Posted on 08/30/2012 3:10:19 PM PDT by morethanright
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian didn't realize his mic was "hot" during a joint Internet broadcast with ABC News. "They aren't concerned at all," said Chalian looking down at the Republican National Convention while Hurricane Isaac bore down on Louisiana, "They are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
Last June, Politico reporter Joe Williams became a little too comfortable during an appearance with like-minded lefties on Martin Bashir's MSNBC cable program. "Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him," insisted Williams, "That's one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in some town hall settings ... But when he comes on Fox and Friends ... they're like him. They're white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company."
The unguarded moments above cost both men their jobs. They were found guilty of saying out loud what most journalists only whisper amongst themselves, or liberally pepper between the lines of their skewed news copy. No one, of course, is surprised.
It should come as no surprise as well that Fox News won the top ratings with total viewers for their coverage of Tuesday's Republican conclave in Tampa ... with MSNBC coming in dead last.
"In the 25-54 demo [demographic age group], Fox also beat all cable and broadcast networks except for NBC," reported Mediaite.
On May 22, Deadline Hollywood reported, "The only ratings news CNN is getting lately is bad news. Last week, the cable news network had its lowest-rated weekday prime-time in 20 years in terms of total viewers ... this ratings news comes less than a week after the network hit its lowest prime-time among adults 25-54 in 15 years on May 15 with Piers Morgan Tonight."
And last February, the Huffington Post reported that profits at the New York Times "fell by 12.2 percent compared to the same period in 2010, and that its net loss for the whole of 2011 was $39.7 million."
When the mainstream media beats its collective chest over the "public's right to know," it's a load of eye wash. Journalists don't write or broadcast with you in mind. They preen before the cameras and type their screeds to impress each other. You might even say they're "very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like" them.
You are so far from their minds that they sometimes forget ordinary groundlings might occasionally land on a non-Fox news program while channel-surfing. Their candid remarks prove they know few are watching.
The mainstream media can fire their own for honest moments of bias until the cows come home. It really doesn't matter. You see, the public is doing the firing for them by getting their news elsewhere ... Fox for instance.
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Firing Chalian will not change Yahoo’s bias one bit. It is and will remain a far, far left website that will continue to promote all things liberal and bash conservatives. Nothing will change from this minor personnel change. And Chalian will quickly be picked up by another left wing outlet (e.g., MSNBC).
Another screaming queen in the lamestream media! The gay men and Lesbians in the media can usually be counted on to be the most far-left, Commie-loving lap dogs in the entire media. I think that’s one reason you see so many of them. The people in charge want that outcome.
Chalian was the Producer for ABC News who arranged for the Gotcha questions that Charles Gibson assaulted Sarah Palin with in her first national interview.
Questions like, “What is your analysis of the Bush Doctrine of foreign policy?”, when there was no such thing as the Bush Doctrine. He also accused Palin of claiming that God supported the United States in the war in Iraq.
These are the worms that work in the media, he just happened to get caught with a live microphone on.
I figure one of the other big leftist networks will pick him up.
They all agree with what he said.
Fired because he got caught.
He can always get an overnight gig on PMSNBC, but he may be pre-emptied by an infomercial for the Nu-Wave oven....
“I figure one of the other big leftist networks will pick him up.”
Nope, FOX, for that additional balance they keep adding these days.
Funny, I didn’t know he was queer until I read your comment, but I thought he probably was just from the picture. There is something about the mouth that gives it away. Look at pictures of male homosexuals, and one can almost always tell.
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