[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Story selection - what news is reported above the fold, what is buried in the paper, and what isn't reported on at all - makes a mockery of any possibility of proving that journalism is objective. Journalism has rules - "if it bleeds, it leads" and so on - but those rules clearly are justified not in any cosmic "public interest" but in interesting the public - which is the commercial interest of the journalist. But some things which interest the public, including the unclothed appearance of your daughter, are not in the public interest and it is therefore generally illegal for the public to obtain it.

The fundamental of liberalism is that the objectivity of journalism is not questioned. But the truth of this story is that

• Foley has resigned and is not running for reelection.

• A Democrat in a far more compromising position fought back and retained his seat in Congress.

• To whatever extent minors were endangered by Foley's access to them as pages, whatever time passed between the time ABC got the information and the October Surprise time that ABC aired the story is time during which ABC was responsible for the continuation of that access.

The interest of the Democratic Party and ABC News had nothing to do with the protection of minors and everything to do with the suppresion of conservative, and especially religious conservative, voter turnout.

Democrats can mutter about FCC licenses when ABC is illustrating the fact that ben Laden prospered during the Clinton Administration in part because Clinton didn't become president to protect America but for his own aggrandizement. But while the suppression of conservative voter turnout is no part of the ostensible charter of the FCC, that is precisely the effect and intent of what ABC and the rest of the FCC's licensees do with their "objectivity."

[Wolverine]

Compare and contrast with todays media.

Worth spending some time here http://www.viet-myths.net/, especially http://www.viet-myths.net/Session08.htm and http://www.viet-myths.net/Session12.htm

 

 

There is a surprise for you at ~ 24minutes into this vid: http://www.vnmaps.net/videos/session12S.wmv

 

Be sure to see this: http://www.viet-myths.net/AimImpact.wmv 

 

Video: The Impact of Media (Requires Windows Media Player) 45 MB, 58 mins run time.
This video is Part II of Television's Vietnam, narrated by Charlton Heston and scripted by Peter Rollins.

 

Charles Wiley often lectures about Vietnam - including events in the United States, as well as those in southeast Asia.  In addition to covering the war in 1962, 1964, 1968 (the Tet Truce offensive) and 1972 (the Easter offensive), he has returned to Vietnam, North & South, and Cambodia, since the conflict.   He knows many of the key players. During critical periods, Wiley had very long one-on-one interview/briefings with General Westmoreland, Presidents Diem and Thieu, Marshal Ky and other top figures. He learned much about the Vietnam war during his many extensive trips to China, the Soviet empire and Russia. 

Wiley’s extensive knowledge about the home front during the conflict is based on vast personal experience with leaders and rank & file from both camps: those supporting the American armed forces and those in the anti-war movement. He was at numerous college teach-ins during continuous travel in the United States.                    

Charles Wiley has reported from 100 countries and regularly continues his world travels. His in-depth search for facts led to his arrest eight times by secret police throughout the globe, including the KGB, and imprisonment in a Cuban dungeon while he was a correspondent for New York City radio station WOR.   

Wiley has covered 11 wars, including reporting for NBC, UPI, the London Express and numerous other U.S. and foreign news media.   A graduate of New York University, Wiley's freelance articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and Time.   A well known radio/TV talk show personality and commentator, he has appeared on hundreds of network and local programs throughout the country - including many times on CNN Crossfire and C-Span.   Wiley has lectured in all 50 states and on five continents - including talks in Germany, Taiwan, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, Belarus, Namibia and Albania. He lived briefly in the Soviet Union while giving talks at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) University.  Wiley lectured, and resided on campus, in China (Jinan University, Guangzhou), Russia (Moscow State University) and  elsewhere abroad.

He contributed to establishing guidelines for a free press in Mongolia, spoke in Spain and Luxembourg (under the auspices of the U.S. government) and was a speaker for the White House Public Outreach Group.  Wiley has played a major role at international conferences in Great Britain and Italy - and lectured in New Zealand at the Ministry of Civil Defence Academy. He frequently addresses military audiences - in the USA and abroad – including the Naval War College, the Defense Intelligence Agency school, the Air Force school for its top NCO’s, the Navy Postgraduate School, CincPac, the UK intelligence school and many others.