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Originally Posted by Larry Gude  ...and if you think things are partisan now, you have some history to catch up on.
This is no defense of reporters. They play an access game, by and large, and, as someone said, are very much interested in being in the story. They do not report; they editorialize.
It would be kewl to have a national source that simply reports and has the resources to put things in context within the story. Of course, this would ruin the in depth pieces people do later and kill the tell all book business. |
Well said.
The big problem now is that there is no longer the desire to tell the story as factually as possible, but to inject opinions, not to inform, but in a feckles attempt to pump up their own personal monetary value.
They want to be media stars. They don't realize what true buffoons they are when they are used as political hacks by those wanting to present themselves as "victims".
Case in point, Christine Anapour reporting in the midst of the Balkan wars, was used as a dupe to present the Balkan Moslems as victims. Hence our diplomatic effort was made to make the Serbs look like the only perpetrators of atrocities., and we accordingly bombed the Serbs into submission.
Little did we know, given the state of education and study into the history of that region , was that we weakened our hand and strengthened the drive towards a moslem reconquest of our allies that I know we shall rue in the future. We seem to have forgotten that the Moslem minorities sided with the nazis during WW2, and our recognition of their takeover of Kossovo is nothing more than the latest episode .
Goebbels was correct in saying that he who controls the news controls the nation.