Posted on 05/11/2013 9:53:45 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The off-the-record session was announced to reporters in the wake of an ABC News report showing that White House and State Dept. officials were involved in revising the now-discredited CIA talking points about the attack on Benghazi.
The administration routinely exerts pressure on reporters it feels are not kind enough in their coverage. Reporters like Cheryl Attkisson of CBS News have felt the hand of their bosses for wading dangerously close to advocacy with regard to Benghazi. No doubt this off-the-record meeting was designed to get all the presidents horses and all the presidents men to put the Benghazi humpty dumpty together again.
UPDATE: Reporters not invited to the off-the-record briefing are reportedly incredibly unhappy about it:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
ABCBSNBCNNPRPBS are deeply corrupt...they are in the tank for the Obama regime...only question is...how far in the tank will they go???
Some national “reporters” are openly lying...most are at least not covering stories harmful to the regime.
Corruption is unbelievable.
http://www.examiner.com/article/walter-duranty-stalin-s-mouthpiece
Modern media has lost the public trust in todays cynical age. In recent years, The New York Times experienced scandal over contrived stories and complaints about their biased coverage. These charges are not new. In 1931, Times reporter Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Moscow. However, his work proved a fabrication as he denied reports of widespread famine and Soviet oppression. Duranty violated the public trust in an ideological effort to improve communisms image.
Duranty served as the New York Times Bureau chief in Moscow from 1922-1934. In 1929, Stalin granted Duranty an interview making him a journalistic star. Duranty attempted to explain communism and the Russian psyche to readers. Most of his analysis was simplistic and covered for Stalins crimes. Despite this, his work led to a Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
The reporter shared Stalins view of the kulaks and attacked them for living “privileged.” He felt Stalin an Old Testament prophet determined to meld the classes together. Duranty claimed people sent to slave labor camps had a choice between the gulag and reintegrating into society. On top of this, he argued collectivization gave the Russian people hope even as he witnessed the famines caused by these programs. Although he did not refute Stalins brutality, Duranty defended and supported it. Stalin praised the New York Times reporter for the propaganda.
This is the payoff for feeding the Press Corp all those donuts last week: unquestioning loyalty to the talking points and don’t investigate further.
No mystery here. Obama merely wanted to give them their copies of the official white house photos taken during the recent correspondent’s dinner. A little private time among friends.
It has already happened. One reporter in the back complained about the 'off the record' presser to Carney, and why wasn't she invited.
Pulitzer-Winning Lies
http://m.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/791vwuaz.asp?ZoomFont=YES
Excerpt:
I am downloading here some of the lies contained in those dispatches, lies which the New York Times has never repudiated with the same splash as it accorded Jayson Blair’s comparatively trivial lies:
“There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.”
—New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.”
—New York Times, August 23, 1933
“Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin’s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding.”
—New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
“You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
—New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
“There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”
—New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
I would like to add another Duranty quote, not in his dispatches, which is reported in a memoir by Zara Witkin, a Los Angeles architect, who lived in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. (”An American Engineer in Stalin’s Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934,” University of California Press ). The memoirist describes an evening during which the Moscow correspondents were discussing how to get out the story about the Stalin-made Russian famine. To get around the censorship, the UP’s Eugene Lyons was telephoning the dire news of the famine to his New York office but the was ordered to stop because it was antagonizing the Kremlin. Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune reporter, turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write. Duranty replied:
Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.
And this was at a time when peasants in Ukraine were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day.
In his masterwork about Stalin’s imposed famine on Ukraine, “Harvest of Sorrow,” Robert Conquest has written:
As one of the best known correspondents in the world for one of the best known newspapers in the world, Mr. Duranty’s denial that there was a famine was accepted as gospel. Thus Mr. Duranty gulled not only the readers of the New York Times but because of the newspaper’s prestige, he influenced the thinking of countless thousands of other readers about the character of Josef Stalin and the Soviet regime. And he certainly influenced the newly-elected President Roosevelt to recognize the Soviet Union.
What is so awful about Duranty is that Times top brass suspected that Duranty was writing Stalinist propaganda, but did nothing. In her exposé “Stalin’s Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s man in Moscow,” S.J. Taylor makes it clear that Carr Van Anda, the managing editor, Frederick T. Birchall, an assistant managing editor, and Edwin L. James, the later managing editor, were troubled with Duranty’s Moscow reporting but did nothing about it. Birchall recommended that Duranty be replaced but, says Taylor, “the recommendation fell by the wayside.”
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Bingo. Mr. McDonald will be taking a new position as Secretary of Bus Undercarriage Inspection.
Our news media is FUBAR.
I am not trying to catch everything,...I would say mesta is.
Ido like to get into details that I think help ....and I also believe in archiving form many diffeent sources on the same story ( same highlevel details but different lowlevel details )...cause stuff gets scrubbed on the web.....and everything so often TURNS on some pretty low level detail ( you just never know what details will turns out to be important )
AND I BELIEVE IN KEYWORDS!!!!
I mean if you go to the trouble to post an article ....why would you not let other people know?
I rarely look at the latest article stream....to MUCH stuff....
Rant off///
LOL!
Typo correction:
Achiving FROM many sources on the same story.
Oddly similar to female politicians who get BOTOX treatments or COLLAGEN injections.
Thanks, I am bad at key words, I will pay more attention. I just posted a story, big blasts on Turkey Syrian boarder. They will respond and things are going to heat up. I am wondering if Syria is getting pissed that Turkey is smuggling arms with us .
I thought we had a press so that things could be put on the record by an unbiased group of writers willing to hold the government accountable.
I guess they were checked for their membership in the Communist party.
I am wondering if Syria is getting pissed that Turkey is smuggling arms with us .....Maybe. But Russia surely is.
The thread with youtube of the regular briefing is:
Gotta get everyone on the same page.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Huh?
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