Underreported, Unreported, & Misreported

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The following list is a pretty good way to look back at a bountiful year for media gibberish:

WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored “Operation Spike” every year since 1988, and since founding WND in May 1997, has continued the annual tradition.

Produced with the help of WND readers, here are the WND editors’ picks for the 10 most underreported or unreported stories of 2013:

1. The lies by Obama, Sebelius, Reid, Pelosi and others concerning Obamacare
2. The purging of top military leaders
3. Concentration of executive power to bypass Congress
4. Persecution of Christians around the world
5. The IRS targeting of conservative non-profits
6. True level of deception and untruthfulness in Obama administration
7. Cover-up of the Benghazi attack and false testimony by Hillary Clinton
8. The “Knockout Game” and other black attacks on whites
9. The racial division created by the Obama administration.
10. Advancement of the ClowardPiven Strategy of Organized Crisis

See the article for details about every story on the list:

Top 10 major media cover-ups of 2013
WND's annual review presents news that wasn't 'fit to print'
Published: 1day ago

Top 10 major media cover-ups of 2013

Frankly, I think numbers 3, 4, & 10 are perennial disgraces.

Underreported

Suzy Five Show’s promotion after she initiated the Benghazi coverup should be on the list. Everybody knew why she was promoted, but the story was vastly underreported in relation to where her promotion took her:


Susan Rice gets her reward with huge promotion
By Jennifer Rubin
June 5 at 9:54 am

Susan Rice gets her reward with huge promotion

Unreported

One unreported story stands alone. That story is Wall Street pulling the strings behind HillaryCare II.


Misreported

The MSM is too clever to tell outright lies; so a misreported category should be invented for stories about whitewashing:


It would appear that John McCain, John Boehner, Marco Rubio, Ed Rollins, and a handful of other Republicans owe Rep. Michele Bachmann an apology for defending Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff last year after a letter sent by Bachmann and five other congressmen identified Abedin as having familial connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Michele Bachmann’s concerns about Huma Abedin vindicated by… the New York Times?
By Shoebat Foundation on May 18, 2013 in Blog, General

Michele Bachmann's concerns about Huma Abedin vindicated by... the New York Times? | Walid ShoebatWalid Shoebat

Had Abedon been connected to a prominent conservative woman the media would have roasted the pair like chestnuts on an open fire.

Sex and the Senator

Senator Menendez got out from under the sex scandal of the year when his smarmy liaisons with a married woman, and teenage prostitutes, was misreported until he cleared his “good name” on both counts:


New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez wooed married woman: source
By Isabel Vincent
June 23, 2013 | 4:00am

New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez wooed married woman: source | New York Post

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Bob Menendez, Democratic Senator, Denies Prostitute Allegations
By HENRY C. JACKSON 02/05/13 03:13 AM ET EST

Bob Menendez, Democratic Senator, Denies Prostitute Allegations

The MSM reporting favorably on John Kerry’s performance as secretary of state is another obscene example of MSM misreporting. The answer to this question is closer to the truth:

Is Kerry the Worst Secretary of State Ever?
Jonathan S. Tobin | 11.11.2013 - 9:45 PM

Is Kerry the Worst Secretary of State Ever? « Commentary Magazine

One character on Meet the Press even suggested Kerry for another presidential bid. Watch the 18 second video and you’ll hear Bill Richardson call Kerry a superb secretary of state. The fact that Richardson got away with saying it on a major news show was gross misreporting:


Misreporting who was responsible for the government shutdown, and Harry Reid’s rule change, belong on every list of media trickery in 2013.

Over-reported?

I never heard a year-end roundup list over-reported stories for obvious reasons. Over-reporting a story means the government is trying to convince the public one thing or another is important.

Spotting an over-reported story is easy. The public does not care one iota but the stories keep coming. Aftermath stories of natural disasters in foreign countries are great examples of over-reporting. Such stories quickly turn into charity hustles. The tsunami that devastated parts of Indonesia in 2004, and the earthquake that demolished Haiti are business models for anybody who is looking for a career in charity hustling.

I remember then-UN Secretary General Goofy Annan trying to hustle billions and billions of dollars for a ten year rebuilding plan in Indonesia. Naturally, the UN would dispense the money.

Billions were collected for the victims of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, and for rebuilding Port-au-Prince. Much of that money is unaccounted for. To no one’s surprise Bill Clinton had his sticky fingers in the pie. Talk about a charity hustler being in the right position at the right time —— Clinton was the UN’s special envoy to Haiti before the earthquake hit.

Finally, the overall title goes to:

Vladimir Putin for turning Barack Taqiyya inside out on the world stage over Syria. Putin’s feat qualifies him alone for the title of King of Underreported, Unreported, and Misreported Stories.

To be fair, Taqiyya’s desire to be loved by the International community killed any chance he had against a former KGB guy who only loves dogs and horses:


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No fair picking on Johnny boy these days. He's probably so depressed over how a guy who's married as much money as he has can end up with the shitty facelift job he bought himself. Now he's just another idiot who looked better before than after.

Well if he's smart he'll have the doc do to his little johnny whatever he did to puff his face up so bad. Maybe Mrs. Hines Kerry would like it?
 
"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away. Publicity may not be the only thing that is needed, but it is the one thing without which all other agencies will fail."

- Joseph Pulitzer

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

― Joseph Pulitzer

Pulitzer was right; as the press goes, so goes the country. Unfortunately, when the press withholds or distorts the news in favor of a personal political agenda, they become an enemy more dangerous by far than any foreign threat could ever be.
 
"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away. Publicity may not be the only thing that is needed, but it is the one thing without which all other agencies will fail."

- Joseph Pulitzer

“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

― Joseph Pulitzer

Pulitzer was right; as the press goes, so goes the country. Unfortunately, when the press withholds or distorts the news in favor of a personal political agenda, they become an enemy more dangerous by far than any foreign threat could ever be.

To The Professor: Exactly so.

Great quotations spoken when there was still a hope Americans would hold on to the Republic the Founding Fathers gave them.

Unfortunately, Joseph Pulitzer (1847 - 1911) did not live to see the electronic press replace print. Nor could he possibly imagine the government controlling electronic news outlets while the remnants of print willing perform the government’s dirty work. And Pulitzer must be spinning in his grave to see today’s “journalists” treating the worst characters in government with respect simply to get an interview.

Sad to say, the tax deduction for advertising dollars has so corrupted the concept of a free press, I doubt if giving electronic media First Amendment protection will reverse course.

Finally, the government now views free speech on the Internet as its number one enemy. That should tell every American all they need to know about our free press.


The USA still has a free press if you're rich enough to own one.

To editec: Or:

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling
 
Apparently there is more to over-reporting than I stated in the OP:


HillaryCare II is not over-reported when you look at all of television not just the cable networks. Even on cable FOX devotes the most time to the story but it’s hardly excessive. If Eleanor Clift thinks the story is over-reported it must be hitting liberals right in their ideology. That is reason enough to increase the coverage.
 

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