Question: If news isn’t reported, is it still news? Not according to the old media. The old axiom, ‘If it bleeds, it leads’, is still operative in most newsrooms around the country. Good news, if reported at all, is merely an afterthought.
For the savvy news consumer, good news is recognized mainly through its absence. Just last week, headlines across the country reported the dire predictions of the World Health Organization – the swine flu, oops, the H1N1 virus, was ‘a grave threat to humanity’. A major pandemic is imminent and we’re (again) on the brink of catastrophe.
The threat was so dire, it required the president of the greatest country in the world (that’s America, for you Obama voters) to appear, once again, on national TV to advise all citizens to wash their hands. Lost in the lockstep reporting of the old media, was the fact that, gee, many ‘experts’ were claiming that this dangerous flu strain was no more severe than the normal flu strain.
The pandemic failed to materialize, prompting headlines warning of ‘complacency.’ It appears the WHO, the Obama administration and the liberal media were, well, wrong. Swine flu deaths: App 12. Unreported, was the fact that regular flu deaths (in 2006) were 56,000.
The reigning political elite that now rule our country have officially branded most conservative views as ‘fringe’ views held by ‘extremists’, validating a viewpoint held for decades by the old media. Thus journalists no longer feel the need to report on issues of concern to the 62 million Americans who didn’t vote for Obama. Their concerns are officially irrelevant. Case closed.
The majority of Americans realize the liberal bent of the old media. Most can identify opinion pieces that are increasingly presented as news, but they have to resort to the net or talk radio in order to be made aware of all the good news which is deliberately relegated to the back burner in the (remaining) newspapers and nightly news broadcasts.
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.
These items are no longer considered news by the media elite. Not only does the old media purposefully downplay any news item that challenges their lock-step liberal world view, news organizations have taken increasing latitude with the news they do choose to report.
A recent NYT headline announced that ‘Criminal Prosecutions Will Not Be Pursued For Bush ‘Terror Lawyers’. Whew. Reading beyond the headline however, one found the real story. Namely, the unprecedented interference and intimidation by our Justice Dept., deciding merely to refer those nasty lawyers to the Bar Assoc. for disbarment.
Reading this story, casual readers might assume that the government actually has the right to censure legal opinions. Serious readers know that our very rule of law in under serious attack. Ho Hum.
The media has now put a new twist on Dan Rather’s ‘fake but accurate’ premise. They routinely report ‘accurate but fake’ stories, with facts presented in a such a way as to alter their original meaning. This is deliberate. This is accepted. And this is media malfeasance.
If the conservative press decided to adopt the old media’s misleading and manipulative template, one could expect to see headlines like ‘Nancy Morgan Decides Not To Indict Obama For Phony Birth Certificate’. But I wouldn’t post a headline like that, because its not honest journalism. And neither the old media.
By the way, even though it wasn’t reported, we won the war in Iraq.
The flu scare was just that, a scare to cover up about 300 major screwups by O’Dumbo which has cost the American people close to $100,000 (in debt) each, including the great-great grandchildren not yet born. A drunken druggie would do better with an unlimited credit card. In fact that’s what we have in the white house, a group of drunken druggies.
I survived the bird flu …
Did we really win the Iraq war, or are we in the process of give back right now.
Anyone else have the clear impression that this administration is just one “crisis” after another, all of which are eagerly covered by the MSM (including Fox). Sometimes the crisis lasts a day or two — other times it goes on and on for weeks. How much time did Congress waste brow-beating AIG executives. Should the House now have hearings about the over-blown dialogue about H1N1? Even having Air Force One buzz Manhattan was just another diversion. The more time devoted to exaggerated stories, outrageous behavior by corporate executives, the failing auto industry or “stress tests” for large banks, the less discussion there is about the socialist programs being passed or are underway in Congress.
I’m beginning to think even Joe Biden is being used to divert attention. If there isn’t any other big story, just get Joe out there to make another ridiculous comment. Perhaps watching the slow death of capitalism at the hands of the statists is just not interesting enough to the MSM. The treatment of Carrie Prejean has been horrid; but, did we really have to hear about it for the past 2-3 weeks?
The crisis management has ranged from amateurish to disastrous. At no other time in history has so much debt been stacked up in less that 100 days. At no point in Our History has Government interfered with commerce & the banking system to this degree or exercised control thinly disguised as “regulation”. Clowns in Office that couldn’t run a lemonade stand are now firing CEOs and bullying investment firms like Schoolyard punks.
We have the least qualified and most manipulative President ever, the most irresponsible Cabinet Members and the most fragile economy ever. Congressional ethics is at a low point. The Parliament of Whores is more concerned with remembering the last lie they told & jockeying for power positions than prudent stewardship of Tax Payers funds. Most of them pride themselves more in bring home the pork than balancing the Treasuries checkbook. Oppressive Taxation is on the way to pay for this foolishness.
This Presidency is Historic. So was the sacking of Rome, the Black Plague, WWII and other “Man Made Disasters”. I have never seen such a collection of Fools in DC, appointed or elected. So we have career politicians attempting to run the banks, the auto industry, health care, mis-manage both Foreign & Domestic Policy and utterly failed to govern in a responsible manner.
Elections do have consequences. Voter fraud has had some as well. Bootlicking media whores shaped the past election. Now we have a band of Fools trying to reshape America into a sad @ssed Socialist State that will fall on its @ss before the next election.
It may take the next two generations to pay for the sin of voting stupid. The next two generations will still be burdened with monumental debt. If America survives it will be from blood, sweat and tears and going back to the Founding Fathers legacy. The harm has been done.
Obama’s Culture & Economic warfare may result in another Civil Conflict.
100 Days of Obama. Nothing smart about Spanky & Our Gang. A Grand & Historic Social Experiment.