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Lie and the media rolls over again and again and...
A quote from Dan Froomkin's May 29 Washington Post column:
"I often wonder why more news stories don't start: "President Bush yesterday again denied reality. . . . "Me too.
Why not news anchors at the various networks? Why not correspondents similarly situated? Why not columnists?
The facts are there. Is the backbone?
It again appears to be a situation of not wanting to call bullshit on the person residing in the most powerful position in the world.
Withholding saying such should not be done out of respect for the position or person. Such behavior would be blatant timidity and should result in any media person being shipped out to some public relations firm.
If the facts are such, then it is simply journalistic duty to say so.
Then there was this:
Bush Takes On Conservatives Over ImmigrationWe'll give you but one guess to identify just who has been organically certified as the individual most qualified to identify "empty political rhetoric trying to frighten our citizens."
Jim Rutenberg
New York Times
May 30, 2007
GLYNCO, Ga., May 29 — President Bush took on parts of his conservative base on Tuesday by accusing opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat its passage in Congress.
“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush said at a training center for customs protection agents and other federal agents here in southeastern Georgia. “That’s empty political rhetoric trying to frighten our citizens.”
Bingo.
The delicious irony keeps coming but far too many empty suits in the media fail to recognize it or just don't have the courage of what should be their convictions.
This kind of quote is what sustains Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." The same should be true in our actual media.
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