If this battle is lost, the wounded could include you(Press whine)

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 02/20/05 | Manning Pynn

[Pikamax]

If this battle is lost, the wounded could include you Manning Pynn

February 20, 2005

Wounds inflicted by the war on journalism have been neither physical nor fatal, but the injuries have extended far beyond newspapers and television news programs.

Recent assaults have included the following:

The federal government fed fake news segments, promoting administration programs, to television stations -- some of which naively aired the tapes.

The federal government paid columnists and commentators to promote its programs as though the endorsements resulted from their own evaluations.

A federal appeals court ruled that, on penalty of going to jail, two reporters must divulge a confidential source who outed an undercover agent, when it wasn't even they who revealed the agent's name.

All that has been going on to the constant radio drumbeat that journalists are the enemy.

Some of the most grievous wounds, though, have been inflicted by journalists, themselves:

Jayson Blair lied about his whereabouts, made up stories and brought down the management of the New York Times.

Jack Kelley falsified articles he wrote for USA Today with similar effects on his newsroom.

Dan Rather relied on forged documents in a CBS News broadcast about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Someone needs to call a Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance

[Belisaurius]

Dan Rather relied on forged fake documents in a CBS News broadcast about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service.

[edcoil]

This happened during the Clinton years. Go back and check your sources and debates.

[Brilliant]

I don't believe anything the media says anyway.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I cna't read the whole story because I'm not registered at the site and won't be. I took the early comments as whiny.

[rellimpank]

--we must not forget Monica Lewinsky's famous comment to the effect that "I'll tell Bill and Rick [Kaplan] (head of CNN News) will print whatever he (Bill) wants"--

[oldenuff2no]

Lets take a look at the ACLU, the most activist arm of the American Democratic Socialist Party. The ACLU is funded by the American Taxpayers each and every time a liberal, read that hand picked judged shopped, Judge reaches a conclusion that implements more steps in the creeping tide of socialism in our country.
Almost all of the ACLU's funds start out in the government coffers.
This is all of our tax dollars at work for the socialist democrats.
Now do you understand why we need to put conservative judges on the federal benches?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I never said we didn't need conservative judges and I despise the ACLU. So I guess I'm lost by the question.

[Bigh4u2]

"Jayson Blair lied about his whereabouts, made up stories and brought down the management of the New York Times.

Jack Kelley falsified articles he wrote for USA Today with similar effects on his newsroom.

Dan Rather relied on forged documents in a CBS News broadcast about George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service"


And yet the writer doesn't seem to see the irony in all that?

How terrible it is to be so deluded by ones self importance that the obvious just seems to escape you.

[SpinyNorman]

Yes, the wounds are self inflicted and chronic. If the press actually did their job, the blogs would have nothing to do, but the constant censoring and/or selective news reporting to fulfill a liberal agenda it the noose that the MSM put around it's own neck.

Sadly, the press is so arrogant, that they will probably pull the trapdoor out from under themselves as well.