I’ve been stating for months that the media is in the tank for Obama. This email from a newsroom employee (via Instapundit) makes me fear it’s even worse than I thought:
A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.” I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.
I don’t doubt that it’s this bad.
The scary thing is that Obamaniacs really believe that the media is in the tankfor John McCain and is biased against Obama.
The media is supposed to be our watchdogs. But they’ve turned on the homeowners and are helping the thieves carry out the silverware and expensive jewelery.
I think that the profession of “journalist” as we once knew it is dead. These people — the entire lot of them — can no longer be trusted as the clarion of truth.
You have sold out, and I’m not buying it anymore.
The traditional MSM as we know it is dying a slow and well-deserved death. I will not mourn it.
Good luck finding another use for that Liberal Arts degree in English or Journalism. I hear Taco Bell is hiring, though. You should try there (but you might not want to tell them about your previous job. Tell them you were a loan shark or a prostitute.)
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UPDATE:
Lots more reactions at Memeorandum. Including this from Dean’s World:
The news media is becoming more leftist as revenues drop and jobs in the field become more of a volunteer advocacy position than a career, so whatever they’re losing in influence is more than offset by the increased virulence.
I think Journalism, as practiced today in our MSM, is a joke of a career.
With what they’re paying “journalists” and reporters these days — what are they paying you kids anyway? $10-12/hour? $16K/year? — I think that volunteer advocacy position is dead-on accurate.
I’m a professional writer — that’s how I make my living (no, not via this blog…this is just a silly little hobby, but as a technical writer writing software and hardware documentation for advanced combat systems.
No room for biased writing or omissions of key facts when describing how to hook tracks and analyze alerts on a tactical situation display.
I always knew that I wanted to be a writer — early on I didn’t know what shape that writing career would take nor what it would entail.
But I knew from Day 1 that it did not include being a journalist for a traditional newspaper or news program. The snobbery and elitism I’ve seen from my fellow classmates who parlayed their Professional Writing, English, or Journalism degrees into jobs as “journalists” always made me shake my head.
Someone on another blog posted his wife works for the school district where Palin’s children attend school. The msm had reporters contacting their teachers and ex-teachers and trying to get any discipline reports on them. That’s how sleazy they are. They won’t vet obama’s terroist connections but they will harass Palin’s kids to no end.
Left by Anonymous on September 29th, 2008 at 10:27 pm