Monday, September 24, 2018

Media Must Set Higher Standard for Reporting Career-Ending Accusations

Western Journal  "Conservative political commentator for The Hill and host of “What America’s Thinking,” Joe Concha, penned an Op-Ed that highlights the ills plaguing the media in America today.

"The mistrust of the media, which has been growing over the past decade or more, took off when President Donald Trump began to call out major networks for their questionable journalistic ethics.
"Concha began his analysis of what is wrong with the coverage of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and the accusation made against him by Christine Blasey Ford, by pointing out that the facts themselves can be presented in a dishonest way.
“ 'The public is presented with information by media that invariably takes a side based on the three furthest things from the pillars of sound journalism: sensationalism, dishonesty and an ideological tilt while being hopelessly pious in the process,” Concha said.
"As an example of this type of bad journalism, Concha castigated MSNBC for their choice to run a story that he calls a “third-party tale” by someone who vaguely remembered Ford, but didn’t actually know her. The benefit of that story is that the “witness” claimed that Ford’s story was indeed true." . . .

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