Posted on 09/24/2004 6:01:32 AM PDT by FlyLow
SPARTANBURG, SC (Talon News) -- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told supporters in a message on Wednesday that the scandal over CBS airing forged documents about President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard indicates a "seismic shift" in media coverage of news.
Perkins said he was not taken off guard by the CBS debacle over documents that were later found to be fake.
"It comes as no surprise that a major news organization disregarded proper journalistic standards in their haste to publicize now-discredited documents purporting to question President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service," Perkins wrote in the e-mail. "Sadly, we've become accustomed to the mainstream media broadcasting their left-leaning version of events with impunity."
Perkins said it was "genuinely surprising" that CBS "actually got caught dishing out the misinformation" about Bush by members of the new media, including Internet bloggers.
"Dan Rather and CBS were outclassed by the very Internet bloggers that talk show hosts derided as 'guys in pajamas' motivated by a 'partisan political and ideological agenda,'" Perkins explained.
Noting that this indicates a "seismic shift" in the media coverage of news, Perkins said traditional news outlets no longer can afford the luxury that their audience will believe what they report.
"No longer do [traditional news outlets] enjoy a monopoly on what is presented as the 'truth.' The voice of the people heard on talk radio across the land, transmitted at lightning speed on the Internet, and presented by fair-minded television media such as Fox, can and will no longer be suppressed," Perkins concluded.
As the head of a pro-family political action group, Perkins declared this as "terrific news" for conservatives who he admits has "struggled to get fair and accurate coverage of our issues."
Conversely, he added that this is simultaneously "bad news for those who we expect will now suffer the consequences of having misrepresented the truth."
it's not a major shift, it's a sign post along the media's road to irrelevancy. they can either use it to clean up their act, or they can ignore it to their own peril.
Does anyone think that Canada will allow Fox to broadcast in their country now?
it's not a major shift, it's a sign post along the media's road to irrelevancy. they can either use it to clean up their act, or they can ignore it to their own peril.
Well Said! Proud to be amongst the new age media cops!! There is power in numbers and it couldn't come a better time!!
thank you, princess, for the kind words. we just need to keep the pressure on until we get concrete results.
cheers!
To allow the proletariat an active role in 'proofreading' their news coverage defies their 'so-called' journalistic professionalism!
and they will hasten their own demise.
And it has EVERYTHING to do with GRASSROOTS movement and little to do with the establishment GOP
They are so poor that the average person can recognize that most of the material presented is garbage rather that news.
As an example, consider their coverage of Iraq. It is impossible to tell what is happening by reading the newspapers or listening to the TV news.
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