Mark Steyn commented once [on a Hugh Hewitt show] that everywhere but America, journalism is the “profession” people choose when they have failed at everything else.
I spent 10 years with one of the alphabet networks and saw the ‘news’ created first-hand.
To call them ‘journalists’ is a misnomer. There was very little original reporting; by the time I left there was no shame in combing the daily paper and retyping stories word for word, couching it as ‘published reports’.
Every single one of them was a rabid liberal, and I don’t just mean the on-air people. The writers, the editors, the camera guys. All were die-hard unionists.
Examples: Abortion was never presented as anything but a right under siege; guns were always bad; all republicans were greedy and heartless; nationally elected republicans were, to a person, ‘stupid’. Only liberal democrats possessed the intelligence to ‘save’ us from ourselves. The thing is, these stupid journalists never looked at the consequences of the ideals they championed: how many times did they ride past bullet-ridden public housing and ignore the failure? How many corrupt politicians and union bosses went away to jail, yet those same governments and unions somehow remained pristine?
Education is always under-funded; oil is bad for the earth; profit is always excessive. It would be funny that it’s so narrow minded, if it weren’t so god-damn dangerous.
And speaking of unions: most of the tv people I worked with were in unions. I’ll never forget... once in the midst of a job action (the union walked out over some perceived slight, and the company locked the door behind them) I ran into a union guy. He told me how he’d been censured by the union for questioning the leadership at a rally. He was appalled to learn that the union was taunting the company’s 16 lawyers at the bargaining table. He asked how many lawyers the union had at the table, and was told that their representative, a local steward, ‘has always been interested in the law’. Needless to say, the unions got their clocks cleaned on that contract, and went back to work sulking and angry with their tails between their legs.
This moron is lamenting the fact that he and his ilk have been laid naked by their own criminal acts: lies in support of their socialist agenda exposed by people with information in their hands.
Screw him, and screw them.
I spent 10 years with one of the alphabet networks and saw the ‘news’ created first-hand.
To call them ‘journalists’ is a misnomer. There was very little original reporting; by the time I left there was no shame in combing the daily paper and retyping stories word for word, couching it as ‘published reports’.
Every single one of them was a rabid liberal, and I don’t just mean the on-air people. The writers, the editors, the camera guys. All were die-hard unionists.
Examples: Abortion was never presented as anything but a right under siege; guns were always bad; all republicans were greedy and heartless; nationally elected republicans were, to a person, ‘stupid’. Only liberal democrats possessed the intelligence to ‘save’ us from ourselves. The thing is, these stupid journalists never looked at the consequences of the ideals they championed: how many times did they ride past bullet-ridden public housing and ignore the failure? How many corrupt politicians and union bosses went away to jail, yet those same governments and unions somehow remained pristine?
Education is always under-funded; oil is bad for the earth; profit is always excessive. It would be funny that it’s so narrow minded, if it weren’t so god-damn dangerous.
And speaking of unions: most of the tv people I worked with were in unions. I’ll never forget... once in the midst of a job action (the union walked out over some perceived slight, and the company locked the door behind them) I ran into a union guy. He told me how he’d been censured by the union for questioning the leadership at a rally. He was appalled to learn that the union was taunting the company’s 16 lawyers at the bargaining table. He asked how many lawyers the union had at the table, and was told that their representative, a local steward, ‘has always been interested in the law’. Needless to say, the unions got their clocks cleaned on that contract, and went back to work sulking and angry with their tails between their legs.
This moron is lamenting the fact that he and his ilk have been laid naked by their own criminal acts: lies in support of their socialist agenda exposed by people with information in their hands.
Screw him, and screw them.