Posted on 02/15/2009 9:14:25 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Take a good look at NewsBusters. You will see story after story highlighting how the MSM "investigative journalists" constantly fail to do the jobs they are supposed to do. Just take a few of the recent stories here. Lack of interest by most of the media as to why President Obama returned a bust of Churchill to the British which was given to the White House as a gift; lack of investigation by "investigative journalists" into evidence that Senator Roland Burris lied under oath; a Reuters reporter who didn't even bother to check out the credentials of the source for a global warming story; a big yawn from the media as to investigating why Senator Judd Gregg withdrew from the Obama cabinet. The list goes on and on and on. Every day you can read here example after example about the lack of investigative journalism on the part of MSM about stories they find to be politically inconvenient. Yet we now have a Yale professor, Bruce Ackerman (along with Ian Ayres) laughably suggesting in the U.K. Guardian that "investigative journalism" around the world should be supported by national endowments:
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PING!
Churchill is the anti-Obama. Why would Obama want the bust of a man who fought against a national socialist empire?
Haven’t heard about that when did this happen?
You need to read NewsBusters more often. They provide the investigative journalism that the MSM refuses to do.
A “back door”( a barney term) bailout for the printed media.
He just meant invetigations of people who do not bow to Obama.
invetigatios=investigations. oops
I would recommend that the Yale “professor” and his “professor” pals pay for it. “Investigative journalists” are down at the bottom of the food chain with union bosses, lawyers, judges, drug pushers and politicians. They have helped push used car salesmen and prostitutes up into the level of respectability.
I don’t want one penny of my money going to support these lousy journalism schools.
So this Yale professor can’t figure out that reporters being paid by the government would be a conflict of interest?
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