Had Jason Biggs made a comment about Michelle Obama as he did with Mrs. Romney and Mrs. Ryan, his job at Nickelodeon would have been gone before he finished his tweet. However, now that he has gone after them, we hear no comments, no condemnation, no acrimony. The silence is deafening!
This is the same one sided reporting that the press has been doing for years. And for one, it makes me ill and scares us to our bones.
The responsibility of the press is to report the news and only the news. The ethics of the news media is that they have to have more than one source to insure that they are accurate. When was the last time we had that standard enforced? We have "sources close to the Administration who wish to remain anonymous" quoted or "sources close to the campaign disagree with the assessment." Ask the reporter who those sources are and they will tell you that they are being protected. Heck, we could make up sources, claim they come from close to the story and no one would require us to prove who they are.
Another issue is that the reporting now is so slanted that anyone reading a political news story can tell where the reporter's stand might be. No more do they couch their views, they write them inside the story. There is no effort made to convey a balanced and even-handed story, it is all the reporters view. We are used to get the views of the paper on the editorial page, now we get them on page 1.
A final issue that we find with the media is that a blindness to condemn negative items like the Romney-Ryan women story by Jason Biggs where Representative Aker's statement gets front page bold face type. Another example is Vice President Biden's comment to a black group that Romney would put them back in chains which was an obvious reference to slavery for which he received little condemnation. On the other hand, Romney makes an off-hand joke about his birth certificate and he is branded a "birther" and a racist by the very same press.
The freedom of press comes with a requisite responsibility. That being the responsibility to report the facts, and the facts alone, regardless of whose ox is being gored. Tell the truth, the whole truth and NOTHING but the truth. Today, most press organizations cannot not say they do that. It is opinion, slanting the truth or spinning the truth to fit the view of the reporter.
The press should be aware, their right is not unlimited. Continue to abuse the right and they will lose it. Those of us who might be on their side when that time comes will not be there. The time is coming and we are closer than we think.
A couple weeks ago, it was announced by the White House that any reporter who is assigned to the President, must submit his/her copy to the White House prior to that report can be used. If Obama and his henchmen can get the press to go along with this restriction, how far away are we from all press coming under the same restrictions. What do we have then? Pravda?
The press must wake up quickly or their time as free men and women and their abilities to practice their careers will be ending very soon.
This new awakening should start with Jason Biggs and Vice President Biden. Their comments are out of bounds and repugnant and should be condemned loudly as such.
Unfortunately, we feel nothing will change and one day we will wake up to an America that has changed dramatically and all those who report and who vote for people like Obama will ask, "how did this happen?" By then, it will be too late.
Conservative Tom
This is the same one sided reporting that the press has been doing for years. And for one, it makes me ill and scares us to our bones.
The responsibility of the press is to report the news and only the news. The ethics of the news media is that they have to have more than one source to insure that they are accurate. When was the last time we had that standard enforced? We have "sources close to the Administration who wish to remain anonymous" quoted or "sources close to the campaign disagree with the assessment." Ask the reporter who those sources are and they will tell you that they are being protected. Heck, we could make up sources, claim they come from close to the story and no one would require us to prove who they are.
Another issue is that the reporting now is so slanted that anyone reading a political news story can tell where the reporter's stand might be. No more do they couch their views, they write them inside the story. There is no effort made to convey a balanced and even-handed story, it is all the reporters view. We are used to get the views of the paper on the editorial page, now we get them on page 1.
A final issue that we find with the media is that a blindness to condemn negative items like the Romney-Ryan women story by Jason Biggs where Representative Aker's statement gets front page bold face type. Another example is Vice President Biden's comment to a black group that Romney would put them back in chains which was an obvious reference to slavery for which he received little condemnation. On the other hand, Romney makes an off-hand joke about his birth certificate and he is branded a "birther" and a racist by the very same press.
The freedom of press comes with a requisite responsibility. That being the responsibility to report the facts, and the facts alone, regardless of whose ox is being gored. Tell the truth, the whole truth and NOTHING but the truth. Today, most press organizations cannot not say they do that. It is opinion, slanting the truth or spinning the truth to fit the view of the reporter.
The press should be aware, their right is not unlimited. Continue to abuse the right and they will lose it. Those of us who might be on their side when that time comes will not be there. The time is coming and we are closer than we think.
A couple weeks ago, it was announced by the White House that any reporter who is assigned to the President, must submit his/her copy to the White House prior to that report can be used. If Obama and his henchmen can get the press to go along with this restriction, how far away are we from all press coming under the same restrictions. What do we have then? Pravda?
The press must wake up quickly or their time as free men and women and their abilities to practice their careers will be ending very soon.
This new awakening should start with Jason Biggs and Vice President Biden. Their comments are out of bounds and repugnant and should be condemned loudly as such.
Unfortunately, we feel nothing will change and one day we will wake up to an America that has changed dramatically and all those who report and who vote for people like Obama will ask, "how did this happen?" By then, it will be too late.
Conservative Tom
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