New Emails Reveal Former LA Times Reporter Likely Violated Newspaper’s ‘Very Clear Rule’

The Blaze ^ | 9/04/14 | Oliver Darcy

[blueyon]

New emails released Thursday appear to show that a former Los Angeles Times reporter had a “closely collaborative” relationship with the CIA, submitting drafts of stories to intelligence officials before submitting them for publication.

Ken Dilanian, now an Associated Press intelligence reporter, explicitly promised “positive news coverage” with one news story, according to The Intercept, which obtained emails he exchanged with intelligence officials. He added that he thought the particular report would be “reassuring to the public” about drone strikes.

[blueyon]

Shocking....well maybe to some one the left

[DoughtyOne]

I’m more worried about their very clear relationship with Marxists over the last thirty plus years.

[BenLurkin]

Could he be that he was playing ball on the drone strikes because he wanted Hussein to look good?

[detective]

The relationship was not with the CIA, it was with the Obama Administration. Like all MSM reporters he simply wrote and said what the Administration official told him to.

[wac3rd]

Hammer, meet nail.

[quimby]

I think you are right, and i bet the 2 “jounalists” slaughtered last week were cia.

[ronnie raygun]

I guess the “state run” media doesnt come into play here

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I guess the “state run” media doesnt come into play here

Rush has it backward: it isn’t that “the media is state run,” it is that wire service journalism is a conspiracy against the public which controls the government through the politicians who go along to get along with journalism.

The wire services (primarily but not exclusively the AP) naturally homogenize journalism politically because   

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

Journalists’ desire to “make a difference” naturally motivates them to reject the idea that “It is not the critic who counts” in favor of the cynical idea that nothing actually matters except PR. Journalists attack anyone who gains too much credit for getting things done - and the easiest way to political competitiveness is to go along and get along with hypercritical journalism.