The Media Take Aim At ‘The Mob’

Accuracy In Media ^ | AUGUST 7, 2009 | K. DANIEL GLOVER

[AIM Freeper]

Subtlety is the most destructive weapon of biased journalists. It is the intellectual equivalent of a shot to the casual reader's head from a sniper's gun hundreds of yards away. The unsuspecting victim never knows what hit him.

The sniper's ammunition comes in many calibers -- selective reporting, misleading headlines, loaded adjectives and deceptive cutlines. Some kill instantly; others leave their targets in a permanently vegetative state. But the end result is always the same: liberal indoctrination.

Journalists are beginning to deploy subtlety as a weapon in their coverage of the protests over healthcare reform. They have learned that tank barreling down the middle of the street, like the one CNN's Susan Roesgen drove during the Chicago Tea Party in April, is too obvious to work, so they have assumed high and hidden perches instead.

[MNJohnnie]

Interesting what is missing from these reports is who is being assaulted and who is doing the assaulting. So far all the attacking has been Obama supporters attacking opponents. Still have yet to find any reports of opponents being violent.

[relictele]

What about clueless, English-mangling ‘reporters’ at the national and local level along with local editors who dutifully reprint the AP’s drivel?

[steveyp]

When do you think we’ll see the opponents getting violent? I think it’s pretty close right now, and the employment of union goons and plants doesn’t help create a fire break.

[listenhillary]

We will shoot our own video, post it to youtube, google video. We will send the links out via email and post links on local and national forums.

We will go around the dinosaur media. We will take our message to the people.

[La Lydia]

This article goes into that issue at length Here's a part of it.

The paper also included this explosive quote from an SEIU official hinting at plans to instigate trouble at the event: "We're prepared [for disruption]. We have strategies to deal with it if it should come up." That language provided important context about a group whose leader once described his thug-like organizing philosophy like this: "[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work we use the persuasion of power."

The rewrite of the story a short time later dropped the quote and changed the tone of the story to what Henke rightly called "something far more SEIU/Democrat friendly." The second version downplayed SEIU's role even though it was billed as an organizer, and it spun the story from the critical perspective of pro-Obama protesters.

[sarasota]

And this is the only way we will win this.

[cowboyusa]

Protests should start at the Medias offices as well. Let them feel our anger.

[ntmxx]

The White House seems now to be nothing more than scared thugs threatened by the same behavior community organizers uphold, especially when such activities are constitutional and real. So, what do Chicago Politics, Thugaucracy and Yellow Journalism have in common with modern liberalism; just different forms of Marxism. Progressives have now exposed their pseudo social causes for the true stealth political/military campaign to which they have been hiding behind all these years. The same tactics practiced by all Marxists, Fascists, Dictators and Islamists- power at any cost.

[sarasota]

That’s a good idea. Direct confrontation so they can hide behind their tv/online communication.