Breitbart Attacks MSM for Bias
Andrew Breitbart takes MSM to task for its “non-coverage” of Van Jones and its overall bias:
Now that White House “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones has resigned, what’s next?
Inevitably, the American mainstream media – ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, et al – must be held to account for sitting on the sidelines as this major story kept building without them, went viral on YouTube, and then became so large that a key appointee of President Obama was forced to step down.
But with their decision to ignore the Jones story, they may have actually done Mr. Obama far more harm than good: Who vetted this guy? How did he get past the FBI? What did he say, and how did he answer the infamous seven-page questionnaire that all Obama appointees were required to fill out? Inquiring Freedom of Information Act minds want to know.
For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there’s institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals – real and imagined – matter.
And it’s not just those the Democratic-Media Complex dub as “mobs” or “tea baggers” that are taking notice. Diminishing audience and evaporating subscribership reflect widespread consumer dissatisfaction. Eventually, the money will run out.
But until then, the growing alternative media of Internet and talk radio and a burgeoning mass of justifiably angry Americans will make every effort to expose the sham that is mainstream journalism.
Here’s Breitbart’s entire commentary
Hat tips: Andrew Breitbart and Washington Times.
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O/T
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Just as the media did the President and the nation no favors for its self-imposed censorship of the Van Jones story, neither is it doing the country any favors by putting a “positive spin” on all financial reporting. It will just delay the inevitable and make the fall all that much harder.
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O/T SHOW ME THE MONEY
Our top ten August commenters (excluding the writers who had their own competition):
1. LisaB = $300
2. Brian = $200
3. Tim V = $100
http://www.rightpundits.com/
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BC,
After all that was happening in 2008 I was expecting 2009 to be the ‘Year the Pulp Died’. I was figuring that either the SF Chronicle, LAT or AJC to have folded by now. How wrong I was. Little less than 4 months left in the year and the walking wounded are still there.
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O/T good read on our national debt, H/T Instapundit…
http://www.american.com/archive/2009/september/debt-be-not-proud-the-sorry-tale-of-america2019s-out-of-control-spending
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Print journalism is doomed. It is only a matter of time. The Internet killed it.
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Print killed itself. The last decade of bad content is only part of the problem. Nor is the Internet the whole issue either. Most of the Dailies were former shells of themselves by the end of the 1990’s which predates any massive inroads of the Internet and certainly predates Blogs (2001).
All you have to do is go to any Dailies morgue and do column inch counts on Section B which contained local/regional news. From 1980 onward it is in a constant shrink mode.
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Dog, I will yield to you wisdom…
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Sharp, Not as much wisdom as simply outliving most of my enemies.
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By the way JustOneMinute has a nice snark that relates to this post.
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AmSpec has an excellent piece up as well vis a vis Van Jones.
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Dog,
The American Spectator article is terrific and should be the subject of a thread with the title ” Had Enough ? ”
BGJ writers ???
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I’m dyslexic, make that BJG !
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This is why the left is intent on stiffling those modes of communications. It is now under the banner of “localism” that they are trying to silence Beck, Hannity, Rush, et al.
This is SERIOUS and we need to wake up now.
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Cheers to Breitbart. His influence is growing.
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HD,
It better be. Trust me, we are in great peril.
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#2 the economy news will blow up on them too. you don’t need the local news to tell you things are bad when you are collecting unemployment and food stamps.
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drdog09 -
It appears that the daily papers prefer to die a slow death. To the best of my knowledge, the LA Times, SF Chronicle and Atlanta Journal-Constitution are all losing money, not only from declining subscriptions but also from the lack of ad revenues. Classified advertising is almost non-existent.
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9.7%…and rising
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http://www.breitbart.tv/syndicated-columnist-jones-targeted-because-he-is-an-african-american-with-progressive-movement-background/
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The Philly Inquirer is in bankruptcy. The Boston Globe is barely surviving.
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Hey EPH – playing the card again. Yawn.
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RAS -11
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23. Today or yesterday?
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MDefl,
The reason I suggested that SFC, AJC, LAT would be ones of the first to go is they are part of a weak set of syndicates. SF Chronicle is already up for sale and has been threatened to be closed if a buyer is not found. Boston Globe is part of the NYT group so they have that Carlos Slim money to burn thru. Philly Inq could go down. They have a relatively young buyers group though that might stick it thru the bankruptcy. Their problem is can they cut a deal with their press mfr? They have not made payments since just before Obammy took office as I recall.
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20, eph, good read.
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Or should I say view.
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Good comments and links to all kinds of articles!
I’m listening to Obama’s school speech, after hearing a radio commentator’s parody speech earlier this morning. Apparently this radio guy read the text of Obama’s speech, inserting little imaginative twists and turns in the pre-released text. It was a riot, and probably more “truthful” than the original one!
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today\this morning.