Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The state of journalism; let me count the ways

Via Lucianne:
The Truth Be Dimmed   "Maybe Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house -- but on my front porch, every morning, a view of Pravda-style reporting rolled up in the form of my local paper awaits me.  In Kentucky, many conservatives jokingly call Louisville's paper, The Courier-Journal, the "The Communist Journal." "  

Times Square Billboards: ‘It’s Time the Liberal Media Stop Censoring the News!’
"The five billboards are clustered together in Times Square and face in different directions, covering 3,800 square feet. Two of the signs read, “It’s Time the Liberal Media Stop Censoring the News!” and two others read, “Start Telling the Truth!” above an image of three monkeys, labeled ABC, CBS, and NBC, who are depicted as the  three mystic apes that see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil."

CNN and NBC News: Is journalistic integrity dead?  "A recent article on the popular progressive website Politico refers to Obama as a “puppet master”, calling him “a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.” While this states the obvious, they go wrong in their claim that the media is powerless to do anything except parrot White House press releases and accept them as cold hard facts.
"Whatever happened to questioning the “facts”? Whatever happened to the power the media used to exercise, but apparently has forgotten still exists?"

Broadcast Networks Largely Ignore Jesse Jackson, Jr. Indictment  "On Friday, NBC's Nightly News gave the story short attention. By Saturday, Good Morning America gave the story a whole 18 seconds. Worse, even when the network news shows did report the story on Saturday evening, Jackson's party affiliation was never mentioned."
Political Cartoons by Chuck Asay

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