Posted on 07/23/2012 7:27:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
I try not to spend too much time complaining about media bias, mostly because it doesn’t do any good.
But I have had a couple of posts about the topic, usually when there’s a hopelessly outrageous example on an issue I care about.
I’ve also had a few posts where I hit the media for mistakes that probably don’t represent overt bias, but instead reflect no knowledge of economics and/or a cloistered worldview.
Now we can add another example to the list. But it definitely belongs in the first group, because this is clear, blatant, and deliberate bias. I’m talking, of course, about ABC News and its reprehensible decision to smear a member of the Tea Party simply because he had the same name as the Colorado killer.
The obvious question to ask is why the reporter who did the smear, Brian Ross, hasn’t been fired. But not just Brian Ross. The axe should fall on anyone involved in the ideologically biased and legally reckless decision to speculate that a 52-year old Hispanic Tea Party member was responsible for the Colorado shooting
Here’s a good cartoon from the Hope-n-Change website, which has an amusing collection of anti-Obama cartoons. This does capture the mentality of the establishment media.
P.S. Here’s another cartoon about media bias that is definitely worth sharing.
P.P.S. I get irked whenever anybody refers to the big networks and newspapers as the “mainstream press.” That’s a horribly misguided term, considering how far left they are. The Tea Party is much closer to the mainstream than those clowns. That’s why they should be called the “establishment press.”
It is obviously satire. If it’s legally acceptable to publish a cartoon showing Jerry Falwell in an outhouse having sex with his mother there is absolutely nothing offensive about or legally threatening about that picture.
Anything goes with a public figure. ANYTHING.
ABC News was just so DAMNED eager to tie the patriots of the "Tea Party" to an insane act of mass-murder, that Ross and Stephanopolous just couldn't stop themselves when they did a Google search and found a Jim Holmes on a Tea Party list.
Their wet dream is to connect "Tea Party" and "terrorist" as a permanent meme in the MSM. Turnabout is fair play. Please share this photo on FB and Twitter, and include "Brian Ross, the convicted child molester" and "tea party" in the accompanying text, so that the picture will be linked on Google to Brian Ross forever. This smarmy prick and ABC "news" deserve it, in spades.
LOVE IT!!! Great illustration of the idiocracy.
You should include the text transcript below it so Google can index it.
This guy belongs on MSNBC. That’s how they roll.
Thank you for your post - I hear Brian Ross helped supply James E. Holmes with weapons... oh, wait that was someone else...
OOOPS my bad.
(Brian Williams of ABC has been wrongly associated being multiple different criminal Brian Williams who are child molesters and worse.)
(Brian Ross of ABC has been wrongly associated being multiple different criminal Brian Ross 's who are child molesters and worse.)
Because it’s going to take some innocent person becoming the target of a revenge killing to force the media’s hand on this.
A libel charge cannot be applied when:
Bottom line is the poster of the cartoon is thus protected by both rulings, even if Brian Ross enjoyed the greater protections of a private person.
On that same show Huckabee hit on a great idea. Every time a crime is committed by anyone named Brian Ross it should be suggested that his network news was involved in the crime.
Thx for the info.
From the way the media behaves nowadays, I bet they don’t teach that “libel” course anymore. They probably dropped it as a required course when they added the course on “LBGT journalists — which bathroom should they use?”
>> A private person, which Brian Ross clearly is not, makes themselves a public person by “thrusting themselves into a vortex of a public controversy”.
I don’t know why but that description, apt as it is, really makes me chuckle. I know I’d like to thrust a few of them “urinalists” into the vortex of a public meatgrinder. :-)
It wouldn’t make any difference. ABC, CBS, CNN, PMSNBC are all the same
If you fired one you'd have to fire most (90%?) of them! That's why.
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday.
New book describes how mainstream media employees ("reporters") get their day-to-day stories. I fell asleep before the interview really got going but what I heard made a lot of sense.
Media employees are highly interdependent. Day-to-day stories are generated from within the tight-knit community; to wit, "reporters" do "investigations" mainly by scanning the MSM's favorite internet blogs. Not surprising that such places include mediamatters, dailykos, and ultra liberal celebs on social groups. BTW, celebs hire people to do their tweeting, and stuff.
(I complained to the TV networks back in the 1960's this is nothing new.)
Can’t a couple of the organized Tea Party groups hire one of the pro-America legal firms, like the American Center for Law and Justice, and sue ABC for slander, libel, etc.? Jay Sekulow and his group seem to do in these types of cases.
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