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发帖数: 29846 | 1 “You have done a superlative job of diminishing what was once a great
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June 19, 2012 by Rick Rice
It’s quite normal and routine to read about media bias at my place.
It’s quite another to read about it from an insider, from an acclaimed news
guy who spent decades in the biz, from someone who has historically poo poo
-ed the notion that your regular news outlets are completely in the tank for
leftist thought, memes and ideologies, from someone who is usually most
calm, most mild, most unruffled and most unlikely to be anything but.
Deacon Greg however has had enough and is uncharacteristically ranting about
it in what I’m calling a most righteous diatribe:
AndreamitchellFirst, there was the Trayvon Martin boondoggle a few
months ago.
Then yesterday, evidence of some creative editing regarding Mitt Romney
’s visit to a WaWa in Pennsylvania.
Today, we have Andrea Mitchell’s spectacularly lame followup to “
criticism of the Romney clip edit” — which amounted to Ms. Mitchell saying
, with a sigh and a frown, “Oh, bother. Fine. Here’s what we left out.”
She failed to acknowledge what the “criticism” entailed; she neglected
to point out how the editing misrepresented the event being covered; and she
offered nothing resembling an apology or an admission of responsibility for
something that was, as a matter of fact, irresponsible.
I’m tired. Truly. I’ve grown weary of trying to defend the
indefensible and explain the inexplicable. For years, people have stomped
their feet and pounded their fists and snorted “Liberal media bias!” and I
’ve always tut-tutted and shooshed them and said, “No, no. Calm down.
They meant well. It was just a misunderstanding. A mistake. These things
happen.” I spent over 25 years working in the oft-reviled Mainstream Media
and I saw up close and personal how the sausage was made. I knew the
people who wielded the knives and wore the aprons, and could vouch (most of
the time, anyway) for their good intentions.
But now?
Forget it. I’m done. You deserve what they’re saying about you. It’
s earned. You have worked long and hard to merit the suspicion, acrimony,
mistrust and revulsion that the media-buying public increasingly heaps upon
you. You have successfully eroded any confidence, dispelled any trust, and
driven your audience into the arms of the Internet and the blogosphere,
where biases are affirmed and like-minded people can tell each other what
they hold to be true, since nobody believes in objective reality any more.
You have done a superlative job of diminishing what was once a great
profession and undermining one of the vital underpinnings of democracy, a
free press.
Head over there if only to read the title of his post… and understand this
comes from someone who would normally make Clark Kent look like an agitator.
With props to The Anchoress who writes:
You know Deacon Greg, right? Affable fellow, likes to write homilies and
participate in Adoration? Doesn’t like yelling or gratuitous snark?
Formerly an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer for CBS News? For almost
30 years? Blogs like a news miner, offering up choice nuggets without
comment?
During the course of our long friendship he has been the guy psssting to
me, “don’t you think you’re being too hard on the press? Must you piss
on the press all the time? They don’t mean anything malicious. The newsroom
is just a busy place; balls get dropped….yadda yadda…well, okay, you can
sneer at that one…”
Well, today, this gentle soul’s last nerve got fried, and it was Andrea
Mitchell and NBC News that flipped the switch.
She’s got more and yep, it’s worthy.
The media’s stranglehold on agenda setting is over and NBC is helping speed
that slippage along.
Good.
I pray Obama’s re-election chances are caught up in the backlash. |
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