Unfortunately, we for the most part do not have an unbiased, free press anymore in this country but not in the way you think. Most people, when they think that the free press has been suppressed, consider many of the actions of Presidents like Obama, who was one of the worst Presidents when it came to undermining the free press guarantee of the First Amendment:
- He went after and prosecuted more whistleblowers than every other President combined.
- He spied on journalists who he thought was an enemy of his views and efforts without proper cause or warrants.
- His administration fought tooth and nail, more than any other President, to block legitimate and legal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
- His administration even tried to illegally charge a legitimate news gathering organization, the Associated Press, an outrageous sum of money for a FOIA request.
When journalists lose their integrity and ethics, the bedrock of their industry and profession, they undermine the First Amendment as much as some shady politician who is trying to get by with shady and unethical behavior. How far have journalists fallen down the integrity scale in Americans’ minds? In a recent Gallup poll:
- Only 20% of those polled said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in television news.
- 45% said they had very little or no confidence in television news.
- Newspapers do not do much better with 23% saying they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers while 40% saying they very little or no confidence in newspapers.
- Ironically they both did better than Congress whose ratings were the most abysmal among all major American institutions.
1) It is not just network news that has helped destroy the integrity and ethics of the mainstream press in this country. Consider a recent article from the Godfather Politics website by Warner Todd Huston:
- The Houston Chronicle newspaper has a major scandal on its hands as it turns out that one of its long time reporters invented many of the sources behind his politics-related news stories.
- The writer, Mike Ward, and his false sources have caused the paper to retract eight stories/articles of Ward’s and has had to correct 64 stories after finding that 275 quotes from his articles could not be verified as true.
- Nancy Barnes, the paper’s executive editor issued the following mea culpa statement: “These are challenging times for our country, and for journalism. That makes it all the more important that readers trust that we will ferret out the truth, even if it concerns ourselves.”
- Ward resigned from the paper in September as his falsehoods started to come to light.
- An independent outside investigator went through 744 of Ward’s stories and found hundreds of shady and likely non-existent sources that Ward had cited.
Makes you wonder how many other false source stories are out there that have not been found, given the previous two discussions we have had regarding the lack of ethics and integrity within the journalism industry today.
2) One way that today’s journalists and the mainstream media insult the integrity of their industry is not falsehoods or biased stories they do report but real, important stories they do not report. The following website describes a series of important stories that should have been important news stories that were not widely reported by the biased mainstream media:
Two of those stories were as follows:
- For weeks at a time the mainstream media could not report enough about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. It seemed that every day a new woman would come forward and accuse him of some sort of sexual perversion or attack. The mainstream media coverage was non-stop which was fine. It is an important position in the country so it should be covered.
But what was unethical is what was not covered is the aftermath of the hearings. An extensive Congressional analysis of the women who accused him of sexual perversion was conducted and it was found that most, if not all, of the accusations were totally false and lies. The women had sworn under oath that what they said was true when it was not. As a result, they face investigation and possible prosecution for lying under oath to Congress, a serious crime.
If the accusations were so important to the press, than the vindication of the man after the accusations were proven false should have also been important. But it was not, the mainstream press covered virtually none of the hundreds and hundreds of pages of proof of his innocence since it did not fit their biased narrative which was, as always, trying to stick it to Trump.
- Louis Farrakhan is a long time bigot and hatemonger. He has been a long time and virulent hater of anything Jewish, calling Jewish people unmentionable names for a very long time. He is also a big time hater of white people, having at one time called for 10,000 young black men to gather together in a plan to kill white people.
Certainly a hateful, dangerous human being. One would think that a politician would not want to be associated with such hatred. But that is not the case since pictures and video exist of politicians kissing up with and having a grand time with him. But you would not know about that since the mainstream press does not want you to know about it since it would tinge your respect and support of the media’s favorite politicians:
Obama hanging out with Farrakhan:
Farrakhan hanging out with Congressional members:
Just two instances where the mainstream press decided to protect its favorite politicians at the expense of the truth.
And he should also have been in the news recently for his latest antics but alas, the mainstream press was absent on this also. Farrakhan recently visited Iran which in itself should have been a news story. As one knows, Iran is probably the number one terror exporting country in the world. Anyone associated with it should be considered a potential source of terror.
And he should also have been in the news recently for his latest antics but alas, the mainstream press was absent on this also. Farrakhan recently visited Iran which in itself should have been a news story. As one knows, Iran is probably the number one terror exporting country in the world. Anyone associated with it should be considered a potential source of terror.
In his recent visit to Iran, Farrakhan sat down with Iran’s leadership and supported those protesting the U.S. and Israel by shouting, “Death To America” and “Death To Israel.” Certainly troubling and possibly traitorous actions, But none of his antics were reported by the mainstream press:
The journalists in this country have been entrusted with a very important component of our democracy and sadly, they flub that responsibility just about every day of their working lives.
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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.
Please visit the following sites for freedom:
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w
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