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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

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[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Newspapers Are Guardians of Truth, so say ‘Journalists’
 
By Warner Todd Huston

Last Sunday, from the pen of editorial page editor of the Seattle Times James Vesely, we got a pretty good indication of why the new media of the Internet is so swiftly taking over the traditional role of the old, dead tree media. One word describes it: arrogance. It is an arrogance of the assumed supremacy of the old media and the air of entitlement that it holds dear.

It is the presumption that what they write is “truth,” that newspapers are the arbiters of that truth, and that journalists are “democracy” personified and that without them we are naught but a “banana republic.” And it is the sneering, discountenance with which they look upon the reading public as the great unwashed that has finally caught up with them. However, some are beginning to notice it and unless the dead tree media realizes this truth staring them in the face, they truly are a doomed industry.

Mr. Vesely wrongly imagines that Americans are not abandoning his beloved, old media in favor of the Internet because of the failed content of the old media. Vesely imagines that people are not “willingly turning from fiber to cyber” as a “replacement of ... the methodology of reporting and editing” of the old media. Vesely thinks people are only turning to the Internet because it is faster and more “modern.” He imagines that newspapers are “carefully edited” and that they speak truth and, that being true, people can’t possibly be turning away from his fellows because of content.

Here he is deluding himself.

The rest at: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/760

I believe Journalists are supposed to be the guardians of truth...they just fail to come close to meeting that standard, and are more openly biased now than ever before.

People are leaving the dead tree media in droves because they simply do not trust them anymore, their “methodology” has become corrupt and self-serving as well as ideologically homogenized all across the industry offering few avenues for differing opinion.

The 2008 presidential election should be a great opportunity to judge media bias/failure.  It will be a tough contest between two candidates, one of whom will likely have the media's blessing, and I predict that will be obvious.  In essence, it will be a Republican Party vs the Media Party.  

It will be extremely interesting to see just how partisan the media becomes, in support of their candidate.  

While, as professionals, the media should intentionally avoid ANY appearance of bias or favoritism, I don't think they can help themselves.  Either that or the outcome of the election is so important to them, that they don't care if they take a few jabs about bias, as long as the Media Party candidate wins.

This is going to be fun to watch.  And, I hope we have the opportunity to help fully expose the media bias in the 2008 election cycle!   Will the media report the truth, or just their blatantly biased version of it???

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

A Reporter-Turned-Congressman Waves Yellow Flag On Media Bias

By REPRESENTATIVE LAMAR SMITH

Thomas Jefferson once said, "The only security of all is in a free press." As a former newspaper reporter, I believe in a news media free from censorship. At their best, the news media help promote our democracy.

Like many Americans, though, I am increasingly concerned about a bias in the mainstream news media. To me, there is a significant liberal slant in news reporting that prevents the American people from getting facts about critical issues facing our country. Without facts, Americans cannot make informed decisions about issues, and our democracy is threatened.

Evidence of unfair reporting is abundant. In 2004, a UCLA study found that 18 of 20 major news outlets scored to the left of the average American voter, while just two scored to the right of the average voter. Since the combined viewership and circulation of these liberal-leaning news outlets far exceeds that of conservative-leaning media, Americans get the vast majority of their news from left-of-center sources.

The results of the UCLA study are troubling but not surprising, especially since there is also evidence that journalists tend to sympathize with liberal points of view in their personal lives.

A recent MSNBC investigation examined campaign contributions made by journalists from 2004 through the start of the 2008 election cycle. Out of 144 journalists from around the country, 125 gave to Democrats and liberal groups, just 17 gave to Republicans and conservative groups, and two gave to both parties.

There is also evidence that journalists are likely to vote for Democratic candidates. In 2005, the University of Connecticut surveyed 300 journalists nationwide to ask whom they voted for in the 2004 presidential election. Over half of the respondents said they voted for Sen. John Kerry, just 19% said they voted for President Bush, and the rest either refused to answer or did not vote.

The rest at: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.a...280702003312227

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Tom Brokaw's Glass House

By Lee Cary

The newspaper industry got a cold dose of impending reality from former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, in comments he made at a promotion of his recent book.  Concerning the Washington Post, he said, "It'll be probably digital 10 years from now."  Digital as in paperless. Why would he say that?

The yearly incremental decline of daily newspaper circulation rates continues. Over multiple years, the trend line is a steady 45° downward slope.  Twenty-two of the top twenty-five newspapers experienced daily circulation declines between November '06 and '07.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (-9.08%), San Diego Union-Tribune (-8.53%) and the Dallas Morning News (-7.68%)  are in a veritable freefall.  The Washington Post dropped 3.23%.   At its current rate of decline, the New York Times hardcopy coverage of 2016 Election Day results will be read by one-third fewer readers than today.  As business travelers know, countless free copies of a paper that showed an increase are routinely ignored in hotels across the nation-USA Today (+1.04%).

The rest at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/11/tom...lass_house.html  

Ben Franklin once said that we had a Republic if we could keep it. By that he meant to relay to us all that it is the responsibility of each and every citizen to inform himself on what is going on about him so that he might become an informed citizen able to participate fully in the Republican process. So, one simply cannot read a single paper and get “the truth.” One must stay informed and take in as many sources of information as possible, then makes one’s own mind up and act accordingly but that is impossible when “the press” all offer the same ideologically tinged “news.”

I appreciate the good articles that are posted here on CTH, as I don't have the time to search out "the truth" from the various sources on a daily basis, and I don't think I'm alone out there...but what do I know???

As an individual who has been in and out of the print media (the alleged paper) since 1976, this has been nothing except a self-imposed/inflicted decline.

Take for prime example the Columbus Disgrace (Dispatch), this once great newspaper is a mere shell of it's self. They've sold off literally every available asset including a once great reporting/editorial staff.

I realize everyone believes there is a certain segment of us who have a tendacy to make Mayor Coleman a whipping boy. In reality Coleman has sat idely by watching not only the decline of downtown; being in the hip pocket of temporary Dispatch Owner John Wolfe's hip pocket has watch the company be stripped down to nothing. The elimination of once one of the greatest newspaper delivery departments in the state as John Wolfe busted the driver's & pressmen's locals down to nothing more than glorified sweepers.

Naturally nothing more could delight little Mikey "I love my campaign worker" Coleman than to see the lone outlet of daily reporting be stripped down to nothing more than a glorifed MoveOn.org outlet. When it's reporters have the goods on the Dems the facts are stripped out of articles to fit the agenda of John Wolfe.

I can tell you there are certain well placed individuals w/in the Dispatch whom can confirm it's only a small matter of time til negotiations selling the paper are complete w/another media outlet in southwest Ohio.

While there is supporting documentation (you can't leave home w/out it) it'll arrive later this morning after I make some appointed rounds in a timely fashion.

LA Times Editor Fired in Dispute

By JOHN ROGERS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP)
Jan 20, 7:42 PM EST

The Los Angeles Times fired its top editor after he rejected a management order to cut $4 million from the newsroom budget, 14 months after his predecessor was also ousted in a budget dispute, the newspaper said Sunday.

James O'Shea was fired following a confrontation with Publisher David D. Hiller, the Times reported on its Web site. The story didn't say when the confrontation took place.

Times spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said the newspaper would have no comment.

O'Shea's departure comes just a month after the Times' parent, Chicago-based Tribune Co., was taken private in an $8.2 billion buyout by real estate magnate Sam Zell.

The departure also follows that of his predecessor, Dean Baquet, who was forced to resign after he opposed further cuts to the newsroom budget in 2006.

O'Shea, then the Chicago Tribune's managing editor, was brought in to replace him.

At the time, he asked the news staff not to see him as "the hatchet man from Chicago" and promised to fight to ensure the Times would "remain a major force in American journalism."

complete article

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Pinocchios of the Left
By Burt Prelutsky


There are good lies and there are bad lies, and not just on a golf course. Good lies are those that make me laugh. For instance, the NBA recently held its pre-draft camp in Orlando, Florida, and they discovered that the one thing these college prospects had in common, aside of course from a reluctance to play defense, was that a large number of them have been lying about their height. Memphis center Joey Dorsey, Memphis guard Derrick Rose and Duke guard DeMarcus Nelson, weren’t really 6-9, 6-4 and 6-4, as advertised, but were 6-6, 6-1 and 6-1, respectively. UCLA’s Kevin Love wasn’t 6-10, but actually a tad under 6-8. Kansas State’s Michael Beasley was 6-7, not 6-10, and USC’s Davon Jefferson was a full three inches shy of 6-8. Not only wasn’t Tennessee Martin’s Lester Hudson not 6-3, he wasn’t even a six-footer.

All of this is very peculiar for a couple of reasons. One, I find the notion that guys who have to stoop down to clear doorways feel compelled to lie about their height pretty darn amusing. Two, what’s the point? Psychological warfare? If I’m, say, 6-10 and my opponent claims to be my size, but is only 6-7, am I supposed to start wondering if maybe I’m really 7-1? Frankly, I don’t see how that will throw off my game in the least.

But when it comes to lying about things that really matter, you can’t beat those on the left. Back in the bad old days of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union built what were called Potemkin Villages. These were show places designed to convince gullible American tourists that the Soviet Union was the workers’ paradise they claimed it to be. But Stalin had a lot of help dispensing his propaganda. He had the New York Times man in Moscow, Walter Duranty, to carry his water. Or in Stalin’s case, make that blood. Even though Duranty knew that Stalin intentionally murdered millions of Ukrainians, starving them to death, he kept quiet about it, instead filing glowing reports about Stalin’s five year economic plans, going so far as to report that Stalin had become a truly great statesman.

My understanding of it is that Duranty wasn’t even a Communist parroting the party line, but simply a reporter who lied because he enjoyed the money he was paid by the Times, the perks that Stalin provided to his favorite parrot and his status as the most famous journalist in the world, all of which would have been lost to him if he had reported the truth about Stalin’s butchery. What’s more, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his despicable lies.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BurtPre...ios_of_the_left

Political newspaper voices its freedom

Business owners want boxes moved; city departments side with editor

Saturday,  July 5, 2008 3:07 AM
By Sarah Pulliam
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A politically oriented newspaper popping up across central Ohio contains an advertisement thanking its community supporters.

Which is nice, except that most of the supporters had no idea where the newspaper came from and a few are adamantly unsupportive.

The boxes belong to The Liberty Voice, a free monthly run by a Powell resident. Editor Sherry Clark, who calls herself a "rabble-rouser," began publishing the newspaper late last year, and she has set up about 70 boxes and wire racks.

The newspaper, which labels itself "fiercely independent news & commentary," pulls articles from Web sites of sources such as The Tehran Times, American Free Press and Prison Planet.

It claims "community supporters," including libraries, restaurants, bookstores and other businesses.

Barth Beaman, owner of three Mean Bean coffee shops, says his Powell business is among those incorrectly listed as a supporter.

He said a box outside his Delaware store came out of nowhere, and he's not happy about it. He said the unlocked box is not secured to the sidewalk and the papers fall out if it tips over.

"It's unsolicited and unwelcome," Beaman said. "I'm not trying to silence free speech or anything. I just don't think people should be able to put anything on the streets without confirming it with us."

City officials in both Powell and Delaware spoke to Clark about removing the boxes but determined that she is protected under the First Amendment.

"She surprised us, and we were like, 'What's this?'  " said Eric Fischer, Powell development planner. "At the end of the day, she's allowed to have the boxes set up."

"Freedom is never free" is posted on the front of the Liberty Voice's boxes, some of which sit next to advertising-supported racks holding several publications Downtown. The idea of uniform, multipublication vending machines was intended to tidy up Downtown, but ultimately there's nothing the city can do about the newcomers.

"If they are impeding the traffic flow of pedestrians, we might move them a few feet or inches, but under the First Amendment, they're perfectly legal; no permit is needed," said Mary Carran Webster, assistant director for Columbus' Public Service Department.

Clark said she prints about 15,000 copies each month at a press in Marysville. She won't identify the publication's financial backers but said a Muslim activist gave her $500 to begin working on the newspaper. Clark, who wears colonial clothing and sets her cell-phone ring tone to Monty Python, says she wants to champion constitutional issues.

Clark said some critics describe the newspaper as a liberal diatribe.

"Until I can walk onto an airplane with a bottle of water and hand lotion and fingernail clippers, until I feel that I am truly free, I will probably continue," she said.

In reference to the above post:

Sherry Clark is very likely self-funding from the proceeds of her divorce with the Made-From-Scratch founder, a local very successful capitalist business-man. She is the queen impeach-Bush-hater and leader of the local 9-11 Truthers movement.

Get her and IS together and you have a match made in....

When Hillary wins the Presidency, you likely won't hear from either IS or Sherry again.

[Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote]

Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote

The sociology major's made-up quote — which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 — flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India.

"I am 100 percent convinced that if I hadn't come forward, that quote would have gone down in history as something Maurice Jarre said, instead of something I made up," he said. "It would have become another example where, once anything is printed enough times in the media without challenge, it becomes fact."

So much for the "guardians of truth!"

It makes me wonder if other things I read in the newspapers aren't true. 

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090512/ap_on_hi_te/eu_ireland_wikipedia_hoaxer

Not particularly related, but...

Next time they want a photo op over NYC for President Obama and Air Force One, why don't they save the $328,000 and terrorization of the NYC villagers, by having my 14-year old son come up with some equivalent photo-shopped versions of the same images.

A lot easier and no one has to wet their pants.

Here, you might enjoy this:

http://www.columbustownhall.com/index.php/topic,4834.0.html