What ever happened to truth, justice and the American way? When did it become fabrication, bias and Socialist doctrine?
After years of having an exclusive lock on influencing public opinion, it’s about time the so-called traditional media felt the pinch. At least, it would seem they’re feeling one but it’s hard to tell for sure, because they still don’t get it. Here’s what I mean. Recently, at the annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference, leading lynch mob media executives took a decidedly combative tone against Internet companies instead of admitting their own mistakes and trying to fix them. They seem to have overlooked a little word called ‘integrity’. These people no longer report the news, they construct it!
Their recent handling of the terrorist plot to slaughter hundreds of American soldiers at Fort Dix was shameful. First of all, the significance of foiling this potentially horrific event was often dismissed as, “They weren’t even professionals” and “Well, they didn’t have direct connections to al-Qaeda”. Secondly, the Lib media actually placed more emphasis on the terrorists’ rights [of which they should have none] than on their murderous mission; they even called into question the infiltration methods used by authorities to affect the arrests of these bloodthirsty barbarians. Lastly, the store clerk has been portrayed more as a snitch than a patriot. This guy should be given a medal! He did precisely what we all must do and saved hundreds of lives! Now the whole story has gone suddenly quiet.
Just for the record, an amateur will kill you just as dead as a professional; evidence the 10 and 12 year olds blowing up our soldiers in Iraq. These guys aren’t buffoons, they’re potential killers. They’re not criminals, they’re unlawful enemy combatants! The ‘Fort Dix Six’ terrorists were “inspired by” al-Qaeda and therein lies the danger. We are dealing with hundreds, perhaps thousands of independent terrorist cells both at home and worldwide. The lynch mob media has been painting America as the villain and is more concerned with due process than with due diligence.
A few other traditionally misleading media myths are:
- George Bush said the war was going to be easy
- George Bush lied
- Saddam Hussein did not have terrorist involvements
- Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction
- Man made global warming is threatening the earth
- Illegal aliens do jobs Americans won’t do
While new distribution technologies like the Internet and mobile phones are siphoning television audiences, and formerly unquestioned print outlets are suffering declining sales, they find talk of traditional media demise in the digital age hard to swallow. Like it or not, they’re about to experience some serious indigestion. These new technologies offer alternative sources where we can verify the frequently unresearched pablum being poured down our throats by lynch mob venues. Furthermore, we have access to additional stories traditional sources have filtered out altogether because they either didn’t support predetermined conclusions or fit the media’s Leftist agenda.
There was a time traditional reporting was labeled as news or as commentary. Now, there’s very little reporting and an abundance of commentary, passed off as news, whether in print or on one of the four major networks. These intractable old sources continue to insist they are reporting balanced news, when all but the dimmest bulbs in our country know better. The illumination offered by the Internet is that you know exactly what you’re dealing with as soon as you land on the web site. The writer’s biases are openly declared.
Unless that kind of integrity is embraced by the traditional media or they start offering a little truth, justice and some cheering for the American way, they’d better take off their tattered super-capes and get ready to swallow a bitter pill: either resist and be diminished or join and prosper but there are new forces on the wind which will do the significant soaring from now on.
R.S.F.
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