The Press
This section examines how the press are afraid to upset the Clintons by printing what they know
According to The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, the purpose of journalism is to provide people with the information they need to be free and self-governing, and the following nine elements are required to fulfill this task:
- Journalism's first obligation is to the truth
- Its first loyalty is to citizens
- Its essence is a discipline of verification
- Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover
- It must serve as an independent monitor of power
- It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise
- It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant
- It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional
- Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience
Unfortunately, as the following stories demonstrate, whenever journalists write about the Clintons, they immediately forget these nine elements and any other principles they may (or may not) have had:
Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will How did Hillary come to be the de facto nominee in 2008? What has she done? For two decades she has had the most powerful weapon in politics—the national “news” media—shamelessly promoting her presidential aspirations
Michael Isikoff journalist who was about to break the Lewinsky scandal - until the article was killed by top Newsweek executives
Dee Dee Myers: Hillary's a B*tch - Dec 26, 2000 when anyone tried to disagree with Mrs. Clinton, her temper could be vicious and more deliberately hurtful than even her husband's notorious purple rages... White House staffers lived in fear of the first lady because her attacks sometimes wouldn't end when her temper tantrums subsided... Myers is the first Clinton loyalist to go public with charges that Mrs. Clinton would brutalize White House aides with her rages... junior White House staffers were ordered not to make eye contact with the first lady lest they anger her... But during her New York senate campaign, the media never touched on these and dozens of other accounts about Mrs. Clinton's temper, portraying her instead as a warm and genuinely likeable personality!!!
Covering the Clinton Campaign in Seven Easy Steps! - Nov 19, 2007 Psycho-lady keeps an iron grip on her press entourage
Scarborough: 'Total Crap' CNN Didn't Know Gay Questioner Is Clinton Campaigner - Nov 29, 2007 This is twice now in a couple of weeks that CNN has been ensnarled in a Clinton controversy
Reporters Struggle For Access To Clinton - Nov 30, 2007 Hillary gives the press the runaround
Monica turned journalism inside out - Dec 22, 2007 next month as the press marks the 10th anniversary of the breaking of the Monica Lewinsky story. How a newspaper or columnist describes this event tells a lot about how that newspaper or columnist views the audience
Linda Stasi, Hillary's admiring journalist at the NY Post, unwittingly describes a psychopath - Dec 30, 2007 "Hillary keeps her eye on the prize, her speech succinct, her demeanor geared to the crowd, her head up and her hair coiffed to within an inch of its life"
Hillary to Iowa Voters: None of Your Bees Wax - Dec 31, 2007 Clinton took no questions from audiences at any of her stops on Sunday, in Vinton, Traer, Cedar Falls and Iowa Falls
Hillary Tale - Jan 02, 2008 Neither CNN's Wolf Blitzer nor ABC's George Stephanopoulos jumped on Hillary's Pakistan gaffe while interviewing her. Nor did anyone in the establishment media mention the gaffe in the following days
(new complaint filed) Hillary Clinton charged with filing illegal report in 2006 FEC settlement - Jan 07, 2008 The Los Angeles Times office is walking distance to the courtroom. But they won’t be there!
Hillary Meets the Press - Jan 13, 2008 and Tim Russert lets her tell lie after lie after lie. FR Comment
Mainstream Media Ignores Leftwing Anger Over Attempted Delegate Grab by Hillary - Jan 28, 2008 crooked Arkansas attorney tries to bend the rules again. FR Comments: The “Crazy Aunt” in the attic is finally coming down to the dinner table at the DNC and they don’t seem to like it. Even “The Swimmer” [Uncle Ted] is taking a pass. What does that tell us?
Hillary Clinton Brilliant? New York Times, Cut the Crap! - Jan 28, 2008 to try to justify their predisposition toward Hillary with empty assessments of her is worse than the empty political rhetoric she uses to disguise her real lack of intellect, bad ideas and huge lack of experience. We have seen Hillary's face for decades, but familiarity is not experience. FR Comments: Hillary’s greatest achievement was to be the only partner of the Rose Law firm not to go to prison because she was able to hide the evidence in the only place in America no one is allowed to look
ABC News: Is Clinton Scrutinized About Her Looks Too Much? - Jan 28, 2008 Let's all feel sorry for Hillary. FR Comments
Kathleen Willey Warns Obama About the Clintons, Will Media Notice? - Jan 29, 2008 No. Sorry honey. FR Comments: The Clintons have a long history of trying to intimidate opponents by first invading their personal records, and then releasing the information via their media enablers, naturally spun to reflect poorly on the person being attacked while Bill and Hillary stand there with "Who, me?" looks on their faces
Shuster Suspended For "Pimped Out" Comment - Feb 08, 2008 In case anyone doubts NBC's support for the Clintons. FR Comments "A couple of weeks ago another NBC reporter, Erin Burnett,called the President a “monkey” and she suffered little. Today, Shuster disses Chelsea and is suspended. Yup that seem fair. Disrespect a sitting US President who is Republican and you get a pass. Disrespect the MSM’s Gods, the Clintons, and you risk your job. But remember, there is no bias at NBC. Just ask them....they will tell you the same thing"
'Howard Wolfson's Always Calling Around Threatening People' - Feb 25, 2008 Clinton's thuggish "Communication Director" likes to lean on the press - and they let him. FR Comments
CBS Finally Runs the Bosnia Story; Hillary Forced To Admit She Lied Once Again - Mar 25, 2008 in the end, CBS ran the story because they were forced by the blogosphere to run the story. FR Comments: "She has nothing to worry about. The media will promptly forget this and all her other lies"
Hillary's 'First Since Eleanor in War Zone' Claim Not True- Will MSM Report? - Mar 26, 2008 The AP allowed the Hillary "first" claim to go uncorrected. Newsweek uncritically regurgitated the "first first lady" line, too. The Washington Post also repeats the line without correcting the record. There were several TV reporters that also repeated the line without noting that it was not true. FR Comments
The Whitewater Proxy - Mar 28, 2008 Hillary's and Bill's scandals have been the elephant in the primary room ever since she first signaled a run. Yet up to now everyone has been too scared, or too loyal, or too weary to touch the ugly past. FR Comments: Try too partisan. The news media is 95 percent liberal Democrat. They don't report news, they produce partisan propaganda
Bill's Fury over Hillary Sex Scandal (MSM Breaks Silence On Hillary/Huma Lesbian Story!) - May 08, 2008 Having a great exclusive story is often not enough to get it published. You still must get the story past the editors. Editors can be very reluctant to publish or air something really hot for fear of being wrong, or even if the story is right, fear of retaliation from the story subject
Disney CEO buries inconvenient facts about 9/11 to protect Hillary Clinton, say activists - 11/09/11 FR Comments
No comments:
Post a Comment