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Mainstream Media Asks: 'How Do We Protect Barack Obama Today?'
Newsbusters ^ | December 12, 2014 | 10:14 AM EST | Time Graham

Posted on 12/15/2014 6:13:22 AM PST by sr4402

When I asked her for an example, she replied, “Every morning, we hold a meeting about how to build that evening’s broadcast. We’ve been doing this for decades. Everybody talks about which stories we’re going to air, what the line-up looks like, and which reporters we’ll have live in the field and which ones will be filing taped pieces. In the past, the left-wing bias was always left unspoken. People just ‘got it,’ because they all thought the same.

“Once Obama pulled ahead of Hillary and certainly once he became president,” she said, “the bias came out of the closet. Now, every morning when we meet to discuss that night’s show, they literally say — out loud — ‘How do we protect Barack Obama today?’”

I made her repeat that last bit: that the team assembling a national newscast for one of the Big Three television networks says — out loud, every day — “How do we protect Barack Obama today?”

There it was, real proof of what we suspected from years of evidence: that the leftist agenda was real, tangible and no longer disguised. And it had morphed from simple bias to dangerous advocacy.

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To: Mr. K

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2573077/posts
JournoList: 157 Names Confirmed (With Organizations)
Source List Included | 08/18/2010 | BuckeyeTexan


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http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/25/the-death-of-journolist-does-privacy-end-at-the-edge-of-your-th/

JournoList: Inside the echo chamber
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html

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The Secret Liberal Journalist Cabal [Hot Air]
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JournoList Revealed! Inside the Secret Liberal Media Email Cabal
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Who Doesn’t Love The JournoList?
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On Journolist and Dave Weigel
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The Inside Scoop on JournoList
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Tim Fernholz
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Dana Goldstein
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Obama wins! And Journolisters rejoice
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A few excerpts from JournoList journalists
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Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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When McCain picked Palin, liberal journalists coordinated the best line of attack
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Tucker Carlson: We will not publish full J-List emails
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You shall know them by their work
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The Tucker Carlson Journolist-Disclosure Email Exchange
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Confessions of a Journolister
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The Think About Dave
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The Post Shouldn’t Have Fired Dave Weigel
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Journolisters offended by Keith Olbermann’s ‘misogynistic,’ ‘predictable,’ and ‘pompous’ show
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Journalists slam ABC Debate tactics
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Daily Caller Fails To Report That It Too Was Part of Journolist
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Heroes of Journolist: Dan Froomkin, James Surowiecki, Jeffrey Toobin, Michael Tomasky — and founder Ezra Klein
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Felix Salmon
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Remember my warning about Dave Weigel and ‘digital McCarthyism’?
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Mike Madden
http://twitter.com/mikemadden

Annie Lowrey
http://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey

Kate Sheppard
http://twitter.com/kate_sheppard

Raw Journolist emails: Do Tea Party members ‘parallel’ Nazis?
http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/29/raw-journolist-emails-do-tea-party-members-parallel-nazis/

Political operatives on Journolist worked to shape news coverage
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Amanda Marcotte
http://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte

Reihan Salam
http://twitter.com/reihansalam

Inside (or at Least, Uncomfortably Near) the Right-Wing Hate Machine
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Inside-Or-At-Least/25769/

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Eric Boehlert
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JournoList’s — and Journalism’s — Diversity Problem
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1 posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:07:33 PM by BuckeyeTexan
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To: Jim Robinson; jellybean; 9YearLurker; OldDeckHand; Forward the Light Brigade; battlecry; Qbert; ...

Ping to an updated JournoList.

Removed Foster Kamer per his blog post stipulating that he did sign the letter to ABC regarding the Presidential debate but was not a member of JournoList.

Additions this update:

Micah Sifry - Sunlight Foundation, Personal Democracy Forum
Nancy Scola - Personal Democracy Forum
Kay Steiger - Center for American Progress


21 posted on 12/15/2014 7:47:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Concisely stated: “Journalists are Propagandists.”


22 posted on 12/15/2014 7:48:59 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Steve_Seattle

The source of the quote is somebody at the high levels who is hiding that he/she is conservative.


23 posted on 12/15/2014 7:59:29 AM PST by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/ g G)
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To: sr4402

everybody line up, you too, ba-rack.
everybody else, take three steps back!


24 posted on 12/15/2014 8:11:36 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: sr4402
There it was, real proof of what we suspected from years of evidence: that the leftist agenda was real, tangible and no longer disguised. And it had morphed from simple bias to dangerous advocacy.

Some dare not call it treason.

I sure have no problem staring at the naked emperor...

25 posted on 12/15/2014 12:56:36 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: skeeter
There are still people who think the mainstream news media cares primarily about making money.

Funnier still, "There are still people who think the mainstream news media cares primarily about providing complete, useful, factual news!

26 posted on 12/15/2014 1:00:04 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: shove_it
There is space available at Mt. Rushmore. The campaign will begin in Feb 2015.

Should it becomes inevitable, I would suggest the opposite side of the mountain and, if at all possible, facing mecca...

27 posted on 12/15/2014 1:04:18 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: publius911

Good Call!

(o:


28 posted on 12/15/2014 1:29:37 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of Obama's America)
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