more |
So if this is true, the potential new replacement for Couric at the NBC Today Show will also not be fair and balanced. When the folks finally wake up to discover that their fourth estate has been stolen and only one poltical party runs the media, the media better run. And Couric's experience as a reporter? Not needed, seems to be the line over at CBS. That's because when you're beaming propaganda around the country, all you want is a Tokyo Rose, attracting America's culture just needs a little more T&A. |
| "The New York Times has been urgently warning congressional Republicans to abandon the Iraq War or face ruination in the November elections. Of course, for three years now, the Times has predicted that all world leaders who supported the war would be thrown out of office on their ears. However embattled they are, I don't think Republicans are at the point of taking advice from the mainstream media, but let's look at the facts" . . . read more |
"Oh, never mind . . . again!"
NYT, Broken Clock: Both Occasionally Correct - Ann Coulter
Wow, read this article on how many "Times" the New York Times got it totally wrong on elections around the world with countries that supported the Iraq war! - Webmaster |
"As it did in the Abu Ghraib mistake, the Times ran an editors' note on page 2 of its front section, along with a lengthy news article (this time on the front page of Section B). Again mirroring the Abu Ghraib episode, the newspaper revealed a surprising and inexplicable lapse in fact-checking on the part of a reporter and/or editor.
The original article, more than 1000 words in length, was written by Nicholas Confessore. He also wrote the news article about the error today. Without saying that he wrote the first story, he wrote today: 'The Times did not verify many aspects of Ms. Fenton's claims, never interviewed her children, and did not confirm the identity of the man she described as her husband.' " . . . Editor & Publisher |
"Oh, never mind . . . again!"
"Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked." - Drudge - Editor & Publisher |
| However, in the month leading up to this poll the nation had already been subjected to a near constant obsession on the part of the media and policymakers opposed to the war, commenting endlessly on the likely potential for an outbreak of civil war. In short order, this and other polls were then conducted and released, only to have the very same people recalibrate the findings into another set of news cycles and spats of national finger-pointing. In such an environment, what should we expect the American public to believe? . . . Wade Zirkle |
"Self-fulfilling prophecies do not equal national interests." - Wade Zirkle, Townhall.com |
| When a newspaper of record buries a health warning, as if it was giving an award to any reader that could find the article, that is from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on the spread of STDs among teens, and does this act for obvious political correct reasons, the health of the people who live in the city this newspaper serves have in essence become acceptable collateral agenda for the editorial staff, which is bowing down to the fascist politics of sexual orientation. |
When small town newspapers follow the lead of major media sources and do not protect and respect the independent of their local readers, allowing a message of propaganda to be spread across the country newspaper by newspaper, democracy is screwed. Are you then not surprised when too many in the media see patriots as so many radicals? When decent men like James Dobson of "Focus on the Family," are also called radicals simply because they protect the core of the family and the children of the family from the media lies, then you know a literal civil war on American soil cannot be far behind.
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Read this submission for an editorial forum, the newspaper debating the effect of an independent local radio station talk show host as brought up in the article, thereby causing the piece to be rejected. I guess we are no longer allowed to have opinions, either. When the public discovers the Democrat Party runs the media, the media will run. |
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![Complaints about the Times’ liberal bias have grown stronger since the 2001 promotion of Howell Raines from editorial page editor to executive editor. As even Newsweek reported: “A hard-charging editor’s crusading style is coloring the Gray Lady’s reputation.... [the] Times is being criticized for ginning up controversies as much as reporting them out” (Seth Mnookin, December 6, 2002).](timeswatch.jpg){kind=small}
