A Culture of Corruption: The News Media
During a segment of Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, former CBS TV newsman now media critic, Bernard Goldberg, stated clearly and consisely, “The news media are corrupt.” His fellow guest Jane Hall, formerly of the L.A. Times and now a respected journalism professor concurred.
They were lamenting the fact that by and large the members of the Fourth Estate were in the bag for Democrat president candidate Senator Barack Obama. In fact, it’s almost sickening how the denizens of America’s newsrooms go out of their way not to cover stories that would be covered if Obama were a conservative Republican.
The other day, a news anchor I’ve respected for years, Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume, said that newspeople didn’t know a lot about Sen. Barack Obama but slowly he’s beginning to reveal himself. Hume gave the example of his “bitterness” comments while Obama was kissing up to the moonbats in San Francisco. Hume — and some others — said such statements showed that Obama may actually be an “elitist.” No. You think?
At least Hume isn’t behaving like his counterparts at the other cable news networks. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer giggles like schoolgirl at the mere mention of Obama’s name. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews gets a chill running up his leg whenever he hears Obama give a speech. As long as Bill Clinton criticized President George W. Bush, these newspeople were more than happy to treat him like royalty. Now that he’s attacking Barack “empty-suit” Obama on behalf of his wife Hillary, these same Clinton sycophants have canceled their membership in the “I Love Bill” fan club.
I wrote an article a couple of weeks ago regarding Obama’s relationship with some very interesting characters and the Internet publications that published it sent links to some of the top newspeople and news producers in the country. Except for a few radio talk show hosts, not one of the dozens of newspeople who received the article requested further information.
My sources for that story were impeccable — they are well-known Washington, DC insiders who actually worked for a living protecting this country. One source served as a Deputy Secretary of the Army, while the other was an intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, there were absolutely no calls from our nation’s top newsmen and newswomen seeking the identity of these sources. Not one bit of curiousity.
So what should the mainstream news media have done? The least they could have done was try to refute the details laid out in my article. But that would have legitimized those details and the news media appear to have taken on the job of protecting Sen. Obama.
Here are some of the questions they should have at least asked:
What’s Obama’s relationship with former Weather Underground bomber William Ayers? Over the years, Ayers has raised enormous sums of money for the Illinois senator.
What was Obama’s relationship with indicted moneyman Tony Rezko? Over the years, it’s been reported that Rezko raised over $14 million for Obama’s campaigns. When Rezko was indicted, Obama returned $85,000.00 to him. What happened to the other $13,015,000.00?
What’s Obama’s relationship with terrorist sympathizer Professor Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University? Did Obama funnel money to his pal Rashid — money that eventually ended up in the hands of Hamas or Hezbollah terrorists?
There are other questions that these intellectual giants in the news media could at least ask, but don’t hold your breath for them to actually do their jobs. After all, the news media are corrupt.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he’s the new editor for the House Conservatives Fund’s weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us
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Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line. | More from Jim Kouri, CPP
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Jim Kouri,
I’m not familiar with your allegations, but you are right, the media is corrupt. Whether they are ambushing a candidate or overlooking the flaws of their favorites, the reporters and editors spin the stories.
Similar thing with the feminist agenda. Most news the advance the feminist are printed, while critical reports get very little coverage
Paul Weaver has written a book “News and the Culture of Lying”. His credentials are good so it’s not someone with an ax to grind.
Link to review,
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199411/ai_n8731174
April 17th, 2008 at 9:31 am
A brief excerpt from a review of Paul Weaver’s book “News and the Culture of Lying.
“I.F. Stone warned that all governments are run by liars, and that nothing they say should be believed.
Now comes Paul Weaver to warn that the same is true of all newspapers and, with the possible exception of C-SPAN and a few openly partisan journals of opinion, pretty much “
April 19th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Corrupt? The media? Get away.
Just add them to the Politicians themselves.
And the Courts.
And the Lawyers, who at least have the confouned cheek to try to expalin themselves as ‘combative advocates’.
And the legions of pseudo-professional rent-seeking scum that feed off the Family Court, who have no understandable excuse at all in their argot-filled mouths.
And the Ivory Tower Rapunzels who need defenestrating from the top floor windows and left handing by their pony-tails as a real lesson to the student bodies.
Bias, lies, mendacities, intellectual dishonesty, plain old theft from the public purse, the Nation (along with most) is sinking in a moral morass.