Friday, February 22, 2013

The state of "journalism" as of Feb 22, 2013

Did Fox News' Ed Henry blow it?  "It started as a plea for transparency; it's ending up as a public relations disaster.
"When the White House press corps made its plea for greater access to President Obama, they were hoping to force the administration to cooperate on an issue that has frustrated them since the earliest days of Obama's presidency. But by choosing to raise their voices over a golfing vacation -- rather than, say, a foreign or domestic policy issue -- the press corps may have blown its chances for public sympathy, and even damaged its own reputation."
Ed Henry is one of the good guys, too.

More on this: Debate co-chair: 'Mistake' to have Candy Crowley moderate presidential debate  "Crowley... drew heavy fire from conservatives for challenging Mitt Romney after he suggested that President Obama had not called the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, "acts of terror." " 
New Words for the Media  "For those that tend to ignore the gun-controllers rant that deer hunters do not need military assault weapons with high capacity magazines, but can get by with just regular ol' deer guns, we find that a bolt action .308, a regular ol' deer gun suddenly now is a sniper rifle."
 
Government Wants TV Networks to Tout Obamacare in TV Show Programming   "Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots."
Hat tip to The Lonely Conservative.

Our children go to school and receive liberal indoctrination; at work their parents are indoctrinated in PC meetings. Then they all come home to be indoctrinated by their TV programs*.
By the way, have you counted how many of the TV "good guys" drive a Prius?
Political Cartoons by Chuck Asay
Obama Resorts to Local TV Interviews to Blame Sequester on GOP  "President Obama has launched a campaign to push his tax hikes by granting interviews to local TV news programs in eight states whose viewers will likely be affected by budget cuts as a result of sequestration."

Bozell: Media Simply Won't Report on Sequester Accurately, the GOP Has to Go Over Their Heads to Make Case to American People
"What the Republican Party should be saying to Mr. and Mrs. America is this is an out-of-control government and they can't even cut two percent without claiming that the world is going to come to an end.... This should be a no-brainer."
Pro-Family Marches Censored by Media While Eco-Group Gets Spotlight
"More than 200,000 citizens participated in a pro-family march last Monday in Puerto Rico, but this event, that the Huffington Post called “one of the largest pro-family demonstrations ever held in the U.S. commonwealth,” received not even a passing mention on NBC, ABC, CBS or CNN."....
...."Meanwhile, a Keystone pipeline protest, just a day before, received massive attention from the news media, despite having only a fraction of the turnout that the Puerto Rican protest had – an estimated 35,000 people."

*Only Truth in ‘True Life’ is MTV’s Contempt for Conservatives   "The episode description reads: “Amelia, Caleb and Andrew are three right-wingers who despise the very thing that holds our country together, the U.S. government.” "
 
Press Bias Evident in New Jersey Beheading Blackout  ...."The press reaction? Based on past treatment of such atrocities as the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, we know that the media would instantly connect the killings to the alleged murderer’s religious beliefs, regardless of the lack of any evidence that there was any causal relationship at all and indeed in the face of the obvious truth that Christianity explicitly teaches against hatred, revenge, and prejudice.
"Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Paul Ryan, and the other usual suspects would surely be rounded up and questioned about their complicity in the murder."

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