Posted on 06/26/2002 6:52:31 AM PDT by aculeus
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Earlier this week, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan offered a mea culpa for giving disproportionate play to an interview with the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber. This followed a memo in which Jordan said CNN would no longer cover ''the statements of suicide bombers or their families'' without an ''extraordinarily compelling reason.''
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My A$$....
Mike
My only outlet was either yell at the TV or write a letter to the editor of the local paper (which they had 100% control on what to publish and what not to publish.
With the internet, it is is possible for ordinary people like me to exchange views with hundreds of thoushands of others. The main stream media build a wall around information and they were the gatekeepers only telling us what they thought best. Well the internet is the hole through the wall. We no longer need the katekeepers to let us have access to information, and this scares them more than anything.
The whole role of "journalism" in this country is changing. The time where the big three networks could control the news is over. Each day there are people watching them, catching them in their bias reporting and down right lies. It was once said that a lie could cirgle the globe before the truth got out the door. Not anymore. With internet access any individual can become a media mogul (look at Drudge.)
The times are changing, and the suits in mass media do not understand this, and so they will be left behind.
The silent majority has found it's voice and I say it's about time!
We can no longer believe in the innate fairness of our media or those politicians on the left. THEY HATE US and now they know that we KNOW it.
I no longer am tempted to put "journalism" in quotes; instead I put "objective" in quotes--journalism itself I consider an inherently anticonservative enterprise. The only way journalism can be conservative is if it is censored; otherwise it defaults to reporting bad news which is at least implicitly critical of whatever we rely on to prevent the problem.Your PC is part of "the press", when you use your printer or when your FR posting is accepted by the moderators of FR. "freedom of the press" would imply that your press is as good as anyone else's, before the law. I say "would," because in fact the government (i.e., the FCC) says that some of us can broadcast "in the public interest"--but you cannot, hence are disadvantaged in trying to get the public's attention.
You might enjoy this:
Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.
Most people were just busy trying to make a living, raise their kids, and pay their bills. They assumed their fellow Americans were keeping watch over all the things we hold dear. What they found instead was that nobody was watching the store. At first there was disbelief, now there is anger, and if things don't straighten out pretty darned quick there will be absolute fury!
Is a reflex deliberate?
NewsMax.com Monday June 24, 2002; 11:15 p.m. EDT
FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu Ten years ago, L. Jean Lewis, an investigator with the government's Resolution Trust Corporation, was able to piece together a complicated Arkansas bank fraud conspiracy from a treasure trove documents she unearthed in an out-of-the-way Kansas City warehouse.
The result was the Whitewater scandal, which, after six years worth of twists and turns, ended in the first impeachment of an elected president in U.S. history. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign.
"The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week.
The raid is important for two reasons. First, it may yield yet another treasure trove of evidence against the Clintons.
But the second reason may be even more significant. The Justice Department's continuing investigative interest in the Clintons comes despite news last week that the U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, James Comey, decided to shut down a key part of the Pardongate probe. Peter Paul and his Judicial Watch lawyers have been trying to persuade the Justice Department for the better part of two years to take his allegations seriously. But instead they seemed more intent on prosecuting him for stock fraud. That is, until now.
Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman suggested the raid may represent something of a turnabout in thinking among Attorney General John Ashcroft and his colleagues. "Mr. Paul could have turned the documents about the Clintons over to the FBI months ago under a cooperation agreement," Klayman noted. "Instead, he waits in a Brazilian dungeon for the Ashcroft Justice Department to get serious about this corruption case. So it is a welcome sign that the Justice Department is turning up the heat on this new crime scandal concerning the Clintons."
The FBI raid may also be a sign that the reported no prosecution deal for the Clintons, demanded by Democrat leaders as the price for President Bush getting some of his legislative agenda implemented, is beginning to unravel - since Democrats seem to have kept little if any of their part of the bargain. (See: Bush Insider Claims Clinton Deal Torpedoed Pardongate)
"The search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of the storage facility specifically references the Clintons and the New York Senate campaign," says Judicial Watch. "The search warrant authorizes the seizure of: Records relating to New York Senate 2000, the Hollywood Gala Salute to President William Jefferson Clinton, the Federal Election Commission, David Rosen and Aaron Tonken... (David Rosen was the Director of Finance for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign, and Aaron Tonken is a Democrat fundraiser who raised money for the Clintons. Both men have knowledge of Mr. Paul's contributions.)"
Meanwhile, Peter Paul awaits a Justice Department offer of legal leniency in exchange for his further cooperation in the Clinton case.
If he returns to the U.S. anytime soon, it could be a sign that for Hillary Clinton, it's deja vu all over again.
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