Posted on 04/22/2013 9:39:19 AM PDT by Shout Bits
The Boston terror attack allows one easy conclusion – the Old Media is not afraid to jump the gun on its reporting. The AP could have checked its facts before incorrectly reporting that a bomber was in custody last week; a simple phone call to the police or FBI would have cleared up any confusion. Probably in a race against its competition, the OM did not check its facts and endangered Bostonians who may have thought the threat was over. Other news sources ran the AP's error, but with a caveat that they could not confirm its accuracy. The OM is quick on the trigger, but not in implicating Islam.
NPR this week fell over itself to avoid implicating Islam in this terror bombing. Even after the suspects were known to be Muslim, NPR constantly guarded itself by reminding listeners there was no reason to believe radical Islam was at work. As it turned out, the terrorists fit the classic mold. They were rich and well educated, as are most Islamic terrorists, including the 9/11 hijackers. They fell under the influence of a radical Imam with connections to terrorist organizations (in this case the Muslim Brotherhood). One of them travelled abroad for terrorist training. While a pathetic writer for Salon may have wished for a white right-wing terrorist, the Tsarnaevs were more of the same from western civilization's persistent enemy. Even today, the New York Times is clinging to the notion the Tsarnaevs acted alone, as if young men spontaneously build bombs out of pressure cookers and conceal them in trash cans.
The OM reported falsehoods that it could have easily checked, but it did not report that every sign pointed toward radical Islam. The OM does not want to offend Muslims, especially the ones who behead reporters, but also it does not want to engender bias in the public against Islam. The OM is protecting the public from itself through such circumspection. The OM knows that the streets of Jakarta are filled with Muslims who want to lead peaceful lives and raise their nation from poverty. The vast majority of Muslims are without doubt peaceful, but even so, millions of them want to kill Americans indiscriminately.
The OM should ask itself why it wants to protect Islam's image. The OM is filled with progressives who embrace dismantling the establishment to build a better world. Islam is anti-progressive; it is a set of laws that can never be changed or broken down. Contrary to its position on Islam, the OM hates Christian faiths and goes out of its way to report every Christian's failures. NPR, for example, reported that Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph was a "Christian Identity extremist," but in fact he is agnostic. NPR, however will not call the Ft. Hood terrorist, Nidal Malik Hasan, an Islamic terrorist or extremist even though he is one beyond doubt.
The OM should also know that reporters are the first people rounded up totalitarians. The Sean Penns and Oliver Stones of the world will also find their sympathy for radicals poorly rewarded. Terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood probably have little tolerance for their purported allies like Lewis Farrakhan. These useful idiots should stop running flack for the very people who would imprison them.
The story of Boston is that Islam has a problem. Imams with terrorist ties such as Boston's Basyouny Nehela are a serious threat. The OM does a disservice to public safety by failing to expose these radicals, but it is also failing Islam. Islam needs more reasons to purge Imams who would radicalize young men and make them terrorists. As long as the OM deludes the public into thinking radical Islam is not a problem and the Tsarnaevs are aberrations, the attacks will continue.
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MSM.
I hate those guys (and wenches).
Because the left needs a deadly, militant puppet to use against Christians and capitalists. They presume that if they can defeat Christians, that these ignorant goat fornicators will be a piece of cake.
Because they’re better people than we are, smarter, more loving, forgiving, open-minded. Their entire self-image depends on sanctimony. It’s a luxury affordable only if somebody else is doing the dying.
One reason is that both hate what the United States and what it stands for. Another is that the muslims can do and get away with something the msm can only dream about at this point in time. To wit} Kill Christians. And last but not least, the muslims are just as black hearted as the members of the msm.
Old Media is Liberals. Liberals HATE America. Islam HATES America. Therefore, Old Media supports Islam.
Of course, the second Islam tells these liberal chicks do get dressed and support men, well, we’ll see how they like Islam then.
Why Does The Old Media Protect Islam? Because they want to take down America too, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
“Old media” is DNC.
That’s your answer in a nutshell.
The only ones doing any real reporting are “new media”. Beck, Breitbart, a few others. The “old media” only cover what others have uncovered, and then only to apply spin. Since they don’t yet know which way things will play out, they are a bit flat-footed even at that.
Because, they think Islam is a relgion. Therefore, and - like them - enjoys 1st-Amendment “teflonism”.
My enemy’s enemy is my friend?
Islam doesn’t have a problem.
Islam is the problem....
cowards
next question
—Why Does The Old Media Protect Islam?
The answer is Old as History
Violence and Power
The Saudis are also heavily invested in our news media....
Exactly. They identify with the “other” more than they do with their own country. They view Americans as a bunch of violent, ignorant yahoos who will use any excuse to go around murdering Muslims in the US if the media reported anything bad about Islam.
The government needs Islamists to serve as their boogeyman. They purposely import Chechens, Somalis, Palestinians, Saudis etc., so that these people will keep attempting to perform terrorist acts and give the government a reason to increase surveillance, and an excuse to have a huge military force in the US. With a terrifying enemy to point to, everyone will accept reductions in their civil rights in the name of security.
Money,,,
They have given lots of money to colleges and universities that pay the checks of a lot of liberals. Money to lobbyists, money for investment houses...etc etc.
They are afraid of muslims.
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