The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Catching the WaPo in ANOTHER Lie
It isn't just that papers like the New York Times and Washington Post have a clearly partisan bias in its language and spin for events that really did happen; that has been going on for years. But this is different. In virtually every news cycle, reporters representing either AP, the Times, the Post, Reuters, etc. are reporting blatant falsehoods--events that are made up out of thin air and which did not happen that way--always geared towards the left-leaning ideology of the institutions they serve. Many of these stories come from "sources" which are clearly from inside the insurgency. In too many cases to count on two hands, the WaPo, NYT, and AP have reported enemy propaganda as verbatim news--with no supporting evidence other than their shady jihadist "sources"--only to be exposed by in-country imbeds or milbloggers.
For our major news organizations, this is analogous to the BBC running English-language stories sourced to Josef Goebbels during World War II. It is almost as if there is a competition amongst the left media to see who can come up with the most--or the most outlandish--falsified stories.
We are clearly entering a time period where some of the old Horace Greeley yellow journalism of the 1800's would be seen as an improvement on the facts many Americans are taking in as gospel when they go into the voting booth. To me, these false stories are bigger crimes--and certainly more consequential--then anything Scooter Libby ever did.
So when guys like Michael Yon go to Iraq and volunteer to go to the front lines--while the MSM reporters file dispatches from the safety of the Green Zone--does it not make sense to at least take into account what they are seeing, reporting, and filming?
Apparently not.
For our major news organizations, this is analogous to the BBC running English-language stories sourced to Josef Goebbels during World War II. It is almost as if there is a competition amongst the left media to see who can come up with the most--or the most outlandish--falsified stories.
We are clearly entering a time period where some of the old Horace Greeley yellow journalism of the 1800's would be seen as an improvement on the facts many Americans are taking in as gospel when they go into the voting booth. To me, these false stories are bigger crimes--and certainly more consequential--then anything Scooter Libby ever did.
So when guys like Michael Yon go to Iraq and volunteer to go to the front lines--while the MSM reporters file dispatches from the safety of the Green Zone--does it not make sense to at least take into account what they are seeing, reporting, and filming?
Apparently not.
Labels: Enemy Propaganda, Hearts and Minds, Media Bias, Media War, The Left
