Posted on 07/20/2010 10:58:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Journalists love whistleblowers. Just not when the whistle is blown on them. Journalists love transparency. As long as they’re not the ones being exposed.
No journalistic steadfast rule is unbendable when it comes to justifying and protecting the racket that is modern journalism, specifically, political journalism in the United States today. The ends justify the means for the Democrat Media Complex. They lie when they claim to be objective. They lie when they claim to be unbiased, because these so called “truth seekers” are guilty of engaging in open political warfare. And when the whistle is blown, they simply double down. “Journolist” — like Media Matters, but more insidious, if that’s possible — is an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.
Talk radio and the Internet have allowed outsiders the ability to challenge a multiple generational shift from journalism being about the story, to journalism being crafted toward a partisan end. From Newsweek killing the Lewinsky story to the Swift Boat veterans (until the undermedia pressure got too big) to the Dan Rather implosion to the open attempt to keep the Al Gore masseuse story under wraps to the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter debacle to the Van Jones admission of missing the story to the networks ignoring the ACORN video footage to the media playing up trumped up charges of racism in the Tea Party — while ignoring exculpatory evidence to the mother of all media-as-political weaponry: the non-vetting of candidate Obama, the mainstream media has shown that it is in an ideological death spiral. And the ground is right here.
American journalism died today. What The Daily Caller has unearthed proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that most media organizations are either complicit by participation in the treachery that is Journolist, or are guilty of sitting back and watching Alinsky warfare being waged against all that challenged the progressive orthodoxy. The scandal predictably involves journalists posing as professors posing as experts. But dressed down they are nothing but street thugs. They deserve the deepest levels of public consternation. Will they get it?
The only way that the media will recover from the horrifying discoveries found in the Journolist is to investigate and investigate until every guilty reporter, professor and institution is laid bare begging America for forgiveness. Will they do it?
If the powers that be don’t comply with this demand, we can always call Jonathan Alter and Eric Alterman racists.*
Unfortunately we knew all of this.
But it is nice to finally have proof.
We knew that there was a concerted media effort to uphold Obama, but most of us assumed it was just due common ideological perspective.
This constitutes an outright conspiracy. Rather’s phony record attempt was tiny compared to this.
There's more to this story than collusion amongst a bunch of commie journalists: you just know that Axelrod had every one of these little scumbags on the speed dial.
I’m missing what he’s trying to say.
There’s a link under...
“What The Daily Caller has unearthed”
in the article that probably was meant to point to what he’s trying to say, unfortunately, it links back to the same article!
It’s nice to finally have proof.
This revelation will change nothing - well, it might hard the resolve of liberal douche bags.
Go to his Big Government site. It’s much worse than anybody thought.
We are going to need a president, attorney general, congress and senate filled with people of integrity, honor, patriotism and BALLS to clean this shit up.
Thinking about this, yeah I agree that the very fact that this has become open news and nothing comes of it, these pseudo-journalists will be emboldened to be even more blatant and to even commiserate more openly.
Read Codevilla’s recent piece called the “Ruling Class...” These guys clearly see themselves as members of this elite class and at war with the heart of the American people, who are, in their eyes, ignoramuses or hapless fools.
Saint buckhead, since you were mentioned in the thread, I thought it apropos to ping you.
;-P
The article to which this thread refers:
Hold on to your hats, folks, this one demands a place in your bookmarks.
How close was the cooperation?
Like peas and carrots.
Still is.
Yep, I was slightly confused at just what has been exposed, not that I doubt that journalists are mostly scumbag lefties in league with the dimwit party.
See post #12 for a link to the correct article.
Thanks, I discovered it already. Great article and confirms what we already knew but couldn’t prove for certain.
Can you imagine where we would be with Free Repuiblic and FOX news?
We would never have heard of Van Jones, Tea PArties, ACORN video expose’ , Dan Rather falsifying a report, or ANY of this stuff
The media used to get away with that crapo ALL THE TIME
(dontate to FR!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
So far, none of the really big names of mainstream journalism have surfaced in the exposure of Journolist. But before the Rathergate scandal, whoever heard of Mary Mapes? Dan Rather was having Mapes do all the dirty work, and if it was exposed, the plan was that she’d be the “fall guy.”
Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Christiane Amanpour and the other multi-million-dollar talking heads probably have their own versions of Mary Mapes, participating actively on Journolist.
For years - decades - I considered the press to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC. Lately, I see the DNC and press as being competing divisions of the same organization, each trying to gain control of the policy committee. Now the question is, who, besides Soros, sits on the board of directors.
Amazing the difference that ONE MAN with vision and a set of cojones can make.
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