Posted on 08/13/2009 10:36:08 AM PDT by sdkruiser
Here's a story I talked about while recording a guest host spot on Raisin' Hale (for my good friend Tabitha Hale) on RFCRadio.com last night. Michelle Malkin explores it today with some bonus material.
The free press in the United States once stood for something. The Constitution ensured its freedom so it could act as a vigilant watchdog for the citizens of this country. The classic modern example is Watergate, of course. An unhinged, dishonest president thoroughly abused his position and would have gotten away with it had it not been for the efforts of two newspaper reporters.
That's the way things are supposed to work.
Welcome now to the Age of the Lightbringer and a press corps that's virtually indistinguishable from a litter of incontinent puppies each time the president speaks.
(Excerpt) Read more at stephenkruiser.com ...
Michelle can’t be bothered to do her own research of Hussein’s eligibility before jumping on the “but the birth announcement in the newspaper proves everything” bandwagon.
“We no longer have a press corps covering the President of the United States, we have the largest gathering of publicists devoted to one cause ever seen in American politics”
Chris Matthews: “My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success”
“An unhinged, dishonest president thoroughly abused his position and would have gotten away with it had it not been for the efforts of two newspaper reporters.”
So the flip side of this proposition is that an unhinged, dishonest president can abuse his position if the media is a willing accomplice...?
At this moment they’re giving Gibbs his daily fellatio....
But back then many of the MSM employees established their bona fides during W.W.II.
Nothing like that today; thus years ago it occurred to me that many (if not most) MSM employees are skid marks on Journalism's shorts.
Maybe that's why MSM journalism stinks?
The so-called free press is nothing more than water boys and propaganda machines for the radical left in America.
Telling it like it is...
One very descriptive phrase that Limbaugh uses is state controlled media. Well, that's SCM and it can be pronounced scam.
Thus Gibbs is not doing a daily press briefing, he's conducting a SCAM staff meeting.
There’s still a free press in America. It consists mainly of people on the Internet, bloggers and so on. There are also those reporting the truth on the radio, Rush and others.
The traditional media, on the other hand, are largely a government propaganda arm. There are a very few exceptions.
It’s no wonder papers are dropping like flies.
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I don’t think the press has changed at all, we just have access to the other side now. It was the old Washington Post and New York Times that decided to turn Richard Nixon into Satan and JFK into Christ. It was the old press that caused the United States of America to “lose” the war in Viet Nam.
Not that it's entirely a bad thing: we have a long history of citizen journalists doing fine work peeling back dark curtains to expose seaminess, corruption, and worse on the part of our Solons. Outlets such as yours also tend to be far more entertaining than traditional media. As an example, all bias aside: if the Washington Post were any more tedious, it could be packaged as a sleep aid.
For its part, at least one network - FOX News - tries to be balanced (and catches flak from all the other major media outlets for doing so), and they are clearly unafraid of using "eye candy" as a viewer inducement.
It just ought not be so damned hard in a free country with inexpensive and ubiquitous technological tools to find out - objectively - what the hell is going on in government and in the world without the Great PC Filter sucking in data and pumping out pre-measured portions of Newsproduct.
Instead as you note, we have a "press corps" that presently bats its eyes at Obama like high school cheerleaders mooning over the star quarterback and then turns to bare its teeth at his opponents like rabid raccoons.
Perhaps they all ought to abandon any remaining pretext of objectivity (like MSNBC, which has done everything except to have the Obama logo tattooed on its anchors' foreheads). I'd rather have "news" as they do in Europe - overtly politicized, but entirely up front about it - than what we have now, which is largely ponderous, pretentious, humorless and dull.
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