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Hype is Today's Media's Problem
Columbia Tribune ^ | June 29, 2014 06:00 GMT | John Stossel

Posted on 06/29/2014 2:01:00 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there.

The CBS correspondent reported on Fast and Furious, the shifting explanation for the Benghazi and Libya attacks and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website.

“But as time went on, it was harder to get stories on,” she said.

“There are people who simply would rather just avoid the headache of going after powers that be because of the pushback that comes with it, which has become very organized and well-financed,” she said on my TV show.

I left ABC for similar reasons. When I began consumer reporting, I assumed advertisers would censor me, since sponsors who paid my bosses wouldn’t want criticism. But never in 30 years was a story killed because of advertiser pressure. Not once. I hear that’s changed since, and big advertisers, such as car dealers, do persuade news directors to kill stories.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; media; stossel
John is one of the rare legacy investigative reporters still out there. It's too bad he continues to get back seat on many of his stories.
1 posted on 06/29/2014 2:01:00 AM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

They didn’t have any problem when Bush was President.


2 posted on 06/29/2014 2:09:27 AM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
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To: Fear The People

“They didn’t have any problem when Bush was President.”

If he were the man he should be, he would be fomenting a grass-roots movement to remove Chairman Maobama from office.


3 posted on 06/29/2014 2:26:06 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

The Federal-Media Complex.


4 posted on 06/29/2014 3:18:14 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Hype has been around for over a century.

The first 'media war' was the Spanish-American War.

Noun

Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration: equating murder and dismemberment with smoking pot is the worst yellow journalism

Origin

1895: from the appearance in an issue of the New York World of a cartoon in which a child in a yellow dress ( 'The Yellow Kid') was the central figure. The color printing was an experiment designed to attract customers.
Source: Oxforddictionaries.com


5 posted on 06/29/2014 6:09:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
Thanks for the word origins. Here's some samples of The Yellow Kid.

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6 posted on 06/29/2014 6:16:53 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: dsc

Remove Chairman Maobama from office.
It may be in the works the democrats are sweating the mid term election the media will be in full steam ahead to cover for them they can’t afford to lose all the damage the democrats have done.


7 posted on 06/29/2014 7:33:27 AM PDT by Vaduz
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