American journalism's true colors

TownHall.com ^ | Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | Michelle Malkin

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BTTT

[Pyro7480]

Bump to a great young American, from another young American, who shares common blood lines with her (half Filipino).

[SurferDoc]

I can't think of even one word to add to that wonderful piece. Bravo!

[Diver Dave]

Michelle is preaching to the choir to the readers of FR, but damnit, she's right on target.

Thanks for the post JH2. Not likely that very many newspapers will run this on their opinions pages. They can dish out their tripe, but would be unwilling to give coverage to someone who calls a spade a spade.

[moodyskeptic]

The nerve of these guys. After watching them trip all over their objectivity to protect Clinton from the vaunted VRWC, they dare to lecture us on journalism?

They failed Journalism 101, the whole mainstream lot. They lost all claim to the high road, bargained away in a deal with their liberal masters. Christopher Hitchins dared to break ranks, and we saw how they turned on him.

Sorry, big media, but the public watched you ruin your own credibility on this issue.

[JohnHuang2]

Not likely that very many newspapers will run this on their opinions pages. They can dish out their tripe, but would be unwilling to give coverage to someone who calls a spade a spade.

Bump!

[Geronimo]

bump...

[magglepuss]

The absense of patriotism seems to Me to indicate a lack of foundation. A lack of base. A lack ofobjectivity in the name of objectivity

[CaliforniaDreamer]

I might be more inclined to accept their position if they had ever shown impatiality in presenting other news stories. Since they do not think for themselves but only parrot the politically-correct positions it is quite clear that the purported neutrality is nothing other than anti-americanism (perhaps some would call it treason).

[Zon]

Gomer Pyle was as honest and patriotic as the day is long. He was also a doofus. Ernie Pyle was also honest and patriotic as the day is long. Ten to one he was elegant compared to doofus Gomer Pyle.

[brat]

They're simply behaving like the good little Commie Globalists they are!

[primeval patriot]

Somewhere, I read an account of reporters from the AP parachuting/infiltrating (with the US Army) into Nazi occupied territory and getting KIA.

Anyone else know about this?

These days it's difficult to believe any "journalist" would attempt such a thing.

[danmar]

Excellent piece!!!

I did not know that we still have "journalists"! What a novel idea!

[JessicaDragonet]

I might understand some international correspondents not showing outward patriotism...wearing a pin or waving a flag in Afghanistan for instance. It would make their jobs more difficult I'm sure.

But I hardly think that a TV anchor in Columbus MO. is ever going to have that problem. Objectivity?? Hey, that train left the station back in 1992.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Well, it's those brave men and women in uniform who risk their lives everyday so we can sit back and gaze at our navels. It's those intrepid soldiers who will leave their families, their security and their way of life behind to defend all of ours. What's wrong with showing a small token of solidarity and appreciation?

Rick McKay/AA-S Washington
Russell Johnson fights back emotions at a makeshift memorial on a hillside
overlooking the charred gap where a jetliner hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

[Aerial]

Yep...globalist...willing and eager to destroy the remaining vestiges of sovereignty of this country.

[MarkWar]

>The media snobs are at it again.

The media are lower than low. Their on-going "coverage" of this 911 business makes it plain even to people who didn't catch on during the Klinton years.

But there is another issue here about the "news" that's worth mentioning.

During the WTC attack and the _immediate_ aftermath, has everyone noticed how many flat out false stories the mainstream press put out and elaborated on?! The most obvious one that comes to my mind was that business about "Five fire fighters were found alive in an SUV today..." I saw this on more than one channel, and then the next day someone told me the whole thing just never happened -- there were no five fire fighters found alive in an SUV...

In the tournament chess world, there's a thing called "speed" chess. Players get just 2 or 3 minutes per game. Serious players often play speed chess in part because the way you react in a constant crisis, with no time to make "reasoned" judgements, reveals how well your brain works normally. (I think the idea is that for a professional, certain aspects of a chore have to become second nature.)

Differentiating fabrication from reality should come second nature to a professional reporter or editor. If our media had so much trouble telling fact from fiction in a clutch, if they couldn't separate actual reality from one or another kind of fabriction during a crisis, maybe they're not all that good at doing it normally. Maybe the "press" has become so entranced with its ability to "editorialize" that simple news-gathering doesn't matter much to them.

(An example that really bugged me is when CNN reported that some of the hijackers may have "confused identities" with the sons of a Saudi diplomat. What the hell is that -- how hard would it have been for CNN to call one or another Saudi contact and find out if the diplomat's sons were still alive or not?!)

Mark W.

[aculeus]

This is going to change. Let OBL attack once more with even more casualties and a few Americans will crack. Someone will gun down one or more of these anti-American b******s and the cowards will suddenly discover that they really are on our side.

Not that I'm suggesting violence or anything but in wartime treason is a capital offense.

[RooRoobird14]

Great article. In 1944 we had Private Ernie Pyle shoulder to shoulder with the infantry. These days we have Geraldo in designer leather duds transported by limo to and from "ground zero."