BLUNDER: a serious mistake caused by ignorance or confusion--Brian Ross intended harm.
Posted on 07/22/2012 12:14:23 PM PDT by centurion316
n television journalism, few reporters are as controversial as Brian Ross of ABC News.
The investigative correspondent has landed major scoops and won prestigious awards for his reporting on the Peace Corps, Solyndra, and U.S. antiterrorism efforts — to name just a few. And yet, he has also produced more high-level haphazard reporting than perhaps any other reporter on television.
Ross came under attack again Friday when he reported that James Holmes, the suspect of today’s theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., may have connections to the tea party — basing that on a single web page that listed an Aurora-based “Jim Holmes” as a member of the Colorado Tea Party Patriots.
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“Brian Ross lost big time and so did ABC News,” Jay Rosen, an associate professor at New York University’s school of journalism, told POLITICO. “Ross reacted and went on instinct… So strong was this instinct that it overrode common newsroom sense and any innate sense of caution that might be left in Brian Ross.
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Even a blind MSM hog finds a truffle every now & then.
The brain washed graduates from these left wing institutions staff the MSM who are worse than PRAVDA ever was
PRAVDA was run by the government and had to disseminate what they were told to
The LEFT WING MSM does it voluntarily
Commies knew what they were doing when the got control of the schools
And parents and students go into debt for the privilege
of being brainwashed
I like it - sounds more than fair.
After all, unlike Brian Ross, the “Jim Holmes” they slandered still had a reputation worth someting.
This will look good in a courtroom as "Exhibit-1"
The government schools are a threat to us but not as much as the media.
What you say is true about the government schools which should all be disbanded.
The media are more effective than Pravda because they are for the most part privately run. And they do it voluntarily. these media reporters are really marxist POLITICAL evangelists who pose as reporters in order to advance their socialism and liberal agenda.
The government schools are a threat to us but not as much as the media.
What you say is true about the government schools which should all be disbanded.
The media are more effective than Pravda because they are for the most part privately run. And they do it voluntarily. these media reporters are really marxist POLITICAL evangelists who pose as reporters in order to advance their socialism and liberal agenda.
I agree. 100%.
We need more balance in our media. It is a wide swath on the left, and only a couple on the right.
We need balance.
he’s taking heat? where?
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
I would add:
The whole aim of the liberal mainstream media is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
I also like this one lol:
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
he's got a million of them:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken_5.html
Brian Ross is a white man practicing yellow journalism to pink readers for black purposes, making me green with illness. A true rainbow coalition.
No Rurgan, the schools are the real threat. “The theory taught in the classroom in one generation becomes the policy of the government in the next generation’’.— Abraham Lincoln.
“Too often the desire to save mankind is really the desire to rule it’’.
Jarrett/Axelrod/0bama > Ross and Stephy “the Christmas condom-hanger” > ABC > John Q. Public.
Dam I’m glad I don’t go to or own Disney anymore.
The media control what most people think.But even so the media completely controls policy and what people think is happening. the media create this reality.
Even if they change the opinion of only 20% then they the media completely control who gets elected. This is how the media chose McCain then Romney. The media took out Palin, Cain , Brahman and so on so that the most liberal Republican would triumph. did the schools do that?
Yes the government schools are a threat a huge threat as are 99% of government agencies. Well the Schools are more dangerous than even the EPA but that is because they are so pervasive. But even so the media completely controls policy and what people thin is happening. the media create this reality.As dangerous as the schoools are the media are more of a threat . the media create this universe.
So?...I agree with you, that the media is an **immediate** threat that may, in the very near future, kill our freedom.
But...The underlying cause is schooling and the cure will take a generation or two. Nearly 85% of our nation's children attend socialist-entitlment schools that have **never** been more than generically and lukewarmly Protestant in their worldview. Since the sixties they have been utterly godless. What do children learn in these schools?
Answer:
1) They risk learning to be comfortable with socialism and government compulsion. Hey! Any voting mob that is powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to give them **lots** of “free” stuff and force them to use it and pay taxes for it. Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn't an accident. All it took was one to three generations of compulsory socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling.
2) They will learn to think and reason godlessly. They MUST just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
3) Children who attend prison-like government schools risk learning to be compliant prisoners of the state!
Solutions:
Short term
Strive to build up an alternative conservative media. For example, why isn't there a free 24/7 “TV-like” news program on an Internet site? Surely, there must be conservatives with the talent to do this.
Long term
Conservative must work to shut down the socialist-entitlement K-12 schools and get children into private educational settings that will uphold traditional values. ( Personally, I believe that the prison-like, brick and mortar, and Prussian-model system should be completely scrapped. )
A reporter sits there looking for any event that will advance their religion of socialism. When the reporters heard of this shooter they said “yes! now we can use this to take away their guns”!” and then they also tried to see if they can tie this to conservatives. These reporters are pure evil marxists/democrats. Their job is supposed to be to report what is happening out their. But instead they use their position to brainwash many and to shape public opinion into accepting and implementing socialism. Remember the media showed images of Palin when that liberal shot that congress woman? Global warming lie, bp oil disaster lie, trayvon, etc. shall I go on ? they create this reality. You don't know how many morons I talk to in real life that believe this global warming crap. The media is so powerful even the supreme Court declared that CO2 is a pollutant( amazing it's not).
There are trillions of events happening in this world every day . The media cherry picks which events to report to advance their agenda and they ignore such events like the Obama borrowing trillions , the debt crisis in Europe , murders in the cities, black on white crimes etc. but they will show any white on black crime to demonize whites( as in the trayvon case). this is just one example of cultural marxism
Spoken like a true liberal journalist“I would emphatically say its not a left-right thing. I’ve never discerned in his reporting any ideological movement,” one ABC News source told POLITICO. “It’s the big sensational story that he’s after, and he’ll do the same on either side.”
Words mean things, people! There are no liberal journalists. There are only journalists who, by claiming objectivity for themselves - or, as in this case, other journalists who would return the favor for themselves - betray extreme tendentiousness.The only way to even try to be objective is to be open about any reasons you know of why you might not be objective. And since this Is impossible to do when you are claiming that you actually are objective, people who claim to be objective aren’t even trying to be objective. No matter how much they prattle of their own “fact checking and telling both sides of the story.” People who think they are objective actually can’t really see that there are any other sides to the story than their own.
People to whom journalists give positive labels - such as “progressive” or “moderate” or “liberal” - are simply people who help journalists criticize and second guess the people who work to a bottom line and are relied on to get things done.
Where and how did these media people learn their Marxism?
The media will elect Obama even with the terrible economy and the obvious decline of America.
The media gets what it wants. How many billions in negative attack ads did the media give for free to Obama when they smeared Palin 24/7 in a million media outlets every second? I'd say about 10 billion in free ads . That is the power of the media. even if we had private schools and no gov schools as is needed the media would still be driving the U.S. toward the left and the media would still be growing the government.
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