Not long ago Glenn Beck stated something on the air at Fox News concerning what he termed, 'The death of journalism in America.' As I pondered over his point, I began to realize that his observation is chillingly correct. The entity that we have depended upon so long to deliver honest, hard news--the mainstream media--can no longer be trusted.
The examples of the demise of solid journalism abound.
Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and company at MSNBC took on a cheerleading role for Barack Obama during the campaign and afterward, complete with Matthews' statement that listening to Obama 'sent a feeling running up his leg.' None of the major networks reported Obama's connections to domestic terrorist William Ayers. None reported Obama's connections to the corrupt Chicago goon Tony Rezko. None went back into Obama's history as a politician in Illinois and thoroughly investigated his membership in the Socialist Party and his Marxist views on government power, the economy, mandatory youth service, and such matters.
Who reported these factual items?
Bloggers, Fox News, Matt Drudge, and others took it upon themselves to fill the massive void left by a mainstream media that had abdicated their responsibility to inform the public in lieu of taking on an advocacy role for Barack Obama and leftwing causes.
'Alternative news sources,' which have now been identified by the Obama Department of Homeland Security under Janet Napolitano as 'potential homegrown terrorist organizations,' are the very ones providing the American public with the news that has been blacked out by the mainstream media.
Newsbusters, CNS News Service, Andrew Breitbart, World Net Daily, Matt Drudge, and countless citizen journalist/bloggers are providing information that will not be reported elsewhere. In addition, these sites will also highlight the blatant bias, smear campaigns, lies, and twisting of facts brought to us daily by The New York Times, Newsweek, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and others.
My colleague here in South Carolina at the Examiner, Nancy Morgan of Myrtle Beach Conservative Examiner, does a thorough job at bringing to our attention what she calls 'media malfeasance.'
Here is a quote from that article to whet your appetite, a list of examples of what the mainstream media have consistently failed to report:
Recent polls show shrinking support for new gun control measures and strong public sentiment for enforcing existing laws instead.A new national poll suggests that a majority of Americans oppose legalizing same sex marriages.Seventy-seven percent (77%) of U.S. voters say that they prefer a free market economy over a government-managed economy. That’s up seven points since December.A new poll conducted by Pew Research finds the support for legal abortions has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years.
For just the second time in more than five years of daily or weekly tracking, Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Be sure to click on the link above to read her entire article.
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Comments
Excellent observations, but I'm thinking that journalism died when Walter Cronkite lied that the US had lost the Tet Offensive while he and the broadcast networks had a virtual liberal monopoly on the news and that a comeback started when Reagan killed the un-fairness doctrine and opened the door for Rush in 1988.
If only when a Murdock buys a cable network he would BE the fairness and balance rather than giving the left half the time...
As I pointed out in an article at The Minority Report entitled "Who Will Write The History Books of The Future" [link disabled] "It has been said by a number of people that 2008 was the year that Journalism died. Actually Journalism has been on life support for more than two decades, it is just that in 2008 the corpse was finally declared brain dead."
Reporters have been replaced in the Oldstream Media by "journalists" trained in "journalism schools" which, because of the left's stranglehold on academia, are nothing short of propaganda training centers.
This article is proof that journalism is dead.
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