Ray9
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No functioning democracy would be complete without a free press. But that press must always be an outsider, never an insider. Some are fond of saying that the job of the press is to comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable.
Every US president has had issues with the press and most accused it of being unfair or biased. But now the afflicted-comfortable are insiders in the press that have either forgotten the rules or have just decided to break them. They are playing a dangerous game as they resort to mob warfare against a president. Journalistic hypocrisy is never a good strategy particularly when it’s from a bandwagon that insults the intelligence of readers as the gang editorials of Aug. 16 clearly did.
Most newspapers make an effort to be balanced and will print opposing views but there is no evidence that these publications ever joined in a national group effort to hold President Obama accountable for his shabby treatment of journalists and rabid attacks on the freedom of the press. There’s too much available sourcing out there so these rioting editorial staffs can run but they cannot hide.
A quick trip to Breitbart reveals that Obama wire tapped James Rosen, a correspondent for Fox News and seized the phone records of reporters and editors of the Associated Press. Obama would go months without holding press conferences and when he did he used them for launching into long-winded talking points while he belittled and impugned the motives of reporters who asked tough questions.
Sharyl Attkinson, a former reporter for CBS made the mistake of aggressively questioning the debacles of Fast and Furious and Benghazi which got her investigated by the DOJ while her computer was hacked. Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, signed off on a warrant for James Rosen’s emails. Rosen was just doing his job as a reporter.
These are just a few examples. Do these papers believe their readers have forgotten Obama’s transgressions against a free press? Do these editorial staffs not realize they are hurling stones from a glass house?
A free press is for everyone and everyone is fair game. It is not just for those who live in a self-righteous insider’s ivory tower. Once the press comes in from the cold it is no longer free; it is owned by the masters it should be keeping honest.
Every US president has had issues with the press and most accused it of being unfair or biased. But now the afflicted-comfortable are insiders in the press that have either forgotten the rules or have just decided to break them. They are playing a dangerous game as they resort to mob warfare against a president. Journalistic hypocrisy is never a good strategy particularly when it’s from a bandwagon that insults the intelligence of readers as the gang editorials of Aug. 16 clearly did.
Most newspapers make an effort to be balanced and will print opposing views but there is no evidence that these publications ever joined in a national group effort to hold President Obama accountable for his shabby treatment of journalists and rabid attacks on the freedom of the press. There’s too much available sourcing out there so these rioting editorial staffs can run but they cannot hide.
A quick trip to Breitbart reveals that Obama wire tapped James Rosen, a correspondent for Fox News and seized the phone records of reporters and editors of the Associated Press. Obama would go months without holding press conferences and when he did he used them for launching into long-winded talking points while he belittled and impugned the motives of reporters who asked tough questions.
Sharyl Attkinson, a former reporter for CBS made the mistake of aggressively questioning the debacles of Fast and Furious and Benghazi which got her investigated by the DOJ while her computer was hacked. Eric Holder, Obama’s Attorney General, signed off on a warrant for James Rosen’s emails. Rosen was just doing his job as a reporter.
These are just a few examples. Do these papers believe their readers have forgotten Obama’s transgressions against a free press? Do these editorial staffs not realize they are hurling stones from a glass house?
A free press is for everyone and everyone is fair game. It is not just for those who live in a self-righteous insider’s ivory tower. Once the press comes in from the cold it is no longer free; it is owned by the masters it should be keeping honest.