Posted on 08/12/2018 9:32:21 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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In savaging Murdoch's News Corp, de Blasio got off a couple of rib-ticklers. First, he claimed that in contrast with the hated News Corp:
“CNN and the major networks do not harbor a daily, hourly political agenda.”
He then expressed nostalgia for the good old days, when liberals controlled all the major media outlets. He longed for:
“A world without News Corp. A world with the kind of reporting–both sides–and a real devotion to objectivity that was the norm up to the 1970s in this country.”
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CNN doesn’t have a political agenda? De Blasio is a pathetic joke. He openly longs for the good old days when liberals controlled all the major news outlets.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Raving lying Communist. How bad can it get???
Some people were just born to lie.
I forget. What is Deblah blah Blah’s real name? Heinrich Something or Something Goebbels?
He’s not lying. He’s a true believer.
One only has to consider the bias of the MSM in the Vietnam war:
he success of the propaganda war has seemed enigmatic to many. “If there is to be an inquiry related to the Vietnam War, it should be into the reasons why enemy propaganda was so widespread in this country, and why the enemy was able to condition the public to such an extent that the best educated segments of our population (that is, media and university elite) gave credence to the most incredible allegations.” (Final Report - Chief of Military History - U.S. Government)
British “Encounter” journalist Robert Elegant stated,
For the first time in modern history, the outcome of a war was determined not on the battlefield but on the printed page and, above all, on the television screen. Looking back coolly, I believe it can be said (surprising as it may still sound) that South Vietnamese and American forces actually won the limited military struggle. They virtually crushed the Viet Cong in the South, the “native” guerrillas who were directed, reinforced, and equipped from Hanoi; and thereafter they threw back the invasion by regular North Vietnamese divisions. Nonetheless, the war was finally lost to the invaders after the U.S. disengagement because the political pressures built up by the media had made it quite impossible for Washington to maintain even the minimal material and moral support that would have enabled the Saigon regime to continue effective resistance....Never before Vietnam had the collective policy of the media sought by graphic and unremitting distortion, the victory of the enemies of the correspondents own side.[78]
Some journalists have admitted that their reporting was decidedly biased, and had profound effects on history. West German correspondent Uwe Siemon-Netto confessed, “Having covered the Viet Nam war over a period of five years for West German publications, I am now haunted by the role we journalists have played over there.
In relation to not reporting the true nature of the Hanoi regime and its actions resulting from the American withdrawal, he stated,
“Those of us who had wanted to find out knew of the evil nature of the Hanoi regime. We knew that, in 1956, close to 50,000 peasants were executed in North Viet Nam. We knew that after the division of the country nearly one million North Vietnamese had fled to the South. Many of us have seen the tortured and carved-up bodies of men, women, and children executed by the Viet Cong in the early phases of the war. And many of us saw, in 1968, the mass graves of Hue, saw the corpses of thousands of civilians still festively dressed for Tet, the Vietnamese New Year.”
“Why, for heaven’s sake, did we not report about these expressions of deliberate North Vietnamese strategy at least as extensively as of the My Lai massacre and other such isolated incidents that were definitely not part of the U.S. policy in Viet Nam?. What prompted us to make our readers believe that the Communists, once in power in all of Viet Nam, would behave benignly? What made us, first and foremost Anthony Lewis, belittle warnings by U.S. officials that a Communist victory would result in a massacre?
Why did we ignore the fact that the man responsible for the executions of 50,000 peasants, Truong Chinh, was—and still is—one of the most powerful figures in Hanoi. What made us think that he and his comrades would have mercy for the vanquished South Vietnamese? What compelled, for example, Anthony Lewis shortly after the fall of Saigon to pat himself on the shoulder and write, “so much for the talk of a massacre?”
“...Are we journalists not in part responsible for the death of the tens of thousands who drowned? And are we not in part responsible for the hostile reception accorded to those who survive?...However, the media have been rather coy; they have not declared that they played a key role in the conflict. They have not proudly trumpeted Hanoi’s repeated expressions of gratitude to the mass media of the non-Communist world, although Hanoi has indeed affirmed that it could not have won “without the Western press.”[79]
More: https://www.conservapedia.com/Vietnam_War#Media_Bias
They just say anything they wish was true because they’re not held accountable.
Water is dry.
Fire is cold.
CNN is unbiased.
I wonder if the Murdoch boys are going to take this laying down. What am I saying? Of course they are. On their stomachs no doubt. They believe the same thing.
Did he say that with a straight face?
His birth name was Warren Wilhelm Jr.
Bill de Blasio sounds so much hipper. ;-)
Nice. Dem Socialists circle the wagon around CNN.
Anything else to add, you shit for brains asshat?
Haha!
Oh well I guess that settles it........NOT
what a joke! How pathetic!
By chance, did DeBlasio’s previous line of work involve selling ocean front real estate lots located in places like Nebraska or the Dakotas or Alberta?
He is not lying as George Costanza would tell you. If you believe it, it is not a lie. And the Left genuinely cannot see agreement with them as anything but the partisan free truth. 8 years of Barky harping on “ common sense solutions...” when he was describing Socialist Fascism should have taught us that.
I dow owe DeBlabio a debt of thanks. It’s been a quiet boring day so far, but his statement has had me leaning back laughing my head off. Funniest statement in a couple of weeks. Thank YEW Mr. Mayor.
Heaven help your city.
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