WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System
Posted on 10/07/2019 12:19:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie
Back in the old days, it was understood that reporters were supposed to hunt down stories and seek out hidden truths. There was even a name for it. A good reporter was said to have a nose for news.
So what happened? How did we reach the point where journalists presented with a major scandal -- an almost self-evident abuse of power -- just yawn and turn away?
Instead of expressing curiosity about why the Bidens had been the subject of a criminal investigation in Ukraine, reporters fell into lockstep with the Democrats’ impeachment narrative. Everywhere you turned for the last two weeks, whenever a reporter was talking about Biden at all, it was to talk about how he was being maligned by Trump, that he had been cleared of any wrongdoing, that the claim that he had gotten a prosecutor fired to protect his son was a “debunked conspiracy theory.”
When you asked who cleared Biden, you got no answer except the news media themselves. When you asked who debunked the claim that Biden had pressured the Ukrainian president to fire the prosecutor by threatening to withhold aid, you got no response except that other European countries also wanted the prosecutor fired (as if that proved anything). When the president stymied the impeachment narrative by releasing the transcript compiled by national security officials who listened in on the offending phone call, which proved that the whistleblower was actually blowing smoke, the media circled the wagons. The Washington Post created its own conspiracy theory that up to two-thirds of the call between Trump and Zelensky had mysteriously been elided into non-existence. I debunked that far-left conspiracy theory myself, but hardly any mainstream reporter seems interested in looking at the facts.
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Its only the seriousness of the charge that matters, when the charge is against a Republican.
Step 1 - populate the school system with strident leftists.
Step 2 - begin indoctrination of the masses.
Step 3 - elevate strident leftists to positions of power throughout the educational system.
Step 4 - a news media that is committed to Democrat/socalist goals.
“How did we reach the point where journalists presented with a major scandal — an almost self-evident abuse of power — just yawn and turn away? “
Not just yawning, actively supporting.
Started about 100 years ago.
Tecumseh Sherman was ahead of his time. He wanted all reporters dead and they were (and always are) traitors to the republic..
It’s the difference between reporting and journalism. As explained in the Humphrey Bogart film “Deadline USA”.~
journalists want the power to change the world... one political party offers them that.
and it is not the conservatives.
The ‘press’ are owned by the globalist oligarchy. They as they are told. They are a propaganda arm fro the DNC and deep state so their ‘curiosity’ is dictated by their masters. They are the enemy of we the people.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Rush has been commenting on this for years.
The explanation is simple. The democrat party and the media are one and the same. They are all liberal democrats. The “media” is simply the propaganda arm of the democrat party.
No more complicated than this.
It’s embarrassing that anyone refers to the legacy media as journalists or reporters.
The fact is, as demonstrated 24/7 over and over, these folks are Left Wing Activists masquerading as news people.
Thankfully the GOP representatives and others like Mark Levin et al are taking it TO the media and turning the tables and showing proof of their left wing bias.
Pffft! What’s curious about it? It’s obvious sedition and treason...in your face.
The general who had both a battle tank and a lawnmower named after him.
It used to be that journalists saw their duty to report the truth wherever they found it, regardless of their own belief system. Today, it's "Selective Journalism": report only those things that support your own personal belief system.
Don't believe it? then ask yourself this: How is it possible that during Obama's eight years as President, not one journalist ever stood up and asked:
"Mr. President: You are the first President in the history of this Republic who has sequestered virtually every document from yours and Michelle's past. Why is that?"
Eight years...not one journalist with enough courage to ask the question. Shameful.
Now, I think one of the reasons that there is so much animosity towards Trump … is that he represents a massive disruption to the business model of Washington, D.C., which is you come in, you juice in your family, you juice in your friends, you serve in public service, you come out rich and when you leave office you cash in even further. ... [Trump] represents a threat and a challenge to that, and they don’t like it.
If Trump ever had any honest opposition it's long gone by now, and what we are left with is liars and thieves covering up for other liars and thieves. And yes, that really is business as usual in DC.
Nixon? Now, that Republican needed investigating!
Kennedy, who was banging an East German spy and ganster's moll? Not so much.
Roosevelt's administration shot through with Russian spies? Not so much. In fact, deny that Hiss and the Rosenbergs were even spies.
If Stonewall were alive before he made that run to the South, it would have been a battle for the ages.
Is it journalism when Democrat thieves coverup for other Democrat thieves?
BKMK
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